Happiness is a small, caring and loving family in the next town!

As of yesterday my flat is rented. I didn’t advertise or took any steps to get a tenent. The need is so much that someone approached me and it all went fast and quick. On Friday, he called and I went over to meet and discuss the terms. On Saturday, they moved in. Voila! quick and painless. Hopefully, I can forget about flat for sometime.

Some days are better than others and some are damn worse. Today falls in the latter category. I woke up with this feeling of being caught in a spiral of never-ending-never-happy roller-coaster. I’ve been feeling so for sometime now.

I went to office early to finish some pending job. I get annoyed when people can’t do their work. I was supposed to test few fixes. I had provided my comments earlier; but they were not taken care of. That set me in a foul mood in the early morning.

As an avalanche, one came after another and put me on a bad track. Yet, I managed to keep my cool towards people. I left earlier than usual (still worked longer than most of the others).

At home, I wanted to watch Friends and Mr. Bean to laugh a bit. But as (un)luck would have it, TV signal was so low that I couldn’t watch any channel at all.

So I getting to bed with a pissed off mind. Something tells me that, being pissed off is better than being pissed on. True right?

After months of persuasion, she agreed to buy a car. Going in a bike, tightly holding your sweetheart has a particular charm; but when one gets back pain regularly, it is time to consider romance on the move.

Even then, it is only a second-hand car since my BIL has to learn driving. He has strict orders to get the license quickly. Does he care? Oh! Well, I don’t think so. Now that my sister is in Delhi, he is full of football fever. He is sleeping only for 3-4 hrs daily (he says, he catches up with rest of sleep in the office! ). Once she is back (tomorrow), he might consider her words seriously.

I wrote already that due to market crash, I lost a good deal of money. Soon came price hike in gas. Obviously this increased prices of most of the commodities.

Already we were paying 12% service tax (in addition to whole lot of income tax, property tax, wealth tax and good heavens know what else) and 2% tax on taxes which is called something like ‘bloody’ educational cess. Now the political morons who wants to cash in on the exponential growth wants to add health and reservation cess on the taxes. That would make up 6% tax on taxes. As if this is not enough to piss off, they want to increase the taxes to 16%!

Few months back the banks increased the interest on home loans.

All of this is applicable only if you are stupid (like most of the educated and salaried folks) to deal with white money.

As of yesterday, I got a tenant for my flats! It is a good feeling, to have finally achieved it. The electrical items were fixed yesterday. This is only a temporary tenant, he has a flat in the same complex but it will be ready only after a month or so. So he wanted a place to stay until then.

Now that I got this done, I can concentrate on the next one – haven’t decided though what it would be: it could be immigration or it could be setting up my own firm.

It may be a day of the demons, but for FoG, it was a lucky one. After months of chasing the builder, I got most of the work completed and obtained the keys to the flat. Now I need to get electrical items and fix them. Though it was delayed for months, I’m glad I got it to this level.

Folks might be wondering, ‘where the hell is this newly married guy’. Well, I’m very much here, but occupied with…hm..well not with those things that I would like or what you would think.

I was running everywhere to set my home. Only when one gets out of the IT-world, they realise that even with all the hype of ‘Shining India Inc’, rest of India refuses to come up to speed. I had to travel for about 10 km to register for gas connection and it was not just a single day but three days. And when everybody knows (or at least that is the assumption), that IT guys keep moving, they ask for address proof, stability proof and this proof and that proof. By the time, I got all of that done, I was tired of my life…I told myself, boy it is too early to give up.

Then last week, we went to Coimbatore. We watched ‘Pudupettai’. My sister and BIL didn’t like the movie, but I enjoyed every bit of it. The director conceived every frame pretty well. The art, the color, the concept is all brilliant.

From Sunday, my wife is here. We were in my sister’s house on Sunday. We came to our flats on Monday. It has been good so far. I get a bed coffee in the morning. Then a good breakfast. I don’t take lunch from home. Again a good coffee when I am back home in the evening. And later a dinner. As you can see, our lives revolve around food. She is a typical Tamil girl, in that she thinks it is the duty of a wife to feed her husband and bare kids! I’ve tried to convince her that life is more than that. Let me see how far I can make her interested in other things. So far, our conversations end before it starts.

It has been a different week so far.

On 13th, I was treated to luxury. My sister sponsored a groom-package in a well known men’s parlor. I had hairdressing, massage, facial and sauna. Wow! what a treat.

In the evening we left to Coimbatore. Sunday went without much ado. We went to get some dress and I gifted sun-glasses to my sister and brother-in-law as my wedding gift. (My BIL broke his gift today)

On 15th, we were first to get to the registrar office, so everything finished pretty quickly. The party started around 18h30. Surprisingly,whole of my team had come. It was a pleasant surprise. The party was simple but nice.

What followed wasn’t that good. On Tuesday, we left to Tuticorin. I had traveled in that route for the past 15 years and never got any hiccups. This time was different. We were 12 folks. The bus broke down around 2 in the midnight. Somehow we got home.

After a day, we left back to Coimbatore. Since my wife (hm…this phrase sounds so different) had exams, we left her in her house and came back to Bangalore.

Another unpleasant event: I fell sick of throat infection, cold and fever. Since it went unbearable, I consulted a physician. It didn’t stop there. Share markets in India fell so much that I had lost a lot of money.

So a week after marriage, we are happily married – they are all happy and I stay married.

P.S: It is just a sarcastic look at the events. I am elated to be married. It is a different feeling to have someone to annoy for the rest of my life.

Oh God! I’m not able to comprehend what is happening and cannot explain how I feel. Sometimes, I feel elated and some other times, I wonder how the future is going to be. For most part of my adult life, I lived alone. Now suddenly if I’ve to share my space with someone else….pff, sometimes it is scary. Not scared for myself, but for her.

When I was leaving office, I was so overwhelmed by my feelings that I took a long walk before get into the car and drive home. I miss having someone to talk about my feelings in a honest way. Folks around me now jump immediately into judging mode that I keep everything to myself.

During the walk, I remembered the prayer that I like the most and recited it to myself.
Give me courage to change the things that I can
Give me serenity to accept the things that I can’t change
And give the wisdom to know the difference

That gave me a fresh breath of feeling.

Anyway, hope all goes well in the recent days and in the days to come.