Well….here I am back again! After Jan 2009 …I tried to post something in Feb…nothing happened.
So, after a self-imposed lazy break…I thought I should blog again. Maybe for now…now that many thoughts are running through my mind.
Well….to catch up….Got a job in Shell Business Services Center, Chennai in Feb 2009, just when I was about to be without a job from Feb 10, 2009!
Had to take a job cos it was in Chennai and my parents were looking to get me married. To be married, you need to be a person working in a “good”, “reputable”, “well-Known”, company! Shell was just that! Will look good on my resume! After shelling out about Rs.25 K to all the Matrimonial websites, I met her at an informal gathering in front of a temple. Somehow, I said yes!….Then she came with her parents to “Paiyan-Pathufy” me!….I am not for this “Ponnu - Parthing”!….But, it had to be formalised in a formal way, so they came to my house and she also said yes! She still doesn’t know why she did that!
The reasons being, I have big eyes, A mush!, was not talkative…and the only thing going for me , as per her recollection, was that I looked good as an overall package!
In between, before I met her, I was sent to Prague in March to April 2009 for migrating the Slovakian reporting process to Chennai. Man, stuff of dreams! Had read and seen so much about Prague in the books and TV respectively. Got the opportunity to be there for 34 days! Explored every bit of it..went on to explore some castles and Churches around Prague.
In between , the Easter holidays were a blessing for me to visit Paris!!!! Yes Paris! went there all alone! Why the lament? Well , when I was on the cruise boat on the Seine, I felt the need for a companion for the first time , especially when the guide announced that couples Kiss beneath a particular bridge we were passing under and I all those around me were couples and Kissing!!!! I was the lone man out , literally!!!! That was not the cause…but Paris as a whole is definitely romantic…even with the traffic and the nose in the air attitude of the Parisians!
I learnt a few phrases of French to be on the safer side as I read that they would not respond to English as a rule. So I would go “Excuze moa Monsieur…Parle vous anglais?”…if they said “non”…I would move on after a “Merci”…or if they said “oui” , I would then switch to “Anglais”!…
Had 2.5 days to myself and spent half of it in the Louvre!….It was a defining moment for me as I saw in person what I had read about and saw in pictures! I was almost in tears! Didnt know why!!!
Got engaged on June 3 2009…with the marriage on Oct 21 2009. Allowed us to know each other better!….the marriage went off fantastically! Man what food I had! awesome! Aish if you are reading this let’s get married again…just for the food!
All my dear friends came in! Thanks to all of them! (All my friends are dear to me!)
Some came even without me inviting them in the proper manner of sending a card thru email or in person…just cos they liked me! (I like to think that is the reason…or it could just cos they wanted to see me in “Bond”!) Hats off to them. I love you guys and gals!
Went on to fulfill the family tradition of visiting all the older ones who could not make it to the wedding and on to our Family temple (Kuladheivam) in Tirunelveli . Then on to Guruvayoor…another Reception in Coimbatore!…Man I loved the attention! I wish I had more receptions and the photos!!! Hehe!
Eventually managed to go on a HM to Kodaikkanal,but then the calmness was too much for us and had to come back to Madurai for the chaos! We loved the chaos…and realised how much of a city animal we had become!
Then the new year came and went…lost touch with all my friends…my letharginess to blame! but you are all so large-hearted that you guys still remember me! (tears!)
Aish went off on a transition project to Birmingham UK!….I had the money mercifully to go on that trip on a 10 day joust! Man I loved it there! met relatives whom I had heard and not seen ever! Kadambari and Santhosh and the kids were lovely! Then Sumathi Akka whom I had met long back and her 3 kids and Dr. Ganesh (Mr. Sumathi)…lovely time!
Then the frustrations at my job started to grow on me….reflects on the personal life too! The frustrations are still there! Have to find a way out of it! Get a new job…
Bought a house Feb 2010…Pallikaranai…yet to invite my friends to it….got it decorated with woodwork from the internet! man it crossed my budget many times over…but am happy!
Enough for now….have to pick up my thoughts and spray them in other blogs…
Adios!
