Our 1st chat on the phone.
Wednesday 21st September 2011 Around 13:15 I called Sheema di. We said our usual "salams" & "how are you?"...then we both giggled over our obsession with Ragini. Isn't it silly that we shed a few tears because we both blamed our selves for the ceased account of Ragini? LOL😆 (thank god it's still open). Oh the things we did!!😆 Then we spoke about SGP and how ridiculous we think the others are and that it's shocking to see them garner 4/5 trp's for vulgar and idiotic things they show! It was so nice to know that we both are on the same wavelength about this, thank goodness. Then we spoke about some personal matters and then we arranged to meet in London for the 1st time. In a way it's nice how we never spoke before but we manged to converse so easily. 😊
Saturday 24th September - 10 am Sheema di calls me to say she's coming to London and whether I can still attend, so of course I said, yes.
2:45pm @ Trafalgar square in central London. It was a beautiful day, with splendid sunshine and a great atmosphere. There I was waiting for di. My phone rings...
Sheema di-"where are you?"
Me- "I'm here where we arranged to meet"
She said she was 9 minutes walk away, I thought yeay, I'll get to see an SGPian for the 1st time!
Then she called again as we both were trying to find one another amongst all the commotion..
Me- "I'm standing by the fountain and I am wearing red"
Sheema di- "but there are lots of people wearing red 😆 can you see the digital clock?
Me- "No" then I looked around "yes now I see it, I'll go and stand near that"
Sheema di -"Okay I'm coming, I'm wearing black!" and I thought "most people here are wearing black too!" 😆
3pm Then out of the busy crowds there comes a lady with open arms and gave me HUG! 🤗
Oh I forgot to mention we were not alone. Sheema di was accompanied by her 2 sons and I had my sister with me. You should hear the lectures we go from the youngsters about "you shouldn't be meeting strangers you've met on the net"😆...it sounds strange for them as children in this country are repeatedly reminded not meet/greet/chat or have anything to do with people they don't know personally. So there they were, , mere teenagers "telling us" "What happens if that person turns out to be something other than what you thought?😆 A valid question indeed!
Sheema di told her boys "you better come with me then for my protection"
I said to my sister "fine, you can come and see for yourself" She's a real person...😆 we laughed and headed for lunch at the Chinese.
Sheema di is so kind she bought us lunch, saying it's her "dawat" this time, next it'll be mine. More than the food I was enjoying the company.
I thought to myself, I cannot believe that I am sitting here eating lunch with a lady I've never met before but at the same time, it felt to nice and so familiar, I guess it's because we have been interacting for the last 15/16 months, we knew each other and the trust is there!
Continued in next post...