Another exciting day! I’d reached Chennai last night and we had planned to try and finish off the shopping for the engagement over an extended weekend. Becky had her major 5 hour exams today and I seemed more nervous than her about it. We prayed about it and I was sure she’d do it well. I went to church (AMC) today and spent the afternoon watching Ice Age wishing Becky was with me. The movie is a great mix of fun, humor, emotion and graphics – the kind that you could watch laughing and holding someone you love!!After her maraton exam and a session at the clinic Becky finally left to meet me and we went to Hi-Style where we…

I finally came back to Trichy by bus which was a pretty bad ride actually!! The only bright spot was that I could speak to Becky on and off. Becky was leaving tonite to Kanyakumari by bus for her friends engagement. We suddenly realised that her bus would be passing through Trichy sometime in the night. Once she got on in Chennai she enquired and we found that the bus would stop for a couple of minutes in Trichy. I found out the exact spot and at 10.30 Pm there I was… waiting on the road for a red bus with my Becky to drive in. After about 40 minutes Becky called up to lemme know that they had entered…

I wasnt graduating today withn the rest of the PG students as my official results hadnt yet come. I however won the Dr. Beatrice Chinniah Medal for Best outgoing Student in MD Pediatrics which was purely by the grace of God.I managed to catch up with a lot of friends at Vellore and spent the night at Manish’s house.

I had to goto Vellore tomorrow and hence decided to drop into Chennai for the weekend…. and as you can guess the main purpose for that was to meet up with Becky. I reached Chennai last night and was very excited. After going to church I could barely contain my excitement and soon I was excitedly speaking to her on the phone as we went to pick her up at her church (Ashraya).I stepped out of the car and my heart skipped a beat as Becky walked out towards me. She was wearing a blue kurta with jeans and looked beautiful. This was the first time we were meeting after we said Yes to each other and the moment was…

My fingers tremble slightly as I try to put in the way I feel tonight for the wwworld to know. To put it briefly – tonight I discovered that Gods amazing plan for my life included an awesome girl called Rebecca…… I’ll never get the words to express how it felt when on the phone Becky and I decided that we would spend the rest of eternity together!As is typical in the Indian culture My family and her family had met in Trichy to see if a marriage could be worked out. Initially, I was a little displeased when my parents talked about the arrangement and so was Becky apparently. But God moved beautifully and when we met 7 days…

I went to work – my first day @ work at the CSI Mission General Hospital!It was quite busy and I saw about 30 patients in the OPD. Pretty much felt at place! The wards are not too busy and the evening OPD was quite light. So not tired at all.Appa and Amma called up and surprised me saying they were planning to visit me in 2 days and a little more stuff….. stay glued for updates!!

I woke up hungry and still feverish at 9.30 AM and had nothing to eat in the house. After a little enquiring I walked into a small supermarket and bought some stuff I needed. Sandeep and I then tried to do some mattress shopping and found the mattresses quite expensive. He then offered to gimme his old mattress which was quite unused and was just lying at home. So we drove over to his house where I had lunch (lifes lovely surprises!!) and then came back home to just laze around and sleep

The frenzy of packing is all over and finally early today I rechecked everything and loaded all my stuff into Bilals Tata Sumo. The room became barren and I decided to leave behind my mattress and a few things that were too worn down to use. We were soon racing towards Trichy and although the roads were not too good the journey was uneventful except once when we had to screech to a skidding halt to avoid a parked tricycle loaded with LPG gas stoves parked by some idiot right in the middle of the road. We soon found our way inside Trichy and met Sandeep and lugged my stuff into my allotted Quarters. Sandeep helped me around and I…

So soon… another month has zipped by.My Top 10 Songs for October1. Faith Like That – Jonah332. A Better Way – Downhere3. Stand in the Rain – Superchic[k]4. Noone Else – Building4295. Working Man’s Hands – Jonah336. Atmosphere – TobyMac7. More Love, More Power – Jeff Deyo8. La Bible – Apologetix9. Blessed be the Name – Tree6310. Rebirthing – Skillet My Top 5 artists for October1. Jonah332. Downhere3. Hillsongs4. TobyMac5. Building429 Now I’m ready to step into November – more music, new place etc etc… and still too lazy to blog

I’d come back to Vellore last night to attend the Church Retreat today. I woke up sleepily and soon Koshi & I scooted off in an auto to church (chomping bread) and loaded lots of stuff into the big bus and then, after stopping off at the hospital and college campuses, a loaded bus along with a line of cars twisted around narrow paths to PRAVAHAM – a quiet Retreat Center. And at Pravaham… I discovered where I stood – spiritually.I really cant put my finger on what some magic verse /song / part of the message that opened my eyes so much. But at the end of the day, I just knew where I needed more strength, where I…