10 Years and going strong......

9th June, 2006
A Decade has gone by since……since 9th June, 1996…..the day the prettiest lady that has ever set foot on earth united with the most eligible bachelor for decades to come…in Holy Matrimony…..

Marriage, the most sanctimonious of relations that man has ever INVENTED for himself….
Marriage marks the rebirth of a boy as a MAN and that of a girl as a WOMAN….
It marks the beginning of “rest of the life” for each other…
Marriage… an institution where unfathomed love, dissolved in distilled- pure commitment, flavoured with trust, romance, petty quarrels and such similar spices of life, forms the very base ….

Well today they complete 10 years of married life…10 years of togetherness…

At the age of 2* (twenties…. u r not supposed to reveal a lady’s age…Basic manners) … she was this pretty charming angel... sweetheart of a whole college (her dad had a tough time taking care of all those guys who happened to be truly madly deeply in love with her)….Miss popular of an entire city(oh!! U r HER brother???)… dancer (started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of 3….)… singer (well with the most enchanting voice)…. engineer (she managed to get hold of that degree somehow)…what not she was???

At the same time….He was the most eligible bachelor…. An engineer ( he too was…ghosh… there’s something bout these engineering colleges…these days love stories always seem to have an engg college somewhere in the script)….ok back to our hero…God had gifted him with one of those only for one in a million kind of brains….its kind of filled with grey matter to the brim….god seemed to like our hero a bit too much..so he gifted him with smartness, a handsome face, great Culinary skills(his Biriyanis are lip smacking)..and lots of other goody goody stuff…. God even sent him to The US of A for a Masters Degree….As a result of this, the grey matter in his head started overflowing…..so to prevent this overflow…he let some of the Grey Matter flow out through his mouth into the heads of some poor little Indian engineering students who had till then been deprived of Such Matter…..

Oh!! Did I just hear someone utter a “I have heard this story before”…..
Ok don’t mistake this to be a typical…Tamil / Telugu College Prof – Student Love story....because it simply is not…
Because the hero nor the heroine had to run away from home
Because the hero wasn’t Christian nor the heroine Muslim
Because the heroine’s brothers never had to beat up the hero
Because both the parents gave their blessings for the marriage without any filmy melodrama….

And so on 9-6-96 ,…. (9.6.9.6…..they had a car with the same registration number),….she became his wedded wife FOREVER….recently he told us that before marriage he used to think as to why its necessary that we need to spend our lives with just a single person….cant we marry another when we get bored….so we asked him..”and now have your thoughts changed cheta???”...”no comments….” he replied….

And so the new couple started their lives with great Zest and Zeal….too much Zest and they became hungry ….so as per the great Indian tradition….
SHE started cooking…..and guess what….HE realised why God had given him Culinary skills….,marriages are definitely made in heaven….He cooks till date….but in 10 years she too has become a great cook…their marriage…there’s magic in it…(atleast it taught her to cook….)

They were happy with each other….they loved each other….. but then….Honeymoon period ends some day….its strange how these petty quarrels creep into a married life…
Her birthday….he called her up every 2 hours from office to reveal gifts hidden in the many nooks and corners of the house…..they were happy…(he still does similar stunts…so they still are happy)…..but one night he just took off to the beach all alone…she was there crying at home{was it because he didn’t take her along…I never knew.. I wasn’t married… I still don’t…cause I still am not married}…but he came back……(maybe because these police guys never let people sit idle on the beach at nights)

but then that’s the beauty of marriage….u quarrel with your love….and after a while you just realize how much he or she is a part of you…and love n life go on…..Theirs went on..

To add to the existing beauty of marriage…they are now blessed with two kids{man !! babysitting those two seems to be my prime occupation these days….Serve the Nation..Serve its kids…}….The kids have added a whole new dimension and meaning to their being together…its beautiful…..their married life and all that surrounds it…

They have told me a lot about life…rather taught me…. How a marriage works out…how that eternal bonding and understanding is developed…about mutual respect for each other….willingness to adjust….and lots more…..

Guess, I don’t want to get married!!!! (they taught me right???/ ;-) )


Dearest chetan and chechu.….Happy Wedding Anniversary…..