Return of the "M"

Last night I had gone to a friends place for dinner. His mom is over and basically what happens when you are living abroad and single; mom's arrival in your city of residence brings mouth watering memories in.
We have a group of mostly single guys. Now the interesting twist was that another friend's mom was also here; so when we finally landed up at Bhomik's place for dinner; there were the guys and two moms.
Now all of us are in the age group of 25-27 and so in India that amounts to a ripe age for the M word ... Marriage!
See I have a good cushion; I have an elder brother and a cousin both still bachelors; so unless they get married; technically my parents wont look at me in "that light"; of course rishtas etc come but no one pursues them aggressively, if at all ignore them.
Knowing the above fact coupled with the information that most of friends' have siblings married already, I take great pleasure in introducing to mom/dads to the Q of when is your son getting married.
And then starts the barrage of things like "mom dont listen to him, we have a deal I will do an MBA then I will get married" to the more natural comments like "why dont you put some sense into him, he is 26 now ..(yeah right tell that to a 27 yr old)"
But last night was special fun because 1. I had the oportunity after over a yr almost and 2. because the guys who were being talked of are shit scared of marriage. The ensuing tussle was worth a Saturday night of no drinks; well we got to it early Sunday morning; but think about it me and no drinks on a Saturday evening! Blasphemous!

Actually on the desk (my office, we call it a desk since it is on a trading floor), I am again the one who is single. My colleagues take great pleasure in visiting Shaadi.com and the likes and going thru matrimonial snapshots; being a hot Indian I of course join them in the banter.
I have faced Qs which seemed quite funny to them like, "so tell me something you meet this girl for sometime and talk to her and then without spending time (you know what I mean ... ding dong) you have to decide that you and she have to / have not to get married?".
Now I have been floated these Qs some 8657943863 times and my usual answer is hey "FUKK YOU, finish your beer biaachhh".
Another often repeated Q is "how many times can you meet and speak during the day?"; now I know these firangs are not ignorant and they just want to take my case so at times I give answer like, "generally the girl is accompanied by her father or uncle" to things like "girls' cooking skills are often tested and at times in a random manner"; the reactions are worth Kodak moments.

Well I sincerely hope my brother/cousin gets married this year; I havent been to an Indian wedding in ages and the amount I have told my desk mates about Indian weddings; I will have to have at least 4 weddings organised for all of them to come for.

So guys/girls reading this; come on chop chop get to work. Anchit I know you are getting married, what about the rest?
As a close friend says, she will only believe it when I get married when I put the garland onto my lady; so I think that still remains a distant vision ...
But one guy's weding I will HAVE to go for even if it happens in Antarctica is Abhinav Madan and of course Amit Seymour (but in that I will be the best man .. so look out Sammy).

Interesting

Met these people over the last 10 odd days and realised man these people know how to live a life; so wanted to pen it down so that I can re-look whenever I run out of ideas of what to do in life.
1. He runs his own Hedge Fund; is single and lives in Japan. doesnt own a mobile phone. Every yr for 1 month he is out dirt racing; has ridden across South America, Africa and is now planning to do Europe on his bike.
2. He was in the finance field for 12 yrs; suddenly gave it up and joined Green Planet; stayed with the tribes of Amazonia for a yr and is now an acclaimed documentarian.
3. A colleague of mine, he HAS to take a break once in 3 months; an acclaimed diver; he has seen sharks and has been over 100 meters underwater when a pack of sea lions followed him and he boasts one kissed him as well
4. This guy knows the world inside out; he told me and a friend the EXACT route to Tibet and how to get to Mt Everest after that. He can speak French, German, English, Japanese and Chinese. Besides Antarctica he has been everywhere in the world.

I am getting sleepy now; wil write abt the rest later and keep adding to it.

But these guys live their lives man!