Jeeves Around?

Not sure if others tend to agree, but I experience it more often than not. So often the words which just flow out of my mouth just fail to figure when I make vigorous efforts to recall the same. Especially when there is no dictionary at hand or no access to internet or no assistant like Jeeves (of Wooster-Jeeves fame of P.G.Wodehouse creations) to help recall, the feeling just kills by drilling and tricking the brain!! It feels sickly to realise that you are one word short of the already measly vocabulory you own! What of the effort gone into learning the word sometime back that doesn't come back to picture when wanted to?! Same was the case with a word that I could only recall it started with a 'P' and was relatively big one, a word I had used considerably frequently, a word that I had seen in the first paragraph of the latest article that I had read. In fact, hundred and one tips or pointers to the word but for the word I could recall.

On a Monday morning, when I was feeling blue and sad for some vague reasons, that word tricking me for a couple of days flashes to my mind, out of the blue. "PROVIDENCE" was what I wanted to recall, recall I did but not when I wanted to. There is a saying in kannada, "Sankata bandaaga Venkataramana", which crudely translates to "When in trouble, we are reminded of God". Looked like nothing but monday blues and depression could churn the name of God out of my mind!
"Sankata bandaaga Venkataramana". Hence Proved!!

Moments celebrated!!

They saw each other, at once wished to be together for eternity and the rest is history. A history not too old, yet old enough to seek the sort of attention that a history can afford to. Happy Anniversary to the couple and to the history that has bundled in itself all the memories that bloomed along the path. The memories of the hearty laughs, petty fights, cold wars, heated arguments, graceful agreements, love, friendship, sharing-caring, bike rides (of course the bruised feet and knee after those dual trips), car drives, gifts (of course, the ones that were accepted out of compulsion too), Filet-o-fish burgers at McDonalds, hours spent on shopping in the malls, most of time not ending up with anything but fatigue, burnt fingers at the kitchen and what not!
Cheers to the journey!!

A journey that started as follows…
When a girl of marriageable age got hold of a snap capturing an eligible bachelor who was as handsome as handsome could get, wouldn’t she be on cloud nine? Most certainly, she was!

First Impression!!

When she met him a couple of days later, she did realize that the snap hadn’t done complete justice to him, who appeared more handsome in those blue jeans and grey T-shirt, friendly, down-to-earth and amicable. Instant consent. Period.

An era of endless phone calls and smses, mails and rendezvous now and then, alarmed the parents of what task was ahead of them. Engagement followed. Exchange of vows, rings and those hide-and-seek glances overpowering the staring audience.

(You didn't have to sweat,dude!!)

Days went by in a flicker, love intensified, phone calls that were endless however, turned to be their endless-best( only to be concluded with a currency expiry or battery dip) .It was time to rack brains to get the right content and design for the wedding card.



Did I mention of the poems that they wrote and exchanged?? Well, how could they be missed?






She wrote...


Uncommon Stranger


The Dawn


I said...


And he wasn't any less either!!

The gentle breeze played with her locks


Gently whispering in her ears


The lady in white,


A fairy on a moonless night


The moon could only muster an envious smile


A gentle smile blossomed on her face


Her eyes searched a part of her in me


With a hint of mischief, they seem to ask


Are you the one?


Between the silenceI heard the sweet melody,


Not violins, but the sweet melody of silence


I knelt before the fairy,


as she looked upon me with her charming eyes


I asked, "Will you marry me?"


(He probably has no faint hope that she could be treasuring this priceless gesture yet!!)

Wedding ensued. Amidst the blessings of thousands of well-wishers, they entered the wedlock to be the man and wife. Indeed a wedding of sorts it was that bound the souls that were meant to be ‘we’. And thus continued the journey, this time hand in hand.

Today, they are at a year’s milestone with all the charm of newly-weds yet, just the change being the ‘healthy’ competition to burn those alarmingly rising calories!! Yeah, the journey has been such a smooth sail that bubbly couple has turned chubby couple, bubbly yet though!!

Bubbly couple

Chubby-bubbly couple

Even for a smart wife (Ahem!) it is no doubt a challenge to think of a gift to her man, a gift that is not a gadget that he already owns, a shirt or other accessories that could possibly impress him. She gives up on thinking for a ‘surprise gift’, in effect, keeping him from being gifted something unexciting and herself from shelling out bucks to buy something exciting only to herself and supposedly not to the recipient!! In fact, he would be pleasantly surprised to know that she has not bought a gift for him, so to say!!! By the way,weren't those innumerable scratches on her mobile good enough (rather, bad enough) that he had to register one from his side too by dropping that poor thing? Well, this time, it shall be excused. Now, that's a surprise, isn't it? Not often do wives excuse husbands,do they? Surprise! Surprise!Surprise! Gosh!! she is working so hard to surprise him! Ok, one last attempt, she promises to clean the clutter in the room too!! Hopefully, at least the last one does the 'surprise' trick!

What other mode than a blog post could a software engineer wife think of to wish a software engineer husband on their anniversary?

Raghu, it goes to you, my honey. Thanks a lot for all the love and friendship that you have bestowed upon me. Thanks a lot for the wonderful person that you are. Ummmaaaaaaaaaah ;)