Posts Tagged ‘marriage’

I was in my painting room preparing to draw a portrait of the girl I had met in the shoe store. She was worth sparing a big canvas and gallons of paint. Somewhere in the middle of the brush and the canvas I stood stunningly blank. I could hardly remember her face. Really, it was unusual of me. We had talked for about an hour, I thought I had had enough time to memorise Read more »

When I told my wife about the overseas tour programme, she did not jump in excitement. Nor did she show any emotions to miss me.  She did not help me packing up my baggage but stayed away from me in another room. My idea of taking her out for dinner dropped naturally when she had already prepared my favourite dish. Read more »

It is sheer serendipity that brought my best friend in my life; a friend who was my mirror image in every way. Selection for the dance practice for the house competition had our overzealous captain bullying us, the first timers in the hostel. I saw her sitting in a corner desk, tapping her feet to invisible music perhaps blaring in her ears. I looked at myself and realized Read more »

When I met my childhood friend Pema, he was a changed person. There was pride and ego in his words, attitude in perspectives and behaved crummy to strangers. I left him alone with his new profound characteristics only to meet Simple Dorji few yards away. Read more »

Look at that face, that artificial red sticking on her cheekbones! Oh! God! The first time I saw her with that cheek, didn’t it make me go weak in the knees. How was I to know ever that she spends hours in front of the mirror to get the right shade to make people go dumb, numbing their rational senses. Read more »

She stretched her frail feet to immerse in the warm water in her bath tub. She never used the bath tub; she always believed that bath tubs are for lazy people who don’t mind soaking in their own dirt in the name of cleansing. But her sixty years old body reacted differently. Read more »

“Nice! Tell me, this is even more interesting.”
“I didn’t love her, but I promised her …” he hesitates.
“What did you promise?”
“Well, I didn’t mean it, but I promised to marry her.”
“I see. What was her reaction?”
“Well, she believed me, I guess.”
“Then, you slept with her, right?” Read more »

“It is because I made the mistake of falling in love with you that has made my life this miserable,” Tee said to Dee. They have been married for 13 years and it was hardly a happy one.

The marriage they were going through was different from what they had imagined it to be when they were young and madly in love. Read more »

Life has never been blessed for him. A young and energetic boy, good in studies and games, Dendup was loved by all. He was the dearest child for his family. He helped his parents during his holidays and other times. He did well in his studies and fetched first divisions time and again. He completed his primary education and was sent to a school which was far away from his village. He did well there too. Everyone appreciated his  attitude  and manners. He was decorated as the best student. Read more »

She wanders around her bedroom with just a towel wrapped around her body. Freshly out of bath, memory haunts her. Four hours earlier, she was in the hospital. As tears trickled down her cheek, she stared at the IV fluid drop into her veins. How simple, she thought. How simple that life should fall so frail. How simple that death could come anytime. Read more »