Farewell to 2012

And yet another year is bidding farewell. It might sound very much cliched but time flies. It feels like we just ushered in 2012  and it's already crawling out paving way to 2013. It has been a wonderful year with a fair share of ups and downs. I have stopped making resolutions as i feel new year resolutions are overrated. One talks about resolutions only when the year begins and ends. Nobody bothers to keep track of your resolutions and some don't even remember their resolutions by the middle of the year. But looking back and cogitating about the events happened throughout the year definitely can groom you to face the coming year. We learn from our mistakes as they chisel us into better person.

Just like 2011, 2012 has been a wonderful year for me. In 2011, i met my soul mate (i believe so :)) and in 2012 i got married to him. So 2012 will hold a special place in my life as marriage is a 'the' moment in one's life. 

So here goes my highlights of 2012

1. Marriage - Of course it has to be on the top. I got engaged this year too. So i'm no longer Miss Ramyah

2. Vacation to Kerala - I have always lusted over the houseboats in Kerala. So, i kidnapped  let my husband kidnap me to Kerala for honeymoon :)

3. Professionally i was appointed as the Panel Head this year which was a good experience.

4. A very good friend@colleague was transferred back to her hometown leaving me quite lonely

5. The first year i handled SPM students single handedly- i'll be able to comment only when the result is announced. 

6. The first year i applied for a transfer and failed obtaining it.

7. I had a quite heated argument with my superior regarding my transfer.

8. Experienced being a housewife for a week and i'm not complaining :)

The only thing that has not changed over years is....me celebrating New Year all alone :( It's the third new year away from family. Hopefully, next year i can celebrate with my husband and then it would be the top highlight of 2013 :)


HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!

I am a wife now :)

 Finally the moment arrived and i'm a wife now :) I am still unable to digest that i'm a married woman now.

Another Giant Leap..

Disclaimer : The post you are about to read is from a girl who is hopelessly in love. As such, this post may contain high dose of cheesy lines and mushy –gushy expressions.

Another giant leap in my life. On 20^th August I got engaged to the man I love. Not many people were aware of my love life as I decided to keep everything under wrap until the engagement. In fact a few of my good friends relentlessly bugged me to reveal the mysterious man but no avail. I had only one answer for them  “ wait till 20^th August”.  Finally, the whole world (that’s exaggeration) witnessed me getting engaged. So, with this I have changed my FB status  to ‘engaged’ which means I am no longer subjected to random friend requests and flirtatious messages.  Most of my colleagues were shocked to know that it is an arranged marriage for me as in their own words “I don’t look like someone who would agree for arranged marriage”. Don’t ask me why.  I have always believed in arranged marriages and I do now more than ever J

The arranged marriages nowadays are so different from the one my parents had. While some people only saw their spouses on the wedding day, my parents saw each other few times before getting married. But those were just meetings where no conversation was allowed and you see each other from 100m distance (or further than that). I am lucky as I was given the fullest liberty in my marriage decision.  I had my own terms and conditions which I followed rigidly though once in a while my parents tried to talk me into approving the random guys they chose. The foremost thing I hate about arranged marriage is serving coffee to random guys. Thank God I had to do that only once in my life as the second guy who tried the coffee is now my husband.

I believe in destiny and I strongly believe that that touch of magic brought us together. Almost 4 years ago ( 2008) when I was still in Sydney during my regular weekend call back to home, mum told me about a proposal brought by her cousin. I was least interested in marriage that time so I did not give a second thought and said no. Even my parents felt it was too early to get me married off. Then, I forgot about it and came back home after finishing my studies overseas.  A year later, I was in my final year when my mum’s cousin’s wife came to my house to invite us to her daughter’s wedding.  While the ladies were catching up she again mentioned about the same proposal and told us that the guy and his family would be attending the wedding and we could meet them if we wanted to. Somehow whatever she said did not register in my mind but we still attended the wedding the thoughts about the guy did not flash in my mind at all.

Then, after few months my mum fell into the typical Indian mothers’ category when she started looking  hunting for a prospective groom. After numerous proposals, the same proposal came again. Third time lucky I guess. Before I could stop and breathe, I am already married. When I think about it again, we both attended the same wedding and spent hours in the wedding but did not bump into each other or even if we did, we did not ‘notice’ each other. Life is indeed mysterious J and keeps on throwing surprises at us J

Oh yeah did I mention this? During our first meeting I was kind of pissed off at him. I had a small disagreement with my dad over the so-called-meeting before I went to see him. Well,I was kind of nervous meeting him and was a little bit hesitant and dad was upset that I was showing  ‘the-disinterested-face’  and behaving like I was being forced into marriage. So he raised his voice at me (he still says that he did not raise his voice and it was the normal pitch). Being daddy’s girl, I can’t take it when my dad is angry/disappointed or upset with me. So, tears started strolling down and my parents were so shocked to see me weeping. Dad came to me wiped away the tears and fed me ( the whole saga happened because I refused to take my lunch as I was nervous). So, I went to meet him cursing silently that he made me cry even before meeting him. And whatever happened after that will remain etched in our memories J