Odd one out

Have you ever been to a DJ night thinking of having a gala time? Of
course you have!! But have you ever been bludgeoned to boredom at such
a place? Aah, I can see some heads nodding at that too. I understand
what it is like?happened to me a few days ago. Well, the music did
contribute to the ennui but something completely unrelated took the
honors. There were just too many boys around!! Do I see looks of shock
and amazement at my confession? No, no, oh no please do not mistake me.
Hold on. Wait a second. I am a completely heterosexually inclined young
woman believe me. It's just that these days I am thirsting for female
company. Boys on the dance floor, boys at the food stalls, boys dining
on both sides of the dinner table. Where have all the single young
girls gone???

Barely a year out of college and I find myself gaining the tag of the
Last Woman Standing. All right a tag's not that bad a thing anyway. But
being at the mercy of ageing auntyjis who have nothing better to do
than convince me to become a participant in the process of human
reproduction? I am better off as a spectator, thank you very
much!

Three of my fast friends (whom I know since we played with Barbie
dolls) are proud moms - and two more are scheduled to walk down the
aisle. It wouldn't surprise me to hear the pitter patter of little feet
in their blissful homes by next Christmas too! Oh! The bliss of getting
married! All that fun of color coordinating everything from hairpins to
nose studs (now you know why it takes months for the trousseau to be
ready); all that attention from relatives who recount the good old days
when you s(p)oiled their clothes with gooey chocolate droppings; all
those endless ceremonies that are harbingers of good times ahead. It's
so angelic to even think about all this, isn't it?

But wait. The catch phrase in this fairy tale is "good times". Indeed,
what rollicking times are those when you have to eat all those dreaded
mithais for days on end. And guess what? You don't even have a sweet
tooth!! And how can one overlook that exhilarating experience of
getting up at six in the morning to make bed tea for your in laws'
entire household. They simply love to sip a steaming cup of tea made so
lovingly by their beautiful daughter-in-law - after she's dutifully had
a bath of course! Why would one miss the luxury of getting up at noon
relished by spinsters like me? And when a year later, the stork arrives
with that little bundle of joy?it's party time! Really? Yeah, getting
up at three in the morning to attend to your precious darling's
tantrums while hubby dearest snores on sure seems exciting! No married
woman would trade that for any other joy in this world now, would
she?

Yeah, yeah?I can see all my happily married friends shaking their heads
in sympathy at me. What would I know the pleasures of wedded life,
they'd say? True, I don't. And I don't think I'd like to trade my eight
hours of uninterrupted sleep, a luxurious bubble bath (again
uninterrupted mind you), peaceful meals and my afternoon siesta
(besides other stuff) for anything!! Definitely not for marriage! Hey,
I am not exactly against the institution of marriage. In fact I have a
wonderful loving boyfriend with whom I plan to tie the knot some day.
But that "some day" is still a few light years away. In the meantime I
am looking for female company.

Any single girls available? ;)

(P.S. - Sweetheart, when you read this please ignore the "light years"
part. You know that's not true )