Friday, September 5, 2008

F.R.I.E.N.D.S



The title might be a little misleading. I am not going to talk or write about the famous american sitcom "F.R.I.E.N.D.S". This is about my friends here at my University (UC)...to me they are my family, my support system....... they are everything to me!!!

I do have a lot of friends but the ones I am going to describe really need a special mention. They have been very much instrumental in shaping my life beautifully in the past two years. If it were changing from an introvert to an extrovert it was "them". Now, I guess it is high time I introduce who these "them" are....they are none other than two of my closest and best friends Arpita and Soumya.

If my mom believes I have a changed a lot in the past two years (positive aspects.. :) )...then I would say these two girls have really been instrumental in bringing about such a change!!!

It all started with getting admitted to UC (for those who don't understand what UC is it is University of Cincinnati.. :P)...we had those usual university meets, exhcanging email id's and stuff like that....then it became a regular thing for us three to chat on YM almost every day..got to know each other very well...then finally we ended up travelling together to UC...The first few days, we went about roaming around the campus and searching for on-campus jobs and apartments together....I still remember that for every 5 minutes I used to complain by comparing the US of A with my sweet hometown Hyderabad and they way they used to chide me for that.. :) (but even know I still stand by that word arps and soum...Hyderabad really is the best place in the world..)...Then school started and I slowly got detached from them (due to some obvious reasons which I later on told them). I used to behave very wierdly even when I met them which made them think that I was yet another arrogant spolit brat.. :)...

Start of Spring'07, I again became close to them and I still remember those days when arpita and I used to go to UDF at some wierd times...Summer was the time when I missed them a lot as both of them went to India and I was here back at UC getting bored...it was then I realized how much I got used to them and their company...I regretted for restraining myself from them for the entire Fall and Winter quarters!!!! I could not control my happiness when I the day for them was nearing to get back to US... :P

Fall'07...This was really the amazing time during the entire 2 years of stay so far here in US...(and I bet arpita and soumya you both wouldn't disagree on this)...shoppings almost every weekend, those late night talks, the walks to UDF...seriously miss all those wonderful moments...I really cherish all those moments....

Winter and Spring'08 were equally memorable but we had our stupid thesis to do at the same time...and finally with the end of summer we were slowly drifting away from each other trying to settle down in our life...getting done with thesis, searching for jobs...Finally in August arpita left for Tampa to join her work which she had postponed it for nearly 3 months... :) (arpita, you hurricane story would be my next blog post :P)...Now, it's just the two of us ( me and soumya)...we still miss all those lovely days...I seriously wish to get the "universal remote" which Adam Sandler gets in the movie "Click", so that I could rewind and go back to those lovely days.... :)

hmmmm this might have been a boring post with lots of intricate details, more of my journey in the US during the last two years but I couldn't find any better way about how these guys were so precious to me and how they played a vital role in making my stay here in US so far very memorable...
Arpita and Soumya, I seriously miss all those memorable days and yeah we all should definitely meet up quite often... :)