A few updates…

1) You’d think that finding a girl that you want to spend your life with was the big part. The rest are minor details. Not so. Especially when it comes to the wedding invite. It was a long and arduous journey, too tough to recall and too elaborate to detail out. And that was just the start of it.

I am kidding of course.

So, I got married last month to Manasa and it has been a wonderful journey from the time I met her first till date. Without getting into too much details, it was a simple Kannadiga wedding at Hyderabad. But the wedding invite though went through a ton of iterations before we could put it out.

I am not talking of the wedding invite that parents prepare to send out to all and sundry. I was referring to the wedding invite that we wanted to create to send it out to our friends. Manasa has this serious out-of-whack humor touch which she wanted to bring to the wedding invite. So, we ended up creating a funny (or so have our friends told us) wedding invite which encompassed two aspects of any hyderabadi (and we both are hyderabadis). One, Hyderabadi Hindi and two, Telangana Telugu. We created a presentation as an invite including these two aspects (the idea and the artwork was hers, I was only the scriptwriter). Although its too late now, please do find attached a link to our invite. May it spawn a thousand more, and a million times funnier invites going forward.Funny Wedding Invitation

2) The wedding went off very smoothly. Except for the photographer.

So, what is the deal with these photographers? I can understand their enthusiasm in instructing us to pose in different angles. What I don’t understand is their eagerness (maybe sadism) in asking us to smile for 2 continuous days with that mercury light that is held by his chamcha in our eyes. Absolutely ridiculous.

As an example, I’d like to take you back to the morning of my wedding day. We all got up drowsily at 4am, and the photographer switched on the mercury light and asked us to smile while we were walking towards our suitcases. He also says ‘Sir, you are closing your eyes..please don’t’. What the hell dude? This was torture, and we were paying him for it.

3) I have a couple of updates regarding my writing –

1. I write a Value Investing blog here. I started this about 6 months ago to document my learnings in investing in the stock markets. It has picked up decent traffic though and I thought of letting you know on this domain.
2. I am also writing for a commercial start-up in the investing/financial domain. I have written about 4 articles now (although I had promised a lot more). So, if you have the patience, please do go through them. Here are the four articles – Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Article 4. The promise was to write one article every week. I have not kept that promise till date. Hopeful to keep up to the promise going forward.
3. My blog and I have been quoted in Times of India on some ‘Voting’ related article I had written a couple of years ago last to last Sunday. Please hold your head high, now that you have a celebrity writer amongst you I had no clue on this as I was away on vacation. Good friends of mine mailed in and fb-ed me of the development. So, thanks to all of you.

4) Our honeymoon was in Mauritius and Dubai. The next couple of blogposts would be travelogues on these two wonderful places.

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