Recently I was amazed to see a “Chinese New Year” wish on FB by one of my friends Ritu. I never knew that she went to China. She was with her better half for around 5 years in Singapore. But what’s the connection with China except for the “local” Chinese noodles that she had from the restaurants in Kerala? No idea. Did she relocate there?
Instantly I asked her that question?” You in China? Our Communist China???”.
Her reply was as follows - “No Ashwin. We Singaporeans also celebrate the Chinese New Year”
What humbleness!!! What modesty!!! Such a trait can be found only in her.
I remembered one such incident that happened a few years back. She was one of the first persons in our friends group to have a mobile phone way back in 2002. She took her dad's mobile phone when she went for the MBA project work at Kochi. One day while all of us were travelling back from Kochi to Trivandrum in a crowded train we still remember her talking over the phone on top of her voice
“Hello…Hello..”
“Uncle …can you hear me… kelkunnundo.... kelkunnundo..”
“Uncle….Ithu daddy alla….Ithu daddyude molannu…”
“Uncle….Daddyude molu trainil aanu…kelkunnilla…kelkunilla….”
Santhosh, Manoj, Kuttappan, Vinesh and I walked out of that compartment before she completed that conversation
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