Saturday, August 21, 2004

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"!!!!!!!!!!!

1 comment:

vinay said...

onam..for me..it is still the family reunioun...all of us at our family home @palakkad...me cousins...mum's sisters ..their husbands..cooking together..sitting together and having a heavy lunch..and yapping after that...with the television turned on....
it is more about reminding you that..there are many people in thz world..whom you dont see often..but can call your own...