Chennai Diaries

Thank you very much.

 

You are so right. We tried for a long time without much of luck. One came close but got dropped by my son as she said her parents will be with her for 13 years as she needs to pursue her career and dance programs and her parents are needed to raise the child. When he said they can live close by but not in the same roof she replied, “Once I marry you, you have no option than listening to me”. That ended his dating.

Now, I told him to marry whoever he likes but asked him to make a careful decision.

 

Thank you Vijiakka.

 

June 4th - It is interesting we spent both our birthdays in our birth country and spend our 40th wedding anniversary on June 13th (9 days from now) in the US. We were foreign to each other to begin with and perhaps took our own time to understand each other, but things have become better as we progressed together. It is not we have eliminated all our differences but learned how to handle them. Our silent treatment time has considerably come down and we learned to forgive each other much faster. Our partnership is not broken by any interference from third parties. None of the opinions expressed by others make a difference as we already have an opinion about each other. But we are still inventing new things about each other on our own and not interested in learning it from others. Bonding is strong even if it is imperfect.

Today is much more relaxing. I went to meet my cousins today one of them is a leading trial lawyers (top ten) in India. They all came for the Grahapravesam. I took their blessings before leaving for the US. They all asked the same question when we were going to live in the new house and I gave the same answer.

As usual, the caterer never showed up on the appointed time. I was thinking that habit is only restricted to pre-event and now I am convinced it is habitual even if it involves getting paid. As we speak, I am yet to pay him and I am planning to go to his office tomorrow if he doesn’t show up.


Our maid completed the US packing for all processed food and the courier is coming tomorrow. We have 36 kgs out of which 13 kgs are vessels from Bhat’s kitchen. I guess we will have enough to eat for until the end of the year or even until March 2024, if we preserve it well.

Later in the evening I went to Sundaram and listened to the Sai Bhajans for an hour and returned home relaxed.

I fell down after my chair broke last night and luckily I escaped without any injuries.