October 21 2009

As a journalist I have had lunches and dinners with many colleagues but today was different. My best friend in USA and a guy in office who apparently had a crush on me share the same birthday and that’s today. The guy in my office is a decent (good looking, non-interfering) guy who is an outsider to the city, he is a great friend and my boss has suggested many times that I at least go on one date with him. But I haven’t done this since I have known fiancé and that is for eight years now (Forget this guy in office I have never ever been on a date with anybody except fiancé. Am I not a loser?). As it happened today my boss decided us to ditch us after we reached the venue and my colleague and I sat down for a quite dinner at an Udipi place in Matunga to celebrate his birthday. I have always found him very slow (I lose my patience every time he tries to sell a story idea to my boss becauser he talks in installments) but today I realized that he is very chivalrous and also quite cute. After we wrapped the dinner he asked me to hug him, I gave him a hurried half-hug and tried to hide the pink on my cheeks. And I must say that I was happy (Actually blushing and also made a mental note that I don’t need to take any shit from fiancé ever, if he gives me any. I am a confident woman today). The bride to be gave a second thought to another man for the first time in the last eight years. Bloody hell! What exactly is happening? All this, in the midst of thinking of a marriage that will supposedly happen in June.