....And in the trissur-irinjalakkuda route a small town named palakkal where i resides,which now i fondly calls as BRIDGESTONE instead of palakkal. :) do give a visit to that route now, hell lots of changes..
Blossom Babykutty
· 2 years ago
Superb trip down the nostaligia lane.. !
Sayon M
· 2 years ago
...Various Jacksons... ....Apni to jaise waise (or) Apni jo taise waise (or) Apni jo waise aise (or) some combination of the above....
typical Sidin.....good one
Renjith
· 2 years ago
the bit about the revolving casette stand with yellow dusting cloth was awesome. the probability of finding that in a mallu home is very very high.
Good one Sidin, i think u should start a contest to see if everyone can pronounce mallu tongue twister town names - moovattupuzha and thazhathangady included !
saju thomas
· 2 years ago
have you actually seen a gieger counter :-) Just kiddin!!
Ink
· 2 years ago
Great post Sidin. Bought back plenty of memories of a time past......great to see you being quite prolific with the posts. Good luck
Gourav
· 2 years ago
I think it was "apni to jaise taise" :) I can almost imagine you had an Afro at that time, given the fondness you had for all the disco!! Was Daddy Cool playing in the background while you were writing this ??
Deepak
· 2 years ago
Good one Sid. The song is basically "Apni to Jaise Taise; Apni to aise waise kut jayyege; appka kya hoga?".
silverine
· 2 years ago
hmmm good one. Bought back so many memories.
Jay Sun
· 2 years ago
Beautifully written :)
Traveller
· 2 years ago
Nice post! One that most of us can identify with; the 80s , whacko music, and fascination with imported stuff from the Gulf/US.
Jo
· 2 years ago
I traveled in this route today after a long time to attend a friend's wedding. The same old paddy fields are still there.
Riyas
· 2 years ago
How strange, i was born in chittor(near palakkad). But soon brought to coimbatore. So i got totally cut off not only from Malayalam(language, movies etc) but also Hindi!. Nice post on Memories sidin. here is my take on memories... http://vokat.blogspot.com/index.html
Bikerdude
· 2 years ago
Always wondered who lived in Irinjalakuda whenever the train stopped there for a good 10 minutes on my family's annual tvm-blr vacation. All I could see was an empty pretty little wayside station with huge brick chimneys in the distance, presumably belonging to a big kiln.
Of course my brother and I would say Irinjjjjaaaalakkuda every 15 seconds all the way until Trichur at which point my parents would either slap us into silence or bribe us with vazhakka appam to shut the hell up.
Divya
· 2 years ago
Nice post! Pass Irinjalakuda on the way to Kodungallur every time i go home :)... which i really wanna do right now!
Mayura
· 2 years ago
Pavaratty reminds me of Luciano Pavarotti.
Bocha
· 2 years ago
Where is the story about odd and even numbers? It begs to be told..
Sreejith
· 2 years ago
looks like nazia hassan and bee gees were in every mallu home :) loved the thoomara 'kakaamyey' :)) for crowing out loud!
Prasanth
· 2 years ago
I did my schooling in Don Bosco Irinjalakuda - those were the days - and the tapes and the room brought back memories of my elder brother's den !!
Prasanth
· 2 years ago
I did my schooling in Don Bosco Irinjalakuda back in the 80's - thos were the days !!. The tapes and the description of the room brought back memories of my elder brother's room in our house.
Lybu
· 2 years ago
Sidin - Great post as usual. A couple of points why this was a nostalgic trip with Aap Jaise Koi.. for me as well - (a) quite a different music from what we were used to then, (b) brother-sister combination, (c) Pakistani - how can we be liking something from across the border (with the understanding of the then geo-politics at 9 years) ?
Also on the spoonerisms that you mentioned, (Apni to/jo/wo..) - with Nazia Hassan, I had a similar problem despite being a North-India Mallu - for quite sometime I thought the number went - "Aap jaise koi meri zindagi mey aaye, to BAAP ban jaye..."!!
Incidentally, a timely blog - if you had posted the blog 4 days before, it would have been Nazia Hassan's 7th death anniversary.
saurabh
· 2 years ago
hi, I love it when you write nostalgia.... Such detail, always takes me back years... wish i remember so much about my life as you do about yours... saurabh
jisha
· 1 year ago
hi, this article reminds me of my childhood memories of kerala..even i belong to thrissur..perrinjanam near irrjankuda to be precise ..ur description of the ur maternal home reminds me of my maternal home in kerala...same showcase and same stuff in showcase..all from 'persia' brought by my maternal uncle..and those disco album..'brown girl in the ring','no women no cry'(my dad specially loved it hehe)..
Maverick
· 1 year ago
Sidin you're amazing man !
we had a rotating cassette stand too - transparent brown color with a yellow dusting cloth left on top of it ! Dad bought it from Saudi - you're right on the mark about the Calendar, Dad brought those each year - do they supply it for free at the Airport departure terminal or what? All the other little showcase things wonderfully coincides with some of the ones we had while I was young ... yeah, remember Nazia hassan and the Stevie wonder cassette!
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do give a visit to that route now, hell lots of changes..
....Apni to jaise waise (or) Apni jo taise waise (or) Apni jo waise aise (or) some combination of the above....
typical Sidin.....good one
Good one Sidin, i think u should start a contest to see if everyone can pronounce mallu tongue twister town names - moovattupuzha and thazhathangady included !
Just kiddin!!
Nice post on Memories sidin. here is my take on memories...
http://vokat.blogspot.com/index.html
Of course my brother and I would say Irinjjjjaaaalakkuda every 15 seconds all the way until Trichur at which point my parents would either slap us into silence or bribe us with vazhakka appam to shut the hell up.
Great post as usual. A couple of points why this was a nostalgic trip with Aap Jaise Koi.. for me as well - (a) quite a different music from what we were used to then, (b) brother-sister combination, (c) Pakistani - how can we be liking something from across the border (with the understanding of the then geo-politics at 9 years) ?
Also on the spoonerisms that you mentioned, (Apni to/jo/wo..) - with Nazia Hassan, I had a similar problem despite being a North-India Mallu - for quite sometime I thought the number went - "Aap jaise koi meri zindagi mey aaye, to BAAP ban jaye..."!!
Incidentally, a timely blog - if you had posted the blog 4 days before, it would have been Nazia Hassan's 7th death anniversary.
I love it when you write nostalgia.... Such detail, always takes me back years... wish i remember so much about my life as you do about yours...
saurabh
this article reminds me of my childhood memories of kerala..even i belong to thrissur..perrinjanam near irrjankuda to be precise ..ur description of the ur maternal home reminds me of my maternal home in kerala...same showcase and same stuff in showcase..all from 'persia' brought by my maternal uncle..and those disco album..'brown girl in the ring','no women no cry'(my dad specially loved it hehe)..
we had a rotating cassette stand too - transparent brown color with a yellow dusting cloth left on top of it ! Dad bought it from Saudi - you're right on the mark about the Calendar, Dad brought those each year - do they supply it for free at the Airport departure terminal or what?
All the other little showcase things wonderfully coincides with some of the ones we had while I was young ... yeah, remember Nazia hassan and the Stevie wonder cassette!
Good piece of writing,
Arun.