Wednesday, August 02, 2006

lovely day

Having to access through another domain again. Seriously, you'd wish people would grow up.
What hap. in life since last post?
Pirates of the Caribbean, all four of us
brother's (cousin's, to be technically correct) marriage
reading Peter Pan
buying Orhan Pamuk for brother (salivating over books at Landmark, thinking longingly about potential employment)

office er pa maraini for two days.

That's what.

Ain't life JUST great?

Wondering, whether should go ahead and write explicitly about each.

A sentence, I think.

Johnny Depp is unspeakably sexy.
today was the day of brother's marriage when the wife comes to her new home for the first time. Having been the only one among the cousins to've known her when he hadn't spoken about her to the family, I felt rather privileged for a while. She's as nice as she had seemed that day. And again, I was kinda surprised when I saw how nice they were with each other. Not cynical, not jaded. And how kind my brother was with people. Y'know, kind, just humane. I thought he'd changed over the last few years. I still think he has. Yet he was so nice today. And I LOVED it in the end.
He's the first of the next lot to get married. Thakuma saw her grandson getting married. Quite something.
We do bicker in quite disgusting ways that I don't care for, us relatives, I mean. But sometimes it all turns out right. This time, I think it was for the obvious happiness of the people concerned.
Though I wouldn't care for all of that myself. The rituals, I mean. But then, as the friend says, you never quite khow what may happen. I don't mean that like a bolt from the blue I'll develop this unfathomable love for the traditional way of getting married, but that I might come around it in ways I never thought I would.

I am quite elated with the day.

3 comments:

olidhar said...

u have a wise friend.
and do give some thought to the idea of learning the sanskrit. makes things simpler, i should think.

At a loss for a blogger handle said...

shala, i would that you didnt say a thing

olidhar said...

hmph!