OUTspoken!!!!!!

Its been so long since I came to Hyderabad and I had to write a post on the wonderful language mixture that is spoken out here. For all the Telgu speaking readers please take no offense in what you are about to read below... these are small anecdotes which I shared with the people I spend time with...

The first day my sister steps into the college for admission the peon welcomes them with a smile and says to them " randi kurchandi", the shock on my parents face is too obvious and the peon fails to understand the reason for the distraught reaction. Actually what he innocently meant was for them to sit down but poor my parents, ignorant of the language used here thought the peon used " randi" as in punjabi which actually means a whore.. Imagine their sense of relief when they found out what the peon meant and this joke still somehow manages to make us tickle with laughter.

The other thing in this place is the way they use Hindi here... Gosh it is sooooo gooooood that anyone with proper knowledge of Hindi will either get bugged or laugh his ass off depending on his temprament. " Main tere ko pakad ke maregi" to " kya kar re le mamu tum loga"..... At first instant it mesmerizes me to see that how easily they can scramble up such a unique language and bring it up in this way.... Then slowly I too get pretty used to it and the words "re" and "da" just seem to start mingling with my sentences until i'm brought back to my original Hindi dictionary after an ocassional talk with my friend at Delhi where proper language is not such an uncommon phenomenon atleast till now!!!!!!!

Anyways I sometimes truly enjoy the way one word can mean such different things in two languages and how these things can spice up your boring life........

I'm loving it and invite all others to experience the same feeling....
till then tc and god bless

Journey to marriage

The Band Wala's to the Mehendi artists to the sumptuous food menu discussions, till the knot is tied the atmosphere in the whole house is so charged that you cannot help but get swept off in its torrent. Specially when the person getting married is very close to you.. Its not about how much you spend on the marriage, its just how much effort and resources you put in to make the best out of what you can..

The marriage I'm talking off is still three months away but almost every holiday turns out to be a shopping experience for us.. To the jokes and anecdotes and yes the teasing of the Bridegroom.. It's like all the family members had saved all of their energies for that one special day.. The formalities seem fun and the occasional problems more challenging, the discussion on what exactly every member should wear on that special day makes one feel like we had neva been to any other party and gotta impress all in this particular function only.. lol..

Jokes apart this journey also allows you to interact with the new addition to your family and to try and accept that person and also mould them according to your family values. Its literally marriage of two families rather than two individuals..

I'm yet to experience the actual sensation of the marriage where all our preparations will be tested but as of now I'm thoroughly enjoying the journey to that celebrated destination called marriage..

till then tc and god bless...........