A few things learned this Rakshabandhan.

I was in San Jose last weekend for Rakshabandhan. I was there after 4 months. It was a good break from work and I enjoyed it quite a bit. There are few things I learned and some re-affirmed during my stay at Didi's.

1> Its truly wonderful to have a loving sister. I love my sister. Although I wish I also had a younger sister, the one I could pamper and boss around.

2>Rakshabndhan can be expensive and yet wonderful :)

3>My Jiju is a great guy.

4> Sachi gives me one more reason to go back more often.

5>Staying just for 2-3 days with my Sister sucks big time. I wish I could see her more often but I don't want to move to San Jose. Thats not gonna work out. :(

6>My sister is suspicious that I am seeing someone and would secretly check SMS's on my cell phone. She would not ask me directly though. Although most of the messages in my Inbox are sufficient to make anybody suspicious. :)

7>If you are a unmarried or single (or secretly seeing somebody that nobody knows about :) ),
married people can be real pain in the neck.

8>When it comes to marriage or getting married stuff, nobody is wrong. People of every age group will have different POV and are usually right about their line of thinking. What helps is asking your self a question about what you want to do and reason behind your line of thinking.
Self doubt is gonna take you nowhere and neither will blind following of someone's advice.

9>You can feel lonely in even in large house full of people.

10>Life is much simpler if your parents are non-vegetarian enjoys a drink once in a while. This wasn't related to my trip to San Jose but I realized this on my way back to San Diego. In an Indian culture most social interaction revolve around food. Your parent judge your friends on the basis of what they eat and relatively less judgmental of other aspects of their personality.
Vegetarian parents would hate to take part in a bday party that involves non-vegetarian food. One the other hand, all is good for non-vegetarian ppl. They would enjoy any food equally.
This also has an adverse effect if your boyfriend's/galfriend's family shares a different food culture than your's bcoz believe it or not one of the side is gonna puke.It doesn't matter if they follow different political regimes, religions,actor etc. But it really matters if they have totally food habits. :(

11>I cannot cook as well as my sister. She is an excellent cook.

12>Kids are big responsibility. Just like marriage you gotta be exactly sure of what you want to do.

13>I realized that I have become habituated of having some space of my own and dont like to be surrounded by ppl all the time. Quite a change from what I was two years ago.



Overall a good trip and I miss them. But I am gonna see then again in four days ...yay :)

Song in background:
Phoolon ka , taaron ka...sabkka kehna hai...
Ek hazaron mein meri behna hai