To say or not

15 May, 2008

13 May, 2008

Hindi: kaisa chal raha hai tera college?
English:how is going ur college?

Hindi: yaad rakho
English: keep remember

Hindi: sir/madam to mere peechhe hi pad gaye padne ke liye
English: sir/madam is at the back of me for studying
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Do you find anything common in all these sentences? These are the examples of true translation of people’s mother tongue to English. People do not realize that the way words are placed in each and every language is very different from each other. But still, they think in their mother tongue and then very happily and skillfully translate the entire sentence into English. Little do they realize that by doing this the entire meaning and gravity of the sentence changes. Instead of the tone being serious it becomes funny (for those who understand English properly). Had Shakespeare been alive, he would have died so many deaths each day.

WAP Anniversary Celebrations

08 May, 2008

Chatnewala chat...

This is a regular place we both haunt just to have a plate full of “dahi puris” and “mitha Pani Puri”. He is absolutely amazing. So many years, and still the taste has not diluted. This rajasthani fellow sits near the Diamond point in Secunderabad. He and his son manage the show. It’s simply amazing to see how with in a few minutes he whips up such yummy eatable. Though I don’t deny that there are many more but nothing like theirs.

This is my plate of “dahi puris”. I get water in my mouth just by looking at it. This is a typical way of putting rice puffs stuffed with yummy chane-ka-dal. Topped with dahi (curd) and mithi imli ka pani (tamarind pulp made sweet by adding sugar to it). On top, its decorated with lightly fried fine besan dumplings.

06 May, 2008

Xena: the warrior princess

02 May, 2008

This convo happened in my sister's engineering college bus.

Lecturer: Abbo pedda crowd is there. Some shootingaa…?
Student: Don’t know Sir.
Lecturer: wait let me see.
Student: enduku sir, why to bother/
Lecturer: enduku ante? What if Meera Jasmine is there shooting.
Student: Sir, Sir reallu Meera Jasmine is there.
Lecturer: ok ok let me see.
Student: Relax Sir, Dhunnapotu ( buffalo in telugu) Sir
Lecturer: Abba Chhee

23 April, 2008

Lonely... I am so lonely

I am alone, in spite of love,

In spite of all I take and give --

In spite of all your tenderness,

Sometimes I am not glad to live.

I am alone, as though I stood

On the highest peak of the tired gray world,

About me only swirling snow,

Above me, endless space unfurled;

With earth hidden and heaven hidden,

And only my own spirit's pride

To keep me from the peace of those

Who are not lonely, having died.

-------Sarah Teasdale

18 April, 2008

I love...

I Love Chocolates

I Love Sandwiches

I Love money

I Love ma beauty Sleep

I Love Strawberries

Most Important I LOVE YOU

Height of ...

HEIGHT OF ISOLATION

Two persons sitting side by side using emails to communicate with each other.

HEIGHT OF COWARDICE

Two persons fighting through emails.

HEIGHT OF HELPLESSNESS

Receiving no emails for a week.

HEIGHT OF FRUSTRATION

The email server being down.

HEIGHT OF CARELESSNESS

Writing a love mail and doing a 'Send All.'

HEIGHT OF TIMEPASS

A person sending email to himself

HEIGHT OF BROWSING

U r swimming in the water tank and shout 'F1 F1 F1 ' instead of shouting 'HELP' when u are unable to swim...

15 April, 2008

Snake's Rage

Today I was going to Bubz’s house and I noticed a very rare sight. I saw a snake’s dress bought from the Milan Fashion week (pun intended). But I suppose the dress was not upto the snake’s standards. Very mercilessly he/she (I didn’t have the pleasure of knowing him/her personally) shed it off on the road.

Just by the look of it, you can know that it must have cost the poor animal a fortune. Anyway I hope Sir/Madam must have got a new dress more to the liking of their friend’s circle. Alternatively the animal must have met with an accident and the dress got torn. So he/she dumped it there.

What if the animal is a lady/girl? Cud have had a fight with her parents over the choice of dress. The parents must have put their foot down and said NO WAY. Poor soul, she had sobbed and shed her dress here, enroute to the party. (what say abt my story)

Whatever the case may be, but I felt very bad at seeing such a fashionable dress like that lying on the road (Hee Hee Haa Haa).

Blue Cross of Hyderabad

Founded in 1992 by film stars Nagarjuna & Amala Akkineni, The Blue Cross of Hyderabad is a non-profit Animal Welfare Organization that works for the welfare of animals and preservation of animal rights in the Twin Cities of Hyderabad & Secunderabad, India.

The main torchbearer is of course Amala Akkineni supported whole heartedly by her husband. Born to an Irish mother and Bengali father, this lady was known to be very compassionate toward animals. At a very your age she became a vegetarian and whenever in doubt a quick trip to the neighborhood butcher's, strengthened her convictions about vegetarianism.

This particular poster is on a metal plate near Vikas’s house. It carries the photograph of John Abraham (popular Bollywood actor) with road side Dog. Such kinds of poster do inspire us to take up animals who may or may not b of famous lineage (read award winning animals). We shud take animals and treat them with love and care as we do with our children.

But I still find a few of my neighbors to be irresponsible enough to feed our colony dogs but not provide them shelter. They just leave them on their own. They have become a menace now. Wud we leave our children like that???

NO! DEFINITELY NO!

Then why do we do to pets?

Happy new year (Bengali)

The Hindu solar calendar based on the Surya Siddhanta commences in mid-April of the Gregorian year. The first day of this calendar is celebrated as the traditional New Year in various parts of South Asia, including Assam, Bengal, Kerala, Manipur, Nepal, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Tripura.
Under the Mughals, agricultural taxes were collected according to the Hijri calendar. However, as the Hijri calendar is a purely lunar calendar, it does not coincide with the harvest. As a result, farmers were hard-pressed to pay taxes out of season. In order to streamline tax collection, the Mughal Emperor Akbar ordered a reform of the calendar. Accordingly, Fatehullah Shirazi, a renowned scholar and astronomer, formulated the Bengali year on the basis of the Hijri lunar and solar Hindu solar calendars. The new Fasli San (agricultural year) was introduced on 10/11 March 1584, but was dated from Akbar's ascension to the throne in 1556. The new year subsequently became known as Bônggabdo or Bengali year.
Celebrations of Pohela Boishakh started from Akbar's reign. It was customary to clear up all dues on the last day of Choitro. On the next day, or the first day of the new year, landlords would entertain their tenants with sweets. On this occasion there used to be fairs and other festivities. In due course the occasion became part of domestic and social life, and turned into a day of merriment. The main event of the day was to open a halkhata or new book of accounts. This was wholly a financial affair. In villages, towns and cities, traders and businessmen closed their old account books and opened new ones. They used to invite their customers to share sweets and renew their business relationship with them. This tradition is still practised, especially by jewellers.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohela_Baishakh)

Nothing new at “poila boishakh”. First of all didn’t know about it till late in the evening. All thru the day work, work, work and uffff… work. By the time I knew abt it, I was enroute to home. So just to celebrate, went out with my mom and sis and had sandwiches at a local bakery. Then I was awake till about 2 O’ clock and then went to bed.

So that’s ma new year celebrations activities. These are a few greetings conveying the message in more colorful way, potraying the essence of kolkata.

15 May, 2008

Height of (whatever)...

13 May, 2008

Lost in translation...