My Best Friend’s Wedding I

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12/11/2010, Friday

I have known her since my 9th standard. In fact, when I joined Chettinad Vidyashram, she was the first girl I had befriended. It was really amazing to see her getting married to the guy of her choice. But I guess, she still hasn't changed, at least not towards me and my perception. 


The reception was held on the 11th evening at the sai baba temple, at injambakkam. For the ones with lesser sense of direction, that's on the East Coast Road in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The guy (Satish, who also happened to be her college senior) was in a suit, which felt kind of weird seeing all the males from both the girl's and the guy's family in suits. I mean, it's Chennai, its summer almost throughout the year, and these guys were in suits, which literally takes the life out of me. Geethu was in a pink sari and looking radiant. Well, from our school the only other person that had come was Ravindranath. He is an ex NCC maniac from school and a really good friend as well. He was there to give me the required company.


The marriage was the morning of the next day. In fact, it was at supposed to be at 6:30 in the morning. Well, I am not that early a raiser and to be there by 6:30 I need to have got up by 5:30, which I am proud to say I couldn't, keeping up with my tradition, of still being a late raiser, alive. Neways, after a small fuss about what dress I should get into I finally left the house at around 6:16, and still managed to reach there by 6:30 (Don't ask how fast I was driving; trust me you don't want to know). Well, the marriage hadn't started yet. The functions for the guy had started, and it was really different. One, of the rituals was of sending the guy to Kashi and bringing him back. Rest assured it didn't really involve sending him, just an assumption that he goes on a journey.


Then we went and got the girl, well, technically am from the girl's side since am her best friend. She had come in a golden yellow sari, looking totally stunning and beautiful, yet very silly at the same time. The rest of the ceremony was beautiful yet very confusing. The main thing being, the kettimelam was played around 6 times, which really confused me. In the normal marriages it would be played just once when the thali is actually being tied around the girl's neck by the buy.


Well, apart from all that, it was a really beautiful day and I wish her the happiest of days ahead, she deserves it, and more.



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Clueless

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I have been in contact with most of my friends and they all seem to know exactly what they are after. But when I think back about what exactly I would like to do with my life, I am totally clueless, not having a goal in life. Kind of makes me empathise with the character of Hrithik Roshan in the movie 'Lakshya'.

The fact is I have no idea what I would like to do with my life. This includes my career as well. I love to stand out, but currently I just seem to be going with the flow and having not much of a say in the whole incident. Take my transfer for example. I have applied to Chennai for transfer. 

(Q). Why did I do that? (A). I want to go Chennai. 
(Q). Will it help me career? (A). It might, I have no idea.

Take my blog entry as well. These days I am clueless about what to pen down, as well. I better get into track pretty soon...

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