It is a sad moment.................

when you realise that you are dispensible for 99.9 per cent of the people who are dearer to you than your own life...

Trust Indian men to show their class!!

Picture this, US city, the hustle bustle of a post work day crowd returning home. I was standing at a crossing waiting for the light to turn green, when a taxi came and stopped next to me. A sardarji was driving it. Really, really old, santa-claus-esque beard, must be 70 plus. He caught me off-guard, as even though there is no dearth of Indian/Paki drivers in the US, in this particular part of the country I am used to seeing only affluent Indians. I was lost in my thoughts and suddenly that MOTHERFUCKER made an obscene kiss gesture....

Instant disgust, loathing and anger...I should have reacted in some other way, but I just walked on.

I should have...

I have been in the US for long time now, there have been sporadic catcall incidents, but thankfully nothing beyond that...

Trust Indian men to leave thier villages/cities/country and family behind....but never their crassness, their inherent uncouth animal mentality!!

And trust Indian women to behave like I did...Do nothing then like a dumb fuck and keep regretting later....

That I am a glutton?

I wonder what it tells you about yourself, if one of your ideas of HEAVEN is a chineese or thai buffet!!

10 things I like about being newly married!!!!!!!!

1. The thrill that runs down my spine every time I use the phrase ‘my husband’ in a sentence. I hope that thrill never goes away, though I am sure the newness will!

2. Of course, the warmth and the fuzziness I feel when talking about the ‘husband’.

3. You are looking at your husband (:-)) and how suddenly it strikes you WHAT a journey it has been and WHAT a journey it promises to be further ahead!!

4. Becoming the part of a new family. Getting a new set of Mom and Dad! Missing your father-in-law’s call and listening to his recorded message. “Beta, this is Papa, call back, we are waiting for your call”!

5. The material signs of being married: the choora (see pic), the mangalsutra (though always hidden in work clothes), the wedding ring!

6. The feeling that you can’t stay away from your husband/keep your hands off each other a second more than absolutely necessary and vice versa. Here’s hoping that never changes too!! (Do I see marriage veterans smirk??)

7. How in the first year post marriage, every festival is a BIG CELEBRATION!! Here’s looking forward to Holi!

8. The way strangers/acquaintances/ go “awwwwwwwwww” when they find out you are a newly wed and the million questions that follow. I don’t know about other women, but surely makes me feel special!!

9. AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaH!! Having the entire neighborhood and extended family OFF YOUR BACK about getting married before it’s “too late”…Bloody doomsday prophets!!

10. And on that note, the contentment that stems not from the feeling of being FINALLY MARRIED but from the feeling of being HAPPILY MARRIED. The knowledge that you could not have been more loved and neither could you have loved anymore!! Bliss.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Touchwood.