Naya ghar!! Nayi gaadi!! Nayi _______!!!

We are all used to fill in the blanks type questions, and the title is an easy one to answer. But seriously, all these days I have been fighting a battle which I am really not supposed to be part of . As you must have guessed already , it was very difficult for me to stop myself from sending hate mail to Asian paints for the ad they once used. Not that people would not ask the question otherwise, but because I have heard the exact same question (*note the emphasis*) from a gazillion people, I feel that this ad has given a new vocabulary (the closest example I can give is a little techy; design patterns as a vocabulary to communicate design..huh). In short "wise" junta has been quizzing me with the same question.."shaadi *kab* karoge? kompuuter engineer ho, 1 saal exp bhi hogaya hai ! ab kyun intezaar hai? " Well most people in this "wise" junta are from the older generations in my relatives, who are ready to attempt to understand a new algorithm to figure out the next largest prime number but not reason for any more delay in my marriage.

To add "visual effects" to my problems..I have had to attend 7 marriages of relatives and "relatives of relatives" (u know what I mean!!), 4 of which were in the second week of august. I always found marriage functions boring except for food. Biryani is what makes hyderabad famous , and the real metric is the meat to rice ratio i.e between numbers of kgs of meat and number of kgs of rice (2 gosha biryani is common for example).

For those who have not been to traditional hyderabadi marriages they are all non-veg except water and desserts, occassions where you get to see the effect of what I call special biryani eating skills. Its like the moment biryani is served on the table, a brisk hand movement would reduce the meat to rice ratio of the serving dish from 2+ to a small fraction. And you should not be surprised to find the hand to be of the old guy who needed help to walk to the dinner table!

Because I think I am dieting and because I think I have lost some weight , the eating part is not attractive anymore. I am still trying to figure out if I was anything more than a car driver with additional but useless IT skills!
However , I am Happy that my parents are not showing any solidarity with the "wisdom" group. Hope they do not get anymore wise for another few years or perhaps until wisdom reins upon me!!