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Maami Milaap

Time to give updates about the Bangaluru Maami, after the recent reunion of the Maamis held in Bangalore, which was the after-effect of the repeated hounding and emotional blackmailing by Bangalore Maami (BM), insisting on paying a visit to her city. The Chennai Maami (CM) had no other way out than to arrange for her train tickets to Bangalore somehow, inspite of knowing that some of her other good friends staying in Bangalore won’t be there on that particular weekend she had planned the trip. So, this trip was a tribute by CM to BM for all the great Maamiship they share! CM landed on Sat, early morning; got picked by her uncle and was ready to follow the schedule prepared and narrated by BM, last evening (after lots of heated discussions between the Maamis, which was part and parcel of the Maamiship). So, the great Milaap happened in the afternoon, when the rain God was showering his blessings upon us. Preceding this was another round of confusion and blame game when CM couldn’t figur...

Mumbaiya Maami

The Madrasi Maami from now on will be called the Mumbaiya Maami. She has been forced to transfer to Mumbai by her employer. Although she is quite thankful to her employer and God for not having snatched away her job, she is still a gloomy soul. Only after these 6 months in Chennai, she was kind of slowly settling down when suddenly her boss (cum best friend in office) broke this news to her. He himself seemed to have taken aback when last night he received this dreadful SMS from his boss asking if one of his team mates (either me or the AVP) could go to Mumbai. I got a real shock. Lot of thoughts started originating – shall I leave my job, go to Delhi and find a job there; shall I refuse to go; shall I contact some friends/seniors to help me find a job. But the first thing I ended up doing was telling my father about it. He further put forth various questions that I was not interested in answering at that point in time. I was quite disturbed as all my plans went down the drains – learn...