Left , Right.. Left?

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Not that I wasn't warned! "Saaab, riksha waale se raasta mat poochna. bahut ghoomate hai ". The driver, clearly more well travelled than the cameraman and I put together, decided he wasn't going to be fooled by rikshawalas in pune. From what we learnt much later on our trip, there's some strange kind of pleasure the auto wallas derive from confusing travellers. And we were their chosen victims that day! It was all very amusing at first, when directions were being rattled out instantaneously. You stopped, asked a rikshawalla how to get to Khadakwasla (which my camera man insisted on renaming Khadak-salsa..part an interest in dance, part bad memory!) and they'd immediately say straight, teesra left, chautha right aur signal se gol. To me, the obvious babe in the woods here, this seemed a display of great knowledge. Especially, when in Bombay i need to give directions to....

Ignoring? Selective Hearing?!... all the same!

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I was in full force, trying to do a 'hindi chini bhai bhai' dance on Christmas eve in Singapore. trying to make some singapore- chinese dance to "kajrare". Of course the fact that everyone from the grandmother in the family to the teenage daughter had a fascination for the big b made my job simpler..... all but one member of the chini family remained largely unimpressed with me. Until of course i said "camera" and there i got a full blown chinese smile..... ! Somethings .. they all understand! It's amazing how kids are a lot more camera friendly today than they perhaps were. or shall i say, than WE perhaps were. I was always a conceited lil brat, even in my younger days, but i do remember some of my classmates shying away on that sacred class photo day. While some of us were engaged in....

anyone NOT on orkut?

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"Oh great I'll find you on orkut", i said and walked away. And two days later when i signed into my most favorite passtime, i had a new friend request on orkut. Everyone is on orkut. And for anyoone who isnt, i cant help but think of that shady PSPO pankha ad... where the guy who didnt know about the local fad was met with a simple "Yeh PSPO nahi jaata!". And it was his cue to catch up with things. Anyway, what i still find amusing is why so many people fuss over adding or not adding people on their friends list. I've friends who keep invitations pending for weeks before they decide to unwillingly click "accept". and then of course there are those who're part of the elite club where membership comes .. not very easily. My questrion of course... orkut has no perks for being....