As I was driving home after dropping her home, listening to
the radio I remembered the amazing memories we have with the radio and it is of
them that I will be talking now.
I remember it was a little more than three
years ago, I was on the phone talking to Nidhi and suddenly accidentally I put
on the radio in my room and some song was playing, I can’t recall which one but
I know it was some funny song because I told her to put the same station and
she did and before you knew it we were singing together (I think it was a Honey
Singh song). Then we sort of shifted stations to look for a decent song and
whoever found the song first would tell
the other one and again we would sing together, it was pure joy.
Looking back I realize that those karaoke
sessions were one of the happiest times of my life. I used to come to my room
every night at around 11ish and would just bide my time, waiting eagerly with a
lot of restlessness for that phone to ring and smiling gleefully when it did
and then we would just put the radio on and start singing to the songs there.
We got so lost in the melodious flow of music that sometimes when we kept the
phone down it would almost be dawn and hours since we started, Infact a couple
of times we actually made it till down, singing the night away (me with my
hoarse voice and she with her beautiful voice). I used to be bouncing around
from one corner of my room to another just to make sure I had network
connection and so the call wouldn’t get cut, while singing side by side. Sometimes
the network would just be in one corner where I sat on the floor for hours,
singing myself but mostly because I was lost in an enchanting lullaby like
voice of hers and apart from an aching buttock I had no regrets because I felt
our bond growing stronger and that was something I liked very much.
Everyday we used to look for songs but we
had our favorites, songs that we would look for till we found them. Like Jiyen
Kyon by Papon was one which I think we heard every night for atleast two weeks.
Then we both are Coldplay fanatics so that was a must. I remember there was this RJ who is doing
pretty well now but we could not stop laughing over him. That guy is too funny;
he would talk in this really seductive voice (or try to) and he would call
people and talk to them about their love life issues and give them the weirdest
advice ever. I mean he was like the KRK of radio but just in a much more
seductive voice and he was limited to love. He would talk of love in a love
drunk way and then play love songs, just hilarious.
Singing with that wonderful woman those days
made me realize how much she meant to me because I would give my sleep up for
no one but those days I did and for her I still do (except when travelling in a
bus). I can still hear that voice singing and maybe I will tell her that we
should start this practice again. It is utter bliss.
