S's sister

Last weekend, sat..........mah best budd's sister's engagement was scheduled on oct second. BAM! News : Groom's grandmom is bedridden......chaos , nervousness all around. Reason :If there is a death in the family of either one, no celebration of any kind till the first death anniversary. Rules....
So S's family decide to visit their native and go to the temple of their 'home god' . Doesn't make sense eh? Mane devru. See? Example of literal translation n proof it's neva gonna work! lol!

He's on his way back as he had told our local gang of boyz that he will b back by sunday night...Sends a msg to a few (Exact msg here) saying "Hopefully...tomorrow will be the engagement of my sister...don't call me now..will reach home and call back...foot have any of the appointments tomorrow". Now boda(one in the gang, the body builder) was perlplexed wht he meant by the msg. He sent me a msg saying 'Maga, decode that fucker's msg. I am not able to eat as I can't understand!' ROFL! Thanks to my extensive research on SMSs' (read 'have sent LOADS of msgs' :D) it was a spelling mistake if you still haven't figured it out. When you have the T9 Dictionary ON, foot comes first instead of dont.LMAO! So the msg was understood by one n all now.

Now we were thinking 'what the hell is he talkin bout? How can it happen so suddenly now? What about the arrangements? This guy hasn't even reached bangalore yet!'. He reached around eleven something. Says everything should happen tomorrow guys, I don't know how we are gonna do it , but we should. It was not in english, this conversation. So it sounded a LOT more tense and not very confident too. Morning everyone is up, by eleven(reason - all concerned families of the bride all reach n ready) one city taxi booking is done for around 2 to take the bride to the groom's house and his mom's elder sister's family as they are officially gonna 'give away the bride'. One more car of a friend to drop off all the pooja materials.S goes with the pooja materials and asks us 'you guys not goin anywhere right? Nobody comin with me to drop these off?'. I said 'why do you want one more guy? Not needed. You go, drop this off n get back n call one of us'. Then the next step....................................We all went to play snooker. :D

So sometime after noon me n S decided to check for some iyengari catering service for dinner that night. Checked with 'kadamba' and they said they will do it. Rate was seventy friggin bucks for hardly six items! Two only were 'unlimited' officially. It was for around sixty ppl. No other option, so we just took it as the groom's family were very particular about iyengari's preparing the iyengari food....That's one thing done. Now one citi taxis' to do two trips to take all concerned families of the bride to the groom's place. So by S's friend we got it booked for half a day for 800 bucks. Not an awesome deal, but not a bad one too.

All reach the groom's place. S running around inside the house for ....................nothing. Basically he wanted things to work. Poor guy. Everybody understood his situation. At the same time, the groom's elder bro walks by and we exchange pleasantries............understanding S's predicament and nervousness, we made a decision then n there.......................................................................we asked for coffee. LMAO!

So we are all standing outside as if we were waiting for the dictator to give us tasks to 'execute'. I had got my sony digital camera. Sure did come in handy as it was the only one from the bride's side. Chairs were being put in place after the 'shaamiyaana' was 'erected'. Is there any other word I could've used here? :D Sounds very umm.........neva mind, I know all of ya got the point! lol! Some relative of the groom was doing this. I got a li'l ticked off and asked the guys standin n chattin there...'hello! need to get to work!' Chairs done. I asked for a cloth to clean the chairs as there was a lotta dust. I just started one by one. There were a couple of dozen chairs at the most. S comes out with my camera from the inside n takes a shot of me 'working hard'. Tells the groom who was standing beside him 'Look at him go! I haven't seen him do any cleaning at home! ROFL!'. I said 'Hello! Did anybody ASK you that question? So shut up already man!' hehehe. So I give a pose with the dirty cloth on my right shoulder. Cleaning done.

The groom n bride finish all the crap parts ( God knows what all they are made to do. They just sit there n .................do nothing! lol! and now tis time for them to exchange rings. Yea, this is a typical iyengari hindu engagement. Why rings you ask me? How do I know! I was there to just say 'hey looki here' n 'click!'. That was what I wanted to do at that time. Now the bride is searchin fer her bro. He's nowhere to be found. I run out n check. No sight of him. Come in, they waited for roughly a min then just exchanged rings. I was very confused. I didn't know what to do. There was one more digital camera capturing the moments. But it was not a sony, it was a friggin canon! (Sorry, me a die hard Sony fan!). I was about to switch to video mode thinking the other camera would have the snaps anyway. But decide otherwise and switch to photo mode. Good two snaps. Both look like duplicates, diff being who's extending the hand to get the ring, vice versa. So that's good photography. Yay! Now the groom's elder bro's wife was also having a third digital camera. Again a canon. !@#$%^&*())(*&^%$#@! So there was definite competition as to who would capture with just the right angle. Either she's sittin n me standing right behind or vice versa after a coupe of mins with all the ppl inside. It was tough to stand at an acute angle! So I thought to myself .........'oh yea? Wait till the results come up!'. ;)) S's office colleagues reach around early evening. I knew one of 'em and we had a very funny conversation which lasted ten secs! ROFL! He came n I said 'hey, see that ur also on orkut now! lol! Have fun!'. He replies back 'What to do, our boss (S) created my profile!'. Now..............S's profile was created by moi! LMAO!

Catering guys...............lol. This was 'so near yet so far' redifined fer sure! We had asked them to deliver at half past seven. It was seven and no signs. One of the gang guys calls the hotel n he informed us that the vehicle left ten mins back so within 20 more mins should reach. They had confusion as the groom's place wasn't exactly in the heart of the city, or the liver of the city, or the pancreas of the city or the..........well, you got the point right ? :D He called one of us and we all started walkin towards the main road to guide him. In the meanwhile, he calls up the landline of the groom's place. Somebody picks up and couldn't decipher who was calling and for what. We reach the main road, waiting for the guy to call any of the cell numbers as he didn't have one for us to call n guide him. Ten mins up, no calls. A couple of autos right in front of us. We were waiting for the caterer's vehicle. Five more mins passby and nothing. Now one guy from the auto nearest to us comes up n asks us 'Saar, where is this address?'. Yes, they were the caterers! lol! The guy was in the auto for almost twenty mins and we were in front all the time. ROFL!

All 'procedures' done successfully. It was a fockin smash hit with absolutely no hiccups! I asked for a laptop to transfer images as I have only a 512MB card. Got an obsolete laptop thankfully having a USB port. Transferred the first set. Now nothing much left but dinner and after for the next set of photos. So was fooling around taking photos of guys belting round after round of awesome dinner, with an amazing curd rice n pickles.*Drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool*. We were in a corner with very less light. One guy was sitting on a chair and the rest of us around him talkin, jokin around. I had finished eating real fast as I was famished. So switched to video mode. Moved to capture everybody standing around me then slowly to the guy on the chair. Now the chair had absolutely no light as lots of ppl surrounded it. The guy Y sitting on the chair isn't exactly aamir khan's complexion..........As I couldn't see anything , I asked him 'Y, show yer teeth'. As there was a decent decible of talkin around, he couldn't hear n was also busy makin jokes n stuff with the other guys. Once more, me 'Y, show yer teeth'. This time he is like 'wha??'. Third time 'Y, show yer teeth!'. Replies 'Showing man!'. Not even ONE FRIGGIN WHITE TOOTH seen in the camera! We still trip on this clip. Now I rhyme, should I rap or just stop this crap with rap? ROFLMAO!

Thus, engagement execution completed successfully.

Oh btw, today's friday so watched 'KRRISH'. It was entertaining alright. Watchable once for the good special effects made by the same guys who did it for 'Independence Day' and a couple of other hollywood movies. Somehow couldn't help but think I was watching a rajnikant tamil movie's hindi version due to the 'mind blowing' scenes with graphics. LOL! See it to believe it. Tis too much. One scene in the climax is unfockinbelievable when the villian shoots two bullets to two ppl standing around five feet from each other................it's sooper! LMBO!

This marriage is preponed to the 10th, 11th n 12th of July!