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!
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
The fun things in life even out after marriage. Perhaps it is the commitment. Some call it baggage. Last evening…Rekha and I visited a gynecologist. It was quite an experience. She has been asking me to take her to a gynecologist for a month. I was postponing the meeting…perhaps because I couldn`t find a male … Read more
Kennedi who writes at www.askenni.com has revealed his two wives. He managed to keep it a secret for eight years…but yesterday his 2nd wife read the post and found out the truth. As I always say, those that cheat…can`t eat. Today Kennedi has been thrown out of the house…and even as I write he is … Read more
Rekha and I have suddenly become interested in babies. Perhaps, we don`t make enough noise at home…I stick to my Newsweek and she to her Star Dust. Maybe, we need somebody to trouble the neighbors living downstairs…by dropping the TV remote or the rattle or the plastic car. I remember, Rekha trying to sell me … Read more
You don`t marry a girl. You marry her relatives. While some agree that that marriage is the fastest way of transferring funds or bringing in a change of management, I believe that it is the quickest way to insanity. I recently visited Bangalore for I was invited to a marriage in Rekha`s family. Being a … Read more
I once attended a marriage in Rekha`s family. Today morning I was thinking about it…and wondered if you would be interested in knowing what some popular men/women have said about ‘madness and therapy`. What I say of ‘madness and therapy,` ie, how the marriage went …will be the next post. We are all born mad. … Read more