BIG REVEAL:
I AM A MALAYALI *sings in the I am a Malayali tune* which for those of you who haven’t heard is basically in the tune of ‘I want to Break Free’ (recommended listen) and for those of you who haven’t heard it .. well, for the record, neither has my father and brother nor has anyone in the history of my family ever worn a pink lungi, but yes, we did have a Maruti and it was frickin awesome!
Anyway, the point of the big reveal, yesterday was VISHU. And yes, its only 12 minutes past the day as I write this but, its still yesterday. And the tradition of Vishu is to give people younger than you 1 rupee or any amount of money in an odd figure.
So my 5 year old cousin got 11 rupees and my 13 year old cousin got 101 and my 20 year old cousin got 501. Well, I owned a maruti .. I got 1 rupee. 1 frickin rupee. And with the deep meaning it was supposed to have had, I thought maybe I should think about why it is that I got 1 rupee. Well, the answer is clear to me now, 15 minutes past the day, that my parents just didn’t wanna give me another 1000. 1001 is an odd figure too.
As I sit here and wonder how many things I could have done with an extra thousand bucks and how much alcohol, drugs and cigarettes I could have bought with it, let my parents read this and think thats what I would have done had they given it to me. Why should they know how productive that 1000 rupees would have been?
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Now, this 1 rupee that I got is supposed to multiply .. and multiply it will .. every year on Vishu, by itself. So in 50 years .. if anyone needs 50 bucks, you know who to come to. 🙂
P.S: Happy Vishu (or however it is they say it in the Land of Coconuts 😀 .. speaking of .. have u ever wondered why God’s own country is known for its coconuts? #BlasphemousJoke #OMG #DontKillMeMaa )
P.P.S: I have no idea what the image says .. it was just prettier than the other images I found on google(stating my sources for that plagiarism thing)
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