That's Funny!!
Everyday I wake up looking at a daily sheet calendar in the drawing room (yeah I sleep there), with a picture of my friend and his wife smiling shyly at me. I got this daily sheet calendar when I attended their marriage sometime back, in November, I guess. It’s very common in Tamil marriages to gift something to those who attend the function; you will get a coconut (after peeling off the outer most cover) too. But a daily sheet calendar with photo “ just married” was something new to all who attended the marriage. After all its from a MBA brain; my friend who got married was also my MBA batch mate. We were taught in MBA “differentiation is the best strategy to be successful in a competitive market”. I think he just applied (rather tried) it immediately after finishing the course. But, where is the market? And who are the competitors? Ok, cut the crap...
Last Month was that time of the year when the stores doled out calendars to their customers and every second person who visited their shop. I remember, during school days I used to go to big textile and jewel shops just to get some calendars. Wrapping the textbooks and notebook using an on-going year calendar is something special; a “differentiation strategy”. Also by the time of New Year all books would have become messed-up and the brown-paper wrapping, which was done in the beginning of the academic year would have gone. So it’s better to get the books wrapped again otherwise you will end up in a punishment of writing “I will always keep my books neat” a 1000 times. This writing punishment used to be my class teacher’s (Raman Sir, my biology teacher) favorite one. Other modes of punishments include cleaning the black board everyday, standing up on the bench in all his classes (this is a good one), etc. Standing on the bench gives you far better view of the world,
Coming back to calendars. Normally “calendars of Tamilnadu” are characterized by Attractive fluorescent color (multi color) with a picture of some god or goddesses on it. Calendars here are very advanced these days. It provides hell a lot of information right from festival schedules to famous personalities’ birthdays, and Train timings to your “Marana Yogam”. You can find details on Tamil months, muhurthams for various auspicious occasions etc. Along with all the religious events and almanac specifics, one of the calendars, which I saw this year mentions that February 20th is ‘Selvi Jayalalitha’s Birthday’! Talking of birthdays, it was Rajnikanth’s birthday sometime in December and even though Bharathiyar’s is also around the same time (I Believe), he lost out to the celluloid star!
Surely, a sign of the time we live in.
Last Month was that time of the year when the stores doled out calendars to their customers and every second person who visited their shop. I remember, during school days I used to go to big textile and jewel shops just to get some calendars. Wrapping the textbooks and notebook using an on-going year calendar is something special; a “differentiation strategy”. Also by the time of New Year all books would have become messed-up and the brown-paper wrapping, which was done in the beginning of the academic year would have gone. So it’s better to get the books wrapped again otherwise you will end up in a punishment of writing “I will always keep my books neat” a 1000 times. This writing punishment used to be my class teacher’s (Raman Sir, my biology teacher) favorite one. Other modes of punishments include cleaning the black board everyday, standing up on the bench in all his classes (this is a good one), etc. Standing on the bench gives you far better view of the world,
Coming back to calendars. Normally “calendars of Tamilnadu” are characterized by Attractive fluorescent color (multi color) with a picture of some god or goddesses on it. Calendars here are very advanced these days. It provides hell a lot of information right from festival schedules to famous personalities’ birthdays, and Train timings to your “Marana Yogam”. You can find details on Tamil months, muhurthams for various auspicious occasions etc. Along with all the religious events and almanac specifics, one of the calendars, which I saw this year mentions that February 20th is ‘Selvi Jayalalitha’s Birthday’! Talking of birthdays, it was Rajnikanth’s birthday sometime in December and even though Bharathiyar’s is also around the same time (I Believe), he lost out to the celluloid star!
Surely, a sign of the time we live in.
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