21st century KIDS

"Do you know Grammar?" She asked with a smiling face.
My eyes switched over from Chetan Bhagat's 2 state to Kamali,the little girl of standard Five.Again she asked " Do you know grammar?"
"Yes" I lied.
"What's the difference between homophones and synonyms?" She asked.
"Err what ?" I said. Even though I heard the question clearly.
"Ice and Eyes sound similar but they are different. That is homophone. Now what is Synonyms ?" .
I couldn't understand that was intentional or she wants to learn.
"Did you ever heard of the term 'அருஞ்சொற்பொருள்' in Tamil" I asked.
She gave a filthiest look on the term 'அருஞ்சொற்பொருள்' as if I have uttered any bad word.
My guess was that with such fluency in English , she should be doing her schooling in Bangalore and that weird look confirmed it . I knew continuing with my peter englipis wont last long, So switched my conversation to Tamil.
I was thinking how to explain this kid, she took the book from my hand and started turning pages.
Again a question popped up , "Why are you reading this book?"
This is the problem with kids. Lot of why's,what's and where's .
"I like reading. You will also be reading such books when you reach my age."
She read the cover page "2 states - The story of my MARRIAGE" and replied with a cunning smile "Now I understand why you are reading this book ".
I had nothing to answer for this.
She asked me a few puzzles as if I m in for any interview. I rely on Microsoft calculator rather than my algebraic qualities. There was no MS calc this time and entire coach was watching us and I had to prove myself to the kid & I did proved myself.
Before she asked anymore questions I asked " Whats you ambition?"
"Ambition na ?? "
"Your future goal?? "
"Ohh..You mean what I wanna become ?? I want to be a software engineer. Everyone in my family is a software engineer. I don't want to be a doctor. You know what,to become a doctor you need to study for 5 years. There are a lot of things to study also. I never want to be a doctor."
I never expected this answer from her. All I remember was I wanted to be a 1st rank holder. That was my only ambition till 9th. More worse is that when asked for "what is your ambition?" in self assessment form, my friend wrote doctor since he doesn't know the spelling for engineer.
But kids now a days are very intelligent. One thing was very clear, these kids are not just what we think they are. Their thoughts and maturity level are independent and far beyond our imagination.
Cheers,
Prem.
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Time Flies..One year @ Bangalore !!

I can't believe how fast a year has passed. It feels like yesterday when we landed in Bangalore with our luggage's for start our career as a fresher. This day marks our one year completion in and so much has happened in the past year.

• First day experience was a total crap..Fell as a prey for bloody house brokers...Parthone epdi than ilichavayan nu kandu pudikaranungalo.. Eluthi otti irukkum pola.. We were so innocent that we believed madiwala is at walkable distance from BTM.. Gave token advance but later realised that it was worthless to pay for it.. Well it was a little late :-). First day in Bangalore , total loss- 10k . Presently residing at a place close to the old one. Every time we cross that house, nayagan background music plays :-(

• Learned the art of cooking. Started from no where, tried out a few fatal experiments like boiling rice without water etc,etc but finally what matters is that even I learned to cook. But anyways my frnz feel that I am gud at cutting vegetables rather than cooking.. :-)

• My taste buds which have been accustomed so far only to traditional Aryabavan & Amman mess, got a lot to explore & experience ranging from Bengali to Punjabi, Chinese to middle east cuisines, KFC, McDonalds. But almost a year & still I find it difficult to adjust to Bangalore pongal in a semi solid state with thayir pachadi combo.

• Almost 75 percent of the weekends were spent roaming in the FORUM & MG Road. It really hurts to watch the harry potter mandayans varuthufying with the bangalore babes. Life la oru 22 years ah waste pannina mathiri oru feeling..

• Apart from the usual visiting places, we had some good weekend hangouts , adventure activities, team outings, long trips as well. Especially the wyanad trip was exciting.

• This post wouldn't be complete, if I didn't even mention a single word about Guitar. Started of with great enthusiasm , bunked 3 months , changed tutor and finally snapped a string also. Guitar kathukiteno illayo , I ve become an ardent fan of Maestro Raja Sir.

• Amidst these one important thing to be noted is that , ennada kadantha 1 year la work ah thavira ella vetti velayum pannitu irukkane nu nenaikathenga. Mathathu ellathayum sollitu intha mathiri important matter ah ellam archive pannale na epdi. sarithiram miga mukkiyam illaya.. [Future la namma oppicers yaarchum padichangana appraisal ku useful ah irukkum.]

• Both the beginning and the year end share the similar events. Except during the end the loss is much higher than the former . 7 1/2 Satan has played its pranks.. This post shares the information behind the scenes.

Not a fresher anymore :-(. Expecting a great year ahead. While I pen down this my media player plays

சொர்கமே என்றாலும் அது நம் ஊரைப் போல வருமா?
அட என் நாடு என்றாலும் அது நம் நாட்டுக் கீடா ஆகுமா?

Cheers
Prem.

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The LOST

"If something can go wrong,by all means it will" - Murphy. What will you do if You wake up and find that everything happens goes against your will ??

1. Woke up early morning just to find out that laptop was stolen.

2. Searched for mobile & figured out that it was already gone.

3. For the first time, my friend went for bird watching & jogging. He was in a dilemma whether to carry his phone. But last minute decision was "no". We never locked the door from inside & the heavy breeze left the doors open.

4. Thief managed to reach till the second floor, came in with ease & walked across the room picked up the laptop bag. Ivalo nadanthum nanga 2 perum cow(erumai nu epdi yen vaayala sollarathu) mela rain water falling effect la kuppura paduthu thoongitu irunthom..

5. All the study materials inside the laptop bag were left behind beside my bed. Later that night we found out that the charger which was plugged to the wall was also picked. The expected use case is that, during exit he should ve noted the charger. Since the bag was full & it cant accommodate the charger, he should ve thrown out all the study material stuffs. Unfortunately, the mobile was lying at the place where he left the notebooks.

Fate, Carelessness, Bad luck you can name it anything, but anyways gone is gone. :-(

As per the sources,to file an FIR you should take a person who can converse in Kannada with the police. If not you will end up getting more abuses than expected from police. We were given a template and asked to write a complaint letter. By reading the template one thing got cleared, this is a usual activity in Bangalore, coz the scenario in it was exactly a ditto of ours with the only change being name & address. Bad luck didnt stop there, on return my friend who was already tensed forgot his mobile in the police station. Searched the police station & later it was a constable who had our mobile phone. "Oru mobile phone ah ye ivalo careless ah tholaikarenga, neenga ellam ...." apdinu aaatha aarambichavar than summa aaathu aaathu nu aaathi irukkar. What to do avaroda time, kai ya kattikitu vaya pothikitu lecture ah ketka vendiyatha pochu.

There is no way that we can get the things back. But by writing this, I feel at least a few will get alerted.

For those who are staying in bangalore - Neenga careless ah irukenga nu naan solla varala, innum careful ah iruntha nalla irukkum nu than solren...

P.S: My blog turned 1 today.. 18 posts, 1865 hits,320 profile views... Not bad for a starter.. :-)

Cheers
Prem.

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