Comments on: Ghosts of Christmas (and other times) past http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brij http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-185029 Brij Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:02:38 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-185029 <p>Again trying to cheer up SM readers -</p> <p>Quiz: What song did Abhi's parents sing in those days in America ? Answer : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzg6olcxjgQ"><b>Abhi na jao chodkar </b></a></p> Again trying to cheer up SM readers -

Quiz: What song did Abhi’s parents sing in those days in America ? Answer : Abhi na jao chodkar

]]> By: JustSmiling http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184890 JustSmiling Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:46:33 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184890 <p>Abhi, thanks for the great post. On such a tragic day, this brought a much-needed smile to my face. Your parents' pics look almost exactly like my parents' pics from the late '60s/early '70s in Chicago. I think I might create a website w/those pics and stories, as a tribute to the fascinating lives they've led. Thanks for the inspiration.</p> Abhi, thanks for the great post. On such a tragic day, this brought a much-needed smile to my face. Your parents’ pics look almost exactly like my parents’ pics from the late ’60s/early ’70s in Chicago. I think I might create a website w/those pics and stories, as a tribute to the fascinating lives they’ve led. Thanks for the inspiration.

]]> By: anand http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184797 anand Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:54:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184797 <p>There is definitely hope for getting your mom's diploma re-issued! My mom never received hers from Delhi University before she immigrated in the 1970s. When she visited 2 years ago, she went to the college and talked to the dean. They gave her a fresh copy, though it took a month or so, and she had to pay a bribe to get it. Best of luck!</p> There is definitely hope for getting your mom’s diploma re-issued! My mom never received hers from Delhi University before she immigrated in the 1970s. When she visited 2 years ago, she went to the college and talked to the dean. They gave her a fresh copy, though it took a month or so, and she had to pay a bribe to get it. Best of luck!

]]> By: ente http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184784 ente Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:18:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184784 <p>This post was perfection and triggered so many memories. Seeing this after watching The Namesake was quite the 1-2 punch. Many thanks.</p> <p>Kids today, with their Wii and iPods and peanut free Mars bars--they'll never know the joy of Hobbit records and Easy Bake Ovens and Lemon Twists. Also, they should get off my lawn!</p> <p>And Amitabh, I agree wholeheartedly with your comment #7. Yes, there are similarities, but in my view, many more differences between the diaspora of 25-40 years ago and the diaspora of today.</p> This post was perfection and triggered so many memories. Seeing this after watching The Namesake was quite the 1-2 punch. Many thanks.

Kids today, with their Wii and iPods and peanut free Mars bars–they’ll never know the joy of Hobbit records and Easy Bake Ovens and Lemon Twists. Also, they should get off my lawn!

And Amitabh, I agree wholeheartedly with your comment #7. Yes, there are similarities, but in my view, many more differences between the diaspora of 25-40 years ago and the diaspora of today.

]]> By: MoorNam http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184664 MoorNam Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:21:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184664 <blockquote> <blockquote> <p><i>The vast majority of people always say I look like my mom</i>.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>Lucky men look like their mothers, and lucky women look like their dads.</p> <p>M. Nam</p>

The vast majority of people always say I look like my mom.

Lucky men look like their mothers, and lucky women look like their dads.

M. Nam

]]> By: Zen http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184626 Zen Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:00:12 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184626 <p>Thanks for sharing your personal photos! I love how we all have the same "coming to America" photo saved in a shoebox somewhere.</p> <p>http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2005/06/happy-fathers-day.html</p> Thanks for sharing your personal photos! I love how we all have the same “coming to America” photo saved in a shoebox somewhere.

http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2005/06/happy-fathers-day.html

]]> By: coach diesel http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184621 coach diesel Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:57:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184621 <p>Now that I think about it, in my family, that stuff would have just found a new home in the front yard, alongside building supplies, chickens and tireless vehicles.</p> Now that I think about it, in my family, that stuff would have just found a new home in the front yard, alongside building supplies, chickens and tireless vehicles.

]]> By: coach diesel http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184619 coach diesel Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:54:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184619 <p>Clearly, you are the next generation... You guys should have opened a thrift store or had a garage sale, instead of taking 9 tons of refuse to the dump. My grandparents would have been horrified at that kind of waste. ;)</p> Clearly, you are the next generation… You guys should have opened a thrift store or had a garage sale, instead of taking 9 tons of refuse to the dump. My grandparents would have been horrified at that kind of waste. ;)

]]> By: Shalu http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184597 Shalu Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:34:14 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184597 <p>What a fun post..I hope we are treated to more of the same in the future. =)</p> <p>I'm going to echo the sentiments of many who say that the older pictures of your parents are near identical to the ones of mine (who also immigrated here in the late 60's)...right down the the glamour shots! =) There was a Botanical Garden at Penn State Univ where my Dad did his PhD, and him and my Mom have countless "smelling the flowers" pictures that could have come out of a Bollywood flick. =)</p> What a fun post..I hope we are treated to more of the same in the future. =)

I’m going to echo the sentiments of many who say that the older pictures of your parents are near identical to the ones of mine (who also immigrated here in the late 60′s)…right down the the glamour shots! =) There was a Botanical Garden at Penn State Univ where my Dad did his PhD, and him and my Mom have countless “smelling the flowers” pictures that could have come out of a Bollywood flick. =)

]]> By: Violet in Twilight http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/25/ghosts_of_chris/comment-page-2/#comment-184442 Violet in Twilight Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:27:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4923#comment-184442 <p>Great post!</p> <p>The pictures with cars and snow, and the send-off party at train are classics. They happen even now, though in different flavours (webcams showing snow through window, family send-off at airports).</p> <p>Abhi: your father is a Civil Engineer! Yay to "civil" solidarity :)</p> Great post!

The pictures with cars and snow, and the send-off party at train are classics. They happen even now, though in different flavours (webcams showing snow through window, family send-off at airports).

Abhi: your father is a Civil Engineer! Yay to “civil” solidarity :)

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