Comments for SAST Wingees http://www.sastwingees.org Knowledge is Scrumptious Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on My Days as a Collector by Priya Raju http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/08/21/my-days-as-a-collector/#comment-4796 Priya Raju Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:59:43 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/?p=615#comment-4796 Shoba - Thanks for your comment. Strange hobbies to go with strange old me - Yes, I'll write about a few of them in my subsequent posts. In this post, I just wrote about the more conventional hobbies that didn't sit well with me. No, my dad had a pen-pal in Germany before we started collecting stamps :-) Stickers all over your desk, huh? Let's count our blessings - your classmate didn't stick them on your face ;-) That would have been very uncomfortable. Collecting bottle caps was a ruse to have more cola, then. Nice going. What did you do with the bottle caps? Made a necklace out of it or something? Thought I'll ask, since you are an accessories person :P I'm being very naughty, sorry. Shoba - Thanks for your comment.

Strange hobbies to go with strange old me - Yes, I’ll write about a few of them in my subsequent posts. In this post, I just wrote about the more conventional hobbies that didn’t sit well with me.

No, my dad had a pen-pal in Germany before we started collecting stamps :-)

Stickers all over your desk, huh? Let’s count our blessings - your classmate didn’t stick them on your face ;-) That would have been very uncomfortable.

Collecting bottle caps was a ruse to have more cola, then. Nice going. What did you do with the bottle caps? Made a necklace out of it or something? Thought I’ll ask, since you are an accessories person :P

I’m being very naughty, sorry.

]]> Comment on My Days as a Collector by Shoba http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/08/21/my-days-as-a-collector/#comment-4778 Shoba Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:53:27 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/?p=615#comment-4778 A very humorous post Priya. Enjoyed reading every line. No, I did not get fooled by the title; guess 12 years of friendship has helped a lot. So far you have listed only very reasonable collectibles of yours. I was looking to see some really strange ones. Nice reason behind having a pen friend in Germany. The only pen pal I ever had was in India, studying then at BITS, as emails were not very popular in the early 90s (poor, friend, did not realize that he would get stuck with me for rest of his life by replying to those mails. hahaha). I was collecting stamps and coins too when I was a kid, guess, those days these hobbies were quiet popular. The only foreign coins I had were from Nepal, Singapore and Malaysia. I also used to have a cricket album or scrap book they call them these days. I did not know much about cricket ( that’s how I am till date) however did this as that was the in thing those days. I then moved on to sticker collection. I remember those days the juice called Tree Top would give out stickers for every juice box and I collected many of those. However that hobby rather ended in a not very happy way. One of my classmates played a practical joke on me by sticking all the stickers on a class desk. Then I moved on to something crazy, collecting Pepsi bottle caps. This was a good one, only flip side is I ended up in Vijaya hospital due to severe acidity.Ofcourse my parents stopped my pocket money. One hobby that has stuck with me till date and that I enjoy doing is collecting accessories for my cloths. A very humorous post Priya. Enjoyed reading every line. No, I did not get fooled by the title; guess 12 years of friendship has helped a lot. So far you have listed only very reasonable collectibles of yours. I was looking to see some really strange ones.

Nice reason behind having a pen friend in Germany. The only pen pal I ever had was in India, studying then at BITS, as emails were not very popular in the early 90s (poor, friend, did not realize that he would get stuck with me for rest of his life by replying to those mails. hahaha).

I was collecting stamps and coins too when I was a kid, guess, those days these hobbies were quiet popular. The only foreign coins I had were from Nepal, Singapore and Malaysia. I also used to have a cricket album or scrap book they call them these days. I did not know much about cricket ( that’s how I am till date) however did this as that was the in thing those days.

I then moved on to sticker collection. I remember those days the juice called Tree Top would give out stickers for every juice box and I collected many of those. However that hobby rather ended in a not very happy way. One of my classmates played a practical joke on me by sticking all the stickers on a class desk. Then I moved on to something crazy, collecting Pepsi bottle caps. This was a good one, only flip side is I ended up in Vijaya hospital due to severe acidity.Ofcourse my parents stopped my pocket money.

One hobby that has stuck with me till date and that I enjoy doing is collecting accessories for my cloths.

]]> Comment on My Days as a Collector by Priya Raju http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/08/21/my-days-as-a-collector/#comment-4764 Priya Raju Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:33:53 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/?p=615#comment-4764 Sukumar - So you were what, hiding behind a tree, while you jotted down the numbers? And the $1,000,000 question: What did you do with the numbers collected? Just curious. Sukumar - So you were what, hiding behind a tree, while you jotted down the numbers? And the $1,000,000 question: What did you do with the numbers collected?

Just curious.

]]> Comment on My Days as a Collector by Sukumar http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/08/21/my-days-as-a-collector/#comment-4763 Sukumar Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:27:17 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/?p=615#comment-4763 Yeah i did that inspired by the famous five. I think they did that in one of the stories. i don't remember which. Yeah i did that inspired by the famous five. I think they did that in one of the stories. i don’t remember which.

]]> Comment on My Days as a Collector by Priya Raju http://www.sastwingees.org/2008/08/21/my-days-as-a-collector/#comment-4762 Priya Raju Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:57:10 +0000 http://www.sastwingees.org/?p=615#comment-4762 Harish - They didn't send you a bat & a ball? Bummer. If they did that now, you could sue them for misleading customers. Ashok Leyland VS Tata :-) I was smiling when I read that. The part about noting down registration numbers is particularly charming. Another boy I know very well noted down registration numbers too - but for a different reason. He & his pals were playing Sherlock Holmes. What if there was a miscreant who escaped from jail? And got hold of a car? And what if the police were wringing their hands, not knowing what to do? So this boy made a note of all the numbers just in case :D That boy is Sukumar. Harish - They didn’t send you a bat & a ball? Bummer. If they did that now, you could sue them for misleading customers.

Ashok Leyland VS Tata :-) I was smiling when I read that. The part about noting down registration numbers is particularly charming.

Another boy I know very well noted down registration numbers too - but for a different reason. He & his pals were playing Sherlock Holmes. What if there was a miscreant who escaped from jail? And got hold of a car? And what if the police were wringing their hands, not knowing what to do? So this boy made a note of all the numbers just in case :D

That boy is Sukumar.

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