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It’s time to celebrate for all of us as Hema and I’ve achieved a big milestone today - completed 10 years of togetherness… witnessed 3650 days in a row with each other… 5 years with and 5 years without Oshin. Isn’t it sounds great?
This occasion gives us an excellent opportunity to pen down those remarkable and memorable milestones on the way and cherish the emotions associated with each of them. It’s time to recall all those sweet and sour memories and recollect all the good learning out of them and treasure them for times to come. In a nutshell these ten years were wonderful in many ways and taught us many lessons in a very sort span of time and that too in the very early stages of our marital stature. It taught us so many lessons that we were deprived of till now and makes us fully equipped to face such wild winds with greater vigor if similar situations arise in times to come. Though this time slipped off like fist-full sand (as we claim now!) but life was never a super-highway drive during those initial years as we faced quite a few rough patches on the way as we drove towards last few years of this debut-ton when life took an excellent turn and filled lot of colors in our life and gave a happy end to this great milestone – a glorious decade of togetherness.
Before marriage life was bit lonely and dull for me when I first came to Delhi in 1996 and this was one of the reasons why I didn’t opposed much when my parents insisted for my early marriage. I had nothing to loose when I came to Delhi and applied my sincere efforts to find my right place. Initial few years were bit tough but I eventually learnt to pace up with the surroundings. I always feel that the frequency with which the newer responsibilities entered my life that time was bit faster than what I could manage and marriage was one of them.
Hema and I tied up the knot on June, 11th 1998 as per typical Kumauni tradition in Pithoragarh - our beautiful home town - in the lap of majestic Himalayas. (More details and picture gallery can be found here). Soon after the marriage Hema joined me in Delhi, after completing her bachelors, where I was pursuing my masters along with a job as a programmer. Salary was not that good and soon came the recession time which brought scarcity of jobs and huge salary cuts. Hema’s excellent housekeeper skills came very handy during that time and we gracefully managed to survive those tough days. This period tells exactly what a typical career and life struggle means for a common young lad coming all the way from a small town and settling down in a metro without much financial and social (rather psychological) support. I’m very lucky that I got a partner life Hema who not only adapted to the odds very quickly but also supported me the best possible way to shape up my career and our future.
Time started changing drastically with the birth of our auspicious daughter Oshin - incarnation of goddess Lakshmi for us. Oshin was born on January 24th 2003 and I joined a big MNC in the same month well before her birth. We were still living in a small accommodation in Delhi which couldn’t meet our expectation from any angle but was a good buck-saver for us. We have a long series of unforgettable sweet and sour memories associated with that filthy setup which would take appreciable time to narrate (some other time folks!). Some more turmoil came in between due to which we faced big financial losses but things started getting smoother as we bought a house and shifted there on Oshin’s very first birthday. This new house proved lucky for us and we made progress in leaps and bounds in a very short span of time and planned to move to Hyderabad after getting an awesome job offer from Microsoft in July 2004. We literally entered heaven with this relocation and life showed a completely different picture to us (this time a beautiful one at last!). We really enjoyed each and every moment passed in this beautiful city of Hyderabad. We spent nearly two years there before I left Microsoft and joined IBM in early 2006 and flew to Bangkok in September on an international assignment. The kind of life we have been spending in Bangkok for last couple of years is again memorable and would require yet another volume to summarize this wonderful time (always next time folks!).
All this seems so simple and fast as we rewind through those sweet and sour times now but it took a span of ten long years when we think of some of the atrocities of those cruel times. On the other hand it also means ten quick years lived with lot of love and devotion with an understanding and smart partner like Hema. This journey would never have been so smooth and safe, with the kind of nature I possess and the circumstances we went through at times, without her tremendous patience and dedication who not only accepted those bad times without any fuss but also never allowed them to mount over our everyday life. Even after being a younger sibling in her family of riches she holds amazing capabilities to single-handedly manage her family though all kind of odds. I give her full credit for what we are and where we’re today and she comes out to be an anonymous winner of this adventurous journey.
Love,
This occasion gives us an excellent opportunity to pen down those remarkable and memorable milestones on the way and cherish the emotions associated with each of them. It’s time to recall all those sweet and sour memories and recollect all the good learning out of them and treasure them for times to come. In a nutshell these ten years were wonderful in many ways and taught us many lessons in a very sort span of time and that too in the very early stages of our marital stature. It taught us so many lessons that we were deprived of till now and makes us fully equipped to face such wild winds with greater vigor if similar situations arise in times to come. Though this time slipped off like fist-full sand (as we claim now!) but life was never a super-highway drive during those initial years as we faced quite a few rough patches on the way as we drove towards last few years of this debut-ton when life took an excellent turn and filled lot of colors in our life and gave a happy end to this great milestone – a glorious decade of togetherness.
Before marriage life was bit lonely and dull for me when I first came to Delhi in 1996 and this was one of the reasons why I didn’t opposed much when my parents insisted for my early marriage. I had nothing to loose when I came to Delhi and applied my sincere efforts to find my right place. Initial few years were bit tough but I eventually learnt to pace up with the surroundings. I always feel that the frequency with which the newer responsibilities entered my life that time was bit faster than what I could manage and marriage was one of them.
Hema and I tied up the knot on June, 11th 1998 as per typical Kumauni tradition in Pithoragarh - our beautiful home town - in the lap of majestic Himalayas. (More details and picture gallery can be found here). Soon after the marriage Hema joined me in Delhi, after completing her bachelors, where I was pursuing my masters along with a job as a programmer. Salary was not that good and soon came the recession time which brought scarcity of jobs and huge salary cuts. Hema’s excellent housekeeper skills came very handy during that time and we gracefully managed to survive those tough days. This period tells exactly what a typical career and life struggle means for a common young lad coming all the way from a small town and settling down in a metro without much financial and social (rather psychological) support. I’m very lucky that I got a partner life Hema who not only adapted to the odds very quickly but also supported me the best possible way to shape up my career and our future.
Time started changing drastically with the birth of our auspicious daughter Oshin - incarnation of goddess Lakshmi for us. Oshin was born on January 24th 2003 and I joined a big MNC in the same month well before her birth. We were still living in a small accommodation in Delhi which couldn’t meet our expectation from any angle but was a good buck-saver for us. We have a long series of unforgettable sweet and sour memories associated with that filthy setup which would take appreciable time to narrate (some other time folks!). Some more turmoil came in between due to which we faced big financial losses but things started getting smoother as we bought a house and shifted there on Oshin’s very first birthday. This new house proved lucky for us and we made progress in leaps and bounds in a very short span of time and planned to move to Hyderabad after getting an awesome job offer from Microsoft in July 2004. We literally entered heaven with this relocation and life showed a completely different picture to us (this time a beautiful one at last!). We really enjoyed each and every moment passed in this beautiful city of Hyderabad. We spent nearly two years there before I left Microsoft and joined IBM in early 2006 and flew to Bangkok in September on an international assignment. The kind of life we have been spending in Bangkok for last couple of years is again memorable and would require yet another volume to summarize this wonderful time (always next time folks!).
All this seems so simple and fast as we rewind through those sweet and sour times now but it took a span of ten long years when we think of some of the atrocities of those cruel times. On the other hand it also means ten quick years lived with lot of love and devotion with an understanding and smart partner like Hema. This journey would never have been so smooth and safe, with the kind of nature I possess and the circumstances we went through at times, without her tremendous patience and dedication who not only accepted those bad times without any fuss but also never allowed them to mount over our everyday life. Even after being a younger sibling in her family of riches she holds amazing capabilities to single-handedly manage her family though all kind of odds. I give her full credit for what we are and where we’re today and she comes out to be an anonymous winner of this adventurous journey.
Love,
Naveen
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