Heyyiiiiaaaa.......how zit goin???i heard a voice aiming towards me,while i was buying groceries in a supermarket..
I turned back, confused...to find a friend who came to this foreign land a couple of years back...
pheww, i smiled...
where are the cantaloupes??
kharbooja? i asked....
there was some silence,followed by a confused ehh...yeaahhh....i was all left to myself, thinking
if i was the only illiterate moving here!
The more you live in this foreign land,the crazier you become!!!!!
There are two types of people in this world......
Stop stop stop,this is a discussion of passe...
Discussion today revolves around...there are two types of Desi IT professionals, who have landed for the first time in America with their family :)
Group A who has just landed,say a couple of months or may be an year or two.
Group B who has been living here for over 4 years or more.
Qn. )Differentiate between group A and group B with relevant examples :)
Ans) Group A
the members of group A family are often found hovering in the clearance section of every shopping mall....the only mathematics they remember is multiplication by 50(dollar rupee conversion)...once their monthly salary arrives, they multiply it by 50 and with a huge grin, sign out of their Bank of America account....most of them don't own a car in the initial days...so are often found walking towards the nearest grocery stores....their topic of discussion usually revolves around the sites where they can watch Hindi channels for free, to amazing deals on buying a camcorder or laptop :)
Group B
The members of group B are often found swiping credit cards in Dillard's or Macy's :)
they start calling dollar a rupee....there hi often follows by "was sup this weekend"
Either they start talking in American accent or Hindi fulllll of slangs...now this contrast is above my understanding :) They usually discuss the latest trips or the 4 star cuisines....they now know, and can even pronounce the name of those typical Italian cuisines with ease ;)
ehm...ehm....
juggling between group A an group B is another group where I belong :) I will call it the "puberty" group :) just like a teenager who fits neither in the kids nor in adults ;)This group though has risen above the multiplication and division by 50, can't afford the luxury of expensive trips....this group has reached Kohl's and JC Penny, but Dillard's still gives them a *wink* *wink* *wink* ;)
And once this group is done with the home loan back in the country,VOILA they graduate to Group B :)
phew.....i quote again-
"The more you live in this foreign land,the crazier you become" :)
I turned back, confused...to find a friend who came to this foreign land a couple of years back...
pheww, i smiled...
where are the cantaloupes??
kharbooja? i asked....
there was some silence,followed by a confused ehh...yeaahhh....i was all left to myself, thinking
if i was the only illiterate moving here!
The more you live in this foreign land,the crazier you become!!!!!
There are two types of people in this world......
Stop stop stop,this is a discussion of passe...
Discussion today revolves around...there are two types of Desi IT professionals, who have landed for the first time in America with their family :)
Group A who has just landed,say a couple of months or may be an year or two.
Group B who has been living here for over 4 years or more.
Qn. )Differentiate between group A and group B with relevant examples :)
Ans) Group A
the members of group A family are often found hovering in the clearance section of every shopping mall....the only mathematics they remember is multiplication by 50(dollar rupee conversion)...once their monthly salary arrives, they multiply it by 50 and with a huge grin, sign out of their Bank of America account....most of them don't own a car in the initial days...so are often found walking towards the nearest grocery stores....their topic of discussion usually revolves around the sites where they can watch Hindi channels for free, to amazing deals on buying a camcorder or laptop :)
Group B
The members of group B are often found swiping credit cards in Dillard's or Macy's :)
they start calling dollar a rupee....there hi often follows by "was sup this weekend"
Either they start talking in American accent or Hindi fulllll of slangs...now this contrast is above my understanding :) They usually discuss the latest trips or the 4 star cuisines....they now know, and can even pronounce the name of those typical Italian cuisines with ease ;)
ehm...ehm....
juggling between group A an group B is another group where I belong :) I will call it the "puberty" group :) just like a teenager who fits neither in the kids nor in adults ;)This group though has risen above the multiplication and division by 50, can't afford the luxury of expensive trips....this group has reached Kohl's and JC Penny, but Dillard's still gives them a *wink* *wink* *wink* ;)
And once this group is done with the home loan back in the country,VOILA they graduate to Group B :)
phew.....i quote again-
"The more you live in this foreign land,the crazier you become" :)
dis one is sooo true - lovely !!
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Hi. Your Baaatein are very cute and bel it or not.. some people never graduate to "The Puberty Group"as they then get trapped in HOmeloans in US....still a very good read and looking forward for more such reads...
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@Indulge
ReplyDeleteThanks...Yeah you are right about the homeloans in US...
When i wrote this post around an year back, I was so badly trapped with a loan back in India that this point never hit me :)