Flashbacks: A Year To Remember (Part II): How I Met Polo

Okay, so this is the episode where I am supposed to write about How I Met Polo, but before that, there was one more funny little thing that happened with Arka.

One day while we were just about to start talking in Google Talk, before he actually met me, he gave me a link he had found in someone’s scrapbook (Those days we were well into Orkut rather than Facebook). It was some silly Love Calculator in which we had to enter the name of 3 persons we had a crush on. So, he was all so excited and asked me to do it, and that it really worked! I recognised the link as soon as I saw it. So I filled those 3 names and hit the “Calculate” button on that page, and there came a message flashing – “Oops, we accidentally sent those names to ‘findarka_007@yahoo.com’. Fool your friends and find out who their secret cursh is.” (findarka_007 is Arka’s ID).

After this, I went back to the chat and told him that it wasn’t fair at all, and he shouldn’t trick others about their sentiments etc etc. But he was very happy that he fooled me and apologised, but he was really very very happy, and I could feel the heat even though I wasn’t in front of him. So, I finally got over it and said “Now that you have the mail, so just see it, what can I do now”. And then he opened his mail and saw the three names:

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-I know this

-sends the names

-to your email address

I waited like forever to have his reply after having him see this. Now I will quote EXACTLY what he said and then translate it.

“dhurr saala, ami kauke boka banate parina, shobai saala amake boka baniye deye, ki yaar, dhurr bhalo lage na”

Translation: “Oh Crap, I never get to fool anybody, everybody fools me, what man, crap, I never like it.”

HA HA! This is just a small story that happened once very long ago. I thought I would share.

So back to How I Met Polo. Now, a little recap. I started talking to Polo over the internet not long after Arka added me to the Orkut Community. She was really excited, like all of us, about the Freshmen Welcome Party we call “Freshers’” here (which eventually never came). We were all fantasising about how it would be when we will all meet up at the Freshers’ as we have already talked too much with each other over the Chatroom but never met. We were all really excited to meet each other whom we have become really good friends with and there was never a day that went by without meeting in the Orkut.

Even though I often used to see her at quite a distance, I never went to meet her coz I liked the mystery about not meeting and I always told her to have patience, its just till Fresher’s you have to wait. So, one day I did leak to her that she and I went home in the same bus that day but I didn’t say “Hi” and she got crazy and bummed out and started shouting at me that day in Google Talk (You can know when someone shouts at Chat). I was secretly enjoying, coz I was determined not to meet her till the Fresher’s. When Fresher’s kept delaying, and the suspense was starting to die out, so I decided to meet her next time we went by the same bus. That day wasn’t too long.

After some 4-5 days, she again boarded the same bus as I did. She was all tired, as most of us usually were, stuffed her earfones in her ear and settled down just a seat away from where I was sitting. No wonder she didn’t recognise me. As soon as I saw her, my mind took a sudden jolt and I started cooking what could be the best way to pinch.

“Hey, you are Polo right.” I said tapping her shoulders wearing an expression like I was a senior.

“Yes” she replied with a blank stunned face. I bet she wasn’t ready for that.

“Any idea who I might be?” I asked.

“No, I mean, I don’t...”

“Okay, don’t say that I didn’t come to meet you when in actual you cannot recognise people”

(A minute silence)

(Another minute silence)

(A few more minutes’ silence)

“You are Samik?”

“My God, you are worst tubelight I have ever seen” I said...

And indeed she was (A BIG ONE too). She jabbered all the way and I kept praying that the bus would go a bit faster and my stoppage will be reached quickly.

This was the first time I met Polo, but the fun Arka and I had with her doesn’t end here...

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