Eddie Murphy as in BEVERLY HILLS COP

Mr M had to go on site for a few days and we had arranged a driver to drive him out to the site. Incidentally it happened that this driver(Mr S) was the same person who picked him up at the airport and dropped him at his accomodation in Beverly hills, Rayyan (Apartment name).

I informed him of this and he just told me this interesting incident. Mr M thot the driver who was a typical mallu guy looked like Eddie Murphy. Now Mr M wanted him to know this and on one occassion .........................when he met Mr S...........

Mr M: " You look like Eddie Murphy".

Now this poor mallu does not understand who Eddie Murphy is ? He does no even understand the Brits accent. But he tries hard to understand what Mr M said.

Again in a bid to make the mallu understand………………..

Mr M: " U know you look like Eddie Murphy as in Beverly Hills cop".

The mallu now nods his head. He understood something…………………

Mr S:" No sir its Beverly Hills Rayyan.................I drop you from airport……………."

Now Mr M was at his wits end.

Mr M" No u dont understand me …………………….its Beverly Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy is in that."

Mr.S: No sir .......................no Eddie Murphy from office at Beverly Hills. I pick you up at airport last day and drop you there. Mr. S is confident.

Mr M: "No you dont understand me. Please download the film Beverly Hills Cop and you will find Eddy Murphy acting in it"

If only the poor guy had enough time to watch a malayalam movie……and here Mr M was asking him to download and watch hollywood movies…………I thought

During the narration of the incident I saw Mr M get up and go to get some prints……………… Oh no it was the print of Eddie Murphy. I asked him "why do you want this??"

Mr M: "Oh I wanted to show him that he looks like this"

Oh gosh Mr M!!!!! What else could I say...........

Serial Number................Indian or Non......................Day-1

Martin came in today. He occupied the seat diagonally opposite to me. Myself and VAP had shared the room. Both of us were mallus and we were used to speaking in malayalam but now with Martin(Brit) sharing the room we could not speak in malayalam.

Day -1

Enter martin………… A rotund person with glasses in his  mid fifties.  He soon got settled into his seating position and started out to work on his laptop. After exchanging pleasantries I also got absobed in work, when Martin interrupted me…………."Xcuse me do you have the list of Wells??. I handed him the list given to us by the Client………….. Then he raised a volley of questions………………What do you mean by S.No. was the first……………. Without hesitation I  replied serial number ofcourse……..

" Serial number?!" he burst out. "what is the meaning of serial number? What do you mean by serial number? Serial number is used only for computers or books etc . How do you put serial number for the wells……….. wells should be having a well number..!!" he blasted.

For a moment I was taken aback.  I quickly explained to him that it was perfectly normal to write S. No to list the well heads to which came his quick response……………" U know what............. this must have been made by some Indian for sure……… They always write serial number for all things." This was enough to boil the hidden patriotism in me. How dare he make a comment on all Indians.

" Mr Martin do you know that this English language that we speak is the funniest. There are so many meanings to a single word like serial…………. " I blurted. May be he felt that he had said something twhich had offended me ……….so he kept quiet………………..

For the rest of the day we all maintained dignified silence only to start a fresh episode the next day.