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Konbae! Gulp… (without the unexpected gulps)…“Now this surely is an improvement over the usual Soju”. Guys, you gotta try it. Everyone’s cracking jokes, and the one leading the way being my manager, Mr. Jeik Kim. The most frivolous of comments by one of the junior engineers being “OK, I’ll bypass the work I get to you Cheng”. And showing off with my Korean vocabulary was fun. It scared the hell out of my team mates. It was like a Chinese-Indian-Korean fun summit, with lots of cultural information sharing and querying.
But then, suddenly, one question dislodged me from my cultural stand. Oh, I forgot to mention about Prabhu, another Indian in my team out here. “How come you two talk in English, and not in your national language?” Now that’s one question I didn’t wanna answer. So, that’s why I think, we should change our national language. Because surely it seems that some people just don’t give a damn about Hindi, right? And what’s so amazing, and I am pretty justified in saying this, is that the government (Central of course) isn’t even bothered about it. The Bangalore moratorium was just one of the many issues where everyone was let down.
It’s sad when I see that we have become so GLOBAL, that we have nothing of our own now. Not even a common language, now that’s a first.
posted by Jayant at 9:17 PM
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