An elderly couple made their way to the President's office @ Harvard university.
Ragged and dressed in tattered clothes the couple did not make pleasant viewing..
The President had no intention of talking them. Displeasure showing in his face, and every word, he wanted to get it done with..
So why are u here, what do u want...
Our son was a student here for a year, he recently died..in an accident, we want to...
Whaaaat.., build a statue for ur son!!. Sorry we cant do all that. you can go..
No...,the elderly couple hesitated..
We were actually thinking of constructing a building in his name..
yeh rite. Do u have any idea how much it would cost....The principal sneered..,atleast 1M $ ........he trailed off.
The couple had a hurried discussion amongst themselves..
Isnt that too much for u...the president sneered again..
well actually no...,If it costs just a million Dollars, in that case, we wud actually build our own school..
The president gasped...
The couple that were sitting in front of him, were Mr and Mrs Stanford..
And thus was born Stanford University.......
PS: Translated from an article found in Kumudam...
PS to PS: :-)...Not bad eh...My translation skills from tamil to english are pretty good..
High time I started working on translating thirukural and all other poetry stuff into english...;)
As they say, orru paanai sorruku orru sorru patham...(meaning..tasting one morcel of rice from the pot is enough, to say if itz cooked or not)
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16 comments:
Present teacher :-P!
archana u beat me to it i was thinking present sir and I clicked the comment section.
kumudhum is stillin circulation. I did not know how to read tamil but always use to borrow it frm our neighbors to play find the differences game. u remember that?
Present! :P
Yet to read the blog though. :))
Have you heard of the song "Aadadha da aadadha da manidha..."?;-)
Ullen Ayya. You can translate that.
Ullen Ayya!
Present !
hey i've read this story in *english*...got it as an email though...
Arch,
the sincere student..well done;-)
Thanu,
oh yeah, itz goin strong..
Last week, my colleague's mom came over frm India, and she got a copy of kumudam, maaan..it seems so tiny and yellowish paper..
Cant believe that I used to think that they are made of high quality paper, compared to the news papers that we get there..:-)
Madsies,
good goin...the other sincere student..:P
SK,
enna, trip blogging laam mudinjudga..:P
thts okee..if u dont read the blog, I do the same on ur blogs too...comment and then read:P
Deepa,
haha...thaan aada taalam than sadhai aadum...guess tht wud take a while..so till then I'll aadufy..:P
Prabhu Ji,
chamathu.Autograph style la sollitte..athanaala pozhachu vitudaren..:)
Shilpa,
English aa...naa enna, Did I write it in tamil...grrrrrrrrrrr
Present Sir!
Is this true by the way???
vi
Read that one through email too... interesting if its a true story.
I meant there was no necessity to translate from Tamil to English...!
hey Gi
did not know tht u are offering tam classes now..Hmmmmm
cheers
jeenu
vi, arch B
yeh true story...:-)
Shilpa..
well, Vi doesnt understand tamil..:-)
and even for others, itz tough to read tamil typed in english..
therz no bigger torture than that..
Jeenu,
Yup..all classes:P
as long as the other person doesnt know anything abt the subject, Im the GURU..:-D
Got it thro email and felt it was a nice one. :)
Hey
I just saw ur comment on our school blog.. :-)
U guessed the school right hehehe
who was the girl anyways ?
priya,
yeh :-)
Shilpa,
hmm....guess her name was Ramya..went to g school in ASU I guess.
Ramya is a common name.
:-)
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