Saturday, August 16, 2008 There 's just too much to forget ♥ }
You are a Tamilian Only if .......
1-You arrive one hour late to a party and find out you are the first one to arrive.
2-You think it's perfectly normal to call someone who's 30 years younger than you 'anna' just because he's behind a counter.
3-You wear a suit to a wedding... and you are only 3 years old.
4-The wedding takes an hour and the group pictures take five hours.
5-Your mom and sister together own more jewelry than a Chinese jewelry store.
6-Your parents' idea of a vacation is to go down to the temples in India .
7-You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
8-The second your guests leave the house, your parents start talking about them.
9-You rent a cassette from the grocery store, it's been dubbed 6 times... & you return it 3 months later.
10-You go to a Tamil Cultural program only to find one Bharathanatyam and six hip hop shows. 11-You are somehow related to every new friend you meet.
12-Your remote control is still in its plastic packet.
13-You get a 95% on a test and your parents ask What happened to the other 5%?!'
14-You stare at Tamil people when they walk by.
15-You see married couples kissing on TV but have never your Mom & Dad get within 3 feet of each another.
16-Your parents never address each other by name.
17-When you get your first part-time job, your parents expect you to give them half.
18-Your mother has a minor dispute with her sister-in law and doesn't talk to her for 10 years. 19-Your parents say Swiss instead of Switzerland, Germany is German and England is London . 20-you go to a party and your aunt comments on how your skin color has changed.
21-You watch a Tamil wedding tape and all the songs from Roja are dubbed in it.
22-When the teacher took attendance and there was a sudden pause, you put your hand up and said 'here.'
23-You shortened your name to make it sound Anglo.
24-You have dinner at 10pm.
25-When your parents say 'BBC' they don't mean the news station but your uncle Nathan or aunty Kamala.
26-It's normal for all the relatives to bathe the groom on his wedding day.
27-You KNOW that your promiscuous second cousin on your father's side is pregnant even before she does.
28-Your aunties tease you about a particularly eligible cousin... & you like it!!!
29-You serve all your guests tea with milk and 5 spoons of sugar.
30-You only stop putting more rice on your guest's dinner plate 7 times after they tell you to stop.
31-Anytime you speak back to your parents, you get: 'I toiled my life for you, and this is how you repay me?!' - 'Naanga eppadi khasta pattathukku neeithuvum solluvae ithukku melayum solluvae!'
32-If you are a girl, you are expected to come home before dark - however if it's a son, 'OK rasa, jaakirathaa poitu vaa...'
33-Halfway through your shower you realize that your Head and Shoulders shampoo is gone and has been replaced by Siyakkai shampoo.
34-You walk in to another Tamil family's house and they have the same furniture and dining set as yours.
Dont all this sound familiar?? hahahahahaha.. =)
[8/16/2008 12:45:00 AM]
Him:D
