Ramblings Only

When I noticed DH for the first time, he was cheating in a game of cards we were playing on the train on one of the legs of our 15 day industrial tour in college third year. Movies show such trips to change lives. It definitely did mine. Until then I went to college only to study, attend classes. I realize I was an introvert then too so preferred being couped up in my room reading books or listening to music than spending time in college with friends. After the trip I started spending more time in college. ;--P just like that stay until evening tea, stay overnight some days in friends hostel room. I started engaging with the people in the class only then. 

In the industrial trip DH and I loved the window seat so ended up sitting opposite each other in the train. We preferred icecream even in cold Shimla so ended being the only couple eating icecream when everyone else was sipping hot chai.  When we started talking we forgot everyone around us. We had lots of  dairymilk bets. We would buy them and eat them together. The bets graduated to icecream treats when we returned back from the trip. 

I cleaned his wallet rs300 fat by eating three scoops of icecream in Baskin and Robbins. It was posh for poor people like us. He taught me to ride the bike on an empty road. We treated ourselves in Taj Connemara for our jobs. We saw some Cricket celebrity, and poor DH couldn't even tell his friends about the encounter. 

Farewell party, college culturals, college retreat, and other events I barely attended or paid attention to earlier suddenly were opportunities outside of classroom to meet and talk and spend time. 

Before every exam I would ask him to pray for me in sign language. Irony was I would be better prepared than him, but he still would pray. 

I managed to get my three week industrial training in his hometown. But I lived under the evil eye of a friends strict mom. But that didn't stop us from sneaking out for some famous kothu parotta of Tuticorin, that I had heard so much from him. Master planner he was in planning these escapades. 

He wrote me pages and pages and pages and I did the same before we finished college. 

I badly wanted join Infy for the few months before I left for US, but I decided to spend that time going to the gym for the first time ever. He gave me 2000rs when he visited me before I left for US to keep 'in case of emergency'. 

He would call me from Internet center. Half the time we would be saying 'hello kekkardha' connection would be so bad. If I had spent all my time in the US wasted, he spent those years wasted in Internet center and phone booths. 

Our marriage was probably a big loss for AT&T in US and phone booths and Internet centers in Bangalore.

The money just transferred to Delta Airlines when we got married. DH travelled east coast to CA every other week, he had always been low on sleep. Then when we moved to SF, he spent lot of time on the road driving to and fro to F town. 

Finally he moved to a consulting company that paid for his travel and accomodation in Seattle. We enjoyed some first class benefits of consulting like free hotels for our travel and first class upgrades when we travelled. We finished the perks with a bang by babymooning in Big Island Of Hawaii and travelling first class to Greece, JSK's first flight trip. 

Finally we decided to settle down, we were under one roof. But we still travel from one end of Bay Area to the other. Different fields, different backgrounds, different religion, different family upbringing.

If I was told this is how we would end up living - worrying about things like school and cooking and chores, I wouldn't have believed it in those days. These are good problems to have. 

Life is good. I may have had some bad things and bad luck in my life but touchwood God has never failed to give me things that really matter. As they say we are given what we need than what we want. Amen!