Kaala Akshar Bhains Baraabar

Got this as an email forward. An innovative literacy campaign indeed! :)

Computer age? Ofcourse it is!

The stone, copper, bronze and iron ages are long gone. They say we're now in the 'computer age'. Would another name be more appropriate? Something like 'Space age' or 'Nuclear age' ?

Whatever you think, my vote would surely go for what it is popularly known as. Especially 'coz of something that happened recently.

I was at home in Mangalore, having dinner with my cousins. My lil cousins were testing their spellings. After few words (which included even PSP and GTA :) ), Chotu asked his younger brother, Riki the spelling of cartoon network. He thought for sometime and then said,
"C .. A .. R .. T .. O .. O .. N -space bar..."!!! SPACE BAR!!!

All the jaws in the room in the room dropped except one that continued with the spelling "N-E-T-W-..."

PS: Source of cartoon: home.planet.nl

'Cut' my tea??!

Ive spent two months here in Pune and it doesnt look like I'm gonna learn Marathi soon. Some rickshaw drivers and vendors speak to you in Marathi even if you speak to them in hindi. You then have to listen to them carefully, pick some words from the sentences that sound like some words in hindi, and then use the situation to try and decode what the person was tryin to tell you. And yea, you also have to know the local lingo. My recent experience would perhaps explain that.

Yesterday, I had gone to a restaurant close to my flat for breakfast. Being a Sunday, I obviously woke up quite late. So there wern't many things to eat, left there in the restaurant. I decided to have a vada-pav and a cup of tea. It is self service there. So after having paid, I went to the counter to collect it.

While preparing tea for me the guy there asked me "Bhaiyya, chai cutting hai kya?" (Brother, is the tea 'a cutting'?) I could only respond with a confused "KYA!!!" (WHAT!!)[What was he going to cut into a tea?? Or was he going to prepare a special tea for me? But I had paid just Rs.4 for it; and I don't think I would get something special for that. :P] It could be some specialty of the place. But I didn't want to take a risk and wanted to ask some reliable person about it before taking 'a cutting tea'! So I was about to ask him to give me a cup of ordinary tea; but the guy at the cash counter interrupted and told the waiter that it was indeed a cutting! Now I was curious, and grew more and more curious as time passed.

Later he kept my plate of vada-pav on the counter and then placed a glass of tea next to it. That was when I learnt what it was. It was the quantity! They served it in a very small glass [they perhaps called it the cutting glass ;)]. Its as if the've cut a piece from the large glass of tea. It looked like the younger brother of the other glasses that I then observed on a small shelf there.

Hmmm...long way to go...:)

PS: A really good week in the sports world for me. Fisichella gets Force India its first podium finish at the Belgian GP. India won the nehru cup. That's really big for Indian football. And Chelsea win four of their first four matches in the BPL.

PPS: Going on a trek on 6th Sep to Duke's nose(Lonavala) with valley crossing. Its gonna be the most exciting trek I've done. Looking forward to it. Check this space for a post on that soon. :)

Its over! am an engineer now!!! ;)

Back in my room after the last end-sem exam. It was on my global elective - 'human resource management'. I shall remember the day - 12 may '09 - as the last day I sat in a classroom, and its gonna remain so for a long time - atleast a year or a couple.

This is perhaps the first time I'm not so excited after writing the last of an exam series. Now the only work remaining here is to get 'no dues' certificates from different departments, hostels, and labs. I hate standing in long queues!

So that's all you've got to do to become an engineer?! ;)

PS: did you know that the 'zoozoos' in the latest vodaphone ads shown during ipl, are not animated but real human beings dressed in suits?!! Dont trust me?? Google it! I too didn't believe it first when kavi sent me a mail about it.

Weird world

Have you noticed the news that appears just above your gmail inbox? Today i saw
an odd news - a court orderin car makers volvo to pay a man compensation for
he complained that his foot was too bid for the accelerator of his new car!! lol
After reading that article, i googled for 'odd news'...and to my surprise i found
that almost every news website has a section dedicated for odd and weird news!!
Lot of weird n funny things happenin in the world - young kid jumps off a 2 storey
building emulating spiderman, a cow swallows gold chain, croc eats shark for
dinner, lost parrot tells vet his address, donkey goes to jail for acting
like an ass!! and lots more...rofl
Trust me...I didnt cook them up just now...click on the links to read the whole article.
You can google and find many more. Its fun..
As shankers blog suggests, this indeed is a really weird world!

Ratatouille

Watched Ratatouille yesternight....really nice...njoyed it
I dont watch many animated movies but this mov was one of the
best I've ever seen;the best has to be
Lion King.
Another wonderful product from the Walt Disney and Pixar studios,this
movie is about a rat named Remy who dreams of being a great French
chef like his idol chef Auguste Gusteau,against his fathers wish and
the obvious problem of being a rat.
Its about how he gets separated from his clan , becomes d friend of
Linguini who happens to be the son of Gusteau and then becomes a great chef.
The movie is beautifully made.

Watch d video below...It might force u to watch the movie too :)



Watch it...Im sure u'll enjoy...
And yea...never go wid too much expectations too...

Going to watch Harry Potter and the Order of
Phoenix tonight at Adlabs ;)

Links:
Disney's Ratatouille
Pixar Studios
Ratatouille on rotten tomatoes
Truly moving pictures

My favourite forwards

Whenever I think about funny email forwards,these two emails
about Hutch always come to my mind.So thought i should share them with you...
Many of you might have already seen them as I too had forwarded them to many
in my contact list...

Check 'em out.


1.A real touching story....
This is a true story of a young college girl who passed away last month. Her name was Priya. She was hit by a lorry. She has a boy friend named Shankar. Both of them were true lovers. They always hang on the phone. You could never see her without her cell-phone. In fact she also changed her phone from Airtel to Hutch, so that both of them could be on the same network, and save on the cost.

She spends half of the day talking with shankar. Priya's family knows about their relationship. Shankar is very close to Priya's family. (just imagine their love) . Before she passed away she always told her friends "If I pass away please burn me with my cell-phone" she also said the same thing to her parents.

After her death, people couldn't carry her coffin, I was there. Everybody including me, had tried to carry the coffin, the result is still the same. Eventually, they called their neighbour, a "bomoh" from Thailand (pak Darin), who is a friend of her father. He took a stick and started speaking to himself slowly. After a few minutes, he said "this girl misses something here". then her friends told Darin about her intentions to burn her with her phone. He then opened the coffin and place her phone and SIM card inside the casket. After that they tried to carry the coffin. It could be moved and they carried it into the van easily. All of us were shocked.

Priya's parents did not inform Shankar that Priya had passed away. After 2 weeks Shankar called Priya's mom. Shankar :...."Atte, I'm coming home today. Cook something nice for me. Dont tell Priya that I'm coming home today, i wanna surprise her." Her mother replied....."You come home first, i wanna tell you something very important." after he came, they told him the truth about Priya.

Shankar thinks that they were playing a fool. He was laughing and said "dont try to fool me - tell Priya to come out, i have a gift for her Please stop this nonsense". then they show him the original death certificate to him. They gave him proof to make him believe. (Shankar started to sweat) ...

He said... "Its not true. we spoke yesterday. She still calls me. Shankar was shaking. Suddenly, Shankar's phone rang. "see this is from Priya, see this..." he showed the phone to priya's family. all of them told him to answer.he talked using the loudspeaker mode. all of them heard his conversation.

Loud and clear, no cross lines, no humming. It is the actual voice of Priya & there is no way others could use her SIM card since it is nailed inside the coffin they were so shocked and asked for pak Darin's help again. pak Darin brought his master (tok Chen) to solve this matter. He & Darin worked for 5 hours. Then they discovered one thing... Hutch has the best coverage. Whereever you go, our network follows!!!



2.Now the second one...

Reason why Hutch network was weak for the last few days...

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Hw wer they? :)