FAQ - India

I loved this forwarded mail.. I had a good laugh when I was so tensed up with my work here. So I wanted to share the joy and laughter with you... Go on and read the whole thing.

 India holds a certain sense of mystery for the world outside its borders. Read on to find how curious foreigners are about India and its ways or rather read on to find out how dumb and ignorant they are about our beautiful country. This was taken from a tourism blog where people could post queries if they were planning on making a trip to India.

The answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who demonstrate tolerance and excellent sense of humor.

Q : Does it ever get windy in India? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? (UK).
A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.

Q : Will I be able to see elephants in the street? (USA)
A: Depends how much you've been drinking.

Q: I want to walk from Delhi to Goa - can I follow the railroad tracks? (Sweden)
A: Sure, it's only three thousand kms, take lots of water.

Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in India? (Sweden)
A: So it's true what they say about Swedes.

Q: Are there any ATMs India? Can you send me a list of them in Delhi, Chennai, Calcutta and Bangalore?(UK)
A: What did your last slave die of?

Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in India? (USA)
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. In-di-a is that big triangle in the middle of the Pacific & Indian Ocean which does not.. oh forget it. ...... Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Goa. Come naked. 

Q: Which direction is North in India? (USA)
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we'll send the rest of the directions.

Q: Can I bring cutlery into India? (UK)
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.

Q: Can you send me the Indiana Pacers matches’ schedule? (France)
A: Indiana is a state in the Unites States of...oh forget it. Sure, the Indiana Pacers matches are played every Tues day night in Goa , straight after the hippo races. Come naked.

Q: Can I wear high heels in India? (UK)
A: You're a British politician, right?

Q: Are there supermarkets in Bangalore, and is milk available all year round? (Germany)
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers. Milk is illegal.

Q : Please send a list of all doctors in India who can dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA)
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from. All Indian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.

Q: Do you have perfume in India? (France)
A: No, WE don't stink in India.

Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in India? (USA)
A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.

Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in India? (France)
A: Only at Christmas.

Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? (USA)
A: Yes, but you will have to learn it first

Q: Can I see Taj Mahal anytime? (Italy)
A: As long as you are not blind, you can see it anytime day and night.

Q: Do you have Toilet paper? (USA)
A: No, we use sand paper. (We have different grades)

Letting me go

Dad and Mama, I love you, I really do,
I can’t think of my world without you!

No more kiss good-night,
No more dad to hold me tight.
No more hugs to calm my fears,
No more hands to wipe my tears!
No more tucking in at night.

But I know I will see you once again
And then you will hold me tight,
When we are together again.

l want to be selfish and share
But what I want just isn’t fair.
Dad, I am living of dull life
Without you here by my side,

Mama, as long as I live
Not a moment will go by
When I don’t wish you were with me.

Daddy I love you, I really do,
Mama I love you, I really do,
Daddy I know you have to leave me
But I told you I don't want to go,
Why did you let me be alone,
Let me go.

I show no fear in my eyes and face
But I am scared without you besides me,

I don't want to cry when I'm talking to you,
But I cry when I'm alone.
Dad and Mama,

Just remember I will always love you.

Happy New Year

 

As another year slips in to realms of our memory,
We stand in awe at the roller-coaster ride it was!
We have been sent up, down, swung and rocked,
Each day, each moment, without a single pause!

Today, we find excitement, concern, and optimism,
Even as the new year unfolds its mysterious maze.
On the threshold of the year to come, hope stands
Whispering that it will be happier, in many ways!

Here is to wish you the best in all that it brings,
Success, fame, and all your dreams come true.
To you and yours, all whom you care about,
Wish you a Happy New Year, from me too!

Smiling @ strangers…

 

 

I was past the bridge on kotturpuram. Suddenly, I notice a woman walking past me with her baby. It must have been girl because of the charm and the looks of it. I was so touched when that baby girl who was half asleep woke up, just to give me a smile and then got back to her sleep.  I was thrilled. It gave me a great and refreshing look which I carried the whole day and passed on to all the people I met and made a difference in their day too..

Once small twinkle smile from a god-like-baby made my day as well as a few others whom I influence. No fights, no frowns, no anger, no sorrow… Just plain and simple happiness which kept me on the whole day. I dint even fall asleep during my 3 hrs class. Amazing, isn’t it? And all it took was just a smile. I loved it. So I plan to make the best of everyday. I smile and make others smile. This morning, I was in my car with my windows fully down and while passing through that same bridge, I was closely followed by a father who was taking his daughter to school. The girl had bandaged her hand. She must have met with an accident and was looking very miserable in that state. All I did was look @ her and smile. You should have seen how her face lit up. She was also smiling back at me and trying to wave to me forgetting that her hand was bandaged. Then I waved back at her and we went our ways. I really don’t know whether I’ll see her the next day too but one smiling girl made the difference. The power of smile. I love it and very thankful to all those people who smile and make other people’s day. After all, we ultimately want to  be happy by the end of the day.

PS: There is another reason why I smile at strangers. This is just between us. You also get to smile at all the cute, smart and handsome guys on the bike early in the morning… Haaaaaaa… So refreshing… Now that also makes your day….Don’t you think girls??? LOL

Ending life

Its hard to get away from life, easier to end life rather than face the agony, pain, sorrow or shame. Yes, all of us have to go through pain or sorrow @ some point of our life even the TATAs and BIRLAs have to face it. These are just a mile stone for us to grow using this. All failures are stepping stones to success. Someone, somewhere, knew that life isn’t about dying!!

I got a call from an old friend today!! She was crying when I picked up the call. I asked her what was the problem? She said that the guy she loved for more than 3 years has rejected her and married a rich girl. She was ashamed to face her parents since she was stubborn about marrying him all these years. She has been crying for the past one month, not going to office regularly or eating properly. All she could think about was DYING. She told me that she wanted to talk to me about this before she died. Little did she realize that I could get her out of it by the time the call was over. I thanked god for once for giving me the power of convincing her. It took me about 3 hours of talking. It was unbelievable how Love can change us. She was scared about the relationship which she had with him. They were intimate and sexually involved. I had to tell her that this was the end of everything. She was scared about her future and what would the husband think about her.. Obviously, all these thoughts clouded her like hell. Pavam. I pity her.. She was such a sensible person. So responsible about what she wanted to do in life yet when it came to love, she chose the wrong guy. I had to convince her that life has to go on. I made her promise that she wouldn’t try anything stupid again. I hope it doesn’t occur in her minds again.
In India, more than 1,00,000 people die due to suicide in a year which is a very sad thing.  Love, family pressure, loneliness, health issues, failures, loss, exams et all are some of the reason for people to suicide. Sneha, this is an NGO which is a suicide prevention helpline. It helps people to get out of these feeling of ending life. If these depressed people talk about their situation, they have 70% chance of getting out of the emotion. I volunteered once and I got a girl from a girl who was in her first year of college and she was devastated because some A** Hole harassed her sexually while travelling to a nearby place. Since that area was quite and no one around, he took advantage of her. Thank god, she dint get raped but she was very upset about it and this was killing her. No one to talk to. She could tell it to anyone. I cried while talking to her, so I gave the call to one of the seniors who handled her call and convinced her not to do anything stupid. When I still think about it, I start to get tears from my eyes. Its so bad, don’t you think. You can also volunteer to help bring life to another human. I did and I got the sense of satisfaction that none other activity in my life would give.
You can contact them through the website Sneha, or call up the number 044-2460050. Help bring back life.They are open 24hrs a day.

The '8's tag....

8 TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH

Friends

Neeya Naana

Everybody loves Raymond                                              

Faith and Hope

Are you better than a 5th grader?

Hannah Montanna

Godzilla (in chutti Tv with pooja)

Kaana Kaanum Kalangal

8 FAVORITE PLACES TO EAT

At home

Cascade

Pizza Hut

Cakes and bakes                               

Coffee day

Mocha

Saravana Bhavan

Sangeetha

8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY

Felt very bad for not wishing my friend Akila on her birthday.

Found that Praveen misses me too... :)

Wrote a very sentimental poem in my blog

Changed my template with was too confusing.

Got a new follower for my blog.

I am so proud about my friend Praveen getting 4th rank in class.

Was happy about the weight I have reduced in the past two months. KEWL

Thinking about starting a new entreprise for moi after reading about C.K Ranganathan.( Cavin Kare's MD)

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO

Getting my 3rd trimester marks which I have done with a lot of extra efforts.

Looking forward to GOTA (a foreign trip which is part of our curriculum).

Placements of course!!!!!

Get back with my friends.

Celebrating my dad's 50th Birthday @ his favourite place- Tiruvannamalai

Chucking my sister out of India(lol), she is leaving to UK for higher education on Sept 14th.

Stop cribbing for my friends and start finding new ones who will accept me however I am.

Start writing more on my blog as I'm headind towards my 200th post soon. kewl.

8 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT WINTER

Attention I get from my parents if I fall sick which happens in all winters.

Getting wet in the rain.

Cuddle from a girlfriend who is feeling cold.

Watching the rain pour heavily

Hot coffee

Getting my mom crazy if she comes to know I come home drenched in rain.

Cold mornings and warm afternoons.

Hot water bath in winter which is so refreshing!!!

8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST

Getting a Maybach for my sister.                                                     

Building my mom her dream house with speakers and woofers( that was my idea)

Visit Princess Diane's cemetery.

Get my parents a world tour ticket.

Open my own company and have it merged with TATA.

Pay my income tax properly and in huge amounts

Meet C.K Ranganathan and talk to him on various aspects of business.

Make a film featuring Rajini kanth but this time as the grandfather of the hero. lol

8 THINGS AM PASSIONATE ABOUT

Business

MBA

Friendship

Trust

Blog                                   

Love

Mobiles

India

8 WORDS OR PHRASES I USE OFTEN

Ultimate

Poruki

Lappy

Daddy                       

Idiot

Dude

Machi( guys)                                                               Wait a minute, I dont have one!!LOL

Mams( girls)

8 THINGS I LEARNT FROM PAST

You are never alone because God is there

Hurt is painful but still trying to getting over it is even more painful

Betrayal is your worst nigthmare

Think atleast once before doing anything

Even if you lose everything in life, you can get back up with self cofidence.

Blogging is fun.

My dad, my best friend.

Don't do things which you can never tell your parents.

8 PLACES I WOULD LOVE TO GO OR VISIT OR SEE

Taj Mahal

Paris

Swiss

Australia

Canada

London

New zealand

Cherrapunji

8 THINGS I CURRENTLY NEED OR WANT

My friend praveen

Some new clothes

My marketing sir Satheesh Krishnamurthy

Get out of the house and freak out by doing crazy stuffs

Get myself a new mobile phone (HTC)

Executive Collection of watches from Titan for my upcoming office life.

Do something bad and get caught by my parents. ( I'm becoming too goody goody)

Talk to my old friend Vinoth very badly.( I miss you da)

Hey I'm tagging everybody who reads this. You are it!!
Thank you for reading my mokkai answers... :)

What comes and goes... I still have to live

Whatever happens, I'm keep telling myself that life has to go on, no matter what. Eventhough, it makes me sick, I still need to survive. Getting back to my old self will take a long time again but I have my exams coming for which I've got to put my mind and soul to work on it. I know that Life can never be the same as it was. This is what I always get. My life is like that. But I've learned to survive. Like my profile says that I still have a life to live. I read this latest post from Angie's blog about writing a letter to your future me. Well I've written one for myself.

Thanks Angie. It has given me the strength to go on again. It made me realise that life is worth living and talking about it later. I've written the letter so joyously that it would make me read it after 2 years and make me that I should write more letters like this. So that one day, I wish I could feel happy about myself or sad about things which I have missed. My life is not perfect. Nobody's is. So why crib about what has happened in the past and when I can try to make my present worth living. I've dediced that life can change and change is permanent. It has its own ups and downs. Things, which I most importantly mentioned in the letter is to get back what I lost... my love, my true friends, my sisters, and most of all, MYSELF. This future letter thing has given me the courage to achieve certain limits and heights which I have aimed for. I don't want to disappoint myself  that after two years thinking that I haven't lived worth while. Many thanks to Angie.. You rock girl!!


SO at last what I was trying to say is that I won't be writing any posts till my exams get over and which will happen on the 6th of august. And most importantly after exams, I'l be myself again.. Until then. Take care.. C you guys around. But I will not miss to read your updates. Keep Posting. Happy blogging!! :)

The Pain..

Hey guys, my first ever story. I hope you like it.. I would appreciate if you would give me your feedback on this, so that I would improve on my style of writing. Sorry about the delay. I just went through it about a thousand times before publishing it.. So here it is.

The Pain

                                     Once I approach the classroom I stare at him through the door window, the only barrier between myself and relief, He looks up and waves with those big hands. I slip inside and close the door. I slightly bang my head on the glass and breathe a sigh in hopes to terminate the vast nervousness in my veins from what I am about to do. 

"Hey you." He speaks with words so soft.

Silently approaching him, I take another breath and look into his eyes, standing on the ground in between him and the door.

"I…I can’t…"

"Can’t what?" He says.

"I’m sorry."

"Wh – what?"

"I’m sorry… If you misinterpreted us… What we have… Our friendship."

He looks me in the eye with a curious, confused expression.

"I just… I can’t… stop thinking about you. You’re in my mind all day and I love it and I hate it and… and I just… needed you to know, I guess."

Still with a confused expression, He opens his lips in response.

"Don’t speak." I said.

"Just – I can’t… I can’t do anything! I can’t sleep, I can’t concentrate, I can’t even talk straight… It’s painful, knowing that you don’t know. You’re just this big… thing… growing and growing by day, taking over my mind and I just can’t do anything… about it. I just… I just needed to tell you, so maybe it could… maybe it could stop."

After noticing his eyes frozen solid, I continue.

"I’m just… in love… with you. And I know you don’t feel the same way but I just… It just needed to get out."

After a pause in time, he moves toward the exit, but my instinct takes over and I touched him by my supple yet shivering hands

"Wha – What are you doing? He asks with me as my eyes tearing as I wrap my arms around him backside.

"I just needed you to know. I love you! Please"

I push him back to a standard distance. Noticing that he looks at me with his sharp eyes with no reaction.

"If you… Fell about me as I feel about you, you have to let me know. You have to. Because what I’m feeling for you doesn’t deserve to be wasted on anyone else. And if you don’t, then the pain will stop… I want you to always be there in my mind, but I just need the pain to stop. Please, make it stop." 

After ten seconds of silence, he pushes through my heart and goes for the doorknob as my life fills with silence. Silence. Nothing. No more pain… Not now. But he’s still here, I can feel him, but I can’t look back. Telling myself I can’t look back. It’s his choice. 

After seconds that seem like days pass me by, I hear a distant movement. 

He sprints towards me and turns me around with such ferocity I could never see it coming. His mouth meets with mine and suddenly I feel the grinding of our teeth in the most sensitive nerves of my body. He grabs my waist and pulls me even closer to the point where I can’t breathe. 

We finally depart from one another by inches, which seem like miles after that sensational experience. While I’m still speechless, he somehow finds words to speak with tears: 

"My pain… My pain is gone."

Times Changing!!

Someone is happy today... Someone is getting noticed by someone special... I hope someone is trying her best to get it out... Someone wanted to share it with everyone... so here she is.... Someone is Raji... I miss blogging people because I have been cut of without internet... but now I'm back.. I think. Too much do but too little time.. MBA is driving me crazy and so is HIM... But he has got the idea that I'm interested in him... Love is too complicated...OMG... Please give me a break

Poem That Leads Me...

You cannot change some things in your life,

You cannot change the time that the sun rises,

You cannot make summer last longer than it does,

You will also find that your life is full of surprises.


If you try to force things or delay things, their value is lost,

Accept what comes your way, and do your best

Accept the treasures of life when they come to you

And try not to rush with decisions, and get plenty of rest,


Choose to make the very most of each moment,

Enjoy each day fully and totally too,

You only live each day once, so enjoy it

Accept what comes your way with patience, please do.

Starting over

I'm trying to find something to base my life upon,
Something in this strange world that goes on and on.
As the years go by and time fades away,
What used to be "good days" are now filled with dismay.
Tomorrow comes, and then again, it goes,
And my ambition to become something more, grows and grows.
Around the corner, yet miles away,
The life I want now, gets closer each day.
All I've ever wanted was something to live for,
I don't want to be this little person anymore.
I've been basing my life upon what others think,
I wish I could go back and redo everything, every time an eye would blink.
I've fought to become who I am and what I want to be,
I have to remind myself that one day, I will be free.
Free from the rules I followed as a child,
When everything was a game and life was so mild.
Now times have changed and I realize nothing is fair,
And sometimes it seems like nobody even cares.
It's like no one pays attention to what I feel is best for me,
And what I think about the way some things should be.
I understand now, that I'm pretty much on my own,
And I know a lot of what I can do will never be known.
All the time, I think about everything I can't say, what I have to keep in,
And by doing this, my thoughts only get more complicated and deepen.
Soon I hope to find out who I am, and what I am meant to become,
I want to know where I'm going, I don't need to be reminded of where I came from.