Jumbo and Dada

Jumbo and Dada ,

Indian cricket is left poorer without presence of its two magnificent warriors. It was a pleasure watching you play.

Best wishes.

Laughter challenge.

I was watching TGILC season 4 episode recently. One of the contestant was making a joke about NRI's drinking only bottled water in India and tap water in USA. Well, over the years and specially after my visit to India, I take NRI jokes sportingly. So it did not irk me.

The joke states that NRIs insist on bottled water in India. Well, it was opposite for me, I preferred cool and sweet tasting water from earthen pot (matka) instead of bottled water. However I did use bottled water when necessary like traveling in trains and that too because I didn't want to spend my small vacation (3 weeks in 3 years) being sick and not being with my friends and family.

Also, we NRI's behave identical to resident Indians when it comes to drinking water. We just
store the tap water, filter it (in some cases tap water is clean enough to not need filtering ) and drink it. We go out we fill up water bottles or buy bottled water. It is exactly the same as my family in India. Why? because thats common sense. It might be the case that the joke was about NRI's showing off their wealth. Well thats a more of "Indian" trait than "NRI" trait. Don't we love to show off. Read any article about cricket, movies and outsourcing and you will know.

I understand its hard to change public perception and as stated earlier NRI jokes dont irk me.
If it helps people to have a laugh or two then good. What irked me while watching the show was the remark by esteemed judge Shatrughan Sinha. He said NRI's are "non required indians".

This comes from a B-grade actor who later joined politics and now instead of working public welfare and his constituency, judges a stand up comedy show. This piece of shit actor had total of 5 expressions throughout his entire acting career and he decides to label approximately 1.5 million Indians as non-required. And while saying so he conviniently forgot that during last BJP government in India, the Prime Minister Mr Vajpayee actively reached out to NRI community to invest money in India. This moron did not have guts to say such things then.

Phew, rant over. I feel light now.

Stupidity.....

......knows no bounds. Wanna know why? Listen to this. Careful not for people under the age of 18.

My favorite line: You are on periodical for 25% of the time.

Enjoy.

Of stereotypes and bikinis.

Indian men suffer from many stereotypes. They don't cook, they are lazy, they demand dowry, they are very narrow minded, they don't want their wife to earn more salary etc. I happen to know few of stereotypical men ( or MCP's as most of the gals refer to them ). I was lucky to know couple of Indian men who are not MCP's and decided to model my behavior on them. One of them was my DAD and other was my brother in law. Learning from them along with studying in USA made me wiser and hopefully non-MCP.

So when I met V, I decided I would try to be as non-MCP as possible. As with most desi gals, she also had a notions of stereotypical desi men. Initially, it was a cautious approach, saying thing which would not in anyway offend her and making her feel comfortable. Later on, it was just great to see her happy when I would suggest something or agree to something that an MCP would not. She would often ask me random questions in middle of a conversation and listening to my reply would make her immensely happy. Here is how it used to go.

V:Can I work after marriage?
Me:Of course you can.

V:What if my salary is more than you?
Me: Even better.

V: Can I support my parents in India?
Me: Yes sweet heart why not.

V: What if I don't work and want to send money to my parents back in India?
Me: Doesn't matter, they are my parents too.

V: Can I wear shorts ?
Me: Yeah why not , in fact you look better in shorts.

V: What if your friends are around, can I still wear shorts?
Me: Absolutely.

V: Will you cook for me?
Me: sure.

V: will you do the dishes?
Me: Anytime.

Isn't this great. Every time I answered the her question, I would could see her smile and that made me immensely happy. But the thing with women is if they love you, they will push you to the limit. They just wanna keep testing you until you break down. So one fine day:

V: Can I wear a bikini on the beach?
Me: Errr...... Ok. yeah you can.

V: Can I take snaps in the bikini and upload it on the internet.
Me: Absolutely not. Why the fuck would you wanna do that.


The thing is V couldn't take it that I was answering each of her questions in affirmative. She would have gone on and on until I said NO. Now, that I have said no I have become little bit like those stereotypical men.

Indian men, might have many stereotypes but women have just one. "They drive the men crazy"

Celebrity visitor.

Q:What makes Tashan infinitely better than Dhoom2 ?
Ans: Despite criticizing Dhoom2 so much, it could not give me a celebrity visitor for my blog.
Look who visited my blog after yesterday's post about Tashan.


Cheers.
P.S. I hope it was not Uday Chopra. If it was indeed Uday Chopra, my apologies to him. Although, I hope that it was Rani Mukherjee. :)

Tashan

Q:What makes Tashan better than Dhoom2 ?
Ans: It doesn't have Uday Chopra in it.

Q:Why is Dhoni missing Australians?
Ans: Because his Chennai team is losing every IPL match after they left.

Scraps are crap.

Here are few of the scraps I got recently

1> hey kya bhai kya haal hain...online??? (Same question 3 times in 4 days)

2> How r u?Kya chal raha hai?
How is life and what r u doing>
Kabhi kabhi scrap kar liya karo yaar?
(Same scrap sent to 87 ppl using some software, I don't know whether it was for me or not)

3> congrates for your commitment ??
(Was it a surprised question or congratulation or both?)

4> bhai bhul gaye kya ?? mail nahji scrap nahi phone nahi ........
kya ho gya hai .. ishq vishq payar var huh .......
(This dude spoke to me on International phone call for 1 hour previous day)

5> hey congrats !!
(Congrats for what? )

6> hey hello how r u?
Kya kar raha hai.
Tujse ek favour kaha tha wo bho nahi kiya yaar.
Maine tujse US universityies ke bare mein batane ko kaha tha .
Ya koi link jahan hum search kar sake .thik hai.
chal bye TC
(US University ke baare mein. Not for a friend :( )

7> hi dost how is u its long time seeing u meeting u interacting with u...........i hope u are fine and doing well in ur life

missing u
(Some crazy dude sending it to entire college, such scrap is usually followed by "Check out my new photos scrap" )



And people wonder why I don't reply to there messages.