This post was long due. Some of you might have wondered why there was a long silence at my blog and what I was up to. Well, I got married on the 29th of November, 2008. The blogging world played a huge role in my marriage. How???
I met my husband Dhiman online, not via chat but at the blogging platform of rediff, called rediffiland. He was a fellow blogger who made posts erratically and was basically looking to make some friends online. He sent me a friend request that I accepted. That was the beginning of a journey that none of us thought would culminate in our marriage.
That was way back in August 2007. We used to keep in touch via our blog comments, appreciating the other's write up or just posting a message on the message board. Though he had shared his cell number in those early days, I didn't bother to call up. Taking the silence on my part in his usual self assured sense, he wrote back saying he would wait eagerly for the day when I would call him. I just shrugged off the thing and thought: Oh God, here's another of that typical guy looking to make an online friend and then meeting her and…..
However, what impressed me during this phase was that he was a cool customer. He didn't bother me unnecessarily and gave me time. Slowly, he started sending mails. Though I had added him in my chat contact list of rediffmail, I hardly gave me him the chance to catch me online as I almost always used to log-in in my invisible avtaar. On those days, I saw that he was always online when I used to log in. (Now I know how eagerly he used to stay online during those hours just in case I was online and we could chat).
Things were slow and this continued till Jan'08 end. By then, we were keeping contact via mails too. (Of course, he was the more eager one sending me mails and nice forwards, most of which went unanswered). By this time, I had figured out one fact-here was a guy who was a trusted friend of mine. I gave him my cell number in Feb (not before asking for his cell numbers again as I had not bothered to save his mail where he sent me the same long time back). We met for the first time in March when I went to book a package tour to the Sunderbans. From there, a lot of unexpected events happened (unexpected on my part, off course because the other side had a planned approach that I am aware of now). Finally, I- who had a stance of staying unmarried and had caused much trouble to my parents on this issue, had exchanged garlands with the one around whom my life and dreams now revolve. Want to meet him? Check out his rediffiland blog at http://extremist.rediffiland.com.
And yes, thanks for reading this rubbish stuff till the end.
