Jan19- Social Adavantages of Being an Orphan
Thu, 2006-01-19 12:05 — kauphy
That sure seems like wierd subject for a blog, doesnt it? But actually being one myself, let me just put forward some of my interpretations and seek to justify them through some everyday examples.
1) You dont get invited to a thousand ‘haldi-kunkus’ and ‘dohal-jevans’ and smile at thousand people and accept and give crappy gifts like half a kilo of jaggery, plastic soap boxes…..
2) Its ok for you to make certain mistakes like forgetting its Makar Sankrant and cook chicken. Or if you dont know all the 24 something aratis of Lord Ganesha.
3) You dont have to live up to an image. An image that most people create for other people about what their kids really are. (Our Karishma is so intelligent, she tops her german class everytime) when in reality, Karishma is busy flunking SYBCom. Parents make the best PR agents for their kids. And like most of the PR agents worldwide, what is endorsed and flaunted is rarely the real deal.
4) Since their is no image to live upto, mostly you can do your stuff and get away with it. Their are no threats of being reported to your parents. Or for that matter no repetition of the sentence… ‘Hech shikavala ka aai-babani tumhala’ (Is this what you parents taught you?)
5) People expect you to be non-confirmists. They expect you to be irresponsible, loud, spunky and flouter of rules. Hey, this is like every kids dream.
Ciao,
Kauphy
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is it marathi??
sounds very sweet.
kauphy
lol @ the haldi-kumkums and dohal-jevans… and more so, in pune, where that seems to be a whole cottage industry!
makar sankrant? I ate lamb on this last makar sankrant.
living upto an image? well no one *has to live up* to an image. they choose to.
no one ever asked me “is that what your parents taught you”, because they knew the answer
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point five is interesting. u mean, people expect you to conform to the non-conformist image? how boring! so much for not-living-upto an image…
-asuph
hey coffee
second pradzie’s question on the name btw..and rotfl at karishma flunking B.com…oh well, if one tries hard enough, rebel without a cause/pause just might work for the ones who gotta try a mite harder methinks
Sorry!
Sure, there are more than phive points, but doesn’t give you the adavantage of making spelling mistakes, miss/ter?
Moreover we’ve got cool mommies and daddies here who are more than willing to adopt, i for one, am a prime example.
btw, what does kauphy mean? cold, cough, toffee?
Kauphy
Its a joke. There is this highschool jock who is amazing in football, but cant spell for his life. Well the school has to promote him to the next class if they want him to kepp playing. The panel decides to ask him one spelling. They are willing to promote him if he can get atleast one alphabet of the word right.
The word he is asked to spell is COFFEE. And this is his version of it- KAUPHY.