Beyond Lounge.

What can be beyond lounge, I had been asking the question myself. And then suddenly Neha's birthday came.. phew! And guess what? Okay you wana hear the story, here it is: 

I have always said that my best people hail from my family or Internet. Except Uzra of course! I've always found my soul mates, sisters, best friends from internet.  Millions of miles apart, yes, but close to heart. J

 Let me tell you about my first Talk to Stephen, my first exclusive nick by Sandeep and Stephen and first call to Sandeep, Mona, Neha and priyanika…

 So, I and Stephen was chatting when he suddenly said, 'hey guess what my celluler network provider has offered one week's free call all around the world'

 That minute I was sure of and one of the following or more than one, is/are true:

1)      He's lost his mind.

2)      He's drunk – which is another form of losing mind.

3)      He's playing a prank on me.

4)      The world is really coming to an end.

5)      The Indian police is going to trace me and prolly capture me

6)      They'll prolly charge me, instead of him, for the call

 5 minutes later I was talking to him and giggling! And after that he concluded that:

 

1)      I hailed from Islamabad

2)      I speak a lot.

3)      I speak very fast

 Hence my new nick will be "Islex" short of Islamabad Express.

 Hehe! The fact guys, is that I don’t talk a lot, Its just that I have good typing speed :P

 

So, after he's dropped the call after 9 min and some seconds we both checked, none of my fears came true, the call was actually absolutely free and I am still safe ;) we threw our sims to minimize the chance of any complexity hehe!! I loved it. What I concluded after the talk:

 

1)      He's sweet. (not in Literal meaning people! Don’t try adding him in your desserts :P)

2)      He speaks so slow!

3)      It takes repetition. Three times of every line till he gets it ;)

4)      He's tall. (hehe! I dono how I concluded this :P)

5)      Has an awesome potential about everything.

 

So that was it, I would call him again too, for 2 minutes (yes its very very expensive at my end. 20 Rs. Per minute. And that’s expensive if you're a student hehe) and to which he'll confirm for one whole minute, is this you Asbah? Have you really called me? Darn one whole minute wasted in such investigation lols.

 

And when Neha, Mona and Ste would meet Sandeep, celebrating Neha's birthday, Sandeep wold call me from stephen's cell and on my saying 'steeee' (read it yelling) he would correct me in his very idea-marketting-manager tune "My Sandeep Balan" damn! And guess what? Till I panic at how he'd persuade ste to use his balance the call was disconnected in 46 secs ;) now who's telling me of generosity? Huh!

 

 I would call them again, for a much longer conversation and guess what Not only I would talk to all of them, first time too all except Ste, (oh second time to sandeep to.. we've had a I-Am-Sandeep-Balan talk minutes before too na) but I would also try to imagine my eating of Tandouri Chicken (because the cake was already done before my call.. how mean!) to that I concluded:

 

Mona: we talk very little but she has a sweet girlish voice.

Neha: her voice is as mature as her writing – way too

Sandeep: was So wrong in nick-naming me Islex, becase he speaks A LOT. Have a hell lot of energy flowing and him bathing in it. (invisibly of course :P ) and He's so hyper (I imagined a jumping bubbling 6 feel tall lol… ) and he speaks way faster! should be nicknamed Mujet. Short of Mumbai Jet  !

 

And the last but not the least, I would call priyanka! a part of the surprise because after much of the ado she was Placed, and that too, for our delight, in the best place of her college *wow* I actually wanted to call right away when I heard the news,  couldnt because was low on credit (yes, welcome to Student's cell phone packages!) so next day at office I left my money at the counter and told the receptionist to favour me enough to bring a call-card. She did, and then I called her.... heart throbbing hard, what if she fainted listening to me?? what if the call wouldnt get through, what if she wont pick at all? etc. so she did pick up and after a lot of hello hello and hello and me saying 'hey its asbah' and shivery too, because I had gotten out of the office to call her... I had to disconnect the call :( I signed in my Gtalk from cell, expecting she would be online, she was, lol (Pure addict) I told her I called and she said she couldnt talk because she was in the class... and that now she could because the minute I dropped the call (not the cell) her class was over. Sigh!

So, I would go to the conference room to hide and call her :P since I couldnt wait for the Lunch-break and for many seconds we'd be so surprise that we wouldnt speak - shock, joy, excitement all coming together in one go :)

And concluded she's hell sweet, typical for the impression I have of her, fairy-talish-pixie! I loved it.

 On pixie, I remembered I have to call a lot of people!

 And on calling I remember why not we have a more official Meet up??

 Lets say, meet somewhere in Mumbai, all of Mumbaikers… Lets take this place Beyond Lounge! We can be there virtually na, just take a laptop and net-connection at the rendezvous!! I anticipate it will be hell fun. What say guys??

 

Wishes,

Asbah.