TOMORROW I AM
Going to India.
To be very specific, Madras, or as my know-it-all Indian friends like to call it "Chennai". Just to irritate them, I will call it, Madras. Like how you can irritate Chinese people by calling their capital city "Peking" (pronounced: peeking, like Peeking Tom).
Or how you can irritate people by calling Teluk Intan, Teluk "Anson" and Port Klang, Port "Swettenham". But those are getting a little bit moldy because alot of people today, especially the young 'uns don't Get It, and will just think you're an idiot.
I'm always looking for new and innovative ways to irritate people. I think the Madras one is quite good and so I will keep that up for a while.
Another way to irritate my Indian friends is to not know anything about the geography of India. Somehow this particularly irks them, especially if you don't know that Tamil Nadu is in the south, Madras is the capital of Tamil Nadu, and that Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are actually completely different countries.
The fact that Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are completely different countries always amazes me. It is the one nugget of information that I make an active effort to forget, so that when people tell me this, I can be surprised again, and up the Irritant Factor. Also another nugget of interesting information is that with Global Warming, there will one day be No More Bangladesh, which is very sad because it is the home ground of the great Nobel Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, Father of Micro-Finance.
Also I had a piece of very good Weight Loss advice, which is to Eat Indiscriminately in India.
Better than Marie France no?
To be very specific, Madras, or as my know-it-all Indian friends like to call it "Chennai". Just to irritate them, I will call it, Madras. Like how you can irritate Chinese people by calling their capital city "Peking" (pronounced: peeking, like Peeking Tom).
Or how you can irritate people by calling Teluk Intan, Teluk "Anson" and Port Klang, Port "Swettenham". But those are getting a little bit moldy because alot of people today, especially the young 'uns don't Get It, and will just think you're an idiot.
I'm always looking for new and innovative ways to irritate people. I think the Madras one is quite good and so I will keep that up for a while.
Another way to irritate my Indian friends is to not know anything about the geography of India. Somehow this particularly irks them, especially if you don't know that Tamil Nadu is in the south, Madras is the capital of Tamil Nadu, and that Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are actually completely different countries.
The fact that Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are completely different countries always amazes me. It is the one nugget of information that I make an active effort to forget, so that when people tell me this, I can be surprised again, and up the Irritant Factor. Also another nugget of interesting information is that with Global Warming, there will one day be No More Bangladesh, which is very sad because it is the home ground of the great Nobel Laureate, Muhammad Yunus, Father of Micro-Finance.
Also I had a piece of very good Weight Loss advice, which is to Eat Indiscriminately in India.
Better than Marie France no?
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