We Miss You Too Marian...

On popular demand :p

Marian while you might be one of the very few people who read this (since you made the request hehe), I am still going to write it as an explanation of the nick rather an writing to you.


The nick comes to be as a response to Marians nick that says she missed us. Now it's obvious she would miss us ('us' here being my sister and me), we are just so cool :D

I met Marian when she came for lunch home. Unlike my sis, I hadn't interacted with Marian before she came to Mumbai (my sister I think use to talk to her on facebook). Anyway I think I will always remember Marians first day here - mainly because sometimes small things you do, reflect on who you are as a person...what your beliefs are, how you look at the world, etc. Anyway Marian came for lunch (it was a weekend I think cause I was home at lunch time). She came into the kitchen and insisted on helping. Now we don't let guests help out (unless they are being a real pain about it hehe). But inspite of telling her to go sit and that she wasn't going to do a single thing, she wouldn't listen and even though we didn't let her work, she actually stood around in the kitchen and spoke to us (with requests of wanting to help) instead of just going and sitting around, waiting to be served. To me the way this 2 minute interaction said a lot.

I have to say that when I heard my cousin was marrying a Spanish girl, it was a little amusing and strange. Now it is not that cross-national marriages have not happened in my family but this is the second wedding of 'our generation' and it was not something that I had expected. I always knew that there would be little resistance my cousin would face because his mom and dad are pretty cool about such things. 'As long as you are happy and the girl is good' was all they said I believe. Anyway I come from the school of thought that the more you have in common the better it is. Lesser conflict, lesser reasons to be unhappy every now and then. Which just means that (let me take the liberty of saying 'I' for simplicity sake) I would only want to be married into a home that was just like mine. So when I thought of J and M, I though that so much would be different. They have different nationalities, religions, languages, traditions, etc and that it would be so difficult to adjust (who ever chose to make the adjustment). But when I met Marian, I stopped thinking/worrying about such things because no matter what, she seemed just like us. She seemed like she was a part of our family even before being in our family.

It was the same feeling toward her family too. Except a MAJOR language barrier we all seem just like the same. (Also except that all these Spanish people are so damn photogenic. All of them look so good in photos). I guess it's nice people are nice people irrespective of country, race, religion, etc.

Anyway, we had such a blast in J&M's wedding. Haha Marian thinks we are really all good liars. Well I don't blame her. We had to give her a few surprises and had to lie for the distractions. One was for the dance and the other was for her Bridal Shower. Hehe was good fun.

Marian also thinks I am on the phone all the time. Which is so funny cause I am hardly a phone person. Of course I won't deny that I do talk a lot and sometimes a lot on the phone but those are rare instances. I mean I'll admit that just yesterday (17th March) I was a total of about 1 and a half hour on my phone. And today for close to 20 mins but that's only cause I have nothing better to do.

Anyway (one reasons I hate writing long posts is cause I stray too much) Marian's cool. She seems like a person who doesn't judge other people too harshly or rather sees the best in others. Which makes it easy to actually talk to her. You wouldn't have to sit and explain to her too much cause I guess she would still just keep liking you (assuming she liked you to begin with hehe). We ate breakfast together one morning, and I was actually quite open with her about a lot of things because I didn't have to worry about what she would think, or who she would tell etc.

Haha and the coolest thing is she actually remembered what I wrote in her guest book (the secret to happiness and tries to follow it :)

And of course like everyone else she thinks I am super smart hehe. Brilliant actor that I am :)


Glad to have you in the family Marian. I don't know what you were thinking. I doubt you were thinking...who in their right mind would marry into this family??? hehe kidding. Keep Rocking.