D Family Bond

Hmph! Finally some time off for myself after almost a full month of hectic schedule... I wonder y life has to be so tough... how so ever hard I try to take time out to relax, it seems just impossible to manage things. The higher u climb the success stairs, the farther u move away from the comfort bed lying in the ground. Am tired of saying am tired, the daily grinding its eating me up now. They say "any idiot can handle crisis, its the day to day routine that worn one out"

Anyways talking about the 'hot happenings' of the last month, I had some amazing experiences and most of the part of it was 'fun to the core'. It was a cousin brother's wedding there in Chennai and I had an very good time with my family and little cousins. My bro is one of the members of the hugely populated 'South Indian > Engineer > NRI community' and he fortunately found his bride belonging to the same community. A lovely couple I must say (touch-wood) and I can bet that we cousins enjoyed their marriage more than they them-self would have.




The first and formost reason why I was dying to attend this wedding was that I badly badly needed a break and such social get-togethers are amazing excuses for the same. Secondly I wanted to display my very enthusiastically chosen 'blue saree', that I actually bought for some other function but due to unavoidable circumstances couldn't enjoy displaying it that time. Another reason was my interview in IISc which was scheduled at almost the same time, so right after having a very good time in Chennai, I went to Bangalore with a very fresh heart and mind to attend the interview of the top most research institute in India and luckily managed to maintain the same smile after the interview got over! So guess am in... now I need to choose between IIT-Delhi and IISc-Banglore. Both are having a huge list of good and bad points. IISc is the best but IIT is closer to house. Am getting almost the same topic and all guides are very good and well established people. Anyways not gonna talk about this confusion now, this post is dedicated to 'fun' and not 'work'.

So coming back to the fun part, all the naughty heads in one place sure results in pranks and leg-pulling. This is the time when age becomes no barrier and even nani and all older relatives enjoyed the stupid pj's we were cracking and all the funny frwd sms I was reading out to my cousins. There was a separate councilling session I organized for each of my cousins to make them feel more seriously about studies but that was of very short duration and not very explicitly done. It was just out of my habit and my concern about the kiddos. Other than that, the 'boss story' gonna be remembered by me for the whole of my life. We celebrated my IIT admission with 8 pet bottles of all the brands of soft drinks and 8 chips packets of all the possible flavors and made a mess in the AC room for which we had the keys. That was one big time celebration of my life. Yeah but then we had to clean up before we left the room for the elders.

Really had fun during the make up sessions, three girls > Saree > jewelery > make up kit > mirror > crazy!! The permutation and combination of jewelery, the saree setting act and react and reacted act and blah blah, the applying eye-liner then washing it and then starting again from moisturizer, then messing up with lipstick then scolding the little one then remaking the hair, carefully handling the glass bangles, fixing up hair styles, slipping off from the high heals every now and then, pushing each other back to see the mirror, adjusting and readjusting the damn saree.... every part of the 'getting ready' session was amazing and we three individually took more time than the bride, to get ready and didn't step out of the room till dad came knocking the door to declare that the ceremony is almost about to get over.

The food was perhaps a attraction for many. There was a huge variety of the typical south Indian food and trust me, the typical 4 course full meal needs lots of empty space in the stomach and we all had a real hard time to clean up the plate, errr... I mean leaf. I personally dont have much of a fascination for the south Indian cuisine and I prefer a simple roti dal anytime as compared to rice but then u don't get a menu list to decide in such functions. We all would have preferred the Mc.D burger over the heavy food but then we had our parents on our head and had to dig on the leaf. But anyways we tried hard not to waste food but the caterers dont leave you with much choice. When my Periamma asked me how was the food, I remember saying "Khila khila ke maar diya".

I would say this occation strengtened the family bond more tightly. With a busy life where even sibling dont get to see each other frequenly, its very difficult to keep in touch with cousins. But the amount of fun all of us had in 3 days is simply unmeasurable. We all met after a very long tiem and realised how much we have changed. All are scattered across the nation and keeping in touch at-times becomes very difficult but then maybe that is why we have festivals and functions for. It was hard for us when the masti got over and we all headed to our respective work places/ college/ school but then thats how Life goes right? If not for the regular days, the irregular days will lose charm :)