Kaala Akshar Bhains Barabar

The most innovative and hilarious literacy campaign I've ever seen! Check our J and L. I also like how V has been used to discourage 'immorality'.

What fun it would have been if we all had been taught our A B C's this way!

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And what stops you?

Boredom, really.

You?

Poetic genius

I found a priceless treasure today, all thanks to the cleaning up that mom made me do (so I guess I should actually be thankful to her, instead of cribbing about all the 'child labour'...)

This old treasure is a thin little pocket diary sans its cover... the pages have yellowed, and I can't quite place it's date, except that its atleast 15 years old. In a very bad handwriting, it has in it, a poem scrawled in ink... without further preamble, let me just present it to you.

Bewakoof Prajakta

Ek ladki thi Miss Prajakta

Na usse tha kuchh aata jaata

Waise usse marathi ka period tha bhaata

Specially jab teacher hoti Mrs. Nivedita

Uska har ek joke hota tha flop

Phir bhi kehti 'I'm top'

Uski bewakoofi ka na tha ek bhi stop

Intelligence ka na ugta uske brain mein crop

Poets ne usspar poetry banaii

Phir bhi uske brain par bewakoofi thii chhaaii

Woh karti bas apni badhai

Aakhir ek din uski bewakoofi rang laaii

Ek din shuru kiya usne doosron ko kaatna

Shukr hai nahin chaha kisi ko chaatna

Yehi dukh humein hai doosron ko baantna

Log uske liye lage naamon ko chhaatna

Koi kehta woh hai crocodile

Koi kehta woh maarti hai crow ki style

Main kehti hoon uski hai bandar jaisi smile

Usski report banati hoon main file by file

Kabhi na hoga iss poem ka khaatma

Kyunki bewakoofi na chhodegi uski aatma

Yehi hai iss poem ka climax

Jiske liye loongi main sabse tax

I kid you not, people. This is for real. I know this was written sometime back in school, but darned if I can remember who wrote it. I admit with some regret that the handwriting is not mine. I have a sneaking suspicion though, that this might be the work of the over-fertile imaginations of more than one mind, and that the writing merely belongs to the person who put it to paper.

Weren't we just perfectly horrid when we were kids? And very happy being so, if I recall correctly... I remember vividly how we teased and harassed the subject of this poetry, Prajakta, and feel a little hot behind the ears about it, at the moment. I called up Meenal to read this out loud to her, soon as I finished laughing my head off about it (so that I could begin again, of course). We both agreed that we were wicked and horrible and completely hateful to her, the poor thing, but we couldn't really help cracking up over this! This is a very insufficient apology, and one that I'm sure will never reach the intended recepient, and I hope, also unnecessary and that she has forgotten and forgiven all this!

Does anyone remember who wrote this? This is an open appeal to all the other girls to tell me, if they happen to read this and remember anything...

Loyalty Bonus?

This is an actual conversation that happened between me and a sales rep who called me up, trying to sell a credit card.

Me: Hello

Sales Rep: Is this Miss Rashmi?

Me: Yes.

SR: Hello Ma'm. I'm calling from Standard Chartered Bank. Can take a few minutes of your
time?

Me: Is this about some credit card?

SR: Yes Ma'm. Actually, we're offering you a...

Me: (cutting in) I had a Stan C card earlier, but I returned it because I got some really bad service. I don't want another Standard Chartered card.

SR: Hmmpphh! We're not even going to give you a credit card! Standard Chartered is a good company! Thank you and good bye!

Click.

My jaw literally dropped. I've touched new lows with this conversation...

I only hope, for the poor girl's sake that the call was not recorded. But I wonder - would Stan C offer her a loyalty bonus?

Me? A Sportscar?? Naaaah...

I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena! (or so they claim!)

You've got it all. Power, passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and temperamental. Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but you're worth it.

Hee hee!!

Ok, so I have no clue how they came up with this... I mean, c'mon! Temperamental? Exotic?? HIGH-maintenance??? Gimme a break!!

I'd much rather have been a Mercedes SLK, by the way... but the only way to be one would be to like going topless on a summer day!! (which, incidentally, is one of the questions on the quiz, and NOT something I came up with, ok! So quit sniggering!)

That does it... I'm going on a self quest starting today... More personality test results to follow in future edittions of the blog :-D

In the meanwhile, you take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz too... http://www.tomorrowland.us/sportscar