brahmin relatives survey

i found this from another blog sometime back. Whatever the guy has written is absolutely true.. there is a chandru, ambi mama and baby perima/chitti in every tam brahm household.

A survey has revealed that ‘Ambi Mama' is the leading relative among Tamil Brahmin families worldwide, with six in ten families having one of their own (a 60% repsesentation. Apparently, Ambi Mama held off stiff competition from Mani Mama (with 55% representation) and Baby Chitti (39%) for a well-deserved win.

“It's a great day for all Ambi Mamas. All the years of hard work – drinking coffee, criticizing the Indian team selection and complaining about blood-pressure – have finally paid off. Yay!”, said Ambi Mama, a spokesman for the Ambi Mamas Association of Dear Old Rascals (AMBASSADOR), a division of the Hardcore Brahmin Organisation (HBO). [Editor's note – The previous sentence has been roundly condemned by the Society for Prevention of Abbreviations that are Needless, Dumb and Execrable (SPANDEX)]

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Mani Mamas all over the world watched in anguish as the final results were announced, plunging them into gloom. “It's no fun being a Mani Mama anymore”, said Mani Mama. “ Maybe if I change my name to ‘Ramesh Anna', I will have a brighter future”, he pondered pointlessly.

The survey also said that a respectable number of families (or a number of respectable families, as the case may be), have a Vaidhi Thatha, Bangalore Anna, and at least one random guy named ‘Chandroo' who is at all functions, but no-one can really place (and may not be related at all).

Predictably, bringing up the rear were non-entities like Driscoll Periappa, Jessica Alba Anni and Darth Vader Mama, which had zero representation. “Brahmins are way too conservative, dude!”, complained Cleveland Shankar, one of the more modern Iyer boys (or boyz, if you prefer. We offer multiple-choice reading. You're welcome.). “When are they going to drop old duds like Venkatakrishnan, Suresh and Balaji, and start using hipper names like Jason, Beyonce and The Human Torch?”, he asked, to wide applause from a group of people watching cricket on a nearby television.

Not all are happy with progress, however. “These youngsters are ruining everything by naming their children Archish, Dhruv and Plaha.”, thundered Badri Athimber. “ Can you imagine how it will sound? Dhruv Mama, Anamika Athai, Archish Chittappa – Ugh! Phooey! That is so not cool!!”, he growled, using expressions of disgust picked up from his states-based co-brother.

When asked for their response, several Brahmins living in Adyar merely arched their eyebrows, pursed their lips, and continued waiting for the December music season.

back!

- who doesn't like attention? :-). for the last 3 months, my engagement and wedding and post wedding has been the daily news feed at home like some cnn crawler. emails hit a 1000 ranging from "who is the guy: "when are you coming", "sarees from?", "what did you wear", "send mehendi pics" to "are you back?". But the most obvious and expected question being, How is married life?.

- i still cannot believe i actually got married. i hear it takes a few months or weeks? for it to sink in. I dont respond to mrs.gayathri.i blink. it takes me a few seconds and ummss to say " i will ask my husband" or "am waiting for my husband".

- At airport gates and security checks,i heard congratulations from random cops. it took me a minute to realize the fact that jfk would have seen million desis who are newly married. thanks to the mehendi and glittering thali.

-i love attending weddings.more so if its a tam brahm one. and i didnt know tht my wedding would have been the best one i attended!. after being overwhelmed with love affection and attention for 1.5mnths, when i came back the silence at home was killing me. after a week of terrible homesickness, things got better.

- life is good and i thank every one of you for your best wishes.

- Adi and Nirmal, really expected you guys on 3rd. Was waiting to introduce you guys as my 'blog friends', adding to the list of 'lkg friends', 'rickshaw friends', 'van friends', 'dav', etc etc...

Adios!

couldn't resist this

taken from my friend's profile

[9:11:56 PM] gayathri: hi hello iam sam and not in chennai now, i justsee u in orkut and make this scrap. so if u feel iam unknown person then sorry for this, i want nice freidnship if u ok then plss add me and my yahoo id is cuteboylikesall@yahoo.co.in waiting for u r nice freindship

Random musings

- it has been a long long time since i watched a new tamil movie. the last two hindi flicks i saw was delhi-6 and 13-b. the former was crap and the latter was 'ok'. 

-i have spent close to 30hrs over the last 10 weeks talking to family back home.i still don't use vonage or skype :D. 

-i went through a week's depression when my job offer was revoked. it took me several days to sit and think and paati's advise of whatever happens, happens for the good took some time to sink in. 

-inspite of being at home and cooking i have managed to shed pounds. its been 2 months since i walked past the gym. do people lose weight just by talking over phone? :P

-recently understood that maturity has got nothing to do with age. (ex: the eldest in my family was very immature and the 7yr old nephew made sense!)

- i am spending the last month in california.and i am terribly going to miss home. 

- currently addicted to 'jeopardy'.

- cannoli joe's is so far the best italian restaurant i have ever been to.

- looking forward to my cousin's visit today. cousins and nephews (brats) will keep me occupied for the next 5 days. 

- and  i am also looking forward to getting married in june! :D invites will follow soon...

- blogspot does not allow me to import my previous posts. i will be migrating to wordpress shortly. until then, i will continue to post here!.

Adios!

ouch

life sucks when you have a tooth ache.

pasting my fav poem -

This Is Going To Hurt Just A Little Bit

One thing I like less than most things is sitting in a dentist chair with my mouth wide open.

And that I will never have to do it again is a hope that I am against hope hopen.

Because some tortures are physical and some are mental,

But the one that is both is dental.

It is hard to be self-possessed

With your jaw digging into your chest.

So hard to retain your calm

When your fingernails are making serious alterations in your life line or love line or some other important line in your palm;

So hard to give your usual effect of cheery benignity

When you know your position is one of the two or three in life most lacking in dignity.

And your mouth is like a section of road that is being worked on.

And it is all cluttered up with stone crushers and concrete mixers and drills and steam rollers and there isn’t a nerve in your head thatyou aren’t being irked on.

Oh, some people are unfortunate enough to be strung up by thumbs.

And others have things done to their gums,

And your teeth are supposed to be being polished,

But you have reason to believe they are being demolished.

And the circumstance that adds most to your terror

Is that it’s all done with a mirror,

Because the dentist may be a bear, or as the Romans used to say, only they were referring to a feminine bear when they said it, an ursa,

But all the same how can you be sure when he takes his crowbar in one hand and mirror in the other he won’t get mixed up, the way you do when you try to tie a bow tie with the aid of a mirror, and forget that left is right and vice versa?

And then at last he says That will be all; but it isn’t because he then coats your mouth from cellar to roof

With something that I suspect is generally used to put a shine on a horse’s hoof.

And you totter to your feet and think. Well it’s all over now and afterall it was only this once.

And he says come back in three monce.

And this, O Fate, is I think the most vicious circle that thou ever sentest,

That Man has to go continually to the dentist to keep his teeth in good condition

when the chief reason he wants his teeth in good condition

is so that he won’t have to go to the dentist.

bingo

got the posts back..thanks sriram.

lack of time- i will put them all in place soon enough!!

:)

Hi!

All the previous entries vanished when i tried exporting them to wordpress. 

I have also moved from Orkut to Facebook completely. 

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