"I can't shave off my goatee. I have a weak chin." 

-- A colleague

bearded wisdom

"What's wrong with my beard? Even Brad Pitt has a beard. Or give me a jhola and put me in JNU."


-- My father, on his unshaven look 

exotica

"I am an exotic person. I prefer summers."

-- A colleague

"I don't want to be a sari DJ. "
-- My sister

(Prize for figuring out what the hell she could have been talking about.)

"Can I teach you how to send smiley faces in your text messages? ... Don't you want to be cool?"

-- My mother, to my father

"Is that tie-and-dye ?"

-- My sister, pointing at a monotone purple coloured cloth

"I didn't even have to ask her what's up. Facebook stalking makes you feel closer to everybody."

-- My friend, after running into an old school friend of hers who she hadn't spoken to in 6 years

"Dhobi Ghat will seem like a comic strip after this."

-- My frand, to me, after we finished watching 127 Hours

"It sounds like Himesh Reshamiya"

-- A boy in my Spanish class, after listening to a Spanish conversation CD.

"Omlette rhymes with Hamlet."

-- My father, at the dinning table

"I love Chinese soups. They taste so yummy because they taste so fake."

-- My sister