I return home quite late. I am greeted by an angry Ameena, " where were you? we were worried. You did not receive calls.. don't you ever do that again."
"I am annoyed already, please let me be, i am not a kid any more Ameena please cut me some slack, don't make my stay more miserable than it already is." i say and leave for my room. Exhausted i decide to check my mails, there are few from my colleagues and from my boss regarding my return. I make a mental note to reply him once i get my plane tickets. A mail from Allan i am very happy and open it.
Dear Amy,
I am in France, it is very beautiful you must visit it, i am facing a little hard time as i don't know french. You would have been a great help i wouldn't have minded your blabbers.. ha ha kidding as always :-) but a hilarious thing happened. I met a beautiful girl, during the shoot. We got talking and enjoyed each other's company, so to celebrate the new acquaintance we decided to go for a dinner together and i wanted to impress her so i made a list of things one would need to say in a restaurant and looked up in the small dictionary u gifted me long back, while she had gone home to get ready.
So we went to this beautiful small cafe she was looking gorgeous and i thought to my self Allan boy! this is your chance and i decided to make most of it. A waiter came to take our order and i jumped at the opportunity and insisted that i would place an order. She looked at me a little doubtfully.. alright a lot! but nodded.
i said "Deux salade de tomates si'll'vous plait." for two tomato salads, her face brightened and her smile broadened and my confidence grew.
i said "une boutiile du vin" for a bottle of wine, i could't pronounce the place's name and i didn't know the year in french so i showed him the menu. she looked at me, i thought she was speculating some thing. I was afraid of ruining my impression hence decided to order main course in impeccable french.
Hence, i glanced at the waiter and asked for "Deux plat du poison instead of poisson.."
(i hope you are not laughing.. the pronunciation being hard and the difference being drastic..)
the waiter looked at me in shock and cast a glance at her in a quizzing manner, she smiled slyly with a knowing nod. He sighed and left. She burst out laughing. I wondered what was wrong? she calmed a bit and said "do you know what you asked for?"
I nodded and said " yes for two main courses of fish".
she laughed her musical laugh again and said you pronounced it wrong, when i didn't look like i had understood she explained " you asked for poison instead of fish."
I turned rouge with embarrassment, she said in a kind voice " my husband did the same mistake when we first met" and blushed scarlet
i mentally kicked my self as i had deluded my self into possibilities and asked her " you are married? sorry, but you look like a college student." she blushed deeper, but i was telling the truth. You should have seen her Amy you would have thought the same thing.
she said that she had been married for ten years and had two kids. At that moment the waiter arrived with our order, i stared the plates grimly and thought that this meal of poisson had indeed been poison for my reckless delusion. But she lifted my spirit with her chatter, she is an amazing woman, i am going to meet her family for dinner tomorrow.
check my next mail
mon amour
Allan
After i read this mail i was indeed happy, that is why i am so fond of Allan, he is witty and humorous and silly in his own way. He never failed to make me feel better even in this glum place and exhausted state he made me smile. my thoughts went back to the first day i met him.
I was sitting on the window pane of my dorm room and reading one of my favorite books ' Memoirs of a geisha' in which a geisha was named Sayuri. After i read the book for the first time i had wondered why my mum had named me after a geisha. When i asked her that she laughed and said " no sayuri, i didn't name you after anyone, Sayuri means small lily very pretty just like you." so i had wandered around happily and became fond of this name eventually. Well about how i met Allan, while i was reading the novel it slipped through my hand and fell out and hit some one on the back of his head.
I dashed through the stairs and went to apologize to the person, i first couldn't find him then i saw a cute guy with geeky glasses peering into the book.
I went to him and said "i am terribly sorry."
he looked at me and said " well miss you will have to bow as low as the olden day geisha would as mentioned in the book and ask for forgiveness," He chided
i started to laugh, he joined in and since then the laughter spell hasn't worn out. He and i started speaking about the book and our friendship clicked instantly. It is very easy to become his friend such a sweet heart he is, i still remember when i told him my mum called me Sayuri as an endearment. He said " well quite apt you do look like a small lily and mocked me for my humble 5.4 inches" of height. As days passed we became best buddies with all secrets shared between us. So he knew everything about me and i of him. We stood by each other during ups and downs, those jogs in the morning with him, innumerable arguments over books, movies, food, travel actually anything under the sun and we had each other's shoulder when one broke up. well his break ups surpassing mine by a good deal,,,, Held us bond strongly.
i read the mail again and smiled for a few moments all my present worries had seemed distant, now that i remembered them i felt dull but i cheered at the thought of another mail from Allan, so i close this and click on the next one.
"I am annoyed already, please let me be, i am not a kid any more Ameena please cut me some slack, don't make my stay more miserable than it already is." i say and leave for my room. Exhausted i decide to check my mails, there are few from my colleagues and from my boss regarding my return. I make a mental note to reply him once i get my plane tickets. A mail from Allan i am very happy and open it.
Dear Amy,
I am in France, it is very beautiful you must visit it, i am facing a little hard time as i don't know french. You would have been a great help i wouldn't have minded your blabbers.. ha ha kidding as always :-) but a hilarious thing happened. I met a beautiful girl, during the shoot. We got talking and enjoyed each other's company, so to celebrate the new acquaintance we decided to go for a dinner together and i wanted to impress her so i made a list of things one would need to say in a restaurant and looked up in the small dictionary u gifted me long back, while she had gone home to get ready.
So we went to this beautiful small cafe she was looking gorgeous and i thought to my self Allan boy! this is your chance and i decided to make most of it. A waiter came to take our order and i jumped at the opportunity and insisted that i would place an order. She looked at me a little doubtfully.. alright a lot! but nodded.
i said "Deux salade de tomates si'll'vous plait." for two tomato salads, her face brightened and her smile broadened and my confidence grew.
i said "une boutiile du vin" for a bottle of wine, i could't pronounce the place's name and i didn't know the year in french so i showed him the menu. she looked at me, i thought she was speculating some thing. I was afraid of ruining my impression hence decided to order main course in impeccable french.
Hence, i glanced at the waiter and asked for "Deux plat du poison instead of poisson.."
(i hope you are not laughing.. the pronunciation being hard and the difference being drastic..)
the waiter looked at me in shock and cast a glance at her in a quizzing manner, she smiled slyly with a knowing nod. He sighed and left. She burst out laughing. I wondered what was wrong? she calmed a bit and said "do you know what you asked for?"
I nodded and said " yes for two main courses of fish".
she laughed her musical laugh again and said you pronounced it wrong, when i didn't look like i had understood she explained " you asked for poison instead of fish."
I turned rouge with embarrassment, she said in a kind voice " my husband did the same mistake when we first met" and blushed scarlet
i mentally kicked my self as i had deluded my self into possibilities and asked her " you are married? sorry, but you look like a college student." she blushed deeper, but i was telling the truth. You should have seen her Amy you would have thought the same thing.
she said that she had been married for ten years and had two kids. At that moment the waiter arrived with our order, i stared the plates grimly and thought that this meal of poisson had indeed been poison for my reckless delusion. But she lifted my spirit with her chatter, she is an amazing woman, i am going to meet her family for dinner tomorrow.
check my next mail
mon amour
Allan
After i read this mail i was indeed happy, that is why i am so fond of Allan, he is witty and humorous and silly in his own way. He never failed to make me feel better even in this glum place and exhausted state he made me smile. my thoughts went back to the first day i met him.
I was sitting on the window pane of my dorm room and reading one of my favorite books ' Memoirs of a geisha' in which a geisha was named Sayuri. After i read the book for the first time i had wondered why my mum had named me after a geisha. When i asked her that she laughed and said " no sayuri, i didn't name you after anyone, Sayuri means small lily very pretty just like you." so i had wandered around happily and became fond of this name eventually. Well about how i met Allan, while i was reading the novel it slipped through my hand and fell out and hit some one on the back of his head.
I dashed through the stairs and went to apologize to the person, i first couldn't find him then i saw a cute guy with geeky glasses peering into the book.
I went to him and said "i am terribly sorry."
he looked at me and said " well miss you will have to bow as low as the olden day geisha would as mentioned in the book and ask for forgiveness," He chided
i started to laugh, he joined in and since then the laughter spell hasn't worn out. He and i started speaking about the book and our friendship clicked instantly. It is very easy to become his friend such a sweet heart he is, i still remember when i told him my mum called me Sayuri as an endearment. He said " well quite apt you do look like a small lily and mocked me for my humble 5.4 inches" of height. As days passed we became best buddies with all secrets shared between us. So he knew everything about me and i of him. We stood by each other during ups and downs, those jogs in the morning with him, innumerable arguments over books, movies, food, travel actually anything under the sun and we had each other's shoulder when one broke up. well his break ups surpassing mine by a good deal,,,, Held us bond strongly.
i read the mail again and smiled for a few moments all my present worries had seemed distant, now that i remembered them i felt dull but i cheered at the thought of another mail from Allan, so i close this and click on the next one.
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