It is a defence mechanism to bond with your own in alien climes. It is a sort of ghetto — mental and not physical of course — but a ghetto nevertheless.
It is not always a game of ‘mom-is-a-dodo.’ Once they enter their mid/late teens, it is not father against mother, but their parents against others’ parents. It is the all important thing to impress their friends by presenting their parents in the best light.
For someone who is not on Twitter and has only a vague idea of the working of the medium, I have extracted full mileage out of it, don’t you think? Boy, am I excited!
The errors are not only grammatical, but pertain to pronunciation, spelling — the entire lot! They can confuse, confound and crack you up if not actually drive you crazy!
You have read about the foibles of the L&M and the Brats. Now read about the Lady of the house!
I have often wondered why these ‘doctors’ only advertise on the walls or in the classified section of the newspapers. It is almost clandestine, if you know what I mean.
The tradition of moving houses has been passed on to us children from my parents. While my sisters and brothers have shifted houses, I take the cake having shifted about three dozen of them, give or take a couple.
If I want to eat a Chinese dinner, the L&M might want a tandoori night and the boys would want nothing short of a Moroccan meal or a Spanish feast.
All I need to do is log on to one of the social networking sites and I get to know what the Big B did over the weekend, what time Tendulkar turned in the previous night, what Priyanka Chopra had for lunch and so on.
The one good thing about nursery rhymes is that they are taught to very small children who don’t ask you the meaning of the words but happily sing them!
The joint family has evolved from the staying-under-one-roof concept and settled in the hearts of the family members.
When the guests were finally released by the hysterical host, they found a home right out of Good Housekeeping!
Varsha had tagged me on this one. I am not on any of the social blogging networks so I am not sure of my footing here. I am just learning the ropes and and I am sure the youngsters out there in blogosphere will help me along! So here goes: Old Hindi film songs: Old […]
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