Triveni and I met at Cry .. child rights and you.. a social cause organization's chennai office.
I was initially not talking much with trivy though I like her, because I thought Ravi was a boyfriend.. she had brought Ravi to a CRY meeting and this guy's chatter was so much for me to ignore his presence and try to like trivy.
Geetha was a friend at Cry.. who I met there too.. and my flirt in me makes triveni think I had a crush on geetha rather than her.. trivy was always sitting close to geetha if they both came for any of the meets. So, trivy also didn't try talking to me.
Geetha and I spoke now and then .. ofcourse on things related to CRY... of which geetha still thought I was trying to make a move on her. Though I liked geetha, I wasn't sure of her or neither was I trying to talk to her with intentions other than just feeling nice about meeting or talking to her.
It turned out that geetha now and then mentioned to trivy about my moves or thoughts... from what she assumed as my intentions. This only got trivy keep out any distant thoughts about me from her head..
I couldn't get any closer to knowing or liking trivy.. because Trivy was not a regular to Cry.
Later I found she was not a regular to.. "anywhere".. not college, not her mom-dad's place.. not to her friends places.. except for one place.. and that place is not on the planet.. orkut that is.
Ravi turned out .. to be her orkut friend.
Trivy turned out to be not a regular at cry.. because she liked going to orkut (you should hear her say that as if that was like going physically to some place).. and reading out who did what from there.. from photos, peoples names (ya, orkut people change their first and surnames often to show what they are doing or feeling like more than their real names)... and importantly learning things from something out of this world called "crap".. er er.. its "Scrap" in orkut.. trivy thinks that orkut crapping.. er er. scrapping is out of the world idea.
An year and a half of advice later she "goes to" orkut less often.. but still can't avoid it.. she and her ridiculous list (read gang) of friends on orkut scrap each other.. like scrapping each others head.
That is how ridiculous I feel still about her habitat, her living area.. her orkut page.. and now one more step ahead.. her facebook wall, she is trying to get that going.
Going back to history of me meeting trivy.. At the end of the wait.. I think I decided, if you want to talk to triveni, you should install gtalk and try. That happened one day, and I was talking to her initially about how we can help CRY .. and later about .. like they say "all things under the sun".
Chatting with trivy was more interesting than liking to talk to geetha who mistook my intentions with her and even turned down twice or thrice my offer to drop her off even 500m away in my bike.
And more than that.. trivy turned out to be interesting because, she listened with an open mind and blabbered with an open mind about herself when she knew I was not asking things with intentions.
We started to talk about brothers, sisters, whose childhood was most difficult, how we got into what fields of study for what reasons.. and all that.. including whose doggie pisses longer.
If you are curious.. its her doggie that pissed longer... and her brother used to have the "doggie pissing" photo as a thumbnail image on his orkut page.. which trivy would point you to go see if you spoke to her those days.
Yes... they even take photographs of these things these days... even though they know the doggie will do that again 4 hrs later.
Like in many of our slightly over 3 hour chat sessions, I and trivy realized that we both have a lot in common in our lives or things that often lead to dating, marriages in movies.. and we seemed to like it and say to each other that things are that way... and giggle (sorry.. its blushing.. trivy tells me later one day it is called blushing... heck, I knew only flushing)
On another chat, I told trivy I studied in AVM school and she was like "whaaaat" "OMG".. and all for a while on chat.. then she tells me "I also studied there.. can you believe it".
If you are curious.. yes, I believed it and it was true.. she could tell all teacher names, who thought what and still wonders why I didn't know her or any of her batchmates, while she seemed to know (not me) but some of my batchmates.
She is a classic "remember-all" when it comes to people, what they do, and all her gossipy stuff.. and the "forget-all" when it comes to remembering what she was saying a second earlier if you even cough while she talks..
Our story developed this way, and I was eagerly praying for that day.. which did come.. the day I don't have to type to talk to trivy but "really" talk.. the day internet was not neccessary for our connection to exist.
She did share her number.. and one or two blunt, what-to-talk calls later, we both were fine. .. I had a terribly good feeling about trivy though I hadn't dated her, or, neither have I did the 'wait in that corner of your house without the risk of being noticed by a neighbour so I can pick you up' kind of stuff.
It was this time, she met with a mild accident in an autorickshaw, and she cried at her house, and chatted all that with me on gtalk before going off to cry more.. She was unhappy about nobody caring about her accident and stuff like that.. and I started calling her and telling her to go consult a bone specialist immediately to check for fractures.. which all she liked to hear.. except that I was telling her to consult a doctor at around 00:30 am.
The next day, I called up trivy in the morning, made her come to the busstop, ride with me to a doctor.. only that I didn't tell her which doctor and all, and went direct to one of the best hospitals in chennai the Apollo specialities in nandanam.
I further went directly to the "emergencies" ward with all the right intentions, got a pointer to a doctor's desk.. rushed her there.. and then the doctor was not there, or he would come only in the evening they said. Only that all this was happening for a mild fracture as later it turned out to be.. and trivy was having pains in her joints because of straining more than the accident which only triggered it. The doctor who trivy calls 'chocks' (chockalingam) and his attendee nurses were all smiles the way I was jumping at them for saying doc is available only in the evening and my girl had met with an accident and having fractures everywhere... that was my feeling though trivy didn't have one fracture...not till this day. :o)
Trivy was surprised about all the attention I was showering at the hospital .. in that she is an emergency ward patient just from a big major accident, although she was not looking a bit like a patient, leave alone an emergency ward patient. I was telling her, "whaat .. did I make too much a scene for this with the nurse.. and look at you, nobody would agree you met with an accident, you are not even looking dull".. and she blushed and giggled for all that.
Soon after, a couple of days, and,
I was out of chennai for a relative's marriage after strangely calling up trivy more than once to tell her how long i am gone, and when I am boarding the train, going to come back and set foot in chennai, etc., in detail... which I had never done before with anybody.. it was like I didn't want to go.
And from my relative's marriage I was finding things unbearable until I called up and spoke to trivy for only 10 mins... or one hour I don't remember.. :o)
Trivy was on the call itself like indirectly saying "you are going to have tough time with me.." for me interestingly advicing her to take her medicines properly.
Once I was back I thought.. I shall propose to her to marry me.. and I planned an evening nice enough for it.. I started at 3pm itself.. for a 5pm or later meeting with her.. bought her more than one card.. went to coffee day (where the incident was to happen).. wrote down what I wanted to write in all the cards.. prepared the gift and things wrapped in a cover, called her up around 530 and met her.. she was only coming with me for a coffee.. and was telling stories about her day around chennai, and all that.. and we were in coffee day around 7 or something I think.. I don't remember the time of the incident, but because of repeated brickbats from trivy I remember the day was november 17th.. (hope it is correct, or she is going to kill me when she reads this)..
I gave the cards one by one, she was all glee and bright with cute eyes wide open.. trying to read them without showing off excitement.. the first 4 cards I had planned would tell only jokes about her.. and the fifth one makes the proposal.. so as to cool her down in case she didn't like the idea.. and more so to cool me off in case she has to only return one card out of five. Isn't that a nicely thought of plan.. pat me on my back. .. and No you may not copy the intelligence behind this approach.. I am gonna patent and copyright it.
If you are curious.. First thing trivy said was.. "I wanted to propose you first maaaan".. and then she made a call and told her bro. about it.. and that stupid fellow in all his mind was asking her for some pocket money I guess, instead of wishing her well. She never said "Yes" and all that day.. like it happens in movies.. though she mentioned indirectly she was accepting it..
To this day, she still thinks and tells me "you were supposed to give those to geetha na.. " about the cards... whenever I take up the sweet many ways I proposed her.. Stupid idiot goose she is.. that is how she scolds me when I do something. so, this is my turn. :o)
Thanks for reading.. how Harry met Trivy..
