Most of us Indians are often traveling abroad these days, some stay back for good
Other enjoy the spoils and return…
But no matter where we go, there still would be certain stubborn truly Indian traits in our blood that we just can't seem to shake off!
Here's my 2 cents!

• Stare..Wide eyed. We can't help it, can we. We see an attractive woman/man, stare! We see a couple getting a bit cozy, stare!...we have a dog littering the side walk, stare! Probably is no other race that can use their eyes so efficiently
  
• We're arguably the most well mannered bunch, at least that's what we say! We don’t hold a door open for someone coming right behind us and slam it on their face, if they didn't end up getting their nose bandaged, it's their luck! We do not know Thanks, Sorry exist in the English vocablary. We believe Queues are for morons
  
• Eco friendly! Yeah, you open any Indian household's closet, what do you see? Stacked up with polythene carry bags of the local super market. Tesco, Sainsbury, Somerfield, ASDA (US of A makkal pls substitute), all brands, make your pick! We just can't throw them off for recycling, we believe in re-using them
  
• Mathematical geniuses! Everyone of us is. No matter what the currency is, what the conversion rates are, we can calculate the Rupee equivalent price in a flash second before our spouse/partner heads to the billing counter
  
• Lock it. We lock everything, if we ladies could lock our handbags, we would have! Every single bag has a lock on it. No matter what your mode of transport is, duration of journey is, just lock the goddamn bag! In fact most of us try pushing that apartment door to see if it's still open after banging it shut (Oru kaalathula veetu kadhava pootitu thalpaala pidichi thongi paatha aalunga thaana!)
  
• We like it hot! :) No matter what cuisine it is supposed to be, it has to be doused with generous amount of pepper. And we still can't understand how these vella kaarans can survive on ela thalai!
  
• Eeerie silence in the afternoon train/bus, off peak hours, not many people around, enjoying your own peaceful moment. In comes co-desi, ipod blaring 'nee kattum sela madipula na…' even when dressed in Armani, the music on our 'personal' stereo will still be some kuthu paatu
  
• We’re the ultimate tourists. We want to go to every place we have seen in the photo album of that pakathu veetu karan when he visited Swiss a year back…Only we are busy clicking pics, striking god awful poses, only to be placed in another album and to be shown all around the locality back home much to the neighbours’ envy!
  
• We’re the kings and queens of make over. No matter what the duration of the visit, be it 2 days or 2 years, the normally greasy oily hair is replaced by rebonded mane or a funky spikes for guys. The wardrobe is completely changed, gyming creeps into our everyday routine and even the Pankajams and Janakis want nothing less than a Gucci or a Prada. Hmmmm….
  
• This is strictly for vegetarians, most of them let go of the vegetarianism they’ve followed all their lives, at one point of time or the other. Reason being, they just couldn’t decipher what was on the menu in that posh restaurant, and when they saw scampi, they thought it was some sort of sea weed and didn’t bother asking the waitress for fear of sounding funny….and out went the strictly vegetarian diet. [or may be in a free meal, in a haste to pick the most expensive dish just didn’t see the small word ‘salami’ written right beneath the name!] But guess what, most of them still swear by the fact that Scampi is not sea word, but skinned Aubergine :D
  
• Talk about Aubergine, it’s no longer good old brinjal, it’s aubergine or egg plant. We go absolutely crazy about crispy fried Okras, and keep wondering why they taste so much like Lady’s finger! It’s no longer ‘I’ll pick you up at 6’ it’s ‘I’ll pick you up at 6-ish’. Aiyos and Ada-s are gone and Blimey-s and Holy Moly-s have taken their place.Rasam’s passé, it’s mulligatawny! ;)
  

P.S: erm….You might wonder how many of these could have applied to me…I am not answering that question :P

Song On: Some song from Sivaji the boss ;)
Mood: Lazy

Labels: General, London

Posted by Sat at 9:35 AM
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That time of the year again
I am going to London... again!...a short visit and back :D
But anything out of the routine is starting to freak me out lately and thinking that it's not really warm in London this time of year doesn't make things any better.
But then, I'll have to go this time at least for the sake of that huge bag that I forgot to get last time I returned ;)

Shall try to be a regular at the blogs while I'm out there as well...
In the meantime, marupadiyum veedu thedanum :(
Buckingham is full this season apparently!

Song on: California Love
Mood: Bored

Labels: London

Posted by Sat at 5:20 AM
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