I feel soooooooo old. Its  a bad bad thing when your the eldest among all cousins and the rest are all just about starting college and most are still in school. I feel soooo old when my 7 year old cousin asked me if I was born when 'Yeh kaali kaali aankhen' was around and when I replied in the affirmative, he looked so shocked.

Another little kiddo is soon going to hostel and he tells me they have washing machines and tea/coffee vending machines in their hostel so he does not need to learn how to wash clothes or make chai/coffee/maggi and then tells me 'Didi, aajkal hostels are also well-equipped, not pre-hisoric like when you stayed that you had no washing machine.

Prehistoric? And I was in hostel in 2001.

Another of my friends got asked by her 10 year old brother to help him with his school project and proceeded to instuct her on this wonderful site called 'Wikipedia'. Simply type in what you want and you get everything. No need to look through 20 books to make a ten page project.

We still have a few years to go before we see the big 'Three-Oh'.

Abhi to main jawaan hoon.

• You own an entire wardrove in black and white and you own at least 5-6 pairs of shoes/ sandals in black
• You think wearing light pink on a weekday is very colourful
• You do a good imitation of Govinda's fondness for colours on weekends
• You often begin your sentences as 'I humbly submit....' or 'BECAUSE...' or 'That it has been conclusively held...' or 'My learned friend does not appreciate that...' or 'Qua...' and then wonder why people think it's odd
• 
  You humbly 'pray' before your 'Ld. Senior' for leave and state that the said prayer will not adversely affect any other party
• You are often accosted by various autowalas/ strangers on  the road when they see you coming out of court to represent them on their land/ dowry/ divorce/ family dispute matters and they start telling you in agonising detail all about it
• You send your credit card company a detailed letter about the late payment penalty and sign off as Advocate and they reverse the charges (Yup that actually happened to me)
• You don't get a car loan or any other loan or if you do, you have to pay pretty high interest on it
• You tell your credit card company that your a consultant
• You promise your dhobi that you will draft a legal notice on his behalf if he promsies to bring your clothes on time
• You demand a statement for charges levied on your account by the Bank and after perusing the same you write to the Bank that the charges levied are in violation of the Apex Court's judgment and if not reversed within 7 working days, appropriate proceeings shall be instituted in the appropiate forum and they shall be responsible for all costs incurred
• You are told not to be a lawyer (like its a dirty word) when your fighting with the other half
• You get accused of being a lawyer. PERIOD