onam celebrations

well onam is coming near....and all the malluz(mallz) have started their prep and in the process they have dragged me also. The only high point of the mall celeb is the food.There is pappadam avial inji curry!!! but the low point(s) i have to drape a mall sari and pretend to be a mall for sometime...so how adept am I at that?

Letz go down memory lane....while at school i was surrounded by mallu nuns and kids...It was christian missionary convent so while i was young i was forced to believe that i was a mall myself esp because i used to wear" chandanam" on my forehead after dadz pooja...

then when i started realising i did not speak mall at home i decided enough is enough and i broke free of the mall cadre;)!

My mom has stayed all her life in kerala...and is a pseudo mall.She lives on mall channles like surya and asianet....and celebrates onam religiously every year,....and enjoys everything that is mallu! while here i am born in coimbatore....knowing mallu becoz i watched mall movies....
and as regards my dad he is from travancore which is more confusing as he was earlier in Kerala and now in Tamilnadu....
and my bro...well thatz an interesting part to talk abt.Born in mallu land thatz his closest association with mallz.... he can say some words like" podi patti....endha sugam thanne alle;)!"

so where does that leave me?? thatz rite nowhere.....here the mallz call me pseudo mall for want of help in celebration....Infact they r outsourcing their celebs;)!

so who r these mallz...there are some mallz who speak worse mallu than i do....
"ninakku kitty oh?"
on the agenda is " KAI KO TTI KA LI" TO be prnounced with an anglicized accent....
saddhi...with pal payasam...

ofcourse the mall set saree which my mum is couriering for me....
and ya then there are some tam brahms who r confused....
srividhya my senior- tam brahm whose mum is from kerala....but they speak marathi at home and she knows neither mall or tam props!!!!tri partite agreement!!!!!

and then there is Ms.X
a tam brahm from chennai who tries as much as possible to spoeak mallu so that she is accepted in the mall crowd!!! reminds me of my classmate annu...(which shall dealt as a separate topic)!

So there i go this september singing " dhithara thaga thai dithai thaga thai thai thom"!!!!!!!!!!!

one day at a time in tiss

Lush green treees, stone walls, a building out of time but right on the highway! That is TISS for U! and just like the mismatch of location we are the error in the college-PMIR STUDENTS! in a social work school!

My journey to tiss was almost a mistake and i thought so till the end of first week in college when u feel that everything thatz happening to you is wrong... You fall ill,u fall down and hit ur head and every one is new and ya u hate the loos! but then now itz almost my home.... The safe precincts of tiss.....

It almost gets u wondering how you can change so fast.From a spoilt brat to ahem an almost responsible person.But then u also start wondering if u will ever be a part of home again in the very sense of it.

I can still remember how my mom used to wait for me at the doorstep while i walked from the bustop(which was jus opp. to my house)! Incase she was missing i would go really mad.Now u have no one to welcome U.Just blank dull walls and ur dirty table....
No one to give u mango juice but jus watery tea in Dining Hall(DH).

But the truth lies in the fact u no longer think of it as a mistake. i have actually stopped cribbing and started enjoying my work.I am amazed at the fact that I have actually started doing my own assignments.All my life in engg there has not been one assignment which i wrote on my own! Things change and u change along with it...who started the change....thatz like who came first the egg or the chicken!

But itz almost like a hallucination for me.I am here watching my life go by and i wonder what I am going to be doing the next part.What more changes are going to take place.Itz almost like and end of a chapter.Itz dream like to see your friends move on with their life.You know itz true but you still have not come to terms with it.

after all I AM JUST A DREAMER..... I DREAM MY LIFE


You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,