I always wanted to get back to this blog but the sheer fact that my last blog was in 2010 made me procrastinate a bit longer. I was afraid to see the date on my last post. So much has happened in so little time. Life has seen some important changes while still has remained more or less the same - although I must say, it's wonderful to have someone in it.
I am almost more than a month into my marriage, forgot the one-month anniversary (ya! you need to set up that reminder on phone - if you tend to forget a lot like me). It was one of the happiest moments of my life, my parents' lives and everyone around me had so much fun. Although my ancestral customs forbid the bride and groom to have a lot of fun by making us fast till the end - by the time we get to eat, all our apetite is gone and we wish we could sleep. But that one day, you wish it never ends. Sukhada looked awesome. Needless to say, her reception pics at Mumbai were the best I have seen to date. Photographers in Mumbai are 100% better than what we had at our place.
Rewinding a little bit, it is now two and half years in Bloomberg. Going strong and going good. I hope I can keep going some more. Things around me has changed. People are gone. New ones in. Subhendu & Chhavi still around in US :). I have spared very little thoughts about my office life in the last year. Mostly, it has been like keeping myself alive and awake.
I met Sukhada, fell in love, proposed, waited, felt the world slip away under my feet when she said yes, told near and dear ones and everything in between. There were multiple American Airlines and US Airways tickets made without the miles# before we realized - we need to make sure we have an account with every airline. Travel between New York and St. Louis was a bi-weekly thing (It still is, though sometimes monthly). The biggest fear was when our parents met and everything was sorted out without our presence. We were kept in dark for 2 days when all this was decided and we wondered what might be happenning. As it happened in December, I was given a 6 months deadline. I had given a 3 Year project estimate. Of course, I should have known - neither it was realistic, nor it would have been approved. Marriage date (after panditji made some mistakes citing the bengali calendar vs the oriya calendar) was fixed.
Every thing related to marriage - www.sukhada.in
I did not have so much fun in years. So much so that - now I want to go to India every year. I don't know what happened to me. I did not go for 3 straight years since coming to US. But it felt the best this time around. May be I was given the VVIP treatment. But it was great I could meet so many near & dear ones. Both sides.
Since December, days passed by like minutes. With Sukhada on top of my head with the trigger - I am usually lazy at doing things (Please consider my 3 Years Estimate). We managed to do a lot of things. Skipped some. Forgot a lot too. All in all - it was a total celebration. A momentous one.
Marriage ofcourse did not change anything except that Sukhada's surname is yet to change officially to Mishra. If it has changed anything - it makes me feel rich when I see the gold ring on my left hand :P. Sukhada is lovely more than ever before.
Now, that the jinx and fear has been taken off of my shoulders, I should come back here more frequently. Recently got a git username and plan to start participatng in stackoverflow. Picked up Code Complete to brush up my coding skills but returned it in 2 days - it has too much words & lot less actual stuff.
This has been typed while I am waiting for my food to be delivered. Sukhada just completed driving 100 miles to St Louis Airport and is going to board the flight in next 30 minutes. I am going to pick her up at the airport. She is coming to NY tonight.
