WOMAN

There are somethings i never understood about women

1. how do women gain weight?
2. how do women get to have long straight hair that obeys gravity ?? ( phew!! )

You can give it any reason u want; hereditary, or a thyroid complaint...whatever..my hair never grew beyond a certain point and i never gained weight, the logic of which is still mysterious to me.:)

No matter how many tins of milma ghee my mom emptied into all the chappatis and dosas made for me..my body weight is at standstill magic figure of 53 kg. Hiking it by even a half kg is a distant dream for me as of now.:) In these times of 'degenerating decencies' when everyone is after VLCC to reduce weight, I am an exception.

My hair has every quality u can think of(!!!); its frizzy, its short, its damaged with umpteen split ends, and its thin; getting thinner with every bath which gives me a feeling it might just get extinct one day! Then i wudnt even have something to complain about! My! Too much of an injustice to a Keralite woman , the land of women with long hair..:)

95% of my nicknames are based on my hair some of which are unmentionable :)
But my hair did do me some good many a times in life. It helped me most in crowded buses where others attempts to deliberately embrace me from behind could be easily thwarted. U know how... :)

In class 12, teacher was trying to explain DNA double helix structure ( ya i was bio-maths ) , and guess what ! my hair came in handy!! The moment she would mention about schlerenchyma cells ( those found in fibrous plant parts like coir! ) my stupid classmates would all turn back to me!! as though they can get to see it on my head ! To add fuel to fire, Radhika miss would ask, ' hey! y r u all looking at Remya? ' , and the class would burst into laughter.

It also helped me escape ragging in the first year of b-tech. I never came in my seniors screened list of girls to be ragged (thank god!). They might have not wanted to waste time with a skinny girl with curly hair. But i was caught later due to my explicit ability to dance( !!! what a mess i made out of it!! ) on the freshers day , and yeah.. for some more other reasons.

People found it easy to recognize me from a distance even after several years!! thanks to my curls !! Or else, how would Revathy, my kindergarten buddy, recognise me in class 12, and come running to me calling my name? ( I took a few minutes to recognise her though ! )

It became easier many times in life, when i talked to my old teachers( who wud've taught many Remyas ) through the phone, introducing myself as ' Remya, maa'm ..ur curly haired student...!!!'. The response would be quick..' Ya Ya...got it...Remya Ann...yes..tell me Remya...'

There were instances when my tution sir (who was quite impressed with me) wud ask my classmates who joined for the next batch for graphics tution..' O..u are from adi shankara..electrical?? so remya is in ur class? the curly hair girl'?? ( he swings his hand in action near his head!! ) God! those guys made mince meat out of me flashing this news in my class !! But it was all gr8 fun!

I am leaving lot of things i want to write for the simple reason that the article wud become too long.

Whatever it might be...my hair gave me many good memories in my school as well as my college life. My identity is unique and i really love my life :) :)