Kadal

I happened to watch the promo video from Kadal.

The young lovers look like they are right out of a beautiful poem, and the song oozes like endless love, and the endless rumbling ocean in the background. I am 26 and utterly bored in life talking to random men out of matrimonial sites, and totally clueless as to what to do with life as I am writing this.The song is on a loop in my headphones, and I desperately yearn to experience the out of the world experience of *Falling In Love*. Someone to love like there is no tomorrow and be loved back similarly. Is that too impractical? No harm in dreaming on

Indian Wedding Reception

For your wedding reception

What to expect

Around 4- 5 hours of heat, boredom, hunger and being stuck with upset stomach.

How to prepare

The first few hours will be very stressful, make sure you sleep well the night before, wake up in reasonable human hours, make sure your diet was light and moderate. You don't want to end up with a stomach upset or gas. Just keep minty gas tablets handy. 

Clothes and Makeup

You are gonna be on photos so be well dressed. The dramatic makeup by the beautician is not to actually make u look pretty but for your face to look good in pictures. Never go low on makeup, also be careful of an overdose. You dont want to end up looking like a circus clown;  you don't want to look all painted up either. Try to not make your clothes too tight, but make sure the clothes wont come off at any point in time. Try to strike a balance between discomfort and proper fitting. Mention that to your beautician. Try to wear as light clothes as is acceptable  and jewellery as less heavy as you can, if you are prone to perspiration. Please wear lots of deo. No harm in a strong fragrance. Better than being a stinky bride.

Other tips

Keep a bottle of water handy with you on the 'stage'. But be careful, access to toilet COULD be difficult and actually using it will also be challenging with all your beautiful clothes. In the meanwhile, just tell someone to fix the fan in your direction/ adjust the speed etc. Carry with you a set of salwar or something less intensive and heavy to wear at the fag end of the ceremony. You might want to free yourself of discomfort and might want to use the toilet, and a heavy attire will be quite cumbersome in such a situation. Keep your mobile phone in vibration, and inform your best friend(sisters/mothers/ cousins are going to be too busy for this) to be attentive to any text/ phone calls from you in case you need something and no one is immediately available. The whole time could be very boring, and everybody is going to stare at you, so just keep talking to your guy, crack jokes, will look good on the photos. Dont be too conscious, it will become too evident.

An Advice to a Boring Life

In this time and place, you cant simply be purely a  software engineer, doctor a lawyer or whatever and making money is way too boring. That just makes you pathetic and uninteresting. You need to be a sports enthusiast, wine taster, stand up comedian, movie reviewer, pole dancer, a communist or a superwoman by the night.

Your ill faring career and odds with men/women will redeem themselves then.

Poornima