Start of the new Era: Ella

This story begun much earlier than March 13, 2003 !! The day when I sent first mail to Ella (Jan-Feb), no one could have ever thought that the story would go so far as it is today. The yahoo greeting to Ella was having some weird picture on it and I wrote down that "Pls. don't put too much of your brain to analyze the meaning of the picture above. This mail comes casually to check the validity of your email id!! " . Then I got reply from her and my another greeting followed... then another .. another .. one more .. Until I sent a Chinese greeting (assuming it's a friendship greeting) and it turned out later that it was a marriage proposal in Chinese!!!!!

So a long time in silence followed from her during which, I was impatient and frustrated to change the status quo.

During the lectures as she was surrounded with a lot of girls who were basically my good friends and had no clue about the online business we had carried out in between, I had hardly any chance of getting along with her during the lectures.

The only lecture was of finance when I could possibly be with her. (Nonetheless there were two annoying guys who used bug me in that task!) Still, got lucky enough to make it happen one day and asked her on a piece of paper "Would u like to come for a booze in the eve ?". at the end of the lecture she agreed to meet at 8.00 p.m.

Although she has mentioned that, we arrived at RSVP very casually.. in fact, It was all pretty much planned by me. I had even decided upon the seats. In that evening, Ella appeared confident (and mostly I too), we talked a lot , out of which a major part was from Ella. Her friend (later my beloved friend and a gr8 smoking partner: Kim) was apparently on the date as she has explained, and Ella was periodically thinking if that was the best time to call her!!

We hardly run out of topics contrary to my fears.The music in the pub was kool, the ambience was exciting, although a lot of people in the pub, the place where we were was still romantic. With Ella’s talks and the beer, the night turned out to be a beautiful experience. I somehow controlled the temptation to pull Ella's cheeks all the time while she was speaking. That night will remain in my most cherishable memories of life.