West meets south

My collegue David Blackmore is a unique personality. You and I have the compulsion of learning English. We strived hard to learn that for our bread (dosa) n butter (chatni).

Though he is born in Wales, he grew interest in Asian languages. He speaks Tamil, Sanskrit and a very good Hindi. He studied all these languages in Singapore and Malaysia. When asked why not in India? He said it’s not a good place to learn these languages. Though I speak Hindi in broken pieces, his Hindi is like the Ramayana serial, grammatical and clear.

He says that Sanskrit is a very good language and the words in Sanskrit are seen in Italian, Spanish and many European languages. I can see my colleagues feel shy to talk to him in Hindi because theirs’ is not good Hindi. He watches Hindi movies and what he cannot digest is the songs and it’s a laughter whenever a hero and a heroine sing at each other in there romantic moods.

Hey listen! He is not only inquisitive of Indian languages, but also politics. He says he grew interest in Indian politics when he heard about Lallu Prasad Yadav from his Bihari girl friend.

Like Europeans, he does not drink only the coffee decoction, but also with some sugar and milk like us. He says he has always had Asian friends, but could not forget one Tamilian named Shankar. Shankar was his classmate in school but without a reason he went and complained to the teachers that David is a homosexual and from then he keeps a ruler scale of distance with tamilians alone.

Last one week, he was after me with a ‘Tamil Illakanam’ book asking me to teach him ‘Illakanam’. I blushed saying it is actually very easy and changed the conversation Jus like Dat!!!

Does telephone have manners?

The usage of mobile phone is tremendous by an auto rickshaw w(s)ala compared to a CEO. When you call anybody in India to ask medicines for haemorrhoids (I’m really experiencing the pain in a.. bones), sure you will be welcomed by the latest melody song.

Does this telephone have manners? Especially when you are newly married it always rings in the wrong time and it never tring trings when you really want to talk to someone.:)

Does this telephone have manners? When my boss calls me for a one to one meeting, it exactly rings for a telephonic interview from a competitor company.

Does this telephone have manners? When Kamal Hassan cries at the death of Kamalini in Sathyam complex, you hear a lousy ring tone from a specimen behind you.

Does this telephone have manners? When my wife calls during her break hours, it makes a squeaking noise, making my wife to suspect me and my colleague Kate. (Hmm…hope dream comes true).

Does this telephone have manners? It exactly tickles in company strategy meetings with the vibrating mode.

Does this telephone have manners? It gives less minutes to talk to your family and more minutes to a call centre customer service representative.

Television, Radio, Telephone, Car were available for the previous generation as a costly product and they rarely used it. All of the above are still costly, but you and I don’t bother and at the cost of our personal life we use it day in and day out. Should we do that? Call me in my mobile anytime or text 2233 and express your views... Jus Like Dat!