Why is it Indians here refuse to acknowledge another desi? They will smile at the other non-desis but wouldnt even look me in the eye? Maybe its me?
Why I dont feel guilty spending almost 1k on the kid’s summer activities crap and yet to spend $650 on 13 personal training sessions has me storing my cheque book/debit card in my underwear drawer?
Why does my child fall sick on preschool days?
How is it possible that by drinking one single beer, I gain 4 lbs the next day and yet when I eat right and work out like a obsessed woman, I lose 0.5lb?
Is Jacob really dead?(Perakath do not click. Its LOST Season 5 finale)
Why do I have twenty thousands events on the same weekend and then nothing for the next 6?
MIM, you will find this hilarious. A South Indian lady actually told me my Hindi was worse than someone from South India. I asked her, are you joking? Nope she was for real. And NK was laughing at me when she said that.
Also, did I mention, NK took Avasha and Samar on a class field trip to the Zoo. He forgot my nice jogging stroller and diaper bag in the parking lot? Only a guy can forget a big jogging stroller.
Finally, I hate short merges on the freeway and stupid drivers who expect you to give them way when there are Construction Ahead and Lane Closed signs from 200 meters away? Suwer ka pillay.. Thanks Chandu
ROFL – love such randomness
And the insult at the end – wish I had more opportunities to say stuff like that
Maybe I will anyways and they will never know what I’m saying 
Me: Make opportunities. Or shout it out randomly. Or practice on E first.
Wholeheartedly agree with the non acking desis thing.
Suwar ke pilley is classic!
Me: HA! Each one has different spelling.
i’m giggling, and i do need the laughs today…a 11 yrold with high temperature and an even worse mood and two other sprightly boys (a nephew is visiting)all at home today…
i need some humor angel to visit me today!
Me: Oh no.. I had the 7 yr old sick and off school last week and the 4 yr old sick and off school this week. It’s so much work when they are sick and whiny and clingy.
and i forgot to add…loved the randomness…totally identified with most of them
hmmm.. Murphy’s law or something equivalent to that perhaps!????
Me: I guess soo.
way to go sunita !!! keep the suwer ke pilley type gaalis coming !!!
Me: Okay what other innocent gaalis are they? I need some alternatives to the ma-bahen type wali.:)
Oh my god that is Jacob???
Yr link is power man…
I dun recall Jacob at all in any season and I HATE U
Me:Oye I mention right its Season 5 finale right. Why you clicked it? Jacob’s identity was revealed in this season. Also guess what? He meets each and everyone of the LOSTIES before the plane crash and he touches them in some way. All very weird lah.
Random is one word that sprang to mind – as did “spot on”. Well two words / one phrase. I need some pithy gaalis too.
And what’s with you, MGB, MiM etc getting roundly told off / mouthed off by various S Indian wimmen? Does that mean I should accost the first available desi and give them my two bits worth too?
Me: I dont know. My hindi has improved so much and yet people are laughing. Whatever.
PS: Thankoo for that couch-5k podcast link. LOVE it. Wish I had found it in time to do a full training session. When’s your 5k? ATB.
Me: It was last Sunday and I sucked. I need to do a post on that
“Why is it Indians here refuse to acknowledge another desi? They will smile at the other non-desis but wouldnt even look me in the eye?”
very strange, sraikh.
but i noticed this too when i visited the US about nine years ago.
Weird, what staying out of India US does to most people, that’s what.
It’s good to rant once in a while…feels so much better.
I have heard about this non acknowledgement thing from a lot of friends living outside India.
Not wanting to accept what and who they really are, maybe?
That’s kind of funny… I wonder about number 4, too…
Heh – good ones! I can tell you that here in TX, non-acking of desis in neutral surroundings like grocery stores happens because of that scourge – Amway! Back in the early 90s, most desis here were very happy to meet others of their kind – and then the Amway thing hit, and it seemed like the only desis who smiled back at you or talked to you wanted to be your friend and sell you stuff…over the last decade it’s gotten worse – theer are so many other home-sales outlets – avon, Mary Kay, various cookware thingies – and now we all prefer to go grimly about our own business – I’ve taken to avoiding certain neighbours for fear of being accosted to come and look, no need to buy!
CA being so much more desi-centric, probably suffers from the same phenomenon…
M
Me: What abt the walking on the street and they refuse to even look at you? I know NK was very rude to a really friendly guy in Target,That guy was asking all sorts of questions and NK just said, I am not interested in Amway or any shit like that…
Aaaah! You talked about Lost in the comments! The site I watch on still hasn’t moved past Season 5 episode 13 or so. And I have no time to watch during exams. How I miss it
My mom calls my brother and me ‘soovar’ all the time! We didn’t know what it meant until I turned, like, 16.
Me: rofl.. I just found what my dada actually meant when he says sasur ka nati.
That short merges happen only in CA. Hwy 101 is murder on jittery drivers like me….get u there.
Jhakass fellows Indians.
Me: I know. Its scares me sometimes when I dont know whether the driver coming up will let me merge or not.
ullu ke pathey is similar, if ur definition of innocent is being an offspring of a non human form. I find it very innocent.
And how abt Kamine…my husband has convinced me its not even a gaali coz all it means is ‘mean-spirited’.
BTW Maa-Behen gaalis are an insult to the cause of feminism.
If you have to…substitue maa-behen with baap and bhai
LOL…I really needed that laugh..and loved the gaali…although “ullu ka pattha ” is my alltime fav…shall upgrade to yours though..bolke poori khunnas nikal jaayegi.
Sometimes life is totally random…
Love that you cuss, because I swear so much myself…much more than G. Yesterday I said f*** (not at him, but at the burnt rice after a long day of cooking and cleaning and packing) and I got a nice long lecture when I hopped in bed…on his next birthday cake I’m going to spell out “Happy 70th Birthday”.
As another desi here is my experience
When I first came to California I smiled at other desis and chatted with them sometimes. Then I discovered the pyramid scheme toting desis in Walmart, Great Mall and even Ikea. These are desis who will chat with you in the hope of trying to get you involved in some marketing scheme such as Amway etc. They are very persistent and it’s very hard to get away from. After multiple such experiences I had to learn to stop smiling too. So maybe you are encountering similarly scarred desis 
LOL!
i also want a different spelling! sooar ke bacche! :p you should have said that to the south indian lady as well! then she would have known who knows more hindi!
and the randomness rocked totally!
thanks for the laughs!
cheers!
abha
I just remembered something. A friend of mine deals with pig headed people by asking ‘Are you Suwer (sure)”..most of the time, the person says yes.
Me:
How is it possible that by drinking one single beer, I gain 4 lbs the next day and yet when I eat right and work out like a obsessed woman, I lose 0.5lb?
TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME .. PULEEEAASSEE!!
Me: rofl..I dont know. I guess stop drinking?
True. I know some people who run away from fellow indians. No, not just you. They do that to everyone.
Are you living in Singapore? Because those people I know don’t live in Singapore. That would be in some other western country!!
BTW, Singapore Indians are very friendly.
kutte .. kamine …sale ….ullu ke patthey..g%^&*..all the others involve maa/behen
and “abbe oye chammak challo” to a american whos speeding and behaving bad on the road
