My sister’s getting slightly terrified. She was about to get married in May next year – right after her graduation – to this nice Gujarati chap, and all was well with her world. Suddenly this pandit crawls out of the woodwork and tells Prashant’s (Prashant being the nice Gujarati chap in question, my future brother-in-law ) parents that their son must get married before March 2004 or be damned for eternity.
Hmm.
Did I say my sister’s slightly terrified? Actually she was pretty much hysterical the last time we talked on the phone, which was last night. She has her final exams coming up in March. She says her friends will call her “auntyji” before she passes out of her institute and that will traumatize her for life. I believe some of her hysterics also stemmed from the fact that I was cackling loudly into the phone, and she was trying to appeal to my brotherly sentiments by making comments like – “Yes yes, you are very happy, aren’t you? No sister around to interfere in whatever you do in your life.” – to which I would say “Oh YEAH bay-bee!” and giggle some more.
Hmm. But this is somewhat worrying. My kid sister, three years younger than myself, about to get married in two months. Seems like yesterday when she was saying things like – “Boyfriends??? Guys??YUCK!!!!” over dinner table conversations. How time flies, and all that jive.
I have arrived at that famous Library level in Halo, the one with the all-out alien-bug-stomping sequences. And I seem to be holding out quite well. It’s actually the kind of mindless shoot-em-kill-em-ooh-here-they-come-again-shoot-em-again-kill-em-again stuff I like. Good for sinuses.
Did I say sinuses?
Finished Orson Scott Card’s Seventh Son: Book 1 of the Alvin Maker series. Very good storytelling. I can’t wait to read Speaker for the Dead – which is Book 2 of the Ender series, and which my roommate, Rishi, has oh-so-kindly bought, inspite of the fact that he didn’t like the original Ender’s Game story.
I got the Warriors of Heaven and Earth audio cd! Whoopee! The only thing is – these morons at Sony Classical put in a Hindi version of the Warriors in Peace song, by Sadhana Sargam. I so wanted to listen to the Chinese version by Jolin Tsai. *sigh*
Tip of the day: Any comic strip with the name Sh*thouse has got to be good.
Rather early, what?
If your sister is getting married in her early twenties, i hope she’s very, very sure of what she’s doing. Good luck to her :-)
Re: Rather early, what?
oh, she’s pretty much cool about it. They were formally engaged last year, and seems she has mellowed down quite a bit from her Mutant days. ;-)
That’s good – it’s just that few of us know ourselves very well at such a young age. I’ve seen plenty of cases where people get married very early, only to find themselves vastly changed in divergent directions by their mid to late twenties.
No, not being a prophet of doom :-)
Solution: Meet that Pandit. Persuade him to go tell ur future-b-i-l’s parents “Oops, did I say 2004? I meant 2005!!” … (make him an offer he can’t refuse ;-)
I don’t think any pandit was involved for fixing the date of my wedding. Two factors were taken into consideration…during Easter hols ( so that my brother can fly down from UK) and on a weekend. :-) The only condition I put was insisting that it will definitely NOT be 1st of April. :-D
Meet that Pandit.
Who, me???? ahahahahaha. i would rather sit back and plan for world domination. ;-)
Sounds like what happened to my sister, who just HAD to marry before July 1997. Damn Astrologers, not one is going to come within a continent of my marriage.
Sh*thouse is pathetic, repetitive and grossly unimaginative. Some sh*thead is making money by putting on airs. Here today, obliterated tomorrow. Thanks for spaaming my mailbox, though.
Get married, bozo.
pathetic, repetitive and grossly unimaginative.
It’s less pathetic, less repetitive, more imaginative and far funnier than the comic strip referred to the subject line of my mail. ;-)
Nobody is making any money, it’s available for free at the website i linked to in my post. As for putting on airs, I wouldn’t be qualified enough to comment on that. You would know better, so i agree, someone is putting on airs. :-D
Sorry about the mailbox. Won’t happen again.
Get married, bozo.
After you, sire.:)
I’m gonna steer clear of the sister-getting-married part… I have a younger sister, and when the time comes, I’m a gonna shit my pants. Marriages scare me.
Um, I bought the Warriors soundtrack this weekend too! Theres a Hindi version and an english version of Warriors in Peace.. but nary a song by Jolin Tsai.. sucks I know. But still pretty cool nevertheless.
Yeps. Cool, definitely. On the brighter side, people from Malaysia and other ARR-loving countries are highly enthu about the Hindi song, rather than the chinese one. sadhna sargam has done a great job.
My very bright loving dear mother sought advice from *two* different *pundits* about *poor little* me.
The bong one prophesized: “Late marriage- 30”
U.P. one said: “Early marriage- 21”
Mommy said: Stupid old fools
Mons said: I love you Mom!
I think you should look at 21 and 30 in terms of upper and lower limits. ;-)
Ah! i dont do math anymore :p Integration is not my forte. On second thoughts it is :D will give it a try…
u mean getting married is an integral part of your life? :-P
Yups….How else do you think the next yuga will be born silly? Not that it cant happen otherwise but whatever :D