Of Scheming Mother-in-Laws and Tortured Daughter-in-Laws
What is the basic difference between life seen on TV and the real(?) life . Well let me tell you because for the past 72 hours I have been doing nothing else. Life outside the TV has a lot less color and the people are a lot uglier :)Headed home after yet another grueling Saturday. This time the test was over by 7:00pm and my bus only started at 9:30pm, so I had enuff time at hand to rush and grab my bag and then race off to the bus station. This time it was a far better bus ride than the previous one to kerala. The plan I had was to do nothing for the next 3 days and that is exactly what I did. I didn't even bother getting up from in front of the TV unless it was absolutely essential. It was raining like crazy outside , but I bothered not one bit !
I watched a whole lot of soaps on TV because my mom wouldn't let me see anything other than that during the prime time in the evenings. It is good fun I must tell you these soaps. I had the following insights after watching them.
1) The Mother-In-Laws are generally bad. They always plot to finish off their Daughter-In-laws and their partner-in-crime is their daughter.
2) The husband chappy is a spineless nincompoop who loves his wife , but will not hear a word against his mother or sister.
3)If you could just use the money used to buy the glycerin for the Daughter-In-Law ( heroine of the soap) , we could have a surplus budget in India for the next financial year.
4)In soaps people talk aloud while they think and they are always plotting one thing or the other or else they would be crying for what atrocities have been committed against them.
5) Ladies put a lot of make-up and jewelry even while at home and that too in the night.
6) People are either very good or very bad, there are absolutely no shades of grey.
7) And these stories move nowhere in 3 days time. I think by the time I am home for the next vacation I can sure get to know if the Mother-In-Law was finally able succeed in her evil scheme of things or whether the Daughter-In-Law managed her revenge.
" After all Computers Crash , people die and relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot." ... this my dear friends is a philosophical statement from Sarah Jessica Parker and with that I switched off my TV and got back to the Real world ;)
posted by Calvin @ 3:02 AM
2 Comments:
Another curiosity is that I could copy & paste your comments in a Spanish blog without changing a single comma and everything would still be valid.
More than that, despite the cultural difference between your mother and mine, they could very well sit together in front of the TV, blaming in unison the evil mother-in-law, wishing something finally thwarts her iniquitous plans.
The way I see it? Soap operas are the salt & pepper of this world, serving as a conductive threat around the world, uniting cultures and civilizations seamlessly!!!
But, if the only had some quality as well ...
Don't miss the great Indian Laughter Challanenge on Star One (Firday 10pm). Laughter is the best medicine!
Soaps are supposed to take away dirt not bring it back.
Did you know an apple is a lot better than a tea-we? Hehehe.. (yes, I know I am going nuts).
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