Love in Delhi

It was 2nd week of June 2006. Peak summer in Gurgaon. I had just moved there. New Place. New people. New language. New food. You could say I was a little lost in that place. Thankfully, three of my colleagues/friends from Bangalore had also moved into gurgaon….so I had some company. But my life pretty much revolved around my office. I used to come in around 10am and hang around till 9.30-10pm. At that time, since I was quite new to the role, my boss wanted me to get acquainted with all the products. I was not quite assigned to any project and I did have lot of free time.

In my office, there was always shortage of seats for people and I did not quite have a seat allotted to me. So I was like a nomad - literally carrying my laptop from one place to another. So, it was my 2nd week in Delhi, My boss asked me to go and sit in fourth floor of my building as there was one seat available till 4 pm..…..off I went to fourth floor and sat in my new seat….then, I think on June 19th…… I saw this dusky looking gal with long hair and very beautiful eyes, walking by….. “hmm, what a beautiful girl!” I just said to myself and went about minding my business. Since the seat was allotted for me only till 4pm, I had to find another seat after 4pm…..so I went around looking for an empty seat. There was a seat next to that girl and another seat in the same area. I was feeling a little shy to go and sit next to her. So I went and sat in another seat in the same neighborhood. I remember messaging my friend MC over our internal messenger that “man, there is this hot girl sitting in my bay, I got to talk to her!” And it so happened, the next day, I went to sit in the seat that was allotted to me, but to my irritation, there was another guy already sitting in that place, he was like “ I need to sit here for today, I shall give you another seat of our team, you could go and sit there…” in the typical delhi cockiness....I was like” sure, does not matter to me”. So I settled myself in my new seat and started on my new assignment. I had a 3.30 pm deadline…so I was quite focused on it. Suddenly, it struck me, “man, I am sitting at the seat next to that “hot” girl’s.” She had not come in then. Then she came in around 2pm. My heart did beat fast. I badly wanted to talk to her something. But I had this damn deadline. So I was really trying to focus on that. Then around 4 pm, once I finished my deliverable….I was like ..” alright, I must talk something”,,I analyzed different options as to how to start…then I decided to make it simple and innocent…and said “so, which team sits here” like I really care, who sits here….she was like “well, different team sits here”…but she was quite sociable as well..she asked me “so what are you working on”…I told her that I am working on a powerpoint…and then I just stretched my hands and introduced myself. And then, we started talking casually….Since Bangalore had a better brand image than Chennai among north Indian girls…so when she asked me, so where are you from …I said “ well, I just moved from Bangalore”…she was like ”is it, are you a kanadiga”…”no, I am tamil…why, are you a Kanadiga?”..she was like “yes, and I am also from Bangalore”….then I decided before getting into any further embarrassment…”well I am basically from Chennai, but was working in bangalore before I moved here”….…right from the word go, we struck a great rapport …I felt very comfortable talking to her...became quite close over the week…but I was still shy to officially ask her out…so I just asked for her number before I left for that weekend…I messaged her on that Sunday…we exchanged lot of messages and finally I asked her over one of the messages on that hot Sunday afternoon if she would want to meet up that evening…she replied back saying “Heyy sorry had dozed off! Wud have luvd meetin up today but is diff…lets plan for the next weekend or something…I need a lil advance notice”…i joked back saying…”Cancel whatever you had planned, not everyday you get to go out with a would be hindi scholar”…came back the reply” lol…mudiada da! Even though I want too. Damn wot a misd opp! But il make it up in a da future I swear! ;)”