My brother is now a married man.

3rd Feb 2005
A somewhat normal day for the rest of the world was special for my entire family.
My elder brother was getting married today. There hadn't been an event for all of us as grand as this one.

If you happen to be facing a Indian Punjabi Wedding in your neighborhood you better get ear buds and lots of them cause you would find days at a stretch people playing songs, drums and music. There are relatives you haven't met in ages hugging you, the little and cute brothers of mine had ordered a fresh stock of cream, for everyone meeting them had interest to pull their chubby cheeks.. " Look how cute you have become ".. I am sure if the little ones had a chance they would pull the cheeks back making the elders know its not that cute when they do it. Also what’s with the funny noises they make in front of a baby. I always wondered why we make the funny faces to babies. They laugh all right but i think at us thinking, " hey that’s the most ridiculous looking thing I have seen since Donald duck! " and he is referring to you Mr. funny face.

The wedding was slightly different at our setup. We were mellowed down to restrict ourselves to lesser decibels of sound. A few unfriendly neighbors had complained about their discomfort on our over enthusiasm on the event. My brother is Six feet tall and after all of us were done pulling his leg around he would have gained a few inches for sure.

I was filling up my memory bag with fresh memories of his wedding though I couldn't help as a few of my old memories popped out of the amazing times we had shared as brothers. The times where we fought till we cried, pillow fights till we got slapped on either side by mom, studying together with comic books inside the english text book. Days when we went school together racing in our bicycles. Wish I could relive those days again when rain meant paper boats and every morning meant yet another race to the school.
I today live in a seperate city and I still wake up at times thinking I would find him right there sleeping on the bed opposite the window.

Growing up with you was fun dude. I would cherish the memories all my life.
Take care of yourself!!

Memories we make as we move along, good or bad I am filling my bag and so is everyone else.

Cheers to Life.

Happy Valentines!!

The sweetest things of all happened to me about three years ago. 22nd August 2001.. a girl dressed in red came into a training room aka my love cave :) at Spectramind the company I joined. I saw her, closed my eyes and fell in love.

Have no regrets of the decision in fact feel am luckiest soul on mother earth..

God Bless Mr Raman Roy.. he might have given the world the BPO boom .. to me he gave me meaning at life and also made me meet the mom of our would be children ;)

Take a flower in your hand .. and kiss the girl on the bus stand ..
Dont be afraid to fall in love.. it wont hurt you .. may ask for some adjustments .. u need to get used to saying .. the two beautiful words "Yes Dear".

On a more serious and sentimental note i believe very passionately that.. Love takes care of you by holding you in its palms and has the power so large that it can make you rise to the stars!

Thanks chinks ! love u sweetie !

Love all!
God bless !!

* this is blog is dedicated to her.. in case you are my friend or relative saying hey .. i thought u loved us too!! i do dear .. i love you all a lot.. Life is incomplete without you ... but that doesnt mean i would kiss you on valentino would I ;) ...

;) = a wink
:D = a laugh
( a few of my friends asked me what these signs were .. just clarifying :D )

Up.. Up.. and Awaaaaaayyyyyy!!

I had fascinated air travel ever since I was born. The sight of a plane lifting up in the air made me wish and wait eagerly for the day when I set my foot off the ground.

Thanks to the software industry and partially to air deccan for its poor man fares I recently got my chance. I had a nice chat with a member of the airport security while waiting for my plane to arrive. Thanks to him i now know on what not to do while at the airport. He pointed out don’t try to be funny with the security staff cause we don’t carry our sense of humor to duty! Scary but true.

The flight- well it was ok .. Very little legroom for the tall legs i carry, disgusting food, however a very good deal as compared to the 36hrs journey, air travel at speeds of 900kms/h took me home in 2.5hrs in about the same money! Happy for myself.

Everything said and done it was a nice flight, though was late by around 2.5 hrs, which was due to bad weather at my beloved hometown. It was freezing when I did land. and I was prepared all wrapped up in my jacket! There weren't people waiting with garlands though surely had my beloveds waiting with their hugs!

By the way this travel was to attend my brothers marriage…
Line clear for me now! And all systems are now on standby!

cheers !!