Monday, November 7, 2011

Challenge 7: Nickname


90. Describe a humorous experience you have had.

One fine day in my new school, after a meal together, my friends and I started chatting. The conversation was mainly about what the teenagers usually talk about, celebrity. All my friends seemed to be extremely excited to talk about the topic. However, since the environment in which I grew up didn’t give me enough knowledge about celebrities, I could not understand nor talk anything to my friends. Noticing this, my friends were beginning to doubt why I wasn’t talking much about this particular topic, about which teenagers go on chatting. Soon they realized and started laughing at the fact that I really hardly knew about celebrity. And so began their questions: Do you know Justin Bieber? Have you heard about Angelina Jolie? What movies of Brad Pitt have you watched? Well, all I could tell them was “I have no idea.” The situation was funny to my friends because I knew nothing and to me because I did remember hearing those names the friends asked me about but couldn’t match them up with any face of celebrities I saw in TVs.

My friends then asked me if I knew a singer from southern part of India where I have lived for eight years. I was pretty confident that I would know this one just because the celebrity is from the place I’ve lived for a long time. But my confidence was thrown off as soon as I heard the name. I had no idea who the celebrity was. My friends told me she is a very famous singer and also sang for me one of her hit songs. And yet I couldn’t figure out. The whole week I tried my best to find out which singer my friends were talking about. But one night as I was passing by a room in corridor of dorms, I heard a sweet singing coming out of it. I was captivated by the high-pitched voice. But as I was listening, something strange hit my mind; the song coming out of the room was exactly the song my friends were singing for me to figure out the celebrity. As soon as I realized that I opened the door ajar and there was the quietest girl of our grade! It turned out that she was the celebrity my friends were talking about, just to have fun with me not knowing anything about celebrities. And when I found out that the song girl was singing was an old south Indian song, I burst out laughing. And that day, I got a funny nickname: an Old Age girl.  

1 comment:

  1. This is quite good because it reveals a lot about you. There's a way to make this even more revealing: if you can't talk about celebrities, what topics are interesting to you?

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