98. How I Knew Her

I have been asked to write something for this blog, I had not been given any specific topic and cant thing of any as well. Therefore I am going to write about Nushrath :D

I do wish that my post would be 100th, but 98 seems ok .

I met Nushrath in a very awkward situation, she was a family friend/relative (I really don’t know how) and had visited my house one day. I knew some guests were coming and thought there would be some Uncles and Aunties. When the guests arrived, I didn’t go to receive them (I usually don’t, in order to avoid weird questions from aunties), what I would do is go and greet them after they are settled and evacuate as soon as possible. This time I was busy with something I guess and forgot to greet the guests. My mom came into my room and asked me to come and see them. Expecting two or three aunties of my mothers’ age, I go and peep inside the room (if aunties they would never notice this, they would be too busy with their gossip), to my surprise its empty, I go in a little further.


“Don’t be shy, come in” said a voice and I immediately noticed the girl sitting on the sofa, who I supposed was about my age (give or take a year or two). Who the hell is shy of you and why should I be?!?!?, was my instant thought at that time (sorry nuchu, the thought was unstoppable :P).


She was the family friend? Is she really that old.. No way! Maybe it’s their daughter, so where are her parents? But mom said only 2 people came... hmm maybe she came with her father. These were the thoughts going inside my head as I sat down.


You see in our family they have this weird custom of not taking their eighteen-and-above-unmarried-daughters to any guests/family friends place unless you were very close. No girl would want to go in the first place since there would be serious matchmaking discussions and even though you want to puke at their suggestions you will hear phrases like “awww... look at her, all shy when you mention the word marriage” which would make you want to go bang your head on the wall, or in worse cases you may splatter the hot tea, or any drink you may be drinking, on the hosts face.


Now, back to the story, as I entered the room, I greeted her and had a mini conversation with her and my mom intervened and added that I am online and chatting all the time (she thinks computer is only for chatting). Noting down this point, nushrath asked me for my mail address. At that moment, I had no intention of building our relationship, all I wanted to be was just a random acquaintance (sorry gal, but you know how I am when its communicating with our so called family members :P). I thought I’d give her the wrong ID (muahahahahaa) but I ended up giving my yahoo ID. You see my yahoo ID is quite complicated, it goes like ‘ab_cd_ef@yahoo.co.xy’, so I thought maybe she might be lazy to add such a contact, loll. At that time I didn’t know her name as well, when I handed over the piece of paper with my ID, I asked for her name.


Nushrath... hmm quite an ancient name and quite common. After that, I didn’t continue my conversation, my mom had asked for some assistance in the kitchen, and I didn’t bother returning.


The next day itself I find this friend request in yahoo, without even having a second thought I rejected it (all secrets coming out, please don’t hate me nuchu :P). I don’t add people to my yahoo or msn within the first meeting itself, may it be a guy or a gal. I have some ego issues, this is one of them :P. I get the requests for over a time span of two weeks or so, I guess, and I kept on ignoring it. Most people from my family, even the ones that are my age, don’t have the same mindset as mine, they are less ambitious and narrow minded, and they gossip a lot, so I keep away from them. Therefore, applying the same theory, I tried to keep away from Nuchu (please don’t jump to conclusions, read on.).


One fine day my mom asks whether I had seen Nuhrath online and if I’ve been chatting with her. I simply say ‘no’, she asks why and I reply’ I havnt been online much and when I am she isn’t there’; which of course was part of the truth. Then I finally decide to add her and see what happens.


For quite some time I was formal in my conversations and mostly kept to myself; I couldn’t take it after a while, it felt fake, and I started to be myself. It was my ego again, I have this motto that says “I’d rather hated for who I am than to be liked for what I am not”. And it all worked for the best :D. Nushrath and I became great friends, and after some days I introduced her to my blog. I was quite sceptic of this decision, since my blog revealed more about me and that she might not approve of or think otherwise of my way of thinking and my lifestyle. It turned out that we were in the same wavelength of thoughts and assumptions, Kewl :D.


One day I suggested that she should try blogging, I just said that, don’t know why or with what intention. oh yes, now I remember, she had been going through some tough time in her office and wasn’t quite happy with that days current situation; so I told her to start a blog and let out all the frustrations :P. It was quite jokingly that I said thin, But after some days, she introduces me to her blog :D.


And I was amazed myself to see how creative she was getting day by day :D wow :D

P.S: Nuchu I sent this post as a mail so that you could verify it, I don't know if you've read it or not, And I hope I'm not disclosing any confidential matters, loll :P