Location : U.A.E in General...

You are staying outside India, and your friends know you are a Malayalee when..

1, You have rocks, sticks, leaves and strange-smelling, unknown substances in your kitchen for use as medicine or in your dinner.

2,You own a butcher knife bigger than your head.

3, Lipton Tea is bought by the bulk, (especially when there is a sale for it.)

4, Your brothers and sisters names rhymes or have the some letter to start with as yours.(ex:- siji , biji ligi , tiji ....)

5, You explain to everyone, "That funny name is my house name(family name)/Caste name."

6, You hide the fact that you have a boyfriend/girlfriend.

7, Your North Indian friends mention a Hindi movie, you say that Malayalam version was the original one and that it was better.

8, "Patti", "Thendi" and "Potten" are commonly used expressions of insult. and u r non-mallu friends says it more often than you.

9, You create a name for yahoo, hotmail, IRC or AOL chat rooms it's always some name like "Thenga", "manga" ,"Pichati", or names of film charcters or TV serial charcters.(ex : kadmattathu kathanar, kayamkulam kochunni, udayon etc etc)

10, Whenever a foreigner talks about India, u tell him that u should go to kerala, which is gods own country ..and u will give him all the statistical data..like 100% literacy, greeenary, backwaters etc etc ...and sometimes a word of caution that north india is not good as kerala

and lot more to come ..

best

RS

P.S :- No hard feelings.....