Monday, December 8, 2008

BaDi baDi deshon mein choti choti baatein.....

I had been to my grandma's place last weekend. Its a village, but was packed with surprises. Visiting this place after about 3 years.

#My cousin asked me what kind of a mobile phone do I own? I said 2300. He told me that's not even in the market now, why don't you buy a N95 showing me his new N73. He went on explaining me all its features; about 270 songs in it, and the videos he had recorded and a movie he had saved in there. I was like wowww!!! Then gathering my left over dignity, I asked why don't you buy an ipod. To which he replied, this one already has 2 Gb memory capacity which pretty much suffices my current needs. Stumped yet again!!
#He then asked me how much do i make per month(This is the most embarrassing question). I casually picked a random value and said 25K. He replied, In Bangalore 25k is like 5k in here. And he went on about a "memory card" manufacturing unit that is going to open in that village and the trainer gets 40K. My mom hearing this was like what company do you work in again? Why don't you switch companies blah blah....
#And comes the most obvious question, why did not I get a job in Infosys, Wipro. This time I had gathered all the courage and gave a satisfactory answer. My uncle was like, whatever you say nowadays engineers don't have much value, because "US IS DOWN". I was speechless!!!
#Then my cousin told me lets watch a movie. He had just got a Raaz movie DVD. He connected most of the cables. But the sound could not be heard. I thought let me help them with the color coding. He said to me don't touch the yellow cable as the video is already proper!!!

After all this next day was watching last part of some kannada movie. Usual story; hero extremely rich, currently poisoned and unconscious, villains troubling his mother, mom calls his name twice, hero wakes up fights and kills all bad guys. His mother now calls him in a typical style "Kanda baaa kandaa ninna taayi maDiligee baa". Hero running in slow motion towards his mother collapses suddenly. Next scene hospital; doctors say an impossible case. Hero's mother is like my son had fallen once from train and has survived, a sanke bite could not do any harm, he is chiranjeevi blah blah... And then she slowly enters the hospital room. Hero lying there. At the end hero survives...Stumped!!! Just guess hows that possible now.