Uravugal ...

Last saturday, I woke up pretty late as I was too busy on Friday for a release. I felt soo relaxed when I slept on Friday for all the work I did the whole week in the absence of my PL and directly reporting to the Director (my PL's boss). I came to the hall and saw my amma sitting there near the phone with a sad face. She slowly started "ippa thaan periyappa veetuku phone pannen". I said "ohh, enna sonnaangha. ozhungha pesinaanghala???"

Ok, if you are thinking wats so special abt the call, here is the story behind - The marriage alliance which came for me last month, there was a misunderstanding between our families (mine and periyappa). As always, we were the victim. As my periyappa family is well settled, they generally raise their voice and command us. They asked the groom's family to come down to their place (my native) for which those ppl said "no" for some reason. So my periyappa and periamma treated that as their prestigious issue and unmercifully shouted at us by saying this to my amma - "naangha elam avangha veetuku poga maatom. nee venumna un thambi'ya kootitu poi elam pesi mudi. apram phone pani solu." we were really shocked, well not really, as we know their behaviour. But then, intha maathri kalyana vishayathila konjam enghaluku supportive;a irupaanghanu nenachom. cos they are not going to spend even a rupee. Ellam naan(gha) thaan paathuka porom. athuku chumma oru thalamai kaavathu panuvanaghanu nenachom (nenachutu irukom).
Ah, me not very concerned abt this but ammaku "appa illathathunala, periyappa elam eduthu senjaanghanu per edukanum. chumma ithungha paatu ennamo panraanghanu yaarum nammala thappa solla koodathu". But hhmm namaku theriyuthu aana avanghaluku yaar puriya vaikarthu. Will they ever change?.

Anyway, so this has happened two weeks back and there was no communication between us after that. Now, we are going to our native place this week. And we are forced to stay at their place only. so we have been discussing at home, when to call them, wat to speak to them without hurting them or getting hurt by them (this is true). poonaiku yaar mani katrathunu !! Hmm seyaatha thappukaaga bayapdrathuna ithu thaan.

me - "ohh, enna sonnaangha. ozhungha pesinaanghala???"
Amma: "ozhungha thaan pesinaangha."
naan: "enna sonna intha alliance drop pannathu pathi".
Amma: "naanaa onum start pannalai, avanghalae kaetaangha. athu ennachu nu. naanum onum theriyatha maathri "ethu"nu kaeten. athuku periyamma, "athaan neeyaaa ponnai kootitu poi un thambi veetla kaatrenu soniyaee".
pause - actually, since they said that they wont be going, my amma has planned to visit the groom's place with her brother (my maama). Hydla irunthu thaniya poga ammaku bayam. my sis exams irunthathu. so needless to say, naan thaan ammava kootitu ponum. ipdi aarambichathu thaan intha topic. kadisila, they are saying like this. This sounded very bad to my amma and she struggled to talk further. But then she samalichufied and said "we dropped that.".
periyamma - "YYY???"
Amma - "athaan neengha poi pesa maatenu soliteenghalae ka. aarambathulaya prachanai irukarthunala vendaamnu solitaa (me)".

Then my amma did not allow to talk abt that further and started saying abt our visit to their (my native) place. actually ennoda athai ponu wedding 'kaaga porom.
Amma - "naangha intha week varom. Yashodha akka (avangha veetla thaan marriage) veetuku vara soli irukaangha".
periyama udanae dhadaaladiyaa : "En angha poreengha. nera ingha vanthudungha. veetla saaptu apram polaam."
Amma - "sari akka. varom."
then usual nalam visaripugal.


Amma to me : "avangha entha meaningla sonnaanghanae theriyalai. appolaenthu manasu aruthutu iruku". she started crying.
me: "vidu ma. avangha avangha paavam avangha avanghaluku. en thaan ipdi avangha pasanghaluku paavam saekraanghalo".
Note: intha maathri neriya vaati avangha hurt pani irukaangha. athaan intha maaathri statement from me :(
Amma: "illa, avanghaluku elam irukarthunaala thaanae ipdi namma pesina kashtapaduvaanu therinjae pesaraangha. en ipdi irukaangha??"
me: (munnadi nadanthathu elam gavanam vanthu, orae thondai varaikum kashtam adachutu apdiyae) silent.

Hmm...
apram we came back to normalcy (athu generally nadakum - kongham neram azhuthutu, apram apdiyae kindala maathi, pazhaya nelamaiku vanthuduvom) and my amma was saying "kutram paarkin sutram illai. chummava sonaangha. inum angha pona piragu ennavellam nadaka poratho. GOK !!"

Engha veetla ellarukumae sense of humour kongham jaasthi. athanala thaan intha maathri aalungha irunthaalum vaazha mudiyuthu :))