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Thursday, October 13, 2005

E-mails and Females


E-mails are meant to be screwed up. Read on…

Back on campus, during my undergrad days, my friend Krithika and me had a strange bet. We vowed to attend ever single class of Control Systems class. Ahem! Yeah, it was crazy. For me, it meant just another way to milk treats from my friend.

Anyways, it was an unusual morning, it was raining heavily in the desert land (BITS Pilani, rarely witnesses rains). I reached the classroom early enough to escape the downpour. I chuckled to myself “She is gonna lose it again !”
Braving the downpour (and also very generously giving a lift on her cycle to a junior friend) she entered Con Sys class like Mandakini in “Ram Teri Ganga Maili”
Not to forget the intent gazes she got from the very few male members who attended the class. Needless to say, she savored every bit of that male attention.

Another one of those this-is-hydraulic-pneumatic-block-diagram-to-signal-flow-system crap followed. And the class ended.

A senior friend walks down the aisle of benches to tell her she might catch a cold, given the conditions. They are what we know as “very close but just friends” type. And to this Krithika expresses her gratitude rather ‘e-mail’ishly.

In BITS, we are all given e-mail ids that follow the pattern fyyyy*** where yyyy is the year we were given admission and *** stands for our id #

So her id happens to be f2001612 and her senior’s f2000*** (id # concealed for whatever reasons)
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From: f2001612
To: f2001***

Subject: Rain Drain
Body:

Hi S,

I was so drenched and wet. I went back to my room and changed into dry clothes. I think am catching a cold. Thank you for your concern…

Regards,
Krithika
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Pat comes the reply

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From: f2001***
To: f2001612

Subject: Re: Rain Drain

Body:

Who are you? Why are you behind me? And why are you giving me your personal details?

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Krithika is blinking…And am rolling on my bedside dying out of laughter. Apparently, she mailed to her senior’s id # but to her own batchmate (instead of year 2000, she typed to 2001)

She apologises and again pat comes the reply.


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From: f2001***
To: f2001612

Subject: Re: Rain Drain

Body:

Don’t think too much abt what happened in the P

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P ? I suggested P must be meaning ‘pants’
Krithika hurled a pillow on me! Then we discussed…Maybe rain is called ‘P’ for short.
Didn’t make sense though. Puddle? Process? Path?
Finally we concluded it meant ‘Past’

Monday, October 10, 2005

English to Hindi

Scene 1:

Friend: Shucks! Can you take this? The Hindi version of “Dunston Checks In” is titled “Ek Bandar Hotel ke Andar”
Me: I can take that. Handle this. “Murdho ki Kahaani Ek Bacche ki Zubani”
Few seconds of roaring laughter…
Me: Don’t even try to guess. It’s the Hindi counterpart of “Sixth Sense”

Scene 2:

My dad and me have this fetish for English movies. One day we very enthusiastically enter a nearby cinema hall to catch the then latest Bond flick “Tommorrow Never Dies”

No loud cheers. Hardly any people around. Never mind
70mm screen, Dolby surround sound. Titles roll and a background narration follows

“Peechli baar humne dekha….”

My dad’s mouth went dry.
My instant reaction “What the…”
Hoping against hope, that it was some Hindi trailer…It was not exactly our favorable day! No wonder, there was no crowd.

Moral of the story: Always, find out if the English movie is in English and not in Hindi before getting tickets.

Scene 3:

A queue near the mess counter in our hostel. A Southie standing ahead of me turns to ‘bhaiyya’ and religiously says “Maggi bhaiyya” [Gimme a plate of Maggi]
Bhaiyya: “Banana hain” [I have to prepare it]
Southie: (replies instantly) “Banana no, maggi…” [I want no banana, I want Maggie!]
Bhaiyya: (continues) “Banana hain…” [I have to prepare it]

We allow the confusion to continue and savor the hilarious moment

Period

Wednesday, October 05, 2005


Imagine this…

You ask Osama Bin Laden “How was your birthday?” and he says “I had a blast”

You ask George Bush “Whose your current favourite among Indian supermodels?” and he says “Katrina (Kaif)”

You ask Dev saab (Dev Anand) “What is your forthcoming movie title?” and he says “18 till I die”

You ask Shakti ‘sting’ Kapoor “May I come in?” and he says “Aao! (Andar )Aao!”

You ask Advani “Whose your favourite character in Aladdin and magic lamp tale?” and he says “Jinnah (Genie?)”

Monday, October 03, 2005

Celebrity Children

I know its October…And there has’nt been a single post in Sept :-(
Sept 5th, particularly, is long gone. Well, if it still didn’t occur to you, why Sept 5th of all the days, I give up. It was teachers day !

Just curious. How the celebrities of today had been as young kids in a classroom?

Students to teacher: Good Morning teacher !
Preity Zinta & Saif: Salaam Namastey teacher !

Sachin to teacher: Teacher, can I go for an ad shoot during recess ?

Ganguly to his benchmate: Haar kar bhi jeetne waale ko baazigar kehtey hain !

A friend to Anil Ambani: What is your favorite song?
Ambani: Paanch rupaaiya baara aana…Maare ga bhaiyya na na na naaaaa…

Salman Khan: Teacher, can I go to out and recharge my cell phone?

Teacher to Mallika Sheraawat: Is that your handkerchief?
Mallika: No its my school uniform.

Kareena to Shah Rukh: Hmmm, you smell good !
Shah Rukh: Lux, aur kya?

Teacher: What is 2+2 equal to?
Amitabh Bachchan: Eight
Teacher: And why is it eight?
Amitabh: Umeed Se Dugna !


A few more additions in the offing…Till then happy living :-)