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title: I have a virtual date in London
date: "2001-10-10T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - chat-transcripts
wp_id: 1621
description: I share a 2001 chat transcript where I bond with an Indian student in Canada over Bollywood, consultant jokes, and childhood crushes. We end our cross-continental conversation by setting a virtual date for apple pie and ice cream.
keywords: [chat transcripts, dil chahta hai, ubc, iim, apple pie, internet culture, virtual dating]
---

Yet another one of those late night chats in which I set up a virtual date for apple pie and ice cream with a Canadian grad.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: Hi\
**root\_node**: Hi yours\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-)\
**root\_node**: What're you doing, up so early?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: early??\
**root\_node**: 9:30\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: it's like 9:00 pm hea in Canada\
**root\_node**: Gosh, that's late then. Get to bed!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lolz\
**root\_node**: You from Mumbai?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 9 o'clock ain't that late ;P\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: nope\
**root\_node**: Indian?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: btw...... whatcha doin' up so early yo 'self huh??\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yes, an Indian\
**root\_node**: Me, I'm not awake. I'm sleep-chatting\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-D\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yeah , that makes sense\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**root\_node**: Where in Canada are you?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: B.C.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: are u from Bombay?\
**root\_node**: In Bombay, not from.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-P\
**root\_node**: Where are you from?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I thought I told ya\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: didn't I ?\
**root\_node**: I mean where from India?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: oh\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'm a Gujarati\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)\
**root\_node**: Does the ID "tony\_bam\_bam" ring a bell?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ummmmm.....no.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I don't think so\
**root\_node**: The reason I ask is, a couple of months ago...\
**root\_node**: this guy came over to this chat room, and asked\
**root\_node**: if there were "any Patels around"\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lolz\
**root\_node**: He wanted to learn Gujrati, so he could impress his\
**root\_node**: GF, who was at college.\
**root\_node**: The best I could do was help him out with Hindi.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lolz\
**root\_node**: Hope the poor bloke never tried it out\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: he probably ended up gettin' a slap on his face\
**root\_node**: That would've been the start.\
**root\_node**: You ever slapped anyone? (Or got slapped?)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: The guy's GF..." Tane Gujarati nati aavadtu!!! " \*SLAP\*\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ooooh , that's neva been da case for me\
**root\_node**: What does that mean: "Tane..."\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: " You can't speak no Gujarati !!"\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**root\_node**: And why is that "neva been da case..."?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: just cuz I'm a goodie goodie\
**root\_node**: Gosh, never thought I'd meet somebody goodie goodie on the Net!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: have u ever been slapped?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: So, you've never sneaked a cookie out of its jar, have you?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: maybe earlier when I was a kid\
**root\_node**: Yes, I've been slapped all right. 3 times, if I remember.\
**root\_node**: But that's by my mom, and for not being goodie goodie!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: but I wouldn't get slapped for that!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol@ 3 times\
**root\_node**: No, actually, I've been slapped once after that.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: really?\
**root\_node**: I was driving my scooter to college, and\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: who slapped ya?\
**root\_node**: I banged into this aayah who was crossing the road.\
**root\_node**: Not that I meant to, but...\
**root\_node**: And she slapped me so hard, that my glasses fell off!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: awwww, u poor thing\
**root\_node**: I ran away, of course. (Left the scooter behind)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: She seemed a bit too formidable.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: btw.... wot's an aayah?\
**root\_node**: Um... sort of like a maid-servant?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: a maid slapped ya??\
**root\_node**: Pretty hard\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: how could she!?!?!?\
**root\_node**: Can't demonstrate, I'm afraid. You'll have to use your imagination\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: Are you in school?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: uni.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u ?\
**root\_node**: I just graduated. Working (and earning money! wow -- feels so good)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-P\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: what sorta work do ya do?\
**root\_node**: I'm a consultant. :-(\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: why the :-( ?\
**root\_node**: Well, lots of people don't like consultants.\
**root\_node**: You know the jokes, right?\
**root\_node**: A consultant takes your watch and tells you the time.\
**root\_node**: A consultant comes uninvited and tells you how many sheep you have,\
**root\_node**: and takes your dog, Etc. etc. etc.\
**root\_node**: BTW, which univ are you at?\
**root\_node**: A couple of my friends are at York and McGill\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: <------ likes consultants though\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: .. or maybe a consultant\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I go to UBC\
**root\_node**: <---- likes yours\_truly :-x\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: awwww, that's sweet\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-D\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :turns away from **root\_node** and blushes.\
**root\_node**: <----- waits to get slapped...\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**root\_node**: What's your major?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: Business Admin.\
**root\_node**: Ouch!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: whaa?\
**root\_node**: I just did my MBA too. That ain't good....\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)

**root\_node**: All the people I see around me\
**root\_node**: are BBA, MBA, etc.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ...and that's not good... why?\
**root\_node**: Well... actually, it's good. But then, I'd rather you said "Abstract poetry" or something.\
**root\_node**: Now, THAT's an exotic major\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-D\
**root\_node**: Do you read poetry?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: in school , yes\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: do u?\
**root\_node**: Nope. I've this disease. I'm allergic to poetry. In fact...\
**root\_node**: every time I read a book that has verse inbetween,\
**root\_node**: I just can't read the verse! My eyes refuse to go to that part!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: oh dear\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: you've gotta like poetry!\
**root\_node**: The only exception till date has been "The Mouse's Tail" in Alice in Wonderland.\
**root\_node**: You've read it?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: nope\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: is it any good?\
**root\_node**: It's cute. The poetry is written in the shape of a mouse's tail\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-P\
**root\_node**: I like limericks too. But that's about it.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: i c\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: can I ask u a question?\
**root\_node**: Sure...\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: how \*young\* are you?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)\
**root\_node**: Not at all. Take a guess...\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 20?\
**root\_node**: When I meant "not at all", I meant \*VERY\* old.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: around 60?\
**root\_node**: Not THAT old.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**root\_node**: But it sure feels old. OK, lower...\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: jus messin' wit ya\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 50?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 45??\
**root\_node**: Lower!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 30?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 25?\
**root\_node**: Lower.\
**root\_node**: Higher\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: huh?\
**root\_node**: 26, actually.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: 26?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hmmmm\
**root\_node**: why?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: that's not too old\
**root\_node**: It sure feels really old...\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: r u married?\
**root\_node**: Compared to the days my dad could lift me, at least!\
**root\_node**: Nope, unmarried.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: got a gf?\
**root\_node**: The pleasures of a bachelor's life are still mine.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: oh okay\
**root\_node**: What about you? Are you 20?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lower actually\
**root\_node**: 18?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yep\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'm 18.\
**root\_node**: Guess you'd be in your first year, then. BF?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: naaw, no bf\
**root\_node**: Oh dear me, you poor thing... why not?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: broke up wit mah ex last yr\
**root\_node**: Oh... too bad.\
**root\_node**: Was he fun?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ??\
**root\_node**: I mean, was he humorous?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: sure he was\
**root\_node**: Yeah, that's the kind of BF/GF I'd like. Someone who's fun to be with.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)\
**root\_node**: I sure'd like to be with someone with a good sense of humour!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: thas kewl\
**root\_node**: What do you do when free, apart from chatting up with strange old men from Mumbai?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol@ strange old men\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I like swimming, playin' tennis wit dad on da weekends, skating,\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: sleeping (:-)), watchin' movies..etc.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yourself?\
**root\_node**: Good lord, the outdoor types!!\
**root\_node**: I'm the "indoor types"\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: what sorta stuff?\
**root\_node**: Eating, sleeping (OK, we got that in common), reading, talking\
**root\_node**: ummm... anything else that's useless.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: Actually, I like doing nothing the best.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: you crack me up\
**root\_node**: You know, sitting at home, not sleeping... not reading.. not eating...\
**root\_node**: that's the best way to enjoy life.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-P\
**root\_node**: Of course, even better would be to get paid for it\
**root\_node**: Hey, have you ever modelled for a painting?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: moi??\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: haha\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: naah\
**root\_node**: That's the perfect job!! You just sit there while the guy paints you,\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: and you'd get paid for it!! I'm going to\
**root\_node**: hunt around for some painters in the locality!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-)\
**root\_node**: What movies do you watch?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: English and Hindi movies\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u?\
**root\_node**: Add Tamil to the list.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: Vannakam\
**root\_node**: Gosh!! How'd you know that!?!?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I have mah sources\
**root\_node**: Not fair!! I don't know a WORD of Gujrati.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: Well,... except for "Tane..." oops.. I forgot that too!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**root\_node**: Seen Dil Chahta Hein?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yeah , I saw it yesterday\
**root\_node**: Liked it?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ummm..errrrmm..uhh\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I guess\
**root\_node**: OK, not quite I guess.\
**root\_node**: Why not

**root\_node**: I mean, what didn't you like\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I didn't quite get the story\
**root\_node**: Ah....\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: and my Hindu sucks\
**root\_node**: Oh... OK. Actually, I loved it!\
**root\_node**: Especially that part with Saif Ali Khan. I'm kind-of like that.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: he's kinda cute\
**root\_node**: I think Aamir's the cutest of the lot, though.\
**root\_node**: Except for Saif's voice. That was so funny!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-D\
**root\_node**: What's your all-time favourite movie?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hmmmmm.... Mary Poppins\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yours?\
**root\_node**: Oh, I haven't seen Mary Poppins!\
**root\_node**: My favourite is Roman Holiday.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: neva heard of that\
**root\_node**: !!!!! You can't be serious!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I haven't\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: seriously\
**root\_node**: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn....\
**root\_node**: It's her FIRST movie!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: me don't know\
**root\_node**: Really, you ought to see it. It's fabulous!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-P\
**root\_node**: It's about a princess, who doesn't like being a princess,\
**root\_node**: so she runs away, and a reporter finds her,\
**root\_node**: and he knows she's the princess, but she doesn't\
**root\_node**: know he knows, and they go around the city, while he secretly\
**root\_node**: takes snaps of her, and then they go to a dance, fall in love, but then the\
**root\_node**: princess has to go back, so he drops her at the palace,\
**root\_node**: and finally,.... no I won't tell you the ending.\
**root\_node**: It's just incredible!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-O\
**root\_node**: And I've got to see Mary Poppins too. It's been on my list for too long.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)\
**root\_node**: Who's acted in it?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: can u talk on da mic?\
**root\_node**: Nope. I'm at office, and the guy next to me is a bit paranoid about noises...\
**root\_node**: In fact, every time I'm on the phone, there's this\
**root\_node**: perpetual "hush hush" sound that he keeps making behind me!\
**root\_node**: Hey, Mary Poppins has Julie Andrews!! I didn't know that.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hey\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u there??\
**root\_node**: Yup... you been getting my messages?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: sorry , I got d/c\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-(\
**root\_node**: Are you on a dial-up\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yea\
**root\_node**: Well, it sure is much faster than the dial-ups around here!\
**root\_node**: Do you chat often?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yeah , on da weekends\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u ?\
**root\_node**: I started chatting every weekend...\
**root\_node**: but a couple of months ago, I met this person, with whom\
**root\_node**: I went out for dinner. In which she revealed herself, (amidst tears)\
**root\_node**: to be a chain smoker, alcoholic, drug addict, and a lesbian, and introduced me\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-O\
**root\_node**: to the gay DJ she was currently living with.\
**root\_node**: And there's court cases pending against her in 3 cities.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: whoa\
**root\_node**: And I'd adopted her as my daughter on the Internet!!\
**root\_node**: So I've kind of taken to staying away from chat rooms, and trying to recover\
**root\_node**: (just kidding!)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: that's crazy\
**root\_node**: I came online today to chat with a friend at SF. She wasn't around, though...\
**root\_node**: Yeah, it's crazy. But though I said it\
**root\_node**: in a funny way, (and it's true), poor thing was really confused.\
**root\_node**: Her father's a big-shot at SAIL. IIT-IIM and all that.\
**root\_node**: And she's got some problems at home, I think.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: how old is she?\
**root\_node**: 21\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: k.\
**root\_node**: Strange, really.. how life can change some people.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yea\
**root\_node**: From what she tells me, she was nothing like this when she was a kid.\
**root\_node**: Hmm... how'bout you? What were you like when you were a kid?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: you'd hafta ask mommy\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**root\_node**: And what might she say?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: that I was a perfect angel\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: j/k\
**root\_node**: j/k?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: just kidding\
**root\_node**: Ok,... which still leaves the "little angel's" childhood activities...?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I dunno\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I think I was a good kid\
**root\_node**: I mean, what did YOU feel like when you were a kid?\
**root\_node**: Have you changed?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: sure I have!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'm not a kid anymore\
**root\_node**: In what ways?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ;-)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'm more mature wit my ways\
**root\_node**: I'm told I was very cute and cuddly as a kid.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: do you think you've changed at all from the age of 6 till now?\
**root\_node**: I kinda disagree. I look horribly fat.\
**root\_node**: Not that I don't right now... but I'd remove the horribly from it. And I'm not cute AT ALL.\
**root\_node**: But as for viewpoint, yeah, I've changed in some ways.\
**root\_node**: I don't know if I like it, though.\
**root\_node**: I still have the innocence I had as a kid. I trust everybody and everything.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-)

**root\_node**: But I lost the carefreeness of childhood somewhere along the way, and am trying to get it back.\
**root\_node**: These days, I'm more cautious, more... sober, etc.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: do u drink?\
**root\_node**: Nope. Do you?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: na\
**root\_node**: Why not?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: do u smoke?\
**root\_node**: Not that either. And I suppose you don't, too.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yea, neither do I\
**root\_node**: Why? Don't like it? Scared to? Never tried?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: never tried it ... and never want to\
**root\_node**: I tried some wine, actually. Couldn't stand the taste.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: well, a few drinks might be aiite\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: you don't like wine?\
**root\_node**: It tasted too bitter. It was red wine, I think.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: i c\
**root\_node**: I stupidly bought it when I was at Paris, figuring that if I'm in France, may as well buy wines...\
**root\_node**: But neither I, nor my parents, nor my GF liked it.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: kewl\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: r u a Maharashtrian?\
**root\_node**: As always, chocolates are the best thing to buy anywhere!\
**root\_node**: No, I'm a Madrasi.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: You like chocolates?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: luv'em!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u ?\
**root\_node**: Me too!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: White chocolates, especially.\
**root\_node**: I'm quite capable of finishing of a kg of chocolates a meal.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**root\_node**: And if they're white, 2 kgs!!\
**root\_node**: I like ice-cream too. Actually, my favourite dish (varies, but mostly)\
**root\_node**: is hot apple pie with ice cream.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I hate white chocolate\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: it makes me feel as if I'm eating milk bars\
**root\_node**: Gosh! I disown you!!\
**root\_node**:\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: sowwie , but I don't like'em\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**root\_node**: Actually, I'm in a minority. Very few people I know like white chocolate.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ooooh, apple pie wit ice cream!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I really want some dessert now\
**root\_node**: Me too... hey have you had dinner?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yes I have\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: have u?\
**root\_node**: And dessert too? Already?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: wanna go out for ice cream?\
**root\_node**: Sure. Shall we?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lets!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: Where to, though? There's a good cafe at London. About mid-way, I think?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: oh , we could meet up there then\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: or maybe I can come pick ya up\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: <----- has a private jetplane\
**root\_node**: That would be great too. No landing strip near my office, though\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: Not to worry -- I'll climb to the rooftop, and you can pull me up by rope\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'll make one then\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: oh that could do too then\
**root\_node**: Have you seen "The Matrix"?\
**root\_node**: Got disconnected again?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: sorry\
**root\_node**: what happened?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: got d/c\
**root\_node**: No problem -- that's another thing we could fix when you drop by with your airplane.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ello?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: We'll get you a good wireless connection!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: okay , so you ready then ?\
**root\_node**: Sure. How long will it take you?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: it won't take too long\
**root\_node**: OK, I'll take the elevator in a couple of minutes, then.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: okie dokie\
**root\_node**: I may have to break a few doors, but for you, anything!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: awwww\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: How late is it there?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: it's 10:15 pm hea\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: what's the time there?\
**root\_node**: 10:45AM.\
**root\_node**: Exactly 12 hours!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yea\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u sure u wanna have dessert in the morning?\
**root\_node**: Hmm... this also means you're talking to me from yesterday night -- Saturday!\
**root\_node**: Sure, why not dessert in the morning? Dessert's good at any time of the day! (or night!)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: aiite then\
**root\_node**: Have you ever wanted to be a pilot?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: no , not really\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: have u?\
**root\_node**: Naah. But I always wanted to fly. Like Superman.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: Still want to, frankly\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**root\_node**: Disconnected again?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: no , I'm still hea\
**root\_node**: Oo.. guess we've run out of topics, then!!\
**root\_node**: That can't be!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: you've gotta think of something!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: Quick!!\
**root\_node**: Tell me something about yourself, will you?\
**root\_node**: Stuff that you haven't told anyone.\
**root\_node**: We can swap secrets!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lolz\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yeah sure I'd like to do that\
**root\_node**: OK, then! Start..\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: swapping secrets wit someone I just met like half an hour ago!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: Yeah... my dad would think me crazy if he heard!

**yours\_truly00\_2000**: we might as well not then\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: don't ya think?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: unless ofcourse you really wanna tell me your secrets\
**root\_node**: Depends. are you going to tell my dad what I told him? (If you do, I'll poke a hole in your jet plane!!)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: a hole in my jetplane??\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: don't you even....!!!\
**root\_node**: Yaah! So don't you dare tell anyone my secrets!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I won't\
**root\_node**: So, what's your secret?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'm a lesbian\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: well, a homo\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL\
**root\_node**: Noo..... this can't be... you too? I'm a lesbian too!!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: j/k\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: wowwy!!!!!!!!!!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: is this a dream come true????\
**root\_node**: My darkest secret. No one knows.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol@ your darkest secret\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: In fact, no one even knows I'm a girl. They all think I'm a guy (funny, really)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: And even then, they don't believe I like girls more than guys!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**root\_node**: Every time I go to a disco and tell girls I'm a lesbian, and would they... well,\
**root\_node**: dance with me, they kind of run away.\
**root\_node**: The girls won't even understand my feelings!! God, I'm so happy to have met you\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: me too, me too!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'm soooooooooooo berry beery glad\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: oh God! I'm even more tempted to have dessert wit u now!\
**root\_node**:\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: Uh... just one thing. I'm not going back to your place after the first dessert itself, though.\
**root\_node**: I want to be properly dated!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: awww man!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: just when I thought I could bring ya home wit me\
**root\_node**: No way! What do you think? I'm a PROPER LADY!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: ( Aside: yea right)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: LOL@ proper lady\
**root\_node**: OK, then, so... what's your real secret?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u tell me yours\
**root\_node**: Hmm... lemme see...\
**root\_node**: OK, there was this girl who studied with me at school.\
**root\_node**: And when I was in class 3, we had this play. The Sleeping Beauty.\
**root\_node**: She was the princess, and I was the prince.\
**root\_node**: The last scene (where the prince is supposed to kiss the princess) was\
**root\_node**: changed for our benefit, and in my case, I just got to put my hand on her head.\
**root\_node**: Her name's {censored}, and she grew up to be the most beautiful girl I ever laid my eyes on.\
**root\_node**: Till date, I never have gotten over the fact that it could've been me, giving her the first kiss!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: aaaawwww, that's so sweet!\
**root\_node**: I lost touch with her for a long time.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: It was only 6 months ago that I learnt from a friend that\
**root\_node**: she was working for {censored} at {censored}.\
**root\_node**: I hadn't even tried to get in touch with her for all these years,\
**root\_node**: just scared of what I'd say to her, and\
**root\_node**: stuff. I learnt that she's engaged. Now, here's where the irony starts.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: she's engaged??\
**root\_node**: She's engaged to a guy named Anand. (My name's Anand.)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: That Anand plays the keyboard really well. (So do I)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: whoaaa\
**root\_node**: He's from IIM-A. (I'm from IIM-B.)\
**root\_node**: He's a tamil brahmin. (So am I)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: :-O\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: is he YOU??????\
**root\_node**: Naaah!!\
**root\_node**: That would've been too good to be true. But no.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: twins???\
**root\_node**: I saw their wedding snaps (yeah, she's married now -- sob sob)! But no, not twins (at least to my knowledge)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: do u ever regret not keeping in touch?\
**root\_node**: Well... actually no.\
**root\_node**: I mean, for all that she was a wonderful girl and all that,\
**root\_node**: my life's been great the way it is.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**root\_node**: So there, that's MY secret.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: yep\
**root\_node**: Your turn, now.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: \*cough\* \*cough\*\
**root\_node**: (clear your throat as well!)\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I think I should tell u once I come pick ya up\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: we'll have something to talk to over dessert\
**root\_node**: Naah, not fair!! Tell me now, please? Please? Pretty please?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: lol\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I don't think I've really had any such secrets yet\
**root\_node**: Oh, it doesn't have to be "such" a secret. Anything goes!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: can't think of anything\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: u there??\
**root\_node**: Well... why not invent one then? And tell me about it before you hop on to your jet?\
**root\_node**: I mean, what kind of a secret would you LIKE to have?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I don't need secrets in my life\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: My life's an open book\
**root\_node**: Hmm... is it? Really?\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: uh huh\
**root\_node**: You're a really lucky person, then.\
**root\_node**: Stay that way if you can!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I will\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: thanks

**root\_node**: Chalo, let me not keep this goodie goodie girl past her bedtime.\
**root\_node**: Take care, and make sure you think of me every time you have dessert!!\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: hehe\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**:\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: I'll see to that\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: been lovely talkin' to ya Anand\
**root\_node**: Bye! Nice chatting to you.\
**yours\_truly00\_2000**: byee