Soru - One of the basic necessities to sustain the sojourn on this planet! To earn it I must work! How? Robbery – Out of the way, that’s because either I’m not smart enough (Think! Why else should I be a Software Engineer?) or not bold enough to face this society as a proclaimed robber. I could have chosen to hunt, but you see I was brought up as Brahmin ambi (No, not amby!), so that too ruled out. Thus finally ended up being an Engineering (Present continuous…) graduate, which put me into this (No, never am I going to address the IT field as ocean) Maattu santhai – IT industry. Yeah, you guys are right we all celebrated Maattu pongal yesterday (15th January).
Between maadu, pongal and S/W engineer-
A baadu, err… slip of the finger, maadu gets a better treatment than us. Ah! Finally I’m returning to the topic – Food!
Maattu pongal was a memorable one. Mid-day meal was at the routine place. Guess what he served us? Verkadalai Sambar! Machan! Athukku bathula punnakum thavudum (As Satyaraj says Thavudu thavudu) vechiruntha maa maa maa –nu kathitti poiruppom! io! As Prabhu says io! Enna koduma sir ithu! (Chandramukhi)
That was atleast OK. Dinner was even worse; we spent almost an hour and a half to spot a hotel or any eatery! All we could find were cows everywhere, decorated with – Balloons! (Vitta rendu kombu-la-yum vazha thaaru kaati panthal pottudu vanga pollirukku! The Hindu’s Monday’s issue showed a Bull walking on fire – Poor creatures tormented!). We roamed around our part of the town to find a place to sit and eat. All we could find is crowd everywhere (Orey janam mama!). Saachu-putanga da! None cooks here, all come outside to eat. io! Finally we decided to finish our dinner at Sri Krishna Sweets – We had 4 Mysore paaku, 2 Rasa Malai, 1 Basundhi and 50gms Paal Kova (80 bucks)! And to finish it off, we needed something hot – Masala Puri! Went to the road side Kai yenthi bhavan and had 2 Masala Puris. It costed only 10 bucks (Yup! Reminds the kakka biryani joke), well nothing of that sort happened.
Only slight stomach damage!
So rephrasing the sentence – naai mathiri alaya viduranga to Maadu mathiri alaya vittanga da!
To be a software engineer is one thing, but to be alone and living away from home, where there’s none to care for you is an issue (Of course there are your roomies, your college mates and other well wishers, but will it come like your loved ones and the special place called home?).
Ellam mudinju pochu!
Ammmaaaaa… Enakku azhugachi azhugachi-ya varuthu!
BOOOHOOO!
Between maadu, pongal and S/W engineer-
- They have horns that are painted with different colours, we have our arse painted in RED-u (Ajith way of saying) due to our sitting posture OR black and blued by our higher ups, clients and employers (Who knows where to aim for when something gets screwed up (Hit here – Bum beating and Calcium Coating.)!)
- A friend of mine who participated in his office Antakshari competition, made it through to the finals (along with his teammates) whose contributin till then was nil, made a surprising move by singing “Mangalu mangalu mangalu mangalu…” . His team mates were elated and so were others, when others were waiting for him to sing the next two lines, he sang “Mangalu mangalu mangalu mangalu…” again (This chap eats Pongal as his breakfast daily) and from that day onwards he is addressed as Pongal Pandey!
- A colleague of mine got a stomach upset due to excessive oorvalam and the bananas they fed him when they took him for rounds, and thus was unable to attend Monday’s office, but surely attended nature’s call!
A baadu, err… slip of the finger, maadu gets a better treatment than us. Ah! Finally I’m returning to the topic – Food!
Maattu pongal was a memorable one. Mid-day meal was at the routine place. Guess what he served us? Verkadalai Sambar! Machan! Athukku bathula punnakum thavudum (As Satyaraj says Thavudu thavudu) vechiruntha maa maa maa –nu kathitti poiruppom! io! As Prabhu says io! Enna koduma sir ithu! (Chandramukhi)
That was atleast OK. Dinner was even worse; we spent almost an hour and a half to spot a hotel or any eatery! All we could find were cows everywhere, decorated with – Balloons! (Vitta rendu kombu-la-yum vazha thaaru kaati panthal pottudu vanga pollirukku! The Hindu’s Monday’s issue showed a Bull walking on fire – Poor creatures tormented!). We roamed around our part of the town to find a place to sit and eat. All we could find is crowd everywhere (Orey janam mama!). Saachu-putanga da! None cooks here, all come outside to eat. io! Finally we decided to finish our dinner at Sri Krishna Sweets – We had 4 Mysore paaku, 2 Rasa Malai, 1 Basundhi and 50gms Paal Kova (80 bucks)! And to finish it off, we needed something hot – Masala Puri! Went to the road side Kai yenthi bhavan and had 2 Masala Puris. It costed only 10 bucks (Yup! Reminds the kakka biryani joke), well nothing of that sort happened.
Only slight stomach damage!
So rephrasing the sentence – naai mathiri alaya viduranga to Maadu mathiri alaya vittanga da!
To be a software engineer is one thing, but to be alone and living away from home, where there’s none to care for you is an issue (Of course there are your roomies, your college mates and other well wishers, but will it come like your loved ones and the special place called home?).
Ellam mudinju pochu!
Ammmaaaaa… Enakku azhugachi azhugachi-ya varuthu!
BOOOHOOO!
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