Just Married (Part I)

This morning I woke up confused. I am in a new room and staring down at me are two large vintage posters of Scarface Al Pacino and God Father Marlon Brando. It all comes back to me slowly as my gaze shifts to the lazy-boy and the play station console that dominate the decor of the room and finally to the curly haired man-boy beside me. I am in Dubai, where Superman spent a good part of his childhood. We have been married just over three weeks. A wedding and honey moon later we are content, excited and a few (many?) pounds heavier. This is the last leg of our month-long vacation from work. Next week it will be time to actually begin life. We won’t wake up to wedding chaos or a quaint island in Greece, or the delightful smells wafting from the kitchen here in Dubai, where Arul, the family cook stirs up a storm each day.

As I write this post I am overwhelmed. I realise that I have just lived what maybe the most memorable days of my life. And funnily enough, it’s a feeling I have waited for since the wedding was first fixed. This moment when all of this would finally feel real – not as if it were a movie I was watching. As I shopped and prepped for the wedding, I remember having this strange feeling that I was getting ready for a close friend’s wedding or perhaps a cousin’s…just not my own.

There is a whirlpool of thoughts, memories and experiences that I am eager to freeze in Poriyal Diaries and it’s hard to decide where to begin. There’s the wedding itself, then there’s all this shopping I have done in the last few months that has to make its way into a shop-a-phobic’s blog and of course there’s our trip to Greece and the visit to Dubai. A friend from University once suggested that I chronicle all my wedding experiences in a slim volume. I don’t know if these stories will fascinate enough to be a paid publication. But I think I can risk a few blog posts!

So…friends, family and trespassers to the Poriyal Diaries…lend me your ears, hearts and time if you will!


PS: Our stay in Dubai just got extended by a day…gleefully delighted :)