Monday, November 19, 2007

DESI DEFINED


You are a Desi if you fulfill most of these-
  • You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping next year.
    You only buy Diwali cards after Diwali, when they are 50% off.
    You tape cards on the wall.
    You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.
    You eat all meals in the kitchen.
    You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
    You leave your shoes at the door.
    You have a collection of shampoo sachet.
    You never order stuff online.
    You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
    You wash your rice 2-3 times before cooking it.
    You curse yourself for buying a ticket if nobody checks it.
    You reuse teabags.
    You have a drawer full of old pens, most of which don’t write anymore.
    Your parents never go to the movies.
    Your parents are never happy with your grades.
    You use coke cans/ refined oil containers/ paint or distemper boxes in toilets.
    You keep used batteries, and keep checking them time & again if they work.
    You keep most of your money in a savings account.
    You call an older person you never met before “uncle.”
    No one you’re related to is a music major.
    Your parents don’t realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs.
    You cook in bulk.
    You never give a tip.
    Your can’t resist spitting on the sidewalk.
    You use Vicks/ Painjon/ Amrutanjan.
    You’ve been in a bus where half the people riding are outside the bus.
    Experiencing 20 power blackouts in a single day doesn’t faze you.
    You pronounce “wary” and “very” in the same way.
    You spew forth the virtues of India, but don’t want to live there.
    You can never dream of actually buying a software.
    You majored in engineering or medicine.


Note:This post has been copied straight off Pandu's blog(satyavrat.wordpress.com)

2 comments:

Nanga Fakir said...

We want a report on the Convocation! And a detailed one at that.

Poorna Banerjee said...

Ei je. Desi ness niye please dont comment much. My aunt's a Desi and she is very very against all these virtues (though she commits half of them herself)