1. Your address reads as 12-1-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 12-1-678/4A/B-22),while you actually live in the second house in lane beside zamzam bakery , near Paradise on SP Road.
2. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies with words such as " Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".
3. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody asks you for directions,whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
4. You come across tailors sporting the board: 'Immidiot delivery in two days onli'.
5. You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, except Telugu, fluently.
6. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
7. You have at least one Seenu,Prasad or Raju as a cousin or friend.
8. You have at least one cousin or friend in the US working as software engineer.
9. Every time somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is 'Party kab hain ?'
10. Refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
11. You call 11 AM as subah subah.
12. You label your boss as 'Dimakh Kharab'
13. For you the whole of part of "Gulf/middle east" is termed as "Dubai ".
14. You are 30 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
15. You look at the fixed price stand and still ask 'dene ka bolo'
16. You feel offended by someone looking at you (Kaiku ghoor raa be?)
17. You think you are a born shayer and use some typical filmi batein in stylish urdu and crack some romantic jokes.
18. While someone does the above, you say to yourself 'chubbe saale, mooh dekh aaine mein, pataaney waala tho main hi hoon'
19. You can say the typical "Light le le baap" and be cool without analyzing what the situation is.
20. You feel it is legal and your Nizami birth right to show your hand and stop the traffic (better than a traffic police) while you cross the road whenever and wherever you like.
21. You can hang out in a Irani cafe the whole day after ordering one tea and an empty cup for yourself and your dear friend and you chat like thats the last day with each other. You don't mind ordering 1/3 chai wo Bhi ekdum khadak.
22. You eat Biryani atleast once in a week in Bawarchi or Paradise.
23. You go to the Petrol Bunk and say "Panch Point Single Oil maaro yaaro" and hand over 35 bucks.
24. You can relate the words 'Nakko', 'Hou' 'Kaiku' ,'hallu' and make these the integral part of your vocabulary.
25. You tell your friend that you will 'just come back' ("abbhi aathu mein") and your friend knows that either you will take a couple of hours or not come back .
26. You prefer going to marriage receptions (walima) than marriages.
27. You are reading this and admitting that you are, after all, a true blue Hyderabadi !
You know one thing..... No !Once a Hyderabadi, always a Hyderabadi... and you will forward this for sure to Hyderabadis ... since only they can relate to it.
