You may be missing India, when you ......

rickshawwallah

when the punjabi gentleman at the local bodega refers to something I'm buying as "cheap and best", and I want to hug him!

beach

--You buy cooking oil in barrels.

--Compare your car’s ‘milage’ with colleagues.

--Steal those small soaps and shampoos from hotel rooms.(it’s your guilty pleasure)

--Treat door-to-door salesmen like snakes.

--Buy kulfi after dinner only to the two kids and start ‘tasting’ from it.

--Your children do homework on your office stationary.

--Your address looks like (only for Hyderabad)

House No: 2-347-27/8 (old No: 3-447-62/10)
1st cross (behind old market road)
JP Nagar , 2nd stage
Hyderabad

Dennis-M

You may be missing india ...

If you pop out your chair when hearing the name India ..
If you can not stop comparing everything at home with India...
When relatives start looking funny when you begin to tell your adventures (for the fourth time)...

volga_volga

6 am this morning, airport (not in India), I¨m getting my first te con leche (tea with milk) in the airport cafeteria.

I am stretching out my hand with the 1 euro coin when i am noticing that the coin is in my left hand, I am switching it to my right hand having glanced at the chai wallah to make sure he hasn¨t noticed the last minute switch...

then I realise what I have just done. and have a laugh!!

bijapuri

yous boss tells you how grim the financial picture of the agency is, and you can hardly keep the excitement off your face, thinking, maybe FINALLY a whole year in India . . .

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lookit me!!!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapuri/

Utube fuzzy logic:
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vasuki

Too long to post.. check out the link... Missing India...

volga_volga

this Sunday, in Lisbon:

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steven_ber

For newer members who may be seeing this thread for the first time....



...you find onions from INDIA and find yourself smelling the root end to find that it smells of INDIA...

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How to get helpful replies to your transport/Itinerary questions.



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Baldy

when you check the foreign exchange rates twice a day ...

mira4bai4

This was sent to me recently

You are Indian if...
1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
3. You try to eject food particles from between your teeth by pressing your tongue against them and making a peculiar noise like, tshick, tshick,tschick, tschick.
4. You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the Airport.
5. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it's normal.
6. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to mark up.
7. You recycle Wedding Gifts.
8. You name your children in rhythms (example, Honey & Money, Sita & Gita,Ram & Shyam.)
9. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
10. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food Allowed"
11. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
12. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
13. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
14. Your parents tell you to not care what your friends think but they won't let you do certain things because of what the other "Uncles and Aunties" will think.
15. You buy and display crockery, which is for special occasions, which never happen.
16. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
17. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
18. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
19. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with some household items).
20. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
21. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
22. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
23. You majored in engineering, medicine or law and now........are after Software and only Software no matter which field you belong to.
24. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
25. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
26. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
27. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
28. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off or receive you whether you are traveling by bus, train or plane.
29. If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run with whose son and feel proud to spread it at the velocity of more than the speed of light.
30. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
31. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
32. You call an older person you never met before "uncle."
33. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
34. Your parents don't realise phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs when making foreign calls.
35. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from getting dirty.
36. When dining out, you think Rs 10 is enough of a tip.
37. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
38. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
39. You treat the NRI persons (especially from America) as if they are the only persons living in this world (including YOU).
40. You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.
41. All your tupperware is stained with food color.
42. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
43. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
44. You have really enjoyed reading this mail.

Ikuru

- When you rather surf some lameass forum about India than go out and get yourself a propper job, not to mention a Life.

- when you wash your buthole with water and a hand.

Whats the thing about pissing in the sink? did I miss something?

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chappal

When you fight vehemently about the relative merits of idli vs. dosa.

Ikuru

Im sorry to admit I sometimes clean my nose in my T-shirt
Yes I blame India. All that bloody dust made me do it. now its just a pleasent habbit.

artwallah

when you are excited at getting a telemarketing call because you know that "Kevin McCarthy" is really calling from Bangalore and you're excited just to be connected to India.

when you keep taking out the India guidebooks from the library and re-reading them, even though you have them pretty much memorized.

when you have to restrain yourself from rushing up to Indian people on the street and barking out "Hallo, where are you coming from?"

above all when you spend waaaaay too much spare time dreaming about your next trip to India.

TracyB

You may be missing India

When you hang up plastic gecko's on the walls (i really did, bought them in Delhi),

When you have looked through your photos so many times that you can start to see right through them,

When you walk around the house in your Punjabi Suit just waiting for the power to go out so you can take a cold shower.....