Finishing the project back in kerala

we indulged into fully fledge talks after that. she was still going to college. it was her final year. and i was back in Irinjalakuda completing my project on time. my stint with them was turning out to be a good experience for me. it were just some days left for the project time frame to get over. and i was hurrying for it. in between i got a job offer from MUV tech in chennai and i was very glad that i could go there directly and get on with the job which they had promised in August.

it was amazing to be in the feeling of love. i can still remember that i was in uncle's place when this proposal thing happened. my cousins were with me. all they could see was that i was sitting late at night and was msg-ing snu about how we could talk after this. and also the wonderful feeling that was there in us. my cousins were curious to know who this person was with whom i was chatting on the phone. i told them about snu. they were teasing me. they were just school kids.. but were quiet jolly to be indulging in these things :)

i spent the rest of the 2 days with my uncle and cousins and went back to irinjalakuda to finish my project. it was amazing feeling indeed. now i was again free to talk to snu anytime i wanted :) when i reached, it was evening. i told about my trip about international film festival to the concerned people in the orphanage. they were also happy that i could meet my relatives and spend some time with them.

even when we were not committed to a long term relationship, we always had sweetheart as names along with our msgs. as friends we never felt that some words could be used only among
lovers. but we were so free to use them. that we never felt we were lovers. anyway we were best friends :) but during out phone calls we never used that word .. or even darling... we even had used "love yous" in our sms lot of times. it was kind of friendly affection and love.

so i remember the first call that i made her after i reached the project place. it was evening and she was returning in her college bus back home from her engineering college. the very salutation when she lifted the phone was "hi darling"..!! i heard, how much emotion she had put into that.

our sms continued. i used to even right now all the smses that she had ever sent :) it was a craze. i used to write it down so small that i could fit into sheets of papers. easily without wasting many papers over there. with small small letters in running hand. those papers are still there somewhere at home. i think brought with me. its with me somewhere inside the luggage :) after 4 yrs when i was reading it in 2010, it made a feel the great friendship we ever had developed.

So it happened that i finished the animation and i was waiting for compilation of the film in terms of putting all shots together and also mixing sound with it. the trip to Chennai made me meet the director of MUV. She had been telling me to wait for the time when they would be ready to intake me for a job. i thought, its best to go to Chennai and look for a job along with completing the project. thats y the first thing i did was to book a ticket to chennai to go there :)

and i told her that i would be coming straightaway to chennai and be there n look for something substantial to continue my project and probably a job as well to settle in that city. so there i was... straight to chennai :) from irinjalakuda.

The Proposal!

i went back to Mumbai after the short trip of 2 days in Chennai. i stayed with Shilpa, one of the aquantances in NID where i studied. she had one more friend and also 2 guys who stayed in the flat in anna nagar.

it was with Shilpa only that i was dropped to the Anand theatre for the international film festival
that happened those times. it was good to be in a known company in an alien place. and her office was also nearby which even helped becos she could go to her office anytime after spending some time in the Anand theatre with me.

Though i was the one who left her on the 2nd day in the theatre to go n meet snu on the second day outside. anyway those memories stayed fresh in my mind when i reached mumbai. i was again back to the place where i had a bit of mental torture from my cousin sister. anyway i had to adjust somehow becos i was excited that i would soon get a project in Chennai to work for and i would be closer to snu.

time passed by... it was august and i could finalise my dip project place to be in Irinjalakuda in Kerala. it was a surprise but also good thing for me becos i was visiting kerala after so many years. i thought it was a good opportunity to go and live there for some months and also do the project peacefully.

by mid-September 2005 i was there. i was constantly in touch with snu thru sms. because we could use a free sms service which was offered thru reliance. we could always send unlimited sms to each other even if it was STD. she continued sending me the forwarded smses and gradually we shifted towards sending personal smses. it was friendly in nature.
we started shedding our inhibitions. started discussion about naughty things via the sms. she had actually cleared some of her doubts through those discussions. she became all the more closer and had lot of possessive nature towards me.

once on a daytime i and snu did a 3-way conference chat with my other chat friend. she was trying to see whether snu was liking me or loving me. thru that discussion atleast i was sure that snu was having a great deal of affection towards me. we had some confused talks on phone. becos even i was not sure whether i would have snu was my girlfriend or not. becos it was kind of out of question for me for marrying her. so i kept denying it in my mind. But somehow my heart wouldnt agree.

so here came October, when i went for another international film festival in Kochi. our one minute film was selected there for screening and i thought it would be a great time for me to meet my relatives in kottayam. So i was in Kochi for one day. That day i attended the screening and was getting bored as there was no one accompanying me thru the journey. i watched some movies in the hall and came out during lunch time. i started calling snu and started chit-chatting with her on phone.

She asked me a question, "now listen carefully and answer me seriously, would u like to have a long term relationship with me? what do u think about it?" i couldnt answer properly. so i asked the question back to her. "what if my answer is 'yes'?"... she said smiling...and happy... "then my answer also would be 'yes' "...
then i asked, "what if my answer is 'no' ?"... she said in a neutral voice.. "then my answer also would be no... " now she thought i was not being serious and was playing around. she said, "oh ho.. say it properly".... i couldnt... then she said, "ok wait for the call in the evening", i would call later"... i said "ok"... we kept the phone!

after that i took lunch in a restaurant and went to the bus station and caught a bus to Kottayam and took a 4 hours journey to Kottayam down south. it was quiet long and tiring journey.

my uncle had come to pick me up. when we were near home, snu had called up. so i called back. she asked me to talk to her sister. i was talking to her for the first time. so i was kind of hesitant. But she directly started questioning me. whether what i have in mind when i think about snu or what do i think about her? i told her that i love her and like her very much. she wanted to here those word from me. then it was confirmed that a relationship had been established and she said u gotto give me a treat for this.
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well thats how it happened. the first week of October! thats how we proposed! thats how we became lovers from being best friends and friends for about an year. it was all joy and bubbling in my heart that night. couldnt wait to talk to snu after this. she sent me an sms that its one of the happiest days of her life.