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..you wouldn't believe how much my cousin's paying for going to the best colledge in India for Engineering and studying abroad: nothing. like seriously, Rs.0. Why? Because he got on in a merit scholarship so he goes around to Belgium, Italy, Germany, etc. for free, all paid for, to finish up college and whatnot. Plus, he gets his laundry, food, etc. from my grandparents house whenever he needs to. Its like, only in India can you achieve that. Its nearly impossible in U.S...(the abroad thing all expense paid!)

I'm flabbergasted! (And my flab is not easily gasted.) Your cousin must be a shining light. ...So, is advanced education in India a strict meritocracy?

no actually. quite the opposite. he had to face a lot of struggle to get into the few merit seats. Most people get in by cheating/bribes. In fact, when my cousin clearly qualified for the college, they told him "ok. pay up (bribe) and your spot is reserved." My cousin and his family were apalled and he said that he wouldn't take a seat like that. He knew that by protocol they had to keep very few number of seats for strict merit based applications so he said that he would try for that rathar than cheat his way in so he took a whole year off devoted to study. When he had first applied he got placed 7,000 something in all over india (very good- having him qualify for top college) so second time he tried after takign a year off for studying he got in top 2,000 so they had to take him. =) My other cousin from my mom's side did even better. She is scary good. She got in first try at number 1 college, harvard equivalent, all merit-based, for architecture (its a bigger thing in India) so shes studying abroad all expense-paid too. Yup, I have so much to live upto unfortunately.

Wah kya baat hai!! I graduated from chunnu-munnu high school.My "english" teacher would himself speak in hindi, thats why apun ka HINGLISH super istrong hai. That was also free :P . yeah...apun bhi kam klevar nahi hai bidu. only difference is...others struggle to get IN the college...apun struggling to get OUT of the college. LOL

kaisaa c h a m a t k a a r! yoN meraa kahnaa Thiik hii thaa, that this cousin must be some shining light. Whether he had gotten in or not, he would have been a winner anywhere. This story is making me re-think some ideas, formed from afar. ... Mr. Champak, don't be so self-deprecatory. I can beat your infamous High-School Inzits-Outzits story hands down. I attended five elementary schools... never learned the alphabet. Attended five high-schools... never graduated. Attended three colleges... never graduated. Attended four universities (I'm pretty sure...), and still no PhD. Now here I am, three times your age, and every day losing hair, teeth, and brain-cells down the bath-room sink, waiting for that fateful call: 'Pleeeease, Meeester Fettslaaab, weel you come theees month to geeve your deefense, yes??' It might even happen in time for the funeral parlour to add the degree on the head-stone before their mason takes off for summer vacation! Conclusion: I should have been reared in something closer to an educational meritocracy.

*gasp* . Mr. Fettslaab- asie baate nahein bolte! I will not hear you talk about death and age as such! You have life experience I can possibly never acheive. Regardless at your educational status written on meaningless pieces of paper, one who comes close to knowing you, and your thoughts can easily judge the level of higher thinking you possess! I know, maybe I'm assuming you aren't proud of your acomplishments, but I will continue: I really respect you Mr. Fettslaab, like a child looking upto a role-model at the same time as a fellow TMDL friend. But I am suddenly interested, we all seem to be an odd lot, you, me, mr. cl, etc. But I need to know what you mean by giving your defense? Btw, your alphabet seems superb now. :) As for me, I flunked kindergarten in India....before they found out I needed glasses...

maaf karo, beTii, whatever got into me to spout so carelessly. When will I ever learn? Gallows humour is considered standard for Anglo chit-chat, is deprecated as facile, if not a bit stupid, among the French, and is deemed grossly inauspicious by most Indians. I really must learn to keep my registers straight. ...the defense? Matlab yah hai -thesis defense, with a crew of blood-thirsty nasties in the audience. Some will be bussed in from the sticks, ostensibly to see the big city, and get some nice pictures. They'll be taking in a freak-show too, evidently: 'Semantic Structures and the Hindi Sub-Stratum: a Cognitive Approach'. If I disappoint, the Tourist Bureau and the Ministry of Local Culture will take turns kicking me around the block.

...just kidding, wouldn't it be great to get that much attention. Bet my Mother will come!

oh. you were...kidding? >.< I understand now. You horrified me all of a sudden. You work for the tourist bureau/ ministry of local culture in Quebec city?? Well that explains the superb french and metaphorical english.

...er, no, no, it's quite the other way around, those fanciful government connections were made in jest! I'm an obscure student, waiting for his number to come up, and this is dead serious. The thesis might be defendable by the end of May, Bhagvaan kare. The denizens of the academic world can become claustrophobic, mainly from the life-style. A present, je suis paye pour le savoir! Competition in this racket is as fierce as it is quintessentially silly. After all, who in Quebec City is ready to fall on his sword over Semantic Structures? (Answer: two and a half people, best left unnamed.) The part about the marginalia and the misfits pulling on their boots and heading for the big city to see me face-plant is also the plain truth. No actual Tourist Bureau involved, but someone has gotten the word around that there's this really cool tar-and-feather session coming up. Wish I were in Ho Chi Minh City or on the moon or any place else right now, but what to do? Bhagvaan chaahe, to !

lol...Kasam se, agar Priyam ji explain nah karti.....toh sab bouncer jata..(phew)...Kya fettslaab ji...aap bhi na

O_o ....Oh. ok. I get it now. (finally). =P

haha maybe your just a poor ass priyam isliye itna gusa ah rahe hain?

lol....awww kxs19...beta apna khud ka bank statement toh batana zara. Baap ki kamai pe na uchal bacche. OOps tu toh baccha hai =)) =)) =)).

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