Saturday, September 12, 2009

Balle Balle In Chinese :)

A colleague brought this to my attention today. Chinese students in Canada are learning Punjabi. Punjabi is a beautiful language as all languages are beautiful, unlike German which Mark Twain tried to learn, albeit unsuccessfully.

The gist of the link is that the Chinese students in Canada are doing better at Punjabi than the Punjabi students studying in the same university. Here, I quote, from the news report...

Walia said two Chinese students had won the first and second positions in examination in Punjabi language conducted by the university for Indo-Canadian students recently

Which is pretty awesome if you ask me. China is ahead of us in population and we are doing our best to catch up. But how will we catch up in terms of obsession, dedication and madness that these people have? Moving a little farther to South Korea, their ex-President jumped to his death because of allegations on his character that he had taken bribe.

Geez, if Indian politicians follow even 1% of that guy's mentality, we won't have any politicians left!

So, in this short post we have learned that we need to be better at what we are doing and we need be responsible for what we do. 

Sadly, we are Indians (very proudly so) and we have the answer for everything, "Koi na, chalta hai."

Jis din nahi chalega, uss din aayega asli maza.

Oh and by the way, if you thought the Chinese were going to leave cricket alone, here is the Chinese National Cricket Team.

1 comments:

smita said...

Casual attitude is perhaps the tallest hindrance that is obstructing our all round progress,and even making us fall to the limits of shamelessness but certainly it does not at all diminish the goodness around us. Dear Pallav, after going throuh your writtings i would say u r such a sensitive person to notice such minute things. how wonderful it will be to see ur appraisal of all the brightness around u. Smita