From Chukku Kaapi to Cappuccino

her is a mail for ward that i got some months back..... seems to sync with my life now.....

From Chukku Kaapi to Cappuccino

This blog was written because I was left with no work to do after coming back from Café Coffee day today. I always feel that blogs are written by people who have nothing else to do, but write blogs. And blogs are written for people who have nothing else to do, but read blogs. So if you have nothing else to do, continue reading.

Café Coffee Days in my life!!! I can't believe it. Six, seven years back I would never have imagined that such a day would occur in my life. Café Coffee day is supposed to be a place where high class people who didn't know how to spend the money they had, go. But now I am there... I have changed a lot since my school days.

As I said in my previous post, I never talked in English till the end of my 12th standard. May be in my primary school we talked in English a little bit... (Since girls were there in my primary school we used to talk in English... Mostly it was the "You go girl." "Miss this boy no... he is stealing my pencil miss" and "Miss this boy is pinching me miss" type of pathetic English.). Till I went to college, I never read an English newspaper. I never knew who Sidney Sheldon was. I never saw English movies. "Star movies" was considered adult material at home. I never talked to a girl. I don't feel that I missed anything...But still because I didn't have such experiences, I had to adjust a lot when I traveled beyond Cornigela, my place.

Born in Cornigela, an ordinary conservative town, even Chennai took a lot of time for me to adjust. My home town was too cool. You could watch movies for 15 Rs. in an AC theatre. You get the best food at lowest prices. You can drink water wherever you want and it doesn't affect you. Girls never wear T-shirts or Jeans. You can see girls in half-sarees. And there were a lot more things that were cool to me...My first costly experience as far as I can remember was my first Pizza.

In my 12th standard holidays I had my first Pizza. We, a group of 5 friends went to a bakery. It was around 7 p.m at night. We ordered our first Pizza (only one because it costed so much - 20Rs!!!). As the Pizza arrived one of the guys started using his hand to take out a piece. "Ley" ....The others shouted... "asingam pannatheylae. Fork kudupaanga"... We got 5 forks for eating one Pizza. Everybody tried taking out a piece with the fork. Nobody was successful. Stupid forks... As we were trying different methods, two girls came in, and took the table adjacent to ours. They seemed to be from the so called high class families in Cornigela. They ordered a Pizza. We were still trying to eat ours. Their Pizza arrived in their table. Unable to find a solution, we looked at them for one. One of the girls took out a piece with her hand and started eating it. Damn stupids we were!!! But what do we do now?? We can't go back to the hand-intake method... We are brave!!! Luckily for us the power went off... Forks were put down and everybody started picking a piece with the hand. Our sole aim- finish it off before power comes back!!! Unlucky for us, power came back immediately... We had a piece each in our hands... The girls started laughing... People around us realizing what had happened too joined them...We promised we would never eat Pizzas again. But we all did.

The first change in lifestyle for me occurred in Chennai. Chennai was completely different. Watching a movie for Rs.40 was a one time life experience for most people in my village. I had to adapt to such things since I had to be a part of the group. Otherwise you feel let out. My habits started changing. For example, you look into the glass before drinking water to check whether it is clean. I went to my first Coffee Pub in Chennai. I remember saying some time back "Loosu paya thaan Coffee publa poi mukkaa manineram wait panni oru black coffeeya 50 Ruba kaasu kuduthu kudippaan" - I did it...

If Chennai was difficult for me, how easy would be an MBA school? I was dumbstruck with the culture... The Hi's and the fundoo English speaking guys were all a great change, though I had expected it. There is a sense of hollowness when you say a Hi to somebody here. In Cornigela a smile was enough to say what you feel. There is real sense of belonging in a smile. I miss it - a smile without a Hi.

Here is an example to show how my family mindset is different from the mindset here. At the end of the first term when I went home, I showed quite a few photographs to my parents. In one photograph there was a guy who had his arms around a girl's shoulder. My mother asked me whether they were in love. I said "No". But even today she doesn't believe me. She still feels that they are in love!!! If only she comes here(...

The mind works mechanically here - after you crack a joke you do what they call high fives!!! When you meet a person you ask something like "What's up buddy?"- Only God knows how you are supposed to answer for such a question!!! You say "Excuse me" after a sneeze - What big mistake have you made to say that?? When you are ready to sacrifice ethics for grades and see even your closest friend as a competitor in group discussions, how much difference will that Excuse me make? Pretty difficult to adjust!!!

Even Café Coffee Days and costly dinners sometimes hurt. Daily my father takes a bus to reach home from his office because taking an auto would cost him Rs.30. He walks a kilometer daily from the bus stop to my house. When I think of that and the fact that I am spending Rs.50 for a Chocolate Fantasy, I feel uneasy. Definitely it is not a matter of money. The fact is that I somewhere in my heart feel that this is not really who I am...The fact that I have changed a lot hurts... I want to be the same myself, but I am unable to do so.

Started listing down a few things that have changed in my life. The left column is a list of things that were part of my life before I entered college. And the right are those that I came to know/were a part of my after I entered college.


I wish I go back to school and be the same guy I was. I know I can't. But I want to do it and live the same life all again.

Leo da Mirci once said, "I love what I do because I do only what I love".

If only following something is as simple as saying something!!!

New Cars for city police...

New Cars for chennai city police... looks awesome na...

One of the mails that i sent to groups

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Krishna Shasankar. V <itkrishna@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Atlast I Recharged
To: ITS <itsastha@yahoogroups.com>

Friends.... I m back on my mobile....

2~3 days without incoming messages or calls... it was lik hell...

but there wont be too much of enjoyment left for me even if i can see my self back on my mobile..

 

ya... 
if you wanted me to speak about that tiny little masterpiece of finnish engineering(my nokia 1100) which slips through my jeans pocket, i would be glad to rate it as the worst human invention after the atom bomb....

 

@My mobile steals privacy from me...

It doesnt always sound nice to make yourself accessibile to every tom and dick anytime...

With this little smart device, i hav always lost the choice of whom to respond and whom not to....

 

@Thats not all... here comes another piece of crap called the SMS...

Let me Rate SMS as the 3rd worst creation of mankind after atombomb and mobile fone....

it starts Morning 5.40.. . a cup of tea or a coffee ...... attached to a HAV A NICE DAY OR GOOD MORNING message..... and it continues.... tea, tiffin, good afternoon, had u r lunch a ..., good evening, good night, sweet dreams, chellams, sweethearts, kadalai, good night,, again at night 12:01 am sending good morning for next day.... i m sick of all these....

 

idhaey thavirey .... holidays , birthadays.... republic day, valantine's day.....

 

i i yo.... somebody stop this.... to put an end to all this Sh## , TRAI(telecom regulatory authority of india) should increse the cost of SMS to twice that of call cost....

 

 

3 days without mobile ... It was like heaven...

But every now and then i feel for people who tried to call me up on my mobile.....  

i feel like as if i have got adictted to this thing... i really hate this thing but cant live without it....

i m jealous on everyone who doesn't hav a mobile.... for you guys the world is really a cool place to live in... no commitments... always offline.....

 

friends... please put down your views on good's and bad's of mobile fonez....

 

--

Mail Signed by,

V.Krishna Shasankar [iT KRiSHNA],

Final Year ,B.Tech[Information Technology]

Sree Sastha Institute of Engg. and Tech. , Chennai

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Joges about WIFE

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
David Bissonette

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let
him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they
just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant Joshi

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you
get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving
them.
Dumas

The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is,
"What does a woman want?
Sigmund Freud

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Anonymous

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go
to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft
music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."
Sam Kinison

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than
electronic banking. It's called marriage."
James Holt McGavran

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and
the second one didn't."
Patrick Murray

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Nash

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget
it once...
Anonymous

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Henny Youngman

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
Anonymous

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day
he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You
can have mine."
Anonymous

First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."           

Thing You find only in Mangalore

Managalore Engleesh

The City Traffic Police is using Eggjelent engleesh par itz Safety Hoardings ... have a look at this

25 NayaPaisa

I didnt have an opportunity to use 25 Paise coin for the past couple of years.... i dont even remember the last time when any one use the denominations in 25 paise and 75 paise... Bu when i came to mangalore... i was astonished that people here still use 25 Ps and 75Ps as denominations... here are some the sample bus tickets ... (NOTE the values 325 and 375 denote the numbers in paise not in ruppees [esp for chennaitees]...)

Mangalore Nagaram....

Mangalore Nagaram....

I jus wanted to jump out of chennai for a weekend, thought of going to mangalore but tickets were not available,but i desperately needed a break out of this flyover-city, i had very few reasons to travel 1), to meet deppak 2),i want to travel because i love traveling, at last found a ticket through tatkal in some coach bound to mangalore which will drop me there at 5 am on sunday....

Sunday 4:45 AM

A Lightning of noise awakes me i turn down from my upper berth jus to see an empty seats, wow, i have reached mangalore, its shivering now, i rang up deepak he said he was on the way, i packed the stuff that i brought with me, came down, its stupid man, unbelievable i saw the railway clock , it ticks 4:45 ( the train is supposed to arrive at 5:15), for a second i got confused as if the train has stopped in some other station and it would leave to mangalore now, but i turned back to confirm that its mangalore only.... the recent hike to railways' guys is paying off in gold for us...

While getting down itself i get a message on my mobil saying that i have a meeting with my CEO scheduled on Tuesday 10:00 am, I have to be in chennai on monday morning at ANY COST... So my deadline was to take the 1:10 chn mail from here to chennai on monday morning .... so i have been allocated 30+ hours to enjoy ...

Deepaq came down to pick me up.... we headed to his place, a nicely furnished room, had chat about latest updates in both our lives, went for bath an then headed to beach (dont ask me the names), it was nice place, great beach guys i ll update fotos as soon as i get their soft copies, the beach was very close to the port , we saw a big ship crossing in front of us, dont know why I started to develop some kinda of HATRED towards SHIPS.... i saw a restaurant nearby the beach , i said we can have some dinner over said , deepak said we can have it near his office, i told we can have it here, bcoz i was very hungry, i didnt eat much during travel also... BIG MISTAKE i did, food was as horrible as ever... checkout deepaks's blog for a detailed description... We then headed to his office , INFOSYS Mangalore , It was cool man... great building, interiors, facilities.. the company was nice.... we took some snaps , he would need some for his orkut....

5 hours katham, 25 left

Then We did some shopping had some famous ice-cream, whose names i never knew, dont even know that anyone else back home will know... We headed to meet that FaztArithmetic Guy, i wanted the meeting to end in five minutes , it lasted for more that some 1 or 2 hours... man this guy ate a huge chunk of my time.... when we stepped off his office it was raining and raining cats, dogs, donkeys, and cows tooo... chalo... its has been long since i last got wet in chill rain, enjoy that one tooo... at last we found some auto to drop us in the bus stop that will take us to udippi,

One crazy thing about Mangalore... Auto-Rickshaws run on meters.. unbelievable stuff na... believe me or not this guy charged us with 18 Rs... i dont even remember last time i got a auto in chennai for less than 20 rs...

15:45 (Sat)
We took some odd bus to Udippi Which will leave us in udippi terminus, we had lunch before we took of for the bus, went to udippi beach ... (aval parandhu poonaley .... udippi beach povarey bus le oru ponnu... marakka ve mudiyaley)... went to the beach ... enjoyed the sunset in beach ... first time in my life i m having the sight of sunset at the beach .....(back in chennai-east coast its only sun rise by the beach) took some awesome snaps with the indian ocean....

19:45 (Sat)
We headed to manipal .... still dont know why we went there.... thought of finding some nice place to eat... but ended up finding that manipal is not tourist friendly place ( i mean in terms of navigation and pathfinding). We had to resort back to mangalore very quickly ... so that we can at least find some proper place to eat , its a 2 hours travel from here and the roads are the worst in the record.....

21:45 (Sat)
In the bus we found this tamil girl... aiiyo avaliyum marakka mudiaythu.... 2 hours non stop discussion.... about nothing but useless stuff... we get down and say ... bye bye
Back to mangy... now we had rush in to some hotel for FOOD... Food for survival... got one... and learnt a lesson... Kannidiga Biriyani's are the worst preparations of biriyani in the whole world... dont ever bother to try it... its that horrible....
Get back to sleep.... The next day i will have to find my way hometown....

09:00 (Sun)
We went to a place called sultan battery to take some nice snaps.... and headed to railway station.... Nothing spl on trains... Nothing Spl on train, except for the fact that i had to travel through kerala and lots of college girls are returning back to their hostels after their weekends.... Found a friend on the trains , he was a 70 year old , we discussed a lot about the young age comparing with what that guy used to do when he was of my age....

Back to chennai... Back to home... a Fast brush and a lightning quick bath... Meet the Web Master, Synaptris.com in the mirror... and get to back office... and life restarted as usual but on a different role....