Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Mah 1st Week in chennai!

wassup... my faarst blog in the land of tsunami. many ppl call it many things but i get to call it home. had a good experience in my stay here and am continuing to learn new things. some of the things i noticed/expirienced in my first week are:

1. The love for the colour GREEN. i mean damn this city is filled with that color. not that it exists anywhere else or anythin but here its just being used like therez no other color. the buses are green, the interior of the bus is green, the railings r green, the fukkin flyovers are green, the shop hoardings are green, the ppl dress in green, the houses are green, almost everything is green here.

2. the love for the colour YELLOW. if its not green, then its yellow. the autos are yellow, the hoardings r in yellow, the bus number plates r in yellow, the sign boards are yellow etc.

3. RED is MAROON.

4. ORANGE is MAGENTA.

5. Actors and actresses are worshipped and ppl consider them beyond god. u cant notice a street without a hero/heroin pic in it.

6. if its not the actors thingee, then the fat woman's cutout stands proud there in everystreet. lucky i recognised her and dint ask if it was an ad for VLCC or somethin.

7. u sweat thru the day irrespective of watever u do. i mean i used to freeze my balls off after 6 in blore. now i feel like i m in a steam bath r somethin. gone case it iz.

8. u can be eaten alive by mosquitoes. its a proved theory.

9. u r considered a wierdo if u say hi to the ppl u recognise.

10. talkin to a gal is considered prestigious. leads to a lot of talk when u aint arnd.

11. if u travel for abt 15 kms or somethin, u r still in the same part of the city r somethin. in bangalore, 15 kms from any direction would take u to the highway.

12. things r so early here. city wakes up at 5 am and goes off to sleep by 9. if u want to eat dinner at 10ish, cook at home.

13. u have to be an billionare to travel in an auto here.

lemme stop at 13 now. :D

this mornin, i saw somethin that made me think of karnataka again. when i was travellin in the bus, i saw a flower in the middle of the main drain. guess wat i thought huh huh?
the drainage is called "Kuvam" and flower is called "Poo" in Tamil. so i assosiated those two and made of "kuvempu". chindi na. JAI KARNATAKA. :p