I do!!!

I do!!!

2 words that men dream and later dread.

Little did I know that the day would dawn, but when it finally did, I was in an intangible cauldron of emotions. As I walked down the aisle, a niggling voice from within asked me to turn back and run. Having weighed my options much in advance, I knew that the voice could mean nothing more than the last minute jitters.

Looking around, I could see people on either side smiling cynically. To them I must have looked like a goat well on its way to the slaughter house, but then there are times in life when all you can do is smile, and look like a fool, and I guess it was my turn to do just that.

Still struggling to cope with sanity, I staggered my “last few steps”. If there was one thing that I wanted to do that instant, it would’ve been to make a documentary on my own life and watch it, because everything had been and felt so beautiful till that very moment.

But, reality struck and it wasn’t long before my “last rites” were read out.

This was it, the time had arrived, I was on the threshold of doing something I never thought I could. I shut my eyes for the proverbial last breath.

Just as I thought it was all over, I felt a tender hand on my shoulder and a question that couldn’t have come at a worse time.

“Do you want to take me?”

Startled, I opened my eyes, and there she stood, clad in the prettiest of pink, and for a moment I wondered if I was crazy. Who would say “NO” to such a PYT.(pretty,young thing)

But ……..

I had heard her wrong.

She meant, “Do you want me to make tea”

And for the first time in my life, at 30,000 feet above the sea level I said those magical words..”I Do”!!

Orville and Wilbur Wright, thank you for the greatest invention ever!!

The night before!!!

An amateur attempt at barding! Though I know the attempt is pretty shoddy, its just a weird idea that cropped up and I tried churning a poem out of it!!

There's a little explanation that I have given at the end of the poem....

The night before

Eclectic feelings engulf every part of me,
As I embark on this crucial moment of my destiny,
Will the road ahead be what dreams were made of?
Will it give the world a reason to scoff?

To this moment life safely meanders
I live my life, my own terms
But now, with the sun a new life will rise
A life of hope, devoid of pain and cries.

Bedlam reigns as the night wanes
Thoughts take me to elevated planes
AsTomorrow the whole world will change and wake up to see
I transition slowly from me to we

Reassurance affirms life changes a little
Angels dodder their way into hearts and minds,
Slowly I will discover the reason to be
And Eclectic feelings will engulf every part of me!!



Lines 1 and 3 of every stanza is(or shud i say is supposed to mean) basically what the bride feels and lines 2 and 4 is what the groom feels.While the bride is more concerned abt her family and the safetyof home, the groom thinks more about worldly pleasures and his friends, and worries that marriage will curb his freedom. But ultimately he feels that the meaning of life is completed only when he has kids and becomes a parent himself

The poem ends on the same note that it begins(with the bride) only meaning to say that it takes a while(quite a while!!) for a guy to begin thinking like a girl

I've tried using metaphors like "elevated plain" and "reassurance" afterall whats the point in writing a poem without showing off???;-)

The mean median????

221880, that is approximately the number of hours I have lived to the day this blog was created.


I still remember the first day at school where I cried the moment i stepped into the classroom, which later turned into some sort of an ugly dirge when i saw my parents peeping through the window hoping to catch a glimpse of me. The first time I did well in school(dint last long though), the first "look", the times I spent with gp, college life, bangalore days, delhi nights, to this sunday evening in Singapore,life has come a long way.


As I blog my life in retrospect and look at the future optimistically, I feel I have reached a twilight patch in my life, a patch that separates the "should have's" and the "should be's". And that is exactly why my blog got its name "The mean median"

This blogspot is just my space on the web, about things that make me laugh, think, cry, puke, celebrate, romance, fascinate, fantasize etc etc. In short just about anything under the sun.

By the way, have you ever wondered what the following combination gives?

Loneliness + a boring movie + a low key sunday+ 2 shots of vodka

The answer is : The birth of "The mean median"

There you go: My first blog on the net!!!!