With the new year setting in soon, and seeing the super excitement of 31st december, here comes a post on humans eternal love for socializing.
P.S. Thinkometer is on Christmas and New year leave.
I have always failed to understand as to how a person can happily spend Rs.5000/night to go and dance and booze at a place jam packed with thousands of other "yea! Its 31st!" people; just to say goodbye to a year full of recession and economic crisis! And even more, how we all love 31st December unanimously. :)
But I am not going to write about parties now. Lets consider the other side of new year.
Speaking about new year, family gatherings cannot be ignored. 'We are family, lets have fun together' is the mantra! My observation on big family gatherings are rather funny. And the analysis goes like this - All the people will meet at a gathering special family house. The gatherings are then divided into 4 sections, the children's, the aunties, the uncles, and the grandfather only section. Now there are various stages of these gatherings. The initial stage involves everybody sitting together i.e. all the 4 sections have a combined meet. After some time, the sections split apart with mutual unspoken understanding. The uncles get busy discussing business, outings, and share market (If you are a gujju that is). The aunties get busy with discussing children, food and observing each others accessories (Applicable to all ladies). The children get busy with tv, mobile phones and games. And last but not the least the grandfather section observes all the above 3 sections.
Not to forget the occasional overlapping of uncle,aunty and aunty,children section. Next comes the food time where again all the 4 sections come together.
The second last stage is the most amazing part. The stage that gives chance to demonstrate the skills of best photographer in the family. Yea! The Photo session!
What amuses me most is the obsession of people with family photo's. The camera with rolls were better coz then you just had limited photographs and we used each photo carefully. But now with digicams, the photo session stretches from day to night. And the photographs are taken in all combinations - all the sections separately (including the grandfather section :) ), all possible arithmetic and logical combinations of all the people inside each section, each family, different combo's of different couples etc. And I would highlight here is out of 50 pics taken, background of 49 pics would be same. (The grandfather section pic has a chair background)
The last stage is called "Goodbye stage" which lasts for another hour. The ladies of the family preserve 50% of their total conversation quota for saying bye. If this part was to be skipped, the gents would be relieved of waiting and ladies would faint due to non talking frustration.
And thus we all return happily with memories of one awesome family gathering.
Enough analysis for now. Got to go for a family gathering ;)
Cheers and Happy new year! :)
