You are a Tamilian Only if .......
1-You arrive one hour late to a party and findout you are the first one to arrive.
2-You think it's perfectly normal to call someone who's 30 years younger than you 'anna'
just because he's behind a counter.
3-You wear a suit to a wedding... and you areonly 3 years old.
4-The wedding takes an hour and the grouppictures take five hours.
5-Your mom and sister together own morejewelery than a Chinese jewelery store.
6-Your parents' idea of a vacation is togo down to the temples in India .
7-You talk for an hour at the front door whenleaving someone's house.
8-The second your guests leave the house, yourparents start talking about them.
9-You rent a cassette from the grocery store,it's been dubbed 6 times... & you return it 3
months later.
10-You go to a Tamil Cultural program only tofind one barathanatyam and six hip hop shows.
11-You are somehow related to every new friendyou meet.
12-Your remote control is still in its plasticpacket.
13-You get a 95% on a test and your parents askWhat happened to the other 5%?!'
14-You stare at Tamil people when they walk by.
15-You see married couples kissing on TV buthave never seenyour Mom & Dad get within 3 feet of each another.
16-Your parents never address each other byname.
17-When you get your first part-time job, yourparents expect you to give them half.
18-Your mother has a minor dispute with hersister-in law and doesn't talk to her for 10 years.
19-Your parents say Swiss instead ofSwitzerland, Germany is German and England is London .
20-you go to a party and your aunt comments onhow your skin color has changed.
21-You watch a Tamil wedding tape and all thesongs from Roja are dubbed in it.
22-When the teacher took attendance and therewas a sudden pause, you put your hand up and said
'here.'
23-You shortened your name to make it sound Anglo.
24-You have dinner at 10pm.
25-When your parents say 'BBC' theydon't mean the news station but your uncle Nathan or
aunty Kamala.
26-It's normal for all the relatives tobathe the groom on his wedding day.
27-You KNOW that your promiscuous second cousinon your father's side is pregnant even before she does.
28-Your aunties tease you about a particularlyeligible cousin... & you like it!!!
29-You serve all your guests tea with milk and5 spoons of sugar.
30-You only stop putting more rice on yourguest's dinner plate 7 times after they tell you to
stop.
31-Anytime you speak back to your parents, youget: 'I toiled my life for you, and this is how you
repay me?!' - 'Naanga eppadi khasta pattathukku nee ithuvum solluvae ithukku melayum solluvae!'
32-If you are a girl, you are expected to comehome before dark - however if it's a son, 'OK rasa,
jaakirathaa poitu vaa...'
33-Halfway through your shower you realize thatyour Head and Shoulders shampoo is gone and has been
replaced by Siyakkai shampoo.
34-You walk in to another Tamil family'shouse and they have the same furniture and dining set as
yours.
35- You are a true tamilian if you forward this mail to another tamilian
