The naked truth

Here is an online chat between my foreign french friend(a girl) and an Indian friend(a guy who knows french) on campus:

Guy: how was your Mandu trip?

Gal:was in mandu today

im f***ing nacke

nacked

Guy: isnt it spelt naked ? lol as in nue in French

Gal: euh i dont know

.....

well u got it

lol

Guy: but y wud one get naked in Mandu ?! I thot it was a hill station lol

Gal: go to hell

Guy: ok im totally confused by Mandu u mean the place Mandu right haha ?

Gal: ya

lol

Guy: so thrs water thr ?

Gal: naked = tired

Gal: who did u guys go with ?

rotfl !

how the f*** is naked = tired haha hilarious we have to chat more lol

Insight: the gal didnt know how to pronounce the word "knackered" which actually means "very tired"

Durga puja stories

There is a durga puja in the campus with a wonderful idols of the goddess, the demon and the picture of Shiva. My foreign friend from France asked the Indian friend "what is the relationship between Durga and Shiva?"

Indian friend: "Initially they were husband and wife"

Foreign friend interupts: "they broke up then?"

Well, it will take him some time to understand that weddings and marriages of gods and goddesses are much more complicated than simple humans. God/goddess disintegrate, vow to become the husband's wife again in another reincarnation and stuff....

A not so ordinary dinner

Yesterday, I went out for a dinner with the previous and the present roomates of my dorm to an Indian restaurant in Manila. This dinner was different. The diversity of the people attending changed a few things: 2 Indian vegetarian Hindus, 4 Indian non-vegetarian Hindus, 1 German Christian and an Indonesian Muslim.

So what's so different about a diversified group.

The situation and the intracacies you have to take care of in a dinner.

Vegetarians had to order separately and didnt need help in ordering as they know their country dishes. The Muslim friend was specific about the non-veg and wanted only 'halal' meat. My German friend does not like seafood and when Raita(curd/yogurt) came, we had to ask him if he was lactase tolerent. (Around 10% people in the world are lactase intolerent and can't consume milk and curd).

These conditions were quite too many for a dinner and we the hosts had to be careful not to take arrogant decisions while ordering.

Most importantly, all of us had to stick to talking to English (which some Indians violated a lot and I didn't personally like their rudeness).