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Attended the last wedding of the year (for me atleast) today. Nidhi (a classmate of mine) got married today. A bunch of us friends got together to attend the wedding. We got there at 8:30pm thanks to my leaving on time and very little traffic. The event was fun.

I got to meet a few classmates that I hadn’t seen for 10 years. Nidhi looked pretty. The food was great but it was freezing and as the wedding was in the open we squatted next to a heater and refused to move for most of the evening. We didn’t stay all the way till the wedding itself as they had delayed it a lot. The barat had come at ~10:30 pm but Nidhi only came out about 11:30 pm. It took her about 1/2 an hour to get to the stage for the Varmala and none of us had the courage to wait till the phere’s as it looked like it would take a lot of time for that to start. So we left at about 12:00 am. Nidhi was the first person I know who cried at their wedding.

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya

Christmas was fun. I spent the day just relaxing and at night I drove to Gurguan. Tarini had thrown a “small” get together at her place just for good friends and had invited me to attend. The drive to Gurguan was ok, even though I had to drop mom off at the mechanics I got there in 45 mins. Then it took me more than an hour to get to her place from there. The traffic was insane. It took me almost 45 mins to drive a 1 km stretch of road.

But when I finally got there it was fun. We had a bonfire on the roof along with a barbecue. A lot of people came and this was the first bonfire I attended where someone actually played the guitar. It was nice. Tarini cooked a bit. The food was surprisingly edible 😉

Got done at about 1 am, then crashed at Kangan and Gaurang’s place (Gaurang was also at the party) for the night. The next day we got up at about 10am, had breakfast and chatted with Kangan’s mom till about 12. Then drove to Gopinath market to select pics for Kangan and Gaurang’s wedding album. That took us till 4 pm. Then dropped off Kangan at work and me and Gaurang headed back to my place (with a stopover at Nehru place).

Over all a fun day/evening/day.

– Suramya

Today I attended my niece’s annual day with my cousins. Rakhi didi and Ritika picked me up from home at about 3pm and we drove to Greater Noida to attend the annual day. We were supposed to be there at 5 pm (latest by 5:30) but we got there at 4:10pm. The annual day was ok. I was telling my cousin that I hardly ever attended my own annual day but here I was attending my niece’s annual day. So she told me that that’s what Mama’s do…

The show got done at ~8:00pm and we drove back to Rakhi didi’s place and had pizza for dinner. Then we stayed up till almost 3 am talking. It was a fun visit.

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya

Went and watched Pushkin’s Last Poem today with Tarini and Rahul. It is based on the life of a Russian Poet called Aleksandr Pushkin. The play was directed by Bhaskar Ghose and hosted by the Yatrik Theatre.

The play was a bit long(~2 hours 15 mins). If they had cut it by 1/2 an hour it would have been great. The play was interesting and a lot better than what I had expected. I was prepared to fall asleep during the play if it got too boring but it never got to that point. I think it was worth spending the time and effort to go and watch it. Though I don’t think I want to watch it again. It was good but not that good. 😉

The cast of Pushkin’s Last Poem

– Suramya

This week I attended Gaurang’s wedding. The actual wedding was on the 8th but I was there from the 4th onwards (with a brief trip back on the 5th). I got there early in the morning on the 6th and then spent most of the day helping with the wedding preparations. Actually most of it was just receiving people and dropping them at the various messes. Also spent some time preparing the schedule and welcome package with Aunty and Uncle.

In the night Gaurang’s Cousins and friends had arrived so we spent a lot of time eating/drinking and talking. It was a lot of fun. I got a lot of good blackmail photos. We were regularly going to bed at ~4:30 – 5:00am. Thats why the mornings were usually a blur. 😉

On 7th it was the Sangeet which we had to attend in Gurguan. We were supposed to reach there at 6:30 pm but due to the late arrival of people and random delays we only managed to get there at 7:45 pm. We had hired two buses to get there as there were ~50 of us going. Once we got there all the tika’s an the puja’s etc happened. Kunal and his mausi made Gaurang eat one laddu each (the entire thing at once). After that his mom hid the Laddu packet otherwise everyone would have fed him one each.

Kangan looked nice. I took a lot of photos and videos (~1.1 GB) and this time for a surprise I have posted them online also. 🙂 Well, the video’s are not yet up as I still have to figure out how I want to handle it, but the pics are up.

After all the jazz was over everyone headed out to the dance floor which Kangan and Gaurang opened. We then danced till 11 pm after which Kangan and Gaurang had the last dance to a very slow song.

Got back to Delhi at 1 am, helped Gaurang a bit with packing and then crashed. At 4 am Viraj, Shantanu and the rest arrived so they woke the both of us up. So talked for a while before crashing at 5 am.

On the wedding day we made sure we were on time and got there at 5:30 pm as promised. It helped that we were staying a 5 min walk from the auditorium. The whole thing lasted till 11:00 – 11:30 pm and by 12 everyone was out. There was a bit of a mixup with the rooms as the road to the Infantry hostel was completely blocked off so five people couldn’t get to their rooms. They had to be adjusted in other rooms. So me and Gurunathan uncle spent some time to dropping people off in their rooms. After everyone was safely in their rooms me and Natasha left (I had promised to drop her off) and I made it home about 2 am.

Over all it was a great wedding. I enjoyed a lot. I could have filled a couple of pages with the stuff I did at the wedding but I am too lazy to type it all out. So you will have to be satisfied with this.

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya

Yesterday was Ankush’s wedding. Me and Gaurang drove to Subroto Park in the afternoon because I was planning to spend the night there with his parents after the wedding. We got there late in the afternoon and we did a bit of preparations for Gaurang’s wedding before we had to leave. Uncle had invitations to a Photography exhibition made by students of Light and Life Academy (I hope I am remembering the name correctly) as he was an ex-faculty/staff from the Academy. It was held in the Max Muller Bhavan in Delhi and the German Ambassador was the guest of honor. The photos these people took were amazing. I can only hope that my photos will someday come out as good. I did learn a few tricks I want to try sometime.

After that we headed to Ankush & Megha’s wedding. It was in the Air Force Auditorium in Subroto Park. It was a nice affair and the arrangements were great. A lot of our classmates made it to the wedding so I got to meet a lot of old friends. We were there till almost 12:30 am after which we headed back and crashed. Then Gaurang’s cousin Siddharth arrived at 1:30 am and we decided to continue the party. We were up till almost 4 am. It was great fun. Got some great blackmail photos. 😉

Well this is all for now. Need to get some sleep ’cause I will be back tomorrow to Subroto park for Gaurang’s wedding. (Actually make that today…)

– Suramya

It was my Birthday on the 3rd and I celebrated it with friends. Gaurang was staying over with me since the 1st so we both started the day (12 am) by watching Stargate Atlantis. Got a lot of calls from friends/relatives so didn’t get a lot of sleep. (Actually I didn’t get a lot of continuous sleep. ’cause I did end up sleeping till ~3 pm). We both then had lunch at 4 pm and we headed out to Gurgoan. We had decided to celebrate it over there because most of my friends are located there, and those who weren’t were attending Ankush’s engagement which was also on the same day.

We had decided to get dinner at Ruby Tuesday’s so we both got there ~6:30 pm and met up with Kangan who had been waiting for us to show up. Then Tarini and Kunal joined us. The dinner was a lot of fun. We were the loudest table in the place and we had a ball. The food was good and the company was better.

Group photo at my Birthday

Tarini had made a set of cushion covers for me for my birthday and they looked great. Gaurang got me some great chocolates which I haven’t tried yet. (They are on the to do list 😉 )

Tarini and Me posing with her gift

We then cut the cake after talking for a long time, and then we had to call it a day because it was a weekday and everyone had to goto work the next day. Plus it was a long drive back for me and Gaurang.

It was a fun birthday and I had a blast.

– Suramya

Its wedding season in India right now and its getting pretty tiring. In the past week I have attended two weddings and skipped out on two more. Next week I have to attend two weddings, one on the 4th (Ankush) and the second on the 8th (Gaurang). Ankush’s engagement/sangeet is on the 3rd and I will be attending that. It should be a lot of fun as I will get to meet old friends. Plus its a chance to enjoy with friends. I will also attend the wedding but during it Ankush will be pretty busy so the engagement will be a lot more fun as we can hang out with him also during it.

On 8th its Gaurang and Kangan’s wedding with the Sangeet on the 7th. I will be there for most of the day on both days helping out and meeting friends. So out of the 7 days in the next week I will be at some function or another for 4 days (maybe 5 days). Then a little break for a couple of weeks then the next batch starts.

The worse part of the season is the inevitable question that everyone asks “So when are you getting married?” I usually get that question about 5-10 times a night at one of these events. Especially at friends weddings where everyone assumes that just because ‘abc’ wanted to get married I should do the same.

Ahh well… well this is all for now. I am going to go catch up on all the sleep that I will be missing next week. So will post more later.

– Suramya

This Monday I lived through my third earth quake. This one was a relatively minor one (4.3 on the Richter scale) with its epicentre located near Delhi in Bahadurgarh. I was awake at that time as I was in the middle of a marathon coding session (which lasted ~13.5 hours) when I thought I hear some vibrations. So I took off my headset and listened. It sounded like a jet was flying by at high speed causing the windows to shake. (Having lived near a runway I have had some experience with it) but then I remembered that there was no airfield near this house so I guessed that it was an earthquake.

It didn’t look like it was a serious one so I didn’t try hiding under my table ;). Then I got back to work and forgot about it till dad asked me about it the next day. This was the third one that I have personally experienced. The first one was when I was in the 5th or 6th and it was a major one. Don’t really remember a lot about it as I slept through it.

The second one was in Jan of 2000 when I had gone to Uttarkashi for a mountaineering course. We were up in the mountains and I was dead tired after being made to walk for ~15 kms so I was sleeping when I felt the ground shake beneath me and I thought that someone was trying to wake me by shaking me. The others in the tent woke up and then tried to wake me up so that we could go outside. My response was “Wake me if something is about to fall on the tent..” 🙂 Atleast thats what the rest of the guys told me the next day. I did get to see an avalanche the next morning when the aftershocks hit.

In all I would rather avoid being in another earthquake. I am allergic to falling rocks.

Well this is all for now. Will post more later.

– Suramya