It Really Is Hard On The Knees
Eight years ago, we travelled to the city of the smelly marble mausoleum. We were strangers in a strange house, guests of a nanchuk-weilding boor of an acquaintance. We stayed up nights, drank our sickly sweet chais and made right royal asses of ourselves. It was a strange and wonderful holiday – we laughed and gossiped and were laughed at and gossiped against.
We were teenagers in a big, bad city back then; a city we fought and loved and detested together. Our friends were our family, and therefore instinctively knew everything we tried to hide from them. We frustrated our parents and barely knew our teachers, but we were the happiest we have ever been.
That was a long time ago. We spent the next five years away from each other. We were always just a phone call away, but no closer. We made all the smart decisions, but we cursed ourselves for being prize chumps. Our lives were a convoluted mess of last-minute train tickets, sleepy airport lounges and fictitious trips to Sikkim with “the guys”.
Yesterday, we had enough. Yesterday, we decided we wanted more. Yesterday, I asked her to marry me, and she said she would. And today the world makes perfect sense again.
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Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah [mp3]
May 13, 2009 at 3:12 am
I’m the first to comment!! You bastard, you do everything slyly over the years and then advertise this on the internet. Fantastic man, just fantastic
May 13, 2009 at 3:16 am
Congratulations Mamu and …err Mami!
Sooper stuff!
May 13, 2009 at 3:22 am
Damn good!!!Absoludely fundastic, as they say in my pradesh.
And to think that George and I were talking about college in general and he was bitching abt your Agra trip just yesterday…
Ok off to facebook now to congratulate the other party as well.
May 13, 2009 at 3:36 am
Are you serious? V happy for you if so
Please invite me to wedding!
May 13, 2009 at 3:37 am
(Shameless I know, but I want to come, if I can.)
May 13, 2009 at 3:41 am
Deiiiiii…Hardcore!!! and Finally !!!!.. it was like watching a long mega-serial on SunTV… When when when? Hardcore again!
May 13, 2009 at 3:55 am
too good. send details.
May 13, 2009 at 4:33 am
Yay yay yay!!
Soopra maga!!
Finally the logistics falling into place eh?
Congrats mamoo man!!..and as bitchy punnily put it, mami-to-be
Am incidentally in the city that you waxed/waned eloquent about..headed to agra, kanpur, lucknow..shud be good..this calls for one of those con-calls
May 13, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Congratulations!! (And celebrations!!) Mooman!
Well done indeed? But do explain how hard it was really on the knees?
P.S.: I just imagined you pulling up your jeans while doing it!
May 13, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Supra machi.. looks like walmart does have good rings..great stuff bro
May 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Yes!
“We made all the smart decisions, but we cursed ourselves for being prize chumps.”
Its finally over!
You are the greatest two-people all of us know. God bless you both.
I am leaving office early to celebrate with a pie. You guys would like that.
May 14, 2009 at 3:12 pm
wait… you two were going around?!?
Congratulations man and cheers to a great future!
The post, by the way, was very touching…
May 15, 2009 at 2:02 pm
V. happy for you. Damnit, that post nearly made me cry. Very happy indeed.
June 13, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Er…WAY late on this one, but congrats : ). You guys were two of my favourite seniors, and now I feel a little mushy inside.
June 13, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Hey, thanks all. You were all my favourite juniors, batchmates and senior.
And we’re both pleased as punch.
October 3, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Unbelievably, I never saw this post! I have to apologize a million times.
I’ve already congratulated you… but this is a brilliant piece. Awesome.
December 26, 2009 at 8:48 am
Time for another post Mamoo?