mellow pee

a few nights ago, i was lying in bed wide awake. as is the wont of the most obvious thoughts, it struck me that i'm a language orphan. i do not say it with melancholy. just to record the fact.

i was torn away from my mothertongue when i stepped into pre-primary school. instead, i learnt english and hindi. we sang 'a-b-c-d-e-f-g' and threw in an 'el-lem-mellow-pee'for good measure. by the time i was ten or eleven, i could write adequate english (like enid blyton, i must confess) but now i wanted to speak it as well. that's how, even the little remnants of the mothertongue left within the domain of the home was exiled.

now consequently, my self-expression is deficient in all the three languages. i am what you may call... uhm... a boat without moorings on the sea of babel.

besides, i have problems with mixed metaphors too.