The prerequisite to understanding this post is to read hem's "paean to the city of sharjah"... man! i wish i had more friends with whom i could get nostalgic over that city... here's some more comparisons w.r.t. my... er our sharjah:
First steps: check!
Fell in love in: check!
It was a one-way love: uncheck!
Malayali-run cafe's: check! and how come u r skinny while i grew to weigh the equivalent of a teenage elephant?
Exile in school: CHECK! damn desert ;)
Fire, quakes and explosions: nopes... must be just u then, hems
Alcohol: nopes again... i had to wait to get to bangalore to get the relevant experience
Mobile street: that reminds me of the street across the roundabout facing mega mall...
Censorship: grrrr!
Academic learning: yup... big check! and dad needed a big cheque too :)
Bachelors and underpaid laborers: sick and thats why we ran out of living near rolla square, i guess
Safety: this was an excellent feature... i loved it!
Platonic hugs: i was too huge to try it out there... hmmm... was this why mom and dad wanted me to remain horizonatally challenged?
Piercings: nopes
First job: does an internship count?
Accidents: one and only one and it just scratched the paint job on my car... the opposing party had to let us go since they couldnt find a dent on theirs
Vows: check! hell, i broke a lot of vows...
Languages: learnt hindi everytime i hanged around those urdu cab drivers... wish i had paid more attention to those arabic classes though
Tea and AC: hehe... i totally get this one
Photographs: egad! i dont ever wanna let anyone see my childhood photos... i look SOOO geeky
Running away: when i left, i never looked back but i keep returning to you... after all, it was you who made me the mallu-from-the-middle-east...
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Hehehe. The quakes, explosions and fires were relatively recent. All within the last 2.5 years
And yes, I was talking about the roundabout facing mega mall! Isn't it ridiculous?
:) Thanks for linking, btw.
too bad i missed the one earth shaking event down there...
yup on the ridiculous....
yup again...
>>>sobbb<<< nostalgic!!!
I wanna go back to shj!!
I miss that place...and I totally agree with all the checks n unchecks ;)!!
Cheers!!
Movie Review: Nice innovation in direction and dialogues for this blog. Rejoy is honest and he tries to explain everything creatively. Must watch movie.
Rating: ****
A star is missing? tats becoz some scenes were cut by sensor board as it was not suited for normal viewers.
signing off
sampath :-)
@nabila
ye gods be thanked,
for a fellow traveller has cared and deigned,
to share my nostalgic memories
@sampath
hehe...
review rating: ****
A star is missing? tats becoz he needs to get himself a blog to earn one ;)
ahhh sharjah.. the city ive come to love n hate in equal measures... gud read... tho i cnt wait to get outta this city ;)
- shimmer
@shimmer
U WILL! close ur eyes, wiggle ur toes and repeat after me: "I WILL fly past this desert and crash land any elsewhere (except saudi arabia maybe)"
well... i did land in Bangalore but crashed bak here... will be flyin bak next year hopefully to rot in the wretched city... i dunno wat ppl see in Bangalore?! *scratches head*
for me it was actually dubai.. but u know what.. the funny part is who i am, i actually became in kannur, of all places.. still, i miss Dubai a lot.. what u wrote brought back a lot of memories
@roshan
u know us mallus, always hitting dubai/sharjah at least once in our damned tiny lives which r fraught with troubles and accents... u know? i always had a gut feeling that u were from somewhere round the gulf when i first came upon ur blog (nopes... i dont think i had any direct hints bout it on ur blog)
v lived in da lap of luxury there big bro...but cum off it...u can't buy da freedom u have in bangalore bak home(in shj)....n u kno it....
@reni
yeah.. its always a pros and cons situation no matter what the case... and i intend to exploit the pros to the hilt... :)
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