Mum's anecdotes!

Now that my exams and "hard work" seems to be finally over, I thought i should devote some time to my parents, hence this blog "Mum's anecdotes".

Over the years, right from my drooling age of 1 yr to i-love-u-mom-dad 10 yr old girl to u-have-no-right-to-tell-me-anything-i-am-a-13-yr-old-woman to oh-god-i-have-been-dumb 22yr old, i have heard various proverbs/ similes/ thoughts from my mom be it when she is livid/ happy/ teasing me. I have realized when to shut up and when to argue with her. For example: when she is being utterly patient on the phone when I waste her time, I know I should hurry up in keeping down the phone 'cuz she is losing patience with me.

So here it goes:

1. Dont eat that! Its poison! : Usually said when I haven't been to the gym or moved AT ALL.
2. Dont think u will get food if u dont go to the gym: I thought she was kidding till she actually practiced what she preached.
3. I dont think I will ever live to c u lose some wt.: When i have eaten a morsel extra.
4. I have been desperate since 9th std to see good grades: Which is so not true 'cuz I received pretty decent marks till 10th.
5. My whole family shouldn't eat: Great kidder, my mom!
6. Can i ever c u vertical?: When I have been sleeping the whole day 'cuz apart from looking out of the window there is nothing much to do in the house.
7. I ate double today: Usually said out of happiness when I dont end up eating.
8. Dont worry, every1 goes through it: Usually said when I whine about the amount of work we have.
9. A Muslim priest has a journey only till the Mosque: Usually said in hindi and usually spoken when asked where did she and dad go in the evening. Basically she went to a very nearby and a boring place.
10. A donkey will never do what his master says, but it will end up doing the same thing when not told: Basically I'm always, invariably compared to the said donkey. I never do anything what everyone keeps on nagging me about but end up doing the exact same thing when I'm bored. Usually said in Punjabi when my mom has lost patience with me.
    
11. I know I am the worst person on this planet and dont understand u at all and I have no heart: Usually when fights get a LEETLE serious and she gets dramatic when I have said something like "no one understands me".

Now over to dad's best advices and anecdotes:

1. Listen to your mom.

Its 1:15 pm. Tomorrow is my final year final exam on Operations, analysis and planning (popularly known as oap since the full version is to big to say. takes me 5 mins to remember it). While studying (ever thought as to how n y one wants to waste the maximum amount of time by thinking and doing weird-out-of-the-blue never-will-i-do-this-in-my-free-time stuff when exams r going on?) I was just thinking that how come do these subjects come together? Are some random words just thrown together to make em sound difficult and important? I mean words like strategic (as in strategic corporate finance and strategic hospitality management, what do they mean?) I still don't understand them.

Wont life be much easier and simpler and wonderful if the subjects were like "search the net and come up with random but interesting stuff", or "talk to the faculty and measure your patience level" or "play games and let us test your level of multi tasking and decision making" etc etc. This is more practical. In real life situations there is no way am I going to think about what I read on page number 289 which model I referred to while solving a hypothetical situation (which obviously had to involve a guest and a company and where they went wrong and the customer almost hyperventilated) and try to remember the weird circles and boxes which connect with each other with no logical reasoning AT ALL!

They should seriously teach us stuff which will help us. Like what to gift your significant other, how do you come out of tight spots and use your gift of gab WITHOUT using management reasoning etc etc. I mean how bored were people to actually come up with things like "Queuing theory"? The whole point of queues is that its 1st come 1st serve basis, and they r formed when the guy behind the counter is slow and obviously "where there is a queue there is a fight" (Megha Gupta, 2008).

ok I THINK I've gone into the bloggin-is-fun-while-"studying"-for-exams mode. But still this whole thing is worth pondering over.