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B’s flight has landed in JFK but it is still a couple of hours until he gets here. Wow! This one hour since his flight landed has been the longest of all! I have been waiting and waiting for his call. Hopefully he will make his connecting flight. I could barely sleep last night. B, get here soon…..I am waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9 months, 12 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes, and 27 seconds after I first sent in the petition for B’s K-1 visa, he received his passport with a shiny new visa stamp on it today. Allright, so I did not really count the hours, minutes, seconds etc., but this whole 9 month process was pretty much like child birth! Continue Reading »

This is the perfect day to start the new year on this blog. No, I did not get to go to India but a lot of things have happened between that last post and today. So far 2009 has had everything in it, the ugly, the bad, and the really really good. The ugly and bad are to be forgotten, so here’s the really really good part of last month or so. B’s K-1 Visa petition was APPROVED! It got approved by USCIS after some stupid complications and was sent to the National Visa Center from where it went to the US Consulate in Mumbai, India. From there, papers went to his house and he’s filled out all the forms and dropped them at the US Consulate in Mumbai. Now we are waiting for the “no one ever forgets” his US Visa Interview. We are expecting it to be in a couple of months. It took a lot of tiny tiny steps but we are finally very very close to being together forever.

That was only part of the really really good.

Our parents met each other for the first time on February 2nd 2007. It took exactly a year and three days for the definitive seal of approval from both families to come. The parents along with uncle and aunt went over to his house today and did the “rupiyo nariyal” ceremony which the Punjabis lovingly call “roka”. I just cannot believe it has happened. Whats funny is that my rupiya nariyal/roka happened without me!!!! Ya, my life is funny that way. Ma and Pa went to his house, did the traditional tika and gave him a coconut (to fill his empty head, hehe) and a “cover” (read lots of moolah). Both families had lunch together, shared gifts and sundry items to be gifted to each other and a rishta is being pakkofied, exchanged hugs and promise of keeping us both together as we received their blessing while being thousands of miles apart from each other. There, its officially official. I am elated, sad, happy, unhappy at the same time. Elated and happy to everyone knows why, but sad and unhappy because I wasn’t there for one of the most important days of my life. B told me everyone was in a jovial mood, had a great time with each other and are happy to have made this rishta. He got good vibes. I talked to ma on the phone later today and she oozed good vibes too. Its finally HAPPPPPENNNNINNNNNGGGG!!!!!!!!

This past weekend, my oldest aunt and uncle celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary, its next week but the party was last weekend. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE from my family was there in Mumbai except five of us first cousins in the US. B was invited too. This was the first time he met everyone in the family and oh boy! I have never heard so many good things about him before. Everyone has been telling me how wonderful he is and what a nice boy my “fiance” is and that he is a great addition to the family. For the first I know what tears of joy are. After only hearing bad things about him from the family, listening to all the compliments is just so amazing. The extended family approves too now! Again, all this with me by myself here - wishing I was there. Hiro Nakamura, could you teleport me please?

Now, the million dollar questions. When’s the wedding? Aaaah - it took a year for the roka ceremony to take place. Lets see how long it takes for the shaadi ki shehnai.

Needless to say, I’m walkin’ on sunshine.