Both my family & my in-laws are from small towns. Reason enough for them & their actions to be funny. Here I exaggerate their ignorance and bliss and come up with funny incidents for city-dwellers like you to laugh at!
As usual, by afternoon I had to apologize and patch up. If you are married, you probably empathize with me. But if you aren`t you probably think I am a hen-pecked husband. Before I even start proving that I am not hen-pecked, let me tell you that being hen-pecked is not an easy task. Ask … Read more
I was born by Caesarian. You can`t usually tell, but whenever I go out of the house, I take the window. – Steven Martin Today, I was telling my Reporting Manager (I use the word because it sounds less sinister than ‘boss`) that I wanted to have a baby. I mean not deliver…but be the … Read more
Currently there are two (or too?) many twins in our family. One of our relatives – Sandhya from Rekha`s side -gave birth to boy twins a few days back. Wonder how she is going to manage. And today morning, I got a funny message from my younger sister – A sardar had twins, he named … Read more
Rekha and I went out to eat, last evening. It has been due for a while… I was so tired (had come back from office only at 8.00 p.m.) that now I don`t even remember the restaurant we went to. A tired me am a monster to handle. Rekha has learnt it the hard way; … Read more
It is 11.41 p.m. and I am just back after meeting an interesting couple from Rekha`s past. It was 8.00 p.m. and I had just walked into the house from office, when we got information that two college seniors of Rekha, who would eventually get married, were in Chennai and wanted to come home. At … Read more
Valentine`s Day went on well. For Rekha. The only problem is…for the next year`s Valentine`s Day I have set a certain level of expectation and will be forced to live up to it. If the rate at which Rekha`s expectations have ‘upped` over the last few years is any indication, on Valentine`s day in the … Read more
In three more days, it will be February 14 – the day all men dread. This will be my sixth Valentine`s day with Rekha (3rd after deciding to marry her) and I am already dreading the day. What will I do? How will I show her that I care? Even if I do spend some … Read more
It was the 31st of Dec 2005 – last day of the year. After celebrating five dawn-of-new-years (four during courtship and one after marriage) inside homes…we finally ventured out yesterday. I agree, it was fun. Dawn-of-the-new-year are occasions for people to do something special. Or a few like Rekha and I, it is an occasion … Read more