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Okay today was the last and the fifth day of second test between India and New Zealand ( first test being won by India ). The Indians were able to force a draw out of the second one. Chasing the mammoth total setup by New Zealand , India had already been sent into follow on. That was the present news . Now this article is posted with my intentions to being before some of the funniest and rarest momments that took place in the Cricketing history. These are the first five though I shall come back with more in the next post.

1.  Sourav Ganguly makes the commentator Ranil Abeynayake look like a Fool. I think he spoke a little too soon. Funny Cricket Moments VERY FUNNY!!. Morale of the Story: Never Underestimate this Guy….

2. The most disgracegul momment in the history of Cricket When the Australians bowl an under arm bowl to the New Zealand batsmen not letting him take any runs off the last bowl.

3. The Top Ten Weird Dismissals Of Cricket!! Its really WIERD !!

4. This one is considered as Shane Warne’s ball of the century

5. My special one when Yvraj Singh hits 6 sixes in one over

 

 

 

We are like this only so…

 

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 are always standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the Airport.

 

4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it’s normal.

 

5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to stamp.

 

6. You recycle Wedding Gifts, Birthday Gifts and Anniversary Gifts.

 

7. You name your children in rhythms (example, Sita & Gita, Ram & Shyam, Kamini & Shamini..)

 

8. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere, close to their real names.

 

9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says ‘No Food Allowed.’

 

10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone’s house.

 

11. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.

 

12. HIGH PRIORITY ***** You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it’s the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch. *****

 

13. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think, but they won’t let you do certain things because of what the other ‘Uncles and Aunties’ will think.

 

14. You buy and display crockery, which is never used, as it is for special occasions, which never happen.

 

15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.

 

16.. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

 

17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.

 

18. Your kitchen shelf is full of jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with purchase of other stuff)

 

19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).

 

20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.

 

21. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

 

22. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).

 

23. You don’t use measuring cups when cooking.

 

24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.

 

25. 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.

 

26. 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.

 

27. You only make long distance calls after 11p.m.

 

28. If you don’t live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you’ve eaten, even if it’s midnight.

 

29. You call an older person you never met before Uncle or Aunty.

 

30. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you’re talking to a distant cousin.

 

31. Your parents don’t realize 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.

 

32. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.

 

33. Its embarrassing if you’re wedding has less than 600 people.

 

34. All your Tupperware is stained with food color.

 

35. You have drinking glasses made of steel.

 

36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.

 

37. You have really enjoyed reading this post - forward it to as many Indians as possible.

 

 PROUS TO BE AN INDIAN . JAI HIND !

- From my dearest friend Azim

Okay friends this is just a humorous post that I wanted to pin down from a long time , Malyalees plz don’t take it to heart.

You might be a Malayali……….

If you can fit four passengers in the front seat of an Ambassador taxi, while in the back there are eight passengers and two children with their heads stuck out of the window, chances are, you are a Mallu going to attend your cousin’s wedding.
If you can run, ride a 100 cc motorbike without wearing a helmet, and play football all while wearing a lungi tied halfmast, Malayali status!

If your late father left you a part of an old house as your inheritance, and you turned it into a “chaya kada” yes you’re a Malayali.

If you have more than 5 relatives working in Gelf, Big Time Malayali..

If you have the words “Chinchu Mol + Jinchu Mol” written on the rear window of your Maruti Omni car, Yes, You ARE a Malayali.

If you refer to your husband as kettiyon; ithiyan, pillerude appan, guess what? You’re a Central Travancore Syrian Christian Malayali.

If you have a tamilian parked in front of your house every Sunday, ironing your clothes chances are a you are a Middle Class Malayali.

If you have more than three employee trade unions at your place of work then ask no further, you are indeed a Malayali.

If you have voted into power a Chief Minister who has not passed the 4th grade then ask no further, YOU ARE A MALAYALI.

If you have at least two relatives working in the US in the health industry , Yes! Malayali!

If you describe a woman as “charrakku” Yep! Malayali!

If you constantly refer to banana as “benana” or pizza as “pissa” you’re a Malayali..

If you use coconut oil instead of refined vegetable oil and can’t figure out why people in your family have congenital heart problems, you might be a Malayali.

If you are going out to see a movie at the local theater with your wifey wearing all the gold jewelry gifted to her by her parents, you are a newly married Malayali..

If you and your wife and three children dress up in your Sunday best and go out to have biriyani at Kayikka’s on a 100 cc Bajaj mobike, you are an upwardly mobile Malayali from Cochin.

If your idea of haute cuisine is kappa and meen curry, then, yes, you are a Malayali..

If you have beef puttu for breakfast, beef olathu for lunch, and beef curry with “borotta” for dinner, yeah, definitely Malayali.

If your name is Wilson, and your wife’s name is Baby, and you name your daughter Wilby, have no doubts at all , you are a standard Malayali.

If most of the houses on your block are painted puke yellow, fluorescent green, and bright pink, definitely Malappuram Malayali.

If you tie a towel around your head and burst into a raucous rendition of the song “Kuttanadan Punjayile” after having three glasses of toddy, then you are a hardcore Malayali.

If you call appetizers served with alcoholic beverages as “touchings” then you are one helluva Malayali.

If you’re sick and your wifey rubs “Bicks” into your nostrils and gives you “kurumulaku rasam” with chakkara, (grandma’s recipe) to help relieve your symptoms, Damn!! You’re Malayali.

IF YOU DON’T NEED ANY EXPLANATIONS FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE, YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE REAL McCOY, A BLUE BLOOD MALAYALI. LAAL SALAAM.