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You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When...

1) You know the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart

2) Cricket is almost a religion for you, and you idolize at least one of Kapil Dev/Rahul Dravid/Sachin Tendulkar/Saurav Ganguly

3) You have read at least some Chacha Chaudhary or Tinkle comics

4) You’ve watched Shaktimaan on TV at least once in your life. And you can immediately recognize the character when you see him.

5) You have some ‘NRI’ relatives.

6) You couldn’t wait for it to be December so you could have the Toblerone chocolates your NRI relatives brought you

7) You watched Cartoon Network, and then the late night movies on TNT that came after Cartoon Network ended.

8) You watched corny dubbed versions of Small Wonder, Silver Spoon, and I Dream of Jeanie

9) You were THRILLED when McDonald’s opened in your neighborhood (or even eight kilometers away)

10) Your first Pizza's were at Pizza corner and Burger's at John's bakery (chermas)

11) A visit to Pizza Hut used to mean a special treat

12) You have seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun at least 5 times each

13) You still remember the theme song to Hum Paanch.

14) You have played hours upon hour of Pukdam-pakdai, oonch-neech, kho-kho, ‘Doctor, doctor, help us!’, ‘Lock and key’

15) You have played ‘Uma Joshi’ more times than you can remember.

16) Dog ‘in’ the bone was your favorite co-ed game.

17) Much of your free time in school was spent playing UNO.

18) You collected trump cards of wrestlers, cricketers, and airplanes, and did not quite understand why your younger siblings were obsessed with Pokemon and the other Japanese trends that followed.

19) Your summer vacations were often synonymous with visiting your grandparents

20) Your parents, at some point, told you ‘Dark Room’ was a bad game to play. But you still loved playing it.

21) Bole mere lips, I love uncle Chips!

22) You know the song ‘Made in India’ by Alisha Chinoi

23) You have seen many many many episodes of ‘Antakshri’ on Zee TV and know the only thing constant in the show is Anu Kapoor.

24) Many evenings have been spent watching little kids gyrate vulgarly on Boogie Woogie on Sony.

25) You were the coolest thing in class if you had a computer in your house while it was still the 90s.

26) You learnt LOGO in school!

27) You couldn’t wait to start 4th/6th standard so you could start writing with PENS instead of with pencils!

28) You often use terms and phrases like ‘kutti’, ‘abba’, ‘same to you, back to you, with no returns’, and ‘shame shame, puppy shame, all the donkeys know your name.’

29) You most probably saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge at the cinema at least once. You also fantasized about singing songs in mustard fields as in the movie.

30) You have seen David Dhawan and Govinda movies and laughed at them.

31) You have said ‘haw’ or ‘haw ji ki pwji’ when you saw people kissing in English movies

31) You have seen Titanic at least 12 times.

32) You thought seeing English movies and speaking English made you the coolest thing ever.

33) You remember the Orissa cyclone, even though you didn’t know what a cyclone was.

34) You remember the Gujarat earthquake very clearly and could possibly tell everyone EXACTLY what you were doing when the earthquake occurred (yes, this happened in 2001, January 26, 2001, to be exact -- but this group is about the things that Indian kids that GREW UP in the 90s remember and identify with).

35) Barbies for girls, and GI Joes for boys were the ultimate status symbols. You just wanted more more more and more. And how can I forget Hot Wheels, for both boys and girls? I personally have a collection of over 200 little Hot Wheels cars.

36) You have worn Osh-Kosh B’gosh and United Colours of Benetton clothes while growing up. And you thought ‘imported’ clothes were definitely way better than ‘made in India’ clothes (never mind that a lot of clothes brought from overseas by NRI relatives were actually made in India, before ‘Made in China’ started appearing on EVERY existing thing)

37) You know the words to ‘Posham Paa’, and like it better than ‘Oranges and Lemons’ even though you’d sing the latter to sound cool (see 32 above).

38) At some point or other, cool was your favourite, and therefore, most overused word.

39) Captain Planet was your first introduction to environmental consciousness.

40) You have tried to convince people around you to not burst crackers on Diwali, and then gone straight back home and burst them yourself.

41) You have had endless packets of Parle Gluco G biscuits, and of Brittania Little Hearts biscuits.

42) You loved licking off the cream from the centre of Bourbon biscuits.

43) There were no Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma- Bata and Liberty was the way to go for your sports shoes.

44) You have probably consumed more Frooti in your lifetime than there is oil in Iraq.

45) You watched Baywatch on Star World even though (or because) your parents said you shouldn’t watch it.

46) You bought packets of potato chips for the specific purpose of collecting Tazos. And you had Tazos depicting everyone from Confucius to Daffy Duck to Daffy Duck dressed as Confucius.

47) For the longest time, the Maruti 800, the Premier Padmini, THE Fiat, and THE Ambassador were the only cars you saw on the road, and the Contessa was cool because it was bigger.

48) You would literally jump up in excitement if you ever chanced upon an imported car (Oh my gosh, is that really a MERCEDES?)!

49) You spent a good part of 1998 drooling over the Hyundai Santro and the Daewoo Matiz , debating which one was better.

50) You chewed Big (big) Babool and/or Boom Boom Boomer chewing gum. They were bright pink and disgusting tasting, but you loved them for the temporary tattoos.

51) Talking of temporary tattoos, you sometimes had contests with your classmates about who had more tattoos on their arm, leg, knee, hand, forehead, wherever.

52) You thought Mario and Tetris were the coolest things ever invented, especially if you were a boy.

53) You knew that having the latest Hero or Atlas bicycle would make you the coolest kid on the block.

54) You can imitate Sushmita Sen’s winning gasp to perfection.

55) You have, at some point of time, worn GAP clothes (real or fake) like SRK in KKHH.

56) Seemingly senseless acronyms like SRK, DDLJ, KKHH actually make sense to you..

57) You have at some point debated who was more beautiful- Aishwarya or Sushmita.

58) If you lived inHyderabad, you went picnicing at Lumbini park, or Go-Karting at Runway 9 and couldn't think how you could get any cooler than that.

59) Baskin Robbins ice-cream was THE thing to have!

60) You know what Campa Cola is. And you also knew that Coca Cola was THE drink.

61) When you would watch WWF keenly every evening/afternoon and really think that Undertaker had 7 lives and he made an "actual" appearance in the Akshay Kumar- starrer Khiladiyon ka Khiladi.

62) When all backpacks (or 'schoolbags') and water bottles and tiffin boxes had strange cartoon characters that were hybrid versions of seven or eight different characters, and you still bought them, because a green man wih a water pistol, boots, a jet-pack, Johnny bravo hair, a rajasthani mustache, gloves, and underwear (long johns) over his pants, called 'Mr. X' was OBVIOUSLY a status symbol.

63) You remember the Nirma tikia jingle.

64) You remember the Nirma girl.

65) You remember the 'doodh doodh' ad and also the 'roz khao andey' ads.

66) You grew up reading, if you read at all, some or all of Nancy Drews, Enid Blyton books, Hardy Boys, Babysitters Club, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley series, Judy Blumes, and Tintin, or Archie comics. Because naturally, reading foreign authors made you much cooler than reading Tinkle.

67) Towards the late 90s (1998-99) at least some of us started our Harry Potter obsessions!

68) You absolutely HAD to go to Essel World if you went to Mumbai! "Essel World mein rahoonga main, ghar nahin nahin nahin jaaonga main!"

69) You watched the Bournvita Quiz contest on TV pretty religiously. The smarter ones amongst you actually took part in it and had your entire school and your entire extended families watch you on it!

70) "Jungle jungle baat chali hai, pata chala hai. Chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai, phool khila!"

71) Maggi 2 Minute Noodles = ultimate snack (and tiffin, lunch, dinner)!

72) If you grew up in the early 90s, you recall the nation's obsession with Mahabharata on TV

73) In the later 90s, you religiously followed Hip Hip Hooray on Zee. Maybe Just Mohabbat on Sony too.

74) You eagerly awaited Friendship Day, so you could give friendship bands to all your friends, and get bands from them in return. Then, of course, those with the most bands loved to show them off (and on Rakhi, boys with the most Rakhis loved showing those off too!)

75) This list made you smile. :)


P.S: Pretty good compilation, isn't it?? Thanks to the mind boggler lurking around somewhere now.

Valentine...............................................

Falling on knees, with eyes full of love, a man submits himself completely to his lady love who is helpless but to melt her heart and take his hand in agreement,to have their lives happily ever after.Whoa! What a moment that must be. For the more fancy ones,an open terrace lit up with candles to express his love, and when his love gives a positive nod, all the pain he has taken to light up the candles vanishes into thin air and love sparks fly.A simple proposal over the phone, a few keys in a sms,a private island decked up in his love's favourite colours,a jet leaving its trails in the sky to show his love. Valentine celebration ideas have no boundaries, and the best thing is,love ripens over the years. So the longer you see your love, the more happier you are.

I think love is full of sacrifices that we make for each other. Love is an unconditional thing that  we feel within our souls. It comes from within. Love come from somewhere deep. It is like air . It is  like the sun in our days. Without words to describe love, our mouths and tongues would not function very well, but our hearts could sing a thousands of love songs only to describe what real love is.  I may be young  in my 20s to talk about love, but then love has no age limits.

Can write it a thousand times, can feel it a million times, but when you are to say it, you get all the jitters you never had,making you weak in your knees and ultimately you end up living with memories of your lost love.
Some guys are stupid, some are lame, some use lame catch phases like: you are the blood in my heart, do you have a band aid? coz i scraped my knee falling for you.
Some are romantic, sweet and kind and they hold you in your arms and give you flowers but they are all the same they fall hard and love long.
The one who holds you at night and tells you it will all be ok even though its not.Thats the one who loves you.
The one that calls you back too see if you really hung up on them
The one that holds your hand in front of their friends but most of all the one that is there no matter what shit you get in, they love you and you need to love them. Live love and regret nothing.

For those who have their valentine beside them,for those whose valentine no more is with them,for those who haven't still found theirs.Happy Valentines. Not just for a single v-day, but through all the days. Valentines is not about commemerating love, its about remembering how much love you have shared and received all your lives. Its not about wearing red or giving red to show your love, its about showering love on that one special one wherever you are,whatever the day might be.

Thanks to the couple who first fell in love in this world, and thanks to Mr.Valentine,who is said to be a saint,we now have love all over, and a day for remembering our love.

P.S: I sound too disorganised here. Bear with me.Maybe I can write better on this thing sometime later.

LMAO :D

How we spend our V-days (A-rated :P)

and.....boys

 

Biscuit!

My mind's flickering badly now, and it's been a long time since I actually looked at my own blog, thanks to all the biscuits I have been seeing and eating these days.For those who do not know what biscuits mean, its a word coined by some jobless barber for any jolt you get, or any unexpected thing which happens to you or anything which you craved for doesn't turn favourable enough. Biscuits can occur in all shapes, sizes and varieties. Categorize them according to your convenience.  Write 36 pages of your 40page exam booklet, see a F..a biscuit.A girl turns you down..a cream biscuit.Lose a cricket match..a biscuit packet. Let your grey cells do the sorting for you.You would surely have had a lot of biscuits too. And now, any maniac whom you dont like can also be named a biscuit fellow.

The last exam i wrote was supposed to be the last exam I had planned for this season, and thanks to the biscuit results that I have seen through the last two months, I am writing two more.The last few months have been pretty disturbing, or atleast things disturbed me, and now I am getting back under control, atleast for the sake of preventing hair greying :P.It's all a mind game, I've discovered.

FUBAR ,lOl!

FUBAR is a term , which stands for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition".

It also stands for "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition". This is used in at least two ways:-- - When someone has soiled his trousers after drinking too much booze - When Mr. Bowdler wants to explain this acronym, he will use the word "fouled" instead of "fucked" especially in the company of women, children and especially the Queen.

During the War of 1812, General Rick Mercer ordered his troops to take control of a Tim Hortons. The heavily armed coffee outpost proved difficult to take, and many Canadian troops were lost. Once under his control, Mercer began taking advantage of the outpost's supplies. Unfortunately, the soldiers knew only how to shoot muskets, and knew nothing of making coffee and so instead of the double double and apple fritter that he requested, the soldiers brought him a steeped tea and a boston cream doughnut. Distressed by the extreme mixup, Mercer declared that his coffee was "fucked up beyond all reason", and so the name stuck.

After this initial declaration, the troops shortened the phrase to FUBAR and began to use it under a variety of different situations, ranging from culinary, to military and on more than one occasion, the cries of FUBAR were heard yelled from the barracks showers to describe deformities caused by bird shot wounds.

The Vista FUBAR Screen.

As complaints from users of Microsoft windows in regards to the blue screen of death (BSOD) increased, the company decided to address the issue in the first release of their new operating system Windows Vista. Shortly before the systems release, Bill Gates announced that users would now be informed their computer was about to die with a FUBAR screen. In an attempt to distance this screen from the BSOD, software engineers made this screen bright red. Users agreed that this screen was more pleasing to the eye, but provided no more assistance than the BSOD. To solve this problem, Microsoft added instructions on how to proceed from the FUBAR screen. These instructions were straight forward and users agreed they were both realistic and helpful.

Modern Uses

1. George Bush was FUBAR after he had too much to drink.

2. The popular T-Shirt design bearing the clause, "NO FUBAR CHICKS"

3. Hitler's famous last words, "You know what? YOU take the poison and I'LL shoot myself. I can't bear to think that my last living vision could possibly be my newly wed wife is FUBAR."

Now, I also feel I have been FUBAR, thanks to the last few months.

Yem-Bee-Yaay

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As the members argue, speak, put forth new ideas, brainstorm , the boardroom comes alive, turning into a jungle with people referred to as managers,  taking decisions for people happily sleeping out there, so that they can be served better. The world in the management sector might seem a bit bizarre , demanding out of the box thinking but a career in the management gives you all that you might never have dreamt of. The thought of boardrooms and group work excite you, giving you goosebumps at every point, with every point you make making a huge difference, and once the grease gets on you with the passion within you getting kindled, the call of the management sector tugs irresistibly at your hearts. Hard .

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