Monday, December 25, 2006

Once a Hyderabadi, always a Hyderabadi!

How much Hyderabadi are you?

Here's a test (courtesy: somewhere from internet)

  1. Your address reads as 1-3-1/405/A/23-2.
  2. You are a common visitor to one of these good old roadside cafes and you call them Kef.
  3. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies such as "Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".
  4. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' (go straight) when somebody asks you for directions, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet. Or some other place near your house then "Idar ich hain". Near your house equals to some 3 to 4 kms away.
  5. You come across tailors sporting the board: "Immidiot delivery in two days onli."
  6. You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, and if it is Telugu, it will majorly have hindi or Urdu words.
  7. You ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle' even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican,Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
  8. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
  9. You have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software.
  10. Everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is 'Party kab hain?' (Whens the treat? )
  11. You refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
  12. You call 11 AM as "subah subah." (Early morning)
  13. You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are well before time.
  14. You look at the fixed price stand and still ask 'dene ka daam bolo'
  15. If you have surely decided to see a movie, on a particular day and a particular movie too, but dont get tickets you will surely see another movie, irrespective of the persons acting in the other movie. You have to surely see a movie that day. And after seeing most movies you will say "Ek baar dekh sakte hain, aka oka saari choodochu" (The movie can be seen once).
  16. Even on a road with one way traffic you look to both sides of the roads and then cross.
    Easiest way to cross the road is to put up both your hands, look left when you ought to look right and vice versa.
  17. Bajaj Chetak is still the best vehicle one can have, and even after 15 years it is supposed to be giving a milage of 40 kms a litre.
  18. Food at any function should have Bagara and Bagara Baingan. Dessert should consist of Gulab Jamun, Gajar Ka Halwa or Qubani ka Meetha.
  19. Spitoons are not meant for spitting pan, but the area around the spitoon or any corner, for that matter is the best place.

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