True friendz

Sshhh…..!!! It’s Shil, baby!

Wassup, party ppl!! Your smooth blogger is back, and he’s bigger than ever!!!!!!! LOL.

Guyz. This is actually a serious post. Sometimes I feel that the pace of life is accelerating, and it’s becoming hard to hold on to memories. Memories of ppl you’ve lived with, ppl you’ve loved, ppl you’ve bonded with. And when those memories come back, it’s a set of mixed emotions. And that kind of baggage is something you carry for ever after. Guess you guyz know what I’m talking abt.

So I found out yesterday that my old crush from KGP days, gal by name of Vinitha, just had an arranged marriage to a lawyer in Bangalore. The alliance was announced in the TOI……….

……..what can I say?? Vini was one of those rare gals: she could be very chill abt things, but when it mattered she was very passionate abt a cause. She was also a beautiful singer, who represented KGP in all the inter-college music fests. If I close my eyes, I can remember her standing on the stage in front of a thousand ppl, singing effortlessly with perfect poise. Her favorite number? Chiquitita by ABBA. When she sang those immortal lines “Chiquitita, you and I know, how the heartaches come and they go and the scars they are leaving”, it was as if the whole auditorium had suddenly been transported into a Schrodinger’s box – with probability 1/2 we were still alive and with probability 1/2 we had passed into a heavenly realm.

Vini was my shoulder to cry on when times were tough, always giving me the advice that no one else dared to say. And who could forget the good times we had in Raju Bhaiya’s canteen, eating cutlets and drinking endless cups of tea!!! Yeah, as you probably guessed, I never told her my feelings. And of course, she thought I was just a “good friend”!! If she only knew!!! Guess some guyz are destined to only be “good friendz” forever. But what a good friend she was! When I was depressed over my poor performance in physics lab class, she was the one to comfort me. And when I topped the class in final year inorganic chemistry, she was the first to tell me congrats.

So let me be the first to tell her congrats now. Thx for the good times, Vini. If you’re ever in Edison, don’t forget to look up your good friend, Shil. And this time, we’re really just good friendz, promise!!!!