maKhsuusWednesday, December 14, 2005
The best Eid...Early in the morning at around 5am my time, I got a text message from her saying, she got the parcel. I was eager to talk to her to know if she liked the gifts. I called her first thing after I reached office. It was soooooo good to know that she just loved each and every thing I had sent.
I got messages, emails, offline messages from each and every cousin of hers and all the friends of hers saying how beautiful the saree was. I was prouder of myself than I was on the day I had sent the gifts :-)
We had promised each other that we would talk for the whole night on the Eid night. And so we did. I felt the night was too short because all I remembered in the morning was dialing the phone card company five or six times that's it.
Now that Eid was gone, all we had to look forward to was December. The imaginary and an unconfirmed day when we would see each other was like another Eid in waiting. I started looking on net about the visa process for an Indian national for Pakistan. There wasn't enough information available. I decided a day when I would personally go and apply for the visa. My parents were waiting for me to let them know the procedure for them as well.
Sometime in November I went to the Pakistan High Commission office in London to apply for my visa. Fifteen minutes after entering the consulate, my view to visit to Pakistan and my engagement in December looked very different...
Saleem Pothiwala ::
1:41 PM ::
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