This came on today’s TOI. Unbelievable… Had this been an inspiration for Frank to repeat it in 99? John Coffey of The Green Mile did it for Melinda in a few minutes. Pope’s is a bit sluggish. Yes, the 1st attempts are’nt the best ones.
A cousin of my friend had come down from the States. He is in his wedding age & is desperate to get married.. Being a Brahmin by birth & not wanting to find a broker, he registered himself in a Brahmin sangham. One fine day, they had arranged for a customary meet-up of the bride-groom families. The girl & the guy were allowed to meet in a seperate room.
After a few conversations, the bride questions, “Ok fine. What will you do with your old property?” This guy, “Hmm. Well, I’m in US earning good money. And these were from my ancestor’s, have no plans of selling them. I’ll have it with myself.” This female, “No No xxxxx. I think you weren’t quite familiar with these terms. I meant your parents.” This guy couldn’t swallow what she meant and went mute out of shock. The girl continues, “We’ll call the blood brother/sister & other inborns as furnitures.” She smiles. FYI, the girl is working in a Software concern.
The prevailing situation in the bride fair is that the expectations are too high and there are such werid demands. The good chicks are either booked already or asking for more. The Software girls here want their fiances to get atleast 50-70k every month. This makes only Project Managers and a few Project leaders eligible. No place for Software Engineers? Also seems that grooms with Bachelor degrees have to stay as Bachelors. The Masters have better prospects. A few people have already registered (including me) for a MBA programme with IGNOU. The females are still trying to keep-up the proportions in age, height, edu-qualification and salaries. Is there something which I missed out?
I have ample time to decide.
thŕattle is an effort towards organizing my thought streams and the world information in a way it is useful to you and me.
thŕattle is a mux-up of ‘throttle’ & ‘rattle’ and means ‘a throttle to way one’s rattles’. The ŕ in it is highlighted for an obvious reason.
Ok. For almost 5 months, I didn’t do anything with ScreamCast. Blogger can be push-button publishing, but in a way is pretty less in its features. So, was waiting for a WordPress blog. Got 1 from weblogs.us very recently. You too can get 1 if you could convince its webmasters. My blogroll here lists people who were helpful in setting up this blog. Thanks a TON guys.
There were a lot of hype earlier when Blogger was bought by Google. Curiosity made me to quit weblogs.us but I was googl(y)ed. Blogger quite didn’t excel after. Their improvements didn’t match up my expectations. So now I’m back here.
I value your comments more than my posts. Do participate & enjoy your stay. If you find me or thrattle to be interesting, contact me. I’m Ranjhith DOT kumar AT gmail DOT com
thŕattle
a throttle to way my rattles
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Huuh! People (JD, Ronnie, Murali and Brandy) at weblogs.us have been kind enough and gave me this spot. Folks, Please bear with my re-location and kindly update your bookmarks. We’ll meet-up and jam at thŕattle. My invitation to you all.
hang on. may take some time to customize the WordPress stuff.