Do you have friends who are totally, totally on a different wavelength?
Sure you guys get along just fine. But sometimes conversations tend to get bizarre very soon. I don’t mean different wavelengths in the sense that you work in consumer banking and they work in investment banking. No I am talking about the situation where you work in consumer banking and they work in mixed media impressionist sculpture or something.
Let me explain.
There is this dear friend who is the highly creative advertising-media-design type who does a LOT of work for JAM Magazine. She is quite the brimful of ideas. And I mean ALL the time. Now these advertising types have brains that work at a completely different level, (electron orbit?), compared to the regular moderately imaginative brain that I have.
When you ask them for advice or inputs on things you do so expecting an avalanche of creativity to be let loose. It’s as if they just wake up in the morning, spend an hour thinking up a few hundred creative trains of thought, and then spend the rest of the day just launching them at the least suspecting MBA types who still can’t get over the genius of VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP.
Question in office: “How do we give the magazine a new look?”
Regular Sidin answer: “Let’s get a new font, increase the visuals and jazz up the cover a bit!”
Arty Lady’s answer: “Let’s chop the magazine to a square, punch a hole down the centre, print text down the diagonal and string it up at newsstands.”
At the time you try to hold a straight face while wondering what substance makes the brain works that way. But most of the time you envy the insane coolness of their ideas.
So yesterday evening I am sitting hunched over the laptop wondering what to get the wife on the soon-to-be-here first wedding anniversary.
While I may be tall, dark, handsome, have immaculate chest hair and nearly odourless sweat, gifting has never been a strength of mine. I suck at it. And when it comes to gifting women I take that sucking to plunging depths. So, in a moment of weakness, I asked Arty Lady for a anniversary surprise idea.
The mystery is this. She doesn’t even pause to think. It’s as if her brains has ideas for any possible scenario just cached in somewhere. Without as much as a pause to suck in air she launches into the description of a plan unlike any I have heard before:
“Sidin what you do is this. First I will give you the number of a friend. He is a broker for elephants and other trained animals. You book a nice big elephant for your anniversary day. You then rent a good Indian prince type Sherwani. You dress up, take the elephant, go to her office and wait with the animal till she comes outside after work. Then you pick her up and begin a slow yet extremely regal elephant ride to South Mumbai. On the way you can stop at a cafe or something and share a coffee of some kind. Leave the elephant prominently outside. You must have booked a table at the TAJ for dinner obviously. Then you take the animal right upto the entrance of the TAJ. The valet’s face! The idea is to give the woman an experience she will never ever forget for the rest of her life. Awesome no?”
I paused for a second in order to retract chin and a lion’s share of tongue from the floor.
“Yes. Yes. Awesome. Awesome. Elephant. Awesome. Very good. Give me that bottle of water please…”
“What were you planning Sid?”
“Handbag…”
p.s. Still open to outstandingly creative ideas that do not involve large creatures that can tenderize you for timepass.
extremely hilarious!!cheers to the arty lady..
1. Handwritten greeting card with pencil-sketch portrait of wife. Now I do realize that drawing women can be tricky, therefore a blank face with the text (Too beautiful for this poor artist to draw) written in the place where the nose, eyes and mouth would normally go.
2. Download romantic hindi/malayalam song karaoke version and sing/record with your voice. If one is a decent singer, great, and if one isnt, the laughter alone will be worth it.
3. locate old cardboard box that once held a TV (atleast 29 inches) and pack yourself in, get it giftwrapped and have it delivered by DHL truck to your house. If you are in reasonably fit, being in your birthday suit might not be a bad idea as well
4. Since you do have, shall we call it, the gift of the pen, write a superheroine short story starring your wife, get it published like an actual book and gift it to her
Machi… whatay creativity da! Much reeking of Ad company experience if you ask me. Only one issue… what if maid opens door and received package containing one number mallu boy in delicate situation?
I would love to hear what the Lady Missus has to say about this surprise !!
Make a crossword with clues that only she can know the answer too. But the materialistic gift better be REALLY good then.
1. Across: What did I forget last year?
2. Down: What did you throw at me due to 1 across?
LOL, elephant indeed!!!
Imagine the talk of the town(specifically that part of the town that houses her work place and which she will naturally mind the most) the next morning 😀
Sidin Saar, taking creativity to such high levels can be exteremely injurious to one’s health 🙂 When lost, stick to regular stuff – flowers/chocolates/handbags/diamonds. If not happy, she will at least not be provoked to reach out for the regular domestic “tools” if you know what I mean… I would personally hate it if my husby thinks of such “special” ideas on any of the special days…
A very pertinent question I HAVE to ask here – Is this creative genius friend of yours married/engaged/seeing someone? :O
Chocolates or diamonds? Thats the choice I have? One or both kidneys?
The creative genius just got married a few days ago. And very happily too! To some other ad firm types. Imagine the conversations…
Lol 🙂 … worse is … Imagine the anniversary gifts they must be giving to each other …. 🙂
hmmm lets see, from a woman’s point of view :
1. greeting cards – you cheapo! I married you cos you are from the IIMA, I expect more
2. Perfume – damn you, so you are telling me I stink?
3. Books – okay, so now you are saying Im not well read?
4. Laptop – so, you want me to slog the night away working on excel sheets while you snore?
5. Stuff Toy – Awwww, chooo cuteeeeee 😛
Gift her a laptop? How much do you people think freelancing pays nowadays? But the stuffed toy is a good idea. Also a deluxe collector’s edition Matrix DVD Set.
Ok that last thing was for me only.
I cld still think of lots, but most women stop at stuff toys, do lemme know if you need more ideas though 😛
BTW awesome rediff post there yeaaa!!!
Thanks Arpz! And more fundas please…
ppssstt….isn’t wifey reading all this?? What’s the use then? 😉 Tch tch…..
At least now she knows I care enough to ask the whole world. Not a modicum of shame. Not bad no?
Great idea, riding on an elephant in South Bombay traffic. I see I misunderstood. Obviously, you are planning a dinner at Taj for her birthday NEXT year.
since u shot down appu, looks like camel or horse ride won’t interest u too :)hmm.
since wifey might be reading all of this, no surprise will be a surprise. stick to the basics and go with cake/chocolate/greetingcard/soft-toy/candle-lit dinner(not at home)/self-cooked dinner(if u can cook to save your life:).
I CAN COOK!
No seriously I have this excellent pasta salad with a secret curd and mustard sauce. Half decent chocolate cake. And many wonderful things with a couple of eggs and a can of tuna.
Damn, I have to bookmark this page for my future husband. I guess I’m in the minority here. :oops:But if you think the Missus isn’t into that kind of thing and a handbag is your budget (I sincerely hope it wasn’t going to come from the discount bin someplace), then you’ve come to the right person. Or the right person has come to you. basically, I mean I’m the answer to your problems. Ok, not in that way…. let me just explain!
DO NOT buy her a stuffed toy or assorted dustcatchers unless it is deeply meaningful in some way (if she fondly calls you rabbit at home, then buy her a stuffed rabbit – or if she prefers to sleep clutching a teddy rather than you, then… well, in that case you’d be better off burning her teddies, wouldn’t you?).
Convince her instead to take a day off work (you freelance, so no problem there) and don’t let her say it can wait till the weekend. You HAVE to play hooky! Book a table for two somewhere far enough that you have to drive there, book a chauffered car (they must have a limo service in Bbay) and take her out in style. You could alternatively make this into a picnic.
If you’re into photography, take a camera along and take pics which you can later make into a flipbook or album or frame and hang in your house or whatever. If you’re camera challenged and easily distracted, leave this alone.
basically, spend a day doing nothing together, somewhere other than at home. Affordable but romantic.
Okay, now I’m off to find a life. Happy anniversary!
Taking notes. And distilling everything into a strategy sheet.
YOU LIKED THE ELEPHANT IDEA?! Well I will email you the trainer details right away.
i think u should try baking a chocolate cake yourself (try not burning it) and surprising her with that 🙂 .. ofcourse, that’s just one part of it .. the other part is picnic lunch in one of the gardens in mumbai (i am not aware of the current levels of cleanlines in mumbai but is Hanging Garden good enough??) .. and ofcourse the last but not the least .. a diamond necklace/pendant/ring/earrings (if she’s fond of jewellery – and before u say which girl isn’t, trust me, there are more than u can imagine)
or, as someone mentioned, spend a whole day with her doing nothing 😀 (or maybe do some chores at home and watch her fav.TV serials with her n try NOT to laugh while u watch them ;P )
or, i think she would luuurvve a nice n long body massage, masseur Sidin 😉
RT! This is a family blog you know??!! Shush about massages and such like please…
I make a good chocolate cake by the way.
Doing nothing is the official family timepass. We are outstanding at it. Only bested by the BMC.
I can see you are already getting a lot of ideas on what to buy. Here are some ideas on what not to buy 🙂
1. Kitchen appliances
2. Cleaning products
3. Mouthwash
4. Deodorants
Can anyone add to this list? 🙂
5. hair remover/shaver
5. Gift cards to weight loss programs
Hand written Greeting Card !Also rack your brains for some little thing she has always wanted but has never bought it. Then go buy her that
A Honda Accord. I don’t think so! 🙂
Buy her a nice HONDA ACCORD miniature
lemme be honesti was kinda very very dissappointed with the way in which this blog was going after the highs it had taken me to in the past
i guess everybody keeps expecting ‘the best’ and anything less from sidin wud be looked upon as a letdown
personally i think the one unique thing about this blog is the ability of the author to make a guy looking at his screen; no matter what part of the globe he is at nor what time of the day it is nor how many cubicles away his boss is filling his annual performance appraisal form, to launch into an uncontrollable fit of hysterical laughter!
well hats off to ya sidin, u did it yet again with this post
well some of the others were a little too long and by the time we got to the paragraph where u had positioned a very cleverly written piece of humour, u wud have tired us out
hope this is going to be the comeback piece!
cheers!
PS: we r all waiting for ur book…
Arun cheta,
Thanks for dropping in. And thanks for stopping to chat a bit on the meebo thing too. Material tends to come in waves. So I guess the blog will ebb and flow. Please to continuously keep the faith.
Book updates in a week or so.
What is this book thing? Would love to read the book.
haha man!!! outrageous ! uh is that who I think it is ? 😉
IT EEZ!
Bloody ridiculous! Loved it! Hope you went with the elephant and not the handbag!!
PS: Happy soon-to-be Anniv!
Of course I did!
Actually no.
A trip to Jaisalmer is in the offing though… But not a word to her about it.
erm… is the blog off limits to the wife?!
*brainwave*
How about naming the site Domain Missus for your Anniversary? 😛
Or maybe you can gift a separate domain for her where she can pen down her writings……will be fun to read ‘Whatay’ and then hop over to ‘The Missus of the Whatay Guy’
*hoping that the creative-arty-lady reads moi ideas and spots a future genius* 😀
Ah! A subdomain for a blog of her own. Brilliant idea. Now to get her to write…
The Domain Missus idea is sweet too. Now why didn’t I think of that?
Ahh….that might be answered in a future post, I suppose!
How about spending the anniversary on an Igloo?
Cool idea! (Whatay school level joke.)
The Delhi-ite in her would love it. My asthma would kick in within nanoseconds and I would be dead but well preserved by permafrost inside fifteen minutes.
Hilarious man! After that kinda idea, I guess anything else would pale in comparison..unless of course you were gifting Abhishek Bacchan to her.
Nice attainable bar that…
hmmm……..keep it normal, else you would’ve to outdo yourself every year!!
I support the handbag idea. Can’t go wrong with it. Did it three weeks ago myself… but that was for the third anniv… the first one is thought to be special. Can’t say why… maybe a good diamondy thing wrapped in lots of larger gifts may work. I assume you have a large-ish budget since you are entertaining elephants and such!
“a good diamondy thing wrapped in lots of larger gifts”
Oddly profound. Utterly unattainable.
gift for the wide oye hoye
gift for anniversary oye hoye
Tomorrow be first anniv for me, and i HOPE to hell the husband doesnt know ur arty friend aiyo. Pachyderm would be a great idea if it wasnt for the minor matter of clambering up and down on it AND the fact that i probabaly wouldnt be able to show my face again in office (which might be not be such a bad thing come to think of it)
(btw if you have figgered out what ur missus is gifting u , pliss to drop me a mail!)
suggestions for gifts …hmmm… how about you make a list of 365 things you do that piss her off and a resolution that you will not do them till the next anniv? (maybe 12 things more managable!)
handbags – Men never understand bags. Or shoes.
I am getting a portable DVD player with a 7 inch lcd screen. LG. It’s awesome! I can watch House anywhere! Yay!
So really nothing better than a handbag for her to carry it in no?
Sidin,
Once I searched on the Net for something called “roomful of flowers”. There are guys in Bombay who do it I think. Or call up a florist or tell them u want some 8-10 bouquets and flower arrangements.
Easy. 5k or so. Romantic. And mostly you dont have to move ur butt to get it done, the flower guys do it.
Hope it helps.
Easier idea – photobook from picsquare.com with post-marriage pics!
Mathiyo saare?
Oru achayan.
Mathi mathi mathi!
But the roomful of flowers is intriguing.
1. Large (think life-size) wildcats (stuffed variety of course)2. Some kind of branded jewellery (go for exotic stones, since they are colourful as well as economically priced….and women somehow still love them)
Good luck
1. Like the type in OSO no doubt. Yenna Rascala!2. Good idea. But then it has to be earings no? Ring sizes are messy messy messy…
Sidin,In advance- happy anniversary.
if u want to take her somewhere:
Th most wonderful place to go would be a treehouse in Vythiri. Cost for one night 2 years back was 9,000/- but it was awesome. This banyan tree on top of this hill surrounded by forest cover, the mist, the traditional coir flooring, the shower, everything is perfect.
if u want to spend it home:
Any married woman above 35 will swear the one THING THAT TURNS HER ON is to have hubby in the kitchen cooking dinner for her. Sidin , wear the apron, buy some pasta, spill tomato sauce on the apron, fumble around, light a candle on the dinner table – by the way aromatic candles- dim the lights, play dire straits …
Hey maya! Long long time. I assume all is well with the business.
Vythiri? Ah! But a sinister plan to trip over to Jaisalmer takes shape. Not a word to anyone though…
I gave her a 30 GB Video ipod. I use that as a USB drive to hide all the porn that I downloaded off the internet. No matter however hard she searches she will not find it. BTW of late she is complaining of lack of space. I may have to upgrade next year 🙂 gotta go unfortunately porn does not download itself.
Someone give this man an award! Isn’t there an Athi Vishisht Pati Medal or something? Please to nominate Mr. Wicked asap.
Instead of the pachyderm I would have said a bounding, happy tiger with an exquisite diamond necklace round its neck, to be unhooked and handed over to the doting wife by the fearless and brave hearted husband. Sigh! this is what fairytales are made of! Go for it Sidin!
I believe tigers bound by default. But keeping them happy has often proved challenging. Also Mumbai does not take exploitation of tigers lightly.
On a more serious note… try a surprise dinner and a quiet walk during you which you hand over something that you know shes wanted for a while. Much more special than a fancy high flung thing are the simple joys of quality time spent together.
First forget your anniversary….or pretend to….and stay at home that day…..you’ll have her raging but she won’t say anything cause she wants to see how long you take before you remember…..
Then anything you do will make her go crazy, cause its a surprise in any case….
Best thing to gift her?
A purse….small one….with lotsa cash in it….to buy whatever she wants 🙂
Raging + Punju Woman + Feeble Mallu = Sidin 65.
I dont think so, I bet she will feel happy 🙂
wicked2007-12-13 15:51:27
I gave her a 30 GB Video ipod.
Wicked gave your wife a 30 GB ipod?
Sidin, first off, thanks for stopping by my blog, and pointing me to the Arthur C Clarke short story!
The Domain Missus is a great idea, but to me, it sounds very much like WORK 🙁 The content will not write itself, right?
How about a gift card to a spa? Really, nothing else says “pampering” so much as a spa 🙂
Spa! I also happen to a know Spa owner in Pune… Aha!
Btw the number of women commenters on this blog post is INSANE!
Warm and fuzzy week on the blog I think…
Spa owner in Pune, eh? Pls to tell… very interesting. I mean. Good to know spas around the city, eh? Just to pop in and out once in a year!
a baby 😉
Hmm… Interesting
‘unexpected gift at an unexpected time’ is the secret!
fill the house with roses and candles… and by fill i mean ‘fill literally. there should be less air and more of roses and candles’…
let the lady enter and get surprised… cook ur special dinner… put on some nice music… and say the words! 🙂
someone up there said ‘a baby’! hahaha! I’m imagining one bawling, kicking, screaming lil one with a lil bow on the head! 😀
yeah cook up big fancy dinner (try not to burn the food, failing which, takeaway), a handwritten card/letter perhaps (try NOT to be funny, failing which google for poetry :P) and once that’s done…the mood’s set…to go clean up the kitchen and wash the dishes…
Happy anniversary, in advance…
Yes! I love the big splashy moment – as long as it doesn’t happen too often. however, i’m so laidback none of the idiots I’ve ever dated had the brains to figure out that i would have like a circus to come perform for me in the middle of the mall rather than the lame bunch of roses. sigh. although now that I think about it – what does one do if the elephant decided to take a poop? or goes berserk? One thing is guaranteed however – you take your lady to a restaurant on an elephant and they’ll GIVE you a cake.You know what you could do for your arty friend? Tell her significant other this idea and tell him it was her idea and she’d love it. Scenario one: she does love it and she’ll always be grateful to you. Scenario two: she’ll be highly embarassed and you’ll laugh for years. win-win.
God, I’m evil. And mini-blogging on your comments, so i’ll stop.
Chi Chi! What are you saying? Feel free to mini-blog as much as you want. Saves me the trouble of updating…
Stuffed toy – bad idea, unless she really likes stuffed toys. Contrary to popular thought, all women don’t like stuffed toys. Gift her a day at the Taj Spa/Beauty Salon – they must have gift vouchers for that ? Handbag – are you buying it ? If yes, then don’t – let her choose her own handbags. Nothing against you ofcourse – it’s just that husbands don’t have a clue of the details we look at when buying stuff.
You can make out from my name that I am Punju – Let me clarify that I am female. My sugg’s1. Learn to make parantha – from your claims, one can see that you have potential
2. Talk sense for one day
3. No stuffed toys please – you can stuff the toys …..
4. Golgappe / pani puri / chaat – never goes wrong with female – esp punju
Talk sense for one day
Cracked me up that. Of course it is impossible.
awesome idea arty lady!!!
happy anniversary sidin and mrs sidin
Come to think of it…Yenna Rascala it is! 😉
Everyone’s suggesting really expensive ideas dude! The longer this goes on, the worse it gets.
Roses (a really BIG bunch) work. And then a nice candle-light dinner (order from a fancy place) followed by her favourite movie (the soppier the better) on dvd, with a foot massage at the same time.
ALL WOMEN DONT SWOON ON SOFT TOYS!! unless its one of the many gifts that you are giving ofcozhere is what i think will work…buy a whole bunch of small gifts and place them in different parts of the house that she frequents…the fun will be in discovering a surprise whereever she goes…
you can start with a bunch of flowers next to her pillow…a perfume on the dressing table….a HANDBAG in the cupboard…and softtoy in the kitchen…so on…make sure they are all giftwrapped..you can leave some lovey dovey notes alongside…and her day will be made…whatay?
I recollect from one of your older posts that your wife is a big fan of the junior AB. What about trying to be junior AB for the evening and doing a your own version of the “dus bahaane karke le gayee dil (with the hands-in-pocket pelvic movements of course)” number exclusively for her? Provided it doesn’t bring back those heart-breaking memories of the AB wedding days and you don’t have to end up taking her out of town for the weekend. The only ones benefitting out of such a situation would be us, who for sure would have a descriptive post later next week to read and have fun 🙂
Personally, I’m still to go through such rough times, so all I can say to you is – Happy Anniversary!
Please put this up on Youtube. Thanks 😀
Ooooohh…..talking of roses…. A nice one would be to get her this HUGE bunch of white roses with just ONE RED ROSE in the middle. and then tell her that there may be many beautiful women in the world just like all these beautiful white roses, but there is only one special beautiful woman like the red rose, and that is her!
It could be the opening line of a nice evening. If you can pull it off, another thing you CAN do is, this.
Provided you live in a flat which has a higher terrace than your neighbouring building, speak to your neighbours and request to use their terrace. place LOTS of candles spelling out “I love you” or “Happy anniversary” on a LARGE scale, and light them up….then take your wife to the terrace and casually walk her up to the parapet wall, so she from above sees the lit “happy anniversary”
I can guarantee she will hug you and smile, and if she is a little filled with emotion, she will cry.
Clearly you have no idea about the locals here. Society meetings routinely end in compound fractures. And this is just the kids I am talking about.
I have read a few of your writings and I must say I have been in splits each time.. I am an amateur on this page but couldn’t resist adding on my views here.
Much to my belief, a day full of little and happy surprises makes anyone happy!.. May it be a day spent out / a dinner/ a diamond earings/ dedicating a song for her on radio mirchi/ or even an elephant ride!!
Well, these many blogs/ comments / ideas mentioned above for her are a big surprise and a gift anyway.. May be read it out all of these at the end of the day to have a good laugh!.. That is all that is needed me thinks. 🙂
Happy Anniversary!.. cheers!
Thanks for dropping in Maneesha. Seriously the sheer volume of participation on the blog is gift enough me thinks…
Still at least a handbag is called for…
On our first anniversary, we moved into a better house. Not by design but, it ended up being that way. We were too tired to go out but then, it turned out romantic – dinner from a takeaway with tons of boxes around.
Since you are anyway going to Jaisalmer, you could go to the hotel roof top or some place at a good altitude before the sunset. The town turns golden and dreamy and it is an awesome image that’ll stay with you.
The gift, I’m sure you’ve already overwhelmed the wife with this post & comments. This is not to say – go easy on the gift – that could be risky. First anniversary gift ought to be more special than a Handbag unless its real Gucci or Louis Vuitton. I’m more interested in what the wife gives you – looking for ideas for the second anniversary gift for the husband.
Btw, if you have not already looked up amazon gifts, you should.
Congratulations on the Wedding Anniversary!!!
Go away to some hill station location close by on the Anniversary eve. Spend the day away from the city. My two cents :p
silverine it is actually beginning to look like that you know…
Sidin,
First the good things: I did like your post where you talk about south indian names, especially the peppy humor in it.
After that post, none of your post, and i mean NONE of your posts have been worth the paper its printed on. More often balancing between boring and silly. i’d like to believe that you try really hard to gather your thoughts and try to add some humor into it before presenting it. Of course you send out that occasional prayer hoping that readers will like it. Have you ever tried reading your post and felt whether it is even remotely interesting ? Have you ever tried questioning yourself on why you write some of the most retarded articles one can come across ? I’ll not call you a dolt, but then that would be an understatement. Your articles are not only annoying, they are, simply put, stupid, not to mention totally bland!
Please, for the greater good, stop writing. I am sure you have some talent you’ve not explored yet, leave the humor to someone who is more creative at it.
of course, you are making your money, you wouldnt stop writing, would you?
Hope is eternal, life isn’t, so i’ll bet on hope that you’ll stop!
Dear Mroooh-oooh-oooh-look-at-me-i-go-around-dictating-people-on-quality-of-humor-articles-my-life-has-purpose ,
how do you do? I recently had a bet going with my friend that in this world, there will certainly exist some eccentricities in all areas due to its chaotic nature in every design. That is to say, due to the complexities involved in the design of the world, there will be some cases where the complexities will result in the existence of abnormal personalities.
we decided to test it out on Sidin’s blogs. The eccentricity we were searching for was for SOME person to exist who didnt find Sidin’s blog humorous. After a whole day of searching through blog comments, blog article references, we gave up our search! There simply was not a single abnormality when it came to appreciating sidin’s humor…. Consequently i lost the bet and had to shell out 500Rs cos my theory was disproved.
my questions to you,
you have been reading the blogs since the south indian names entry and you ahve been finding it extremely boring, silly what not… Where the FUC* were you all these days eh? You owe me 500 bucks, you bloody lazy B****** who thinks he / she can easily get away by NOT expressing one’s opinion whenever the time arises!
Love letter. Late night walk on the beach. A ring. A kiss..
i suck at gifting too, so will refrain from suggesting.
the elephant idea is awesome – i love it!
Aana idea is great.
If you cant, then at least you can go for a Kuzhi-Aana
She can then tell the whole world for the rest of her life,
“Ente sidinu oru ana undayirunnu…………………..pakshengilu athu kuzhi-aana ayirunnu”
Heyyy!! Just came across the blog!!! It’s a laugh!!! Superrr 🙂 🙂
Trust ur weddin day wud have gone off A-Okay considerin the ideas above 😀
Why don’t you re-create the wedding nite? Fly in the saalas and saalis from Punjab, they can be out in the corridor clapping hands, stomping feet, and singing… while you are inside, with a remix of khabie-khabie on the CD player… As you sip the saffron laced milk from a large stainless steel tumbler, the lines “suhaani raath mein goonghat utah raha hoon mein ne” streams in. Perfect-ay idea.
Alternately you could just buy another washing machine… for the lassi of course.
Ayyo! Not all that all over again. Rest, relaxation and recreation is called for.
Nothin, you are the biggest gift for her, and so is she.You guys have a good dinner celebrating the first of many anniversaries.
On the other hand , if you can afford a small gold chain , that will bring smiles on the missus’s face.
No gift at all. But gold chain is okay eh?
Well done. Cheeky. But well done.
Um…. I actually LIKE the elephant idea! and i LOVE the arty lady! 😀 if only my husband has a friend like her 😛 [i ll be patiend and get married first ;)]
Congratulations Sidin on the wedding anniversary! what did you finally get for her? you could give her coupons for 10 hours of sidin-love! 🙂
Oh! Definitely the elephant! What better way of declaring love after a year of marriage than relying on tried-and-tested Mallu heritage! On our first anniversary – we just walked into a book store and bought books for each other and ate at an overpriced “Indian” restaurant in London. Apparently the oldest Indian restaurant around here – so bloody old that they forgot how to make Indian food, I guess. And a film – any film!
No, but seriously, that woman friend of yours will make such a good husband.
Too many cooks spoil the broth…Yahooo Finally found a place to use this phrase…Sidin Bhai dont be diverted with all the varied advices that people are offering you.
I think you are supposed to gift Paper on your first anniv…(Toilet Papers may not be appreciated)
Buy her a copy of Times of India (Delhi edition)..Tear a page from it and say Saddi Dilli se yeh Dil ka tukda sirf twaddi vaaste….and also call up your estate agent for you may soon be bereft of a roof over your head.
i’m new here and must agree with most ppl tat ur blogs are quiet funny….v curious wot did u finally gift ur wife?…there’s no mention anywhr!
Is this Arty Lady by any chance Toulou aka Priyanka?What did you finally get your wife?
tat was funny..reallt
tat was funny..really
elephant idea was bombastic…but i personally had this idea…now i dont know how it wud work as an anniv gift..but probably on her bday….
buy as many gifts as her age…20 gifts if she is 20…and by gifts they dont have to be unique exotic stuff…its just the thot behind…unique idea and tested…..
probably one gift fer first anniv…two fer second n so on n so forth…
watsay???
Happy aniv btw..!!!
~sudha
HAHA elephant how did she some out with that??~~~simple crazy~~~i wonder if she is expectin an elephant on her aniversary~~btw is the creative friend of yours from the same planet. she jus took it to a new level~~btw happy anniversary bro~~~
I never laughed best. Wait with elephant till she comes from office .. lol.. The valet surprise.. Just so good. Ah, the magazine squaring. Are these ad guys completely screwed up? I know one who worked in Lintas – extremely beautiful. I think these girls dope too much.
-Vijay
My idea of good anniversary gift is box full of porn, blue films and cool gadgets. Congrats on ur first anniversary, sidin.
The hyperlink, I just corrected it. -Vijay
Ha ha..Happy wedding anniversary.Whattay idea by the Priyanka.
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