Sunday, December 2, 2007

HOW TO SPOT A SRI LANKAN

HOW TO SPOT A SRI LANKAN

You know that you are definitely a Sri Lankan if:

1. Everything you eat is savoured in garlic, onion and
chilies.

2. You try and re-use gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course
aluminum foil.

3. You try to eject food particles from between your teeth by
pressing your tongue against them and making a peculiar noise
like,
tshck, tshck!

4. You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at
the
Airport.

5. You arrive one or two hours late to a party, and think it's
normal.

6. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service
missed
to frank.

7. Your toilet has a plastic bowl next to the commode.

8. You name your children in rhymes (example, Honey & Money,
Sita
& Gita, Ram & Shyam.)

9. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close
to
their real names.

10. You take Sri Lankan snacks anywhere it says "No Food
Allowed"

11. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
someone's
house.

12. You load up the family car with as many people as
possible.

13. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house
whether
it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.

14. Your parents tell you to not care about what your friends
think, but they won't let you do certain things because of what
the
other "Uncles And Aunties" will think.

15. Owning a rice cooker is a top priority.

16. You live with your parents even if you are 40 years old.
(And
they like it that way).

17. If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in
knowing whose daughter has run with whose son and feel it's your
duty to spread the word.

18. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.

19. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they
ask
if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

20. When your parents meets a Sri Lankan for the first time
and
talk for a few minutes, you soon discover they are your
relatives.

21. Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign
countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream
at
the top of their lungs while talking.

22. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away
from getting dirty but the sheet on your bed has not seen water
for
months!
23. It is embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600
people.

24. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the
matrimonial
no matter what she looks like.

25. You have really enjoyed reading this mail because you know
some, or most of them apply to you

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

O' gosh! C' mon! which decade u belong to? still with tat racist comment! goodness sake! look @ ur back b4 discriminating another! pretty shameful tam dude!

Anonymous said...

Btw, e abv comment is by me, a tamil! well, I sincerely hope its jux a joke and not a shot from a bow to discriminate SL peeps.