Friday, September 23, 2005

Phir bhi Dil hain Hyderabadi

Who is a Hyderabadi?????
1. Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number56-678/4A/B-22),while you actually live in the second house besideZamzam cafe in lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road.
2. You end up buying only a salwar kameez, whether it is a theatreworkshop, food mela consumer expo, designer jewellery show, science showor an automobile convention.
3. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that servesChinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma","Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".
4. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody asks you fordirections, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri orMoosapet.
5. You come across tailors sporting the board: "Immidiot delivery intwo days onli."
6.You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, except Telugu,fluently.
7.You ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle' even if you aresitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese,Mexican,Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
9. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
10. You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintancein the US in software.
11. Everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news, the firstthing you ask them is 'Party kab hain?'
12. You refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or long beforethree hundred years.
13. You call 11 AM as "subah subah."
14. You label your boss as 'Dimakh Kharab'
15. You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
16. You look at the fixed price stand and still ask 'dene ka bolo'
17. You are reading this and secretly admitting that you are, after all, a true blue Hyderabadi. you know one thing..... Once a Hyderabadi, always a Hyderabadi ...

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