13 May, 2008

Lost in translation...

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.

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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.

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
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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).