Sunday, July 17, 2005

OF MONEYPLANTS AND PIGGYBANKS

When I was little, Dad told me, "Money doesn't grow on trees". Secretly, though, I thought he was lying, because Ma had a moneyplant in her garden. I would dig the mud a little to see if any money would stick out. But being the sensible kid that I was, this habit died a natural death. Ma throwing a fit one day after I had pulled the plant out completely, root and all, was also a turning point.

Always encouraged to save a rupee if I was given two, I remember how I played with my piggybank, shaking it often to see how much money I had collected. The funny part was when I actually opened it after it was full (it burped), I didn't know what to do with the money! And my loot totalled a magnificent seventy two rupees and thirty paise.

Age has mellowed me down, and I have matured like wine over the years. I no longer poke at moneyplants or shake stupid piggybanks. I depend on reliable ways to earn money. Like lottery tickets and Google Adsense. I wonder why people work.

I believe I will be rich someday. I also believe that the peacock feather that I have carefully preserved between the pages of my tenth standard record notebook will lay a "little feather" beside it someday.

Damn it.. Out of orange juice again..

12 comments:

Adaengappa !! said...

Quite interesting !!



GOODLUCK YO !!

expertdabbler said...

Very well written

Einsteinophile said...

Nice one!!! :)
And yeah....'ll work on it!!

Anonymous said...

SO what is your mode of saving these days? need some help on knowing about-Mutual funds, shares, insurance do let me know. will do it for free.

Pallavi said...

hahahh and till your next belief... have a nice day ... that was so sweet..my piggy bank came up to 63 rupees and change... and I gave it to my aunt to make a house... LOLOL... I was some 8 years old then :)

Vinesh said...

Thanks for your replies friends..

@Vasanthi: Thanks Vasanthi, I surely need lots of info on savings, shares etc.. was thinking of whom to ask :-) Websites hardly give you the right info :-)

@Pallavi: Where did you build that house, Lilliput? LOL

@Kary: Dont take the lottery thing seriously buddy, that was my feeble attempt at sarcasm, LOL. But do you really know ways to improve your adsense earning? I guess it doesn't work that much for personal blogs..

Pallavi said...

hahah :) My aunt still reminds me of the offer.. :) she gets emotional sometimes when she remembers that I had offered her all of my piggy bank savings when I heard that she wanted to build a house.. LOL

Pallavi said...

As for the web page.. do mail be about what you are looking for.. maybe we can work our something.. yours looks fine.. as it is.. I have a lot to put up in my website .. hence all the links.. have tried to shorten the stuff by using scripts.. Am always looking for a better page :)

M said...

And you have actually won a few times? Lottery tickets, I mean.

When we were children I convinced my cousins that they would die if they swallowed orange pips as an orange shrub/plant would grow bursting through them.

Gruesome!

Vinesh said...

@Kary: Will surely work on those ads buddy, thanks..:-)

@Pallavi: It was a conscious attempt to keep my blog simple, but a couple of things on your blog were just fantastic I wanna know how you did it. Will mail you about it! :-)

Vinesh said...

@Manjusha: Haha! I wish I win the lottery just once. I don't want more LOL.

My grandmom would also tell me the same thing about orange/grape seeds because I always swallowed them (too icky to spit them out, hehe).

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