Or rather, My Sister’s Big Fat Assamese-Gujarati Wedding.
I am in Baroda now, somewhere in the suburbs, and the temperature is almost Hyderabadi – sunny days and breezy, slightly nippy nights. The reason why I am here, along with 20-odd members of my Evil Clan, is of course, my sister’s wedding. It’s on the First.
The last couple of days have been a flurry of travel schedules – I was in Chennai for the Odyssey Quiz, which kicked ass. Mine. Then boarded a bus the same night to Hosur, and then changed buses to reach Bangalore. ( My advice: Never trust a Travel Agency named Muskaan Travels. The Muskaan refers to the grimace on your face that has frozen during the night, unable to withstand the icy wind raging inside through the windows of the bus. The windows are all single-panes of glass, designed in a way as to reduce inter-passenger confrontation about whether to leave them open or shut)
Anyways, Happy News A: I had won a bid for a batch of 48 Swamp Thing comics on eBay. Hooray!
Happy News B: Arul (Mani, the Man They Call God ) gave me four cds packed with CBR and CBZ files, notably the complete Groo comics by Sergio Aragones, and Sandman 1-75. Hooray!
Happy News C: Yesterday, I met
Of course, with all these Happy Things happening, the Law of Averages needed to catch up – and it did.
*sigh*
My Evil Relatives.
You know what? I have a weird family. We can collectively give the Kaurava-Pandava fracas a resounding snub. I mean, look at it this way, the Mahabharata is just 100 guys against 5 guys, and the rest of them folks in the Multi-Episode Epic were pretty clear about their priorities – they either join the hundred guys, or bet on the underdogs. My Family on the other hand is an ever-changing entity of a number of factions, and you never know who’s in which. So you have cases like A talking to B about C and D, and then A goes to C and badmouthing D and E, and by that time, B and C have decided to give E the cold shoulder.
It’s been a night and a morning since the twenty-odd folks got together, and I feel fagged out already. Sheesh.
I have good things to look forward to. Notably, the bunch of Gotham comics I bought in bangalore. Ultimate X-Men, here I come!
There might be words of dissent about me being a spoilsport and a wet blanket, ,but hey, I am here to enjoy myself. And that’s precisely what I will be doing. My sister’s enjoying herself too, visiting Beauty Parlours and all. My parents have been doing things since morning that I can’t make any sense out of, and I choose not to.
A points to B B to C C to D and D to A …. or so they say…
have fun!
Trying to – it’s just that too many people screaming nonsense all at the same time makes me queasy. :-P
Well, as long as you don’t go switching factions ……
A, B, C – seems happiness enough to me :-) !!
And may your sister have a memorable wedding.
She’s enjoying herself, that’s for sure!
Are they the Alan Moore Swamp Things? Because you’re in for a treat if they are. Some of the very, very best comics ever.
They are! The first 45 (Saga of the) Swamp Thing issues – and three annuals. You know why I was “encouraged” to buy them? I read a borrowed Trade of the first Alan Moore issues (21-25) and ….well, that’s another story.
I actually go around in the blog-world by that name. And it was great chancing upon your blog through random wandering on the net. I just needed to thank you for the Grrrrrreat MELA quiz at Nihilanth, it was the best….actually I was on the net myself preparing a quiz I have to conduct at my college…btw, I was in the IITD team that was 2nd in that quiz. If you bother to take out time from your interesting family (mis)adventures, my blogsite is http://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com ….and of course, best wishes to your sister.
Hey, thanks for the good wishes. :) Visited your blog, Very cool!
ur lil sister is getting married?????? and u didn’t even invite me???
Fuck u!
That userpic so rocks!
i know!.. i had a hard time searching it…
You actually have time to search for freakin’ userpics??? Man!!
I have time for everything these days!… *starts cleaning toe nails*
Yeah! Like you were gonna take the next chartered plane to Gujarat and chomp on dhoklas.
Save your money for my wedding, dumdum!
who’s gonna marry a Ghoul?
Someone who does not look like that userpic.
Enjoy the wedding and snub the Evil Relatives back I say…
I’m as far away from mine as possible and this ME LIKES!! :D
Congratulations to your sis on her wedding.
Cheers,
Sarika.