In any grad students life there are days when we weep for the fact that there are only 24 hrs becos the amount of work that u have to do just could not completed in that time and still u are expected to..( iam sure it is much more hectic in work place..but since i have never been anywhere near there..ppl need to humour me here :D) and days which come at the other end of the spectrum where the damn clock will not move at all ...well today for me was one of the latter days...i came in with all the work i have to accomplish..and the mass spec broke down and along with it all my work plans for the day..i was forced to "chill" today which i did..sending emails to ppl, chatting with friends , reading literatures..and all that jazz and still the time will not run...it almost seems like it has come to an stand still and since i cant leave my lab before 5 Pm- mandatory attendance here folks..clocking 9am-5pm is essential...but my work should not be limited to that time but designed around my experiments for the day..in my budda's memorable words..as a grad student u r expected to work a minmum of 60 hours a week....the stress being on the word "minimum"......anyways here i go digressing...So basically being jobless and chatting with our own ROS brought some funny chilhood incidents to my memory ..
one such incident happened when i was in 10 the standard i think ..may be in 9 the standard..i loved to read books and my cousin decided that iam grownup enough to read one of sidney sheldon books..if i remember correctly.."if tomorrow comes " was the book....to be honest after reading nancy drew and hardy boys ..that book was racy for me and some of concepts just went way over head..( but i guess my cousin wanted to educate me ..hehehehehe)...anyways i came across this word "virgin" i did not know what it meant at that time ..usually when i dont understand something ya something is bothering me i usually talk/ask my dad about it...So i went up and asked my dad "wat does a virgin mean??"
well i come from a very conservative south indian Brahmin family..and i could tell even at that time my dad was shocked..but he managed to say that any unmarried woman is called a virgin..and i was pretty satisfied with that explanation for a long time..:)
As i said the person i narrated this incident today thought it was funny and that i should blog about it..So here is one to days of innocence... :D
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yay! me first..now lemme read the post:p
Yo! babes..I dint know you would actually write about it..Me comes from a Tam-Marathi Brahmin family as well and I can very well understand the shocked response that you got from your dad.Such innocence:)Doosra incident narrate nahi kiya kya:p
Nice post:)
doosra incident?...
embarassingly enuf...my mom and dad would keep educating me on such stuff while growing up, of course the intricate details would be imparted by fellow schoolmates who would have had access to playboy and etc. stuff...
i also read "if tommorrow comes" in 8th or 9th...i soon found sidney was a guy and that absolutely turned me off... ...after having read all his books before i hit puberty...i then switched to Indrajal Comics...phantom, mandrake,Bahadur...man those were some good comics...
Ok one question which bothered me..
In this day and age....What does "Brahmin" have to do with it all?...what do u mean other people would easily talk abt sex with their kids...oh come on...
hey ROS
i def would not blog about the other incident :D..girlie talk only..:)
nandya
i said "brahmin" to give a feel of how things are..and def not to mean that other ppl talk abt sex to their kids easily either..just talking about things from my perspective dude..this blog is purely about wat i think and wat happened to me..
jeez need to put disclaimers i guess :)
cheers
jeenu
Ya Jeenu, I agree...The reason why I echoed her thought was coz of what my impression was. Given the scene from where I come from, I was not even aware of what 'puberty' meant, coz those things were not even discussed.
Indian parents can never talk to their kids about sex. I can just imagine asking my mom when I was 15 what a virgin was? she wud have burned the book.
-thanu
thanks ROS
thanu
i agree with u ..if i had asked my mom the question she would have had an apoplexy too :D
cheers
jeenu
I guess we all were smart enough to figure it out on our own :)
Reminded me of the song "Another Brick in the Wall"
We don’t need no education. :)
bhole ji
well wat can i say..i am not smart i guess :))
disclaimer
written with the view that it was funny..;)
cheers
jeenu
Jeenu,
This so reminds me how protected we are by our parents and now we are living in a culture were...you get the drift right!
innocent post!
vi
oh..boy...ppl have been misleading u for so long..
that aint the correct defn for virgin..trust me:-P
hey Vi
i know..i had quite a culture shock when i first came here..:)
and Gi
i am now very well enlightened on wat a virgin means..:)thanks to my labmates here..who is willing to share any kinda of information even if u dont want to hear it :)
cheers
jeenu
ok ppl...sorry abt lashing out abt "Brahmins" stuff...i have this major crib abt them...me myself being one...:))
Anyhow!!!.....well glad to know Jeenu u are well informed now..
My tale...i have these American Women in my Life..One of my Profs and one of my lab mates...they have made me blush ...ME BLUSH..on more than a dozen occasions...and they are very proud of it..that they can make a brown man blush...with what they think are very healthy talk on sex....and on educating poor Anand abt it
Can imagine Nandu blushing--err flushing:))
BTW, when is the second part on your blog coming? After Drops of J, posts hers:D
Hehe @ the virgin description .. your dad gave.
Infact that should be the right description coz this word was coined by MCPs only for women.
Just remided me - the first book I read from Sheldon was .. I think - Stranger in the mirror .. n it was hot! I thought he writes only soft porns - was too disappointed coz other books were a let down in this respect .. hehe
hey aria,
yeah i think he writes soft porn ..haven't read sheldon in a long time..but i really liked "if tommorow comes" i mean the story line and also other one about this lawyer..forgot the title ..it was good too..but rest of them seems like a repeat of stuff u know :)
cheers
jeenu
Jeenu,
na, I dont mind hearing it..
wut is it:)
wat is wat Gi
i did not get ya
jeenu
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