Tagging Game

Finally I decide to respond to the tagging by Rajani.Extremely sorry for the delay.

These are some of the characteristics I wish for, in my partner
1)She should think emotionally but decide logically.(does it make sense???This is because I think logically but decide emotionally.I need a contararian view of life)
2)As Sandeep puts it She should be comfortable with going to the temple in the morning,Visiting relatives/Friends in the afternoon,hitting the Pub/disc in the evening(That is "one type fits all".If i can do it why not her).
3)Stupid enough to laugh at my PJ's(atleast one person in the world should laugh at my jokes)
4)Intelligent and Strong enough to twist my ears when i start letting out a lot of PJ's continuously.
5)Frank and tell me straight at my face when she differs.Actually a woman with strong ideas(and confidence to express them no matter what the situation is)
6)Should be childish,naughty,weak,strong,fickle,sober based on the different situations.
7)Should be a good singer/Musician.The one regret in life is that I can never be a good singer/Musician.I hope my kids get atleast one set of musical genes.
8)Should be a group person.I love being in a group.

I think I have found the one with most of these matching.

I can tag only one untagged person.No Prizes for guessing .Manasa Puranik at mpuranik.blogspot.com

Another new year is here.It is at times such as these that i wonder if the life is very short.(time seems to fly by).

Last year has been very good to me.My new year resolution of finding a girlfriend worked.In fact I got the one for my life.I also got engaged with her.

The last two months seemed to flyoff.I returned from los Angeles in time for Diwali.After Diwali at home,Ramzan was at my would be In law's place.Then it was tme for Sandeeps birthday.after two days I again flew back to Los angeles and returned in a week.After falling sick for a couple of days went to Dharwad for Sandeeps sisters marriage.After coming back it was mainly the preparation for my engagement.Engagement and My Uncles 60th Birthday celebrations were over on 18th December in Udupi.25th December I was in Dharwad for Aruns sisters marriage.30th was Manasa's Birthday.The whole week between 25th and 30th was spent in arranging for the gifts for Manasa.This being her first birthday after we falling in Love wanted the birtday celebrations to be unique.

In between my work has suffered a lot.Lots of backlog to finish in the first month of the year.But keenly looking forward to this yearas at the end of the year I will be no longer single.(Marriage would be somewhere in October).So this year would be an important mile stone in my life

I am getting engaged to Manasa on 18th December.Going through a variety of feelings.Scared as I have a new responsibility.Excited to have Manasa in my life.Anxious as it is a beginning of new life.Nostalgic as it is an end to the bachelor days when i was carefree(and could ogle at girls).Lot of butterflies in my stomach.

Cant wait for the E-Day

Sat down to blog after long long time.Actually I was pondering over a question from many days.We speak about love and crush.What is the difference between the two???How do You know when it is a crush and when You are in love.

My idea was that for love You really need to know a person and like him/her.Crush is when you dont know the other person completely but still like him/her.That is You can only love a person whom you Know completely.But somehow this definition looked incomplete.After all how do you explain love at first sight???Does it always mean that love at first sight is a crush??

But Manasa gave a different definition once.She said Love is when You like a person but you dont know why....Crush is when you like a person and You know why...(She is beautiful,very friendly etc.ie one or more characterstics of the other person impresses You).

I partly agree with this definition.What do you guys have to say??????

When I was thinking about the title for my blog, initially i planned on Past,Present and the Future.But this title looked very awkward and not at all creative.Infact as i couldnt get a suitable title i kept postponing my blogging.

However I feel the current title means almost the same.Memories are from the past,Present is reality and we Dream about our future.And my blog is about my past,present and future.Any thoughts that i pen in this blog come from one of these phases of my life.

Any thoughts on the appropriateness(I was not sure about this word,but searched the dictionary and found that there was,indeed a word like this) of the title?

Do fights increase the warmth and closeness in a relationship???I am not sure about this ,but i feel they do.Secondly is it possible for siblings/friends/couples to have a relationship where they dont fight with each other at all?Or even if they do it is very infrequent?

Myself and Divya(my sister) used to fight a lot.The most prominent memories of our childhood involve our bitter fights.We used to hit each other and get scoldings from our parents too at the end.Though we dont do it as frequently as before we do still fight.The only change is that we dont beat each other anymore...;-)Most of the siblings i have seen share a similar relationship.

Why am i pondering about this now?Manasa and her sister Madhura(my cousin and my would be Sister in Law) very rarely fought with each other.They didnt have any arguments(atleast in public) and for everybody they were ideal siblings.I remember my father returning from mysore telling us how they Manasa and Madhura could be role models for Myself and my sister.I never got it.How can they not have any fights.When i ask the same question to Manasa she laughs at that.She doesnt find it strange at all.

Now I come to this question.Myself and Manasa have fought very rarely.In fact in three months of our relationship we have had only one little argument.I would like to know if there are other couples who dont fight with each other???Or is it too early in our relationship to expect fights?When I told this to Divya she said,get married then You will know.Is that true???

I sincerely feel that we need fights in any relationship for the love to grow.Too much of sugar all the time can spoil a person...You need some bitterness/sourness at times to really value the sugar.Am I Wrong in thinking this way??

This is my first blog.Was planning to start one from long time,but couldnt decide on the first post.Finally here I am.Hope to continue blogging regularly from now.

This year (2005) started as usual with a new Year resolution that-I will not end this year as a stag.In fact all of us had a similar resolution(Sandeep,Rohit,Pradeep ....Rajit????).But I never Imagined that it would come true this year.

What can i say about Manasa????We have grown up together.However I always considered her to be a kid.I guess it happens.You grow up but you assume the other person still stays a kid.In fact when my grandmother once suggested about me getting married to Manasa i had laughed at that.(To the uninitiated Mansa is my cousin.Her father and my mother are siblings).But I guess life has its own course.One 5 1/2 hour trip between Mysore and Bangalore ,my destiny was scripted.Thats when I realised that she was the one for me.We talked about lot of things,including our insecurites,inhibitions,thoughts etc.I never imagined that a person whom i treated as a child had so much of maturity.

We grew closer as days passed.My Free airtel to Airtel mobile had its maximum usage as we talked for hours.But i never let myself think about her as more than a cousin.I was scared to lose the new found closeness.

But She took the first step.She dared to admit that Our relationship was something more.We could spend the rest of our life together.Thats why I admire her. She had the courage and was willing to lose the existing relationship for a better future.Our future-Together.And I did take some time to accept the proposal though i guess from day1 I knew the answer.

I am excited at this point of time with my life reaching an important milestone.The milestone of identifying the one for your life.My future looks very exciting with a good job(that is taking me around the world) and a person who loves me very much(Me too.......;-)).I hope Life continues to be good to me as it has been so far.Touch wood.