I would love to take a notepad to work, so I can jot down thoughts, rants and miscellaneous stuff. That way I could post a lot of rants about snobs, the various kinds of snobs I come across in my life, ranging from girls who considered it was beneath them to talk their mother tongue lest people think they were not 'cool' to guys who thought they were special because they listened to Kurt Cobain or Metallica, to guys who thought they were the true Tamilians because they listened to nothing but Tamil songs and watched nothing but the most awful Tamil movies(these people are the best that I have seen).
Let me start with girls who do not speak Tamil, even though it happened to be their mother tongue, the language they happened to speak at home. I believe the point of language was communication, not making a statement on how cool you were or how good your accent is. The best part of them is when they try and negotiate stuff with an auto driver, or with a woman selling some random stuff.
Getting back to our snobbish girls, this is how it worked. There always was a clique of girls who thought it was cool to speak English and thought it even cooler to exhibit the fact that they were reading the latest Sidney Sheldon. For reasons beyond me, the latest novel these people were reading would never be inside a bag. It would be stuck to their hands where everyone could see it. I used to go gaga over this girl when I joined college, I used to see her in the bus and she was carrying ‘return of the native – Thomas Hardy’ on the first day I saw her, it was with her till she finished college!!! Later I realized that she was carrying it keep stuffs inside and to “cover her” when she walks (rude? Well this is so typical of our Chennai girls!)
Normally one did not have to notice this far or even come close to it. But when Harry Potter was released in India, these snobs had to take it upon themselves to let everyone know that they were reading Potter and how this made them 'cool'. I cannot believe I derived pleasure from watching such silly things.
And the other extreme is the so-called Tamil freaks, a few people I encounter everyday, who say that me listening to hard rock and heavy metal all the time is so "un-tamil"!!. All I can say to these jokers is that I know more about Tamil culture and books than these jokers and also that I can pronounce so many tamil names better than they do and recite more poems them most of the so called tamil lovers…
More on the other snobs later, especially the faith based ones later.
On the notepad, I think I stand a better chance of putting my thoughts to words when I am physically writing them down. Need I add that my spelling is only going to improve? I cannot wait to get started. Start writing!
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