This document describes the narrator's relationship with a classmate named Shruthi over time. It begins when they connected on Orkut and had an initial awkward conversation where the narrator did not recognize Shruthi. Their relationship was off and on with periods of not speaking. Key events that brought them together included an anthargange field trip, watching a football match together, and forming a friend group called the "rasta ang." Over multiple interactions throughout college, they eventually became closer friends.

3. THE ORKUT GIRL
 THE ORKUT GIRL
 A few months after I joined college, I randomly got a
friend request from a certain Shruthi Swamy on
Orkut(Orkut was a social networking site back in our
days, and it was quite popular at that time)
 Her profile pic had two people in it and I automatically
assumed that the profile belonged to the girl in the front.
For quite a few days, I went around looking for the girl in
college, till i finally decided to ask my friend Ritesh(yes,
the same Ritesh uncle) who Shruthi Swamy was. He
said 'everyone in class thinks it's the girl in the front(I
didn't know anyone else who did),but it's actually the girl
standing at the back. The one in the front is her sister(It
wasn't, it was her cousin).I'll show you next time when
we see her(he didn't)'.

5.  I don't remember the first time we spoke to Shruthi,
but I do remember that we used to exchange smiles
every time we saw each other and even said 'hi' a
few times. But nothing more....

6. SCRAP ME
 This is how our first ever conversation on orkut went [This was before we had seen
each other in college(December 1, 2008)]

 Shruthi : you're ol eh?
 Vinay :
 i probably wasn't ol when u scrapped yesterday..now i am..
 Were u the one who sent a friend request on Y! messenger?
 Shruthi:yep. tat was me.
 n are you de one sometimes i find wit ritesh n vedant?
 Vinay:yupp.that's me.send me the request again on messenger..
 I've no clue who u r.neva seen u in class.lol.
 Shruthi : oh really?i always hang wit rady,bhanu n people...
 Vinay:I thought u are the girl on the left in ur pic..that's why..ya i've seen u..

7.  so how did ur internals go?
 Shruthi:physio sucked!anat n biochem were decent i can say.
 how did yours go?
 Vinay:mine only biochem was good..anat and physio were terrible
 Shruthi:how come i hardly see ya at col?
 Vinay:u never see me in college?why's that:-)
 Shruthi:how am i supposed to know tat?like until rady tol' me,i didn't
know you were a classmate!
 Vinay:haha.i'm a 'low-profile guy':-)
 until u scrapped me, i didn't know u were in my class.lol
 Shruthi: gotta go.cya!
 Vinay:Byeeeeee

8.  (What stood out in this conversation is my use of
the word 'neva'. I never ever say 'neva' . I think I
was full trying to act 'cool' or maybe I found her
intimidating.Lol.Or maybe that's just how I used to
message back then..It's been a long time kids. I
don't really remember all the details)
 Oh and I also remember her as the girl who asked
me to join "highest number of flings"
community.Some super girl antha I thought.

9. THE GIRL WHOM I LIED TO
 Things were going well for sometime. Then something bad
happened. When I was in first year, I used to sleep in the bus the
whole time .I used to be soooo sleepy. And since we had theory
class for the first two hours, i used to force myself to get up from
the bus when it reached college, somehow manage to walk till
the rest room, piss, stagger into the classroom and continue my
sleep for the next two hours.
 One day, I missed the bus in the morning, and came with the
driver by car instead. Again I slept till the last minute, and walked
into college, still extremely sleepy. Shruthi saw me near the rest
room and asked
'Did you come in the bus?'
'Yes'
'Did Sanjana come in your bus?'
‘I'm not sure‘
(Yes, it’s the same Sanjana who made you wet your bed the day
after she met you and gave you one of her famous looks)

10.  I don't know why I told her that I came by bus. I was
probably so sleepy that I didn't even realise what I was
saying.And then I sat in class and was feeling kinda
weird cause I though she might think I'm a big liar. I was
hoping that she wouldn't tell sanjana about our
conversation , cause if she did, she would find out that I
lied to her. And then I fell into a very disturbed sleep.The
next day, I was thinking about all the excuses I could
give her just in case Shruthi confronted me about the lie.
The best one I could come up with was 'I was so
mesmerized by your beauty that I didn't know what I was
saying'.Lol.Cheesy, I know.
 For some reason, things got weird after that. I don't
know if it was the guilt of knowing that I lied to
her(though I wouldn't call it a lie. You should know not to
disturb a person while he's sleeping) or if we never got a
chance to speak after that ,but our conversations
stopped and so did the exchange of smiles.

11. THE GIRL WHO RUINED MY SLEEP IN THE
BUS
 For the rest of the first year, I had a bad bad opinion about Shruthi.It looked as if
she had completely stopped talking to me, and at times she even ignored me(i did
the same of course, so i can't really blame her).Just like you people have
nicknames for everyone in class, back in my days, I had nicknames for all my
classmates as well.But I always kept it to myself. And you know what Shruthi's
name was?? T.K Girl(Thika Kobbu girl)
 I also rememeber that she used to travel in my bus once in a while.And everytime i
saw her in the bus, i used to be like 'Oh damn!Can't sleep peacefully today!'lol.My
bus was usually really really silent and it had the perfect atmosphere to sleep in,
but whenever Shruthi Swamy travelled in our bus, she ended up talking way too
much to everyone in the bus and ruining my sleep.
 There were also times when they all used to imitate the way i sleep and have a big
laugh about it.Little did they know, that i was awake the whole time and trying hard
not to laugh, thinking of their reactions if i told them that I was awake
 Another reason why i hated her was because she entered the bus one saturday
and broke the news that Ritika liked Bharath uncle .(You remember Ritika right?It
was that pretty aunty with twins whom i showed you guys the other day and told
you that if things had gone differently, you would be calling her mommy right now) I
was so disapponted.She had shattered all my dreams:-(

12. CLASS RE-UNION
 Then came the class re-union after during the first year
holidays.I remember Shruthi speaking to me ,as i sat in
one of the chairs in the Garuda mall (yes, that tiny place
that was torn down recently. Believe it or not, it was
pretty famous back in those days)ground floor. It felt
weird..She just said 'Hi Vinay, how you been?' I thought
'Why is this girl talking to me?'. The rest of the story
involving bowling, gang-forming and imaginary red cars
of course has been told to you enough number of times
as bed-time stories when you were kids:-)
 The next time she spoke to me ,if i remember correctly
was after we got the re-evaluation results. I was with
Divya and Shruthi came over and congratulated both of
us and said something lame about me and Divya being
'bum-chums'(or was that Sanjana who said it?I'm not
very sure)

14. NEW YEAR,NEW BEGINNING
 1/1/2010 - Shruthi suddenly started chatting with me on Gtalk and i was very very surprised.
And then , we had the most weird conversation ever! lol:-)
 Shru : yappy yappy new yr1
 me: thank u.same 2 u
 Shru : thanks

 wat did u do?

 me: party with cousins..u?
 Shru : went out for lunch..friends

 me: did we have a half day today?

 Shru : yeah


15.  hey !
wait
 u my classmate?
 fish!

 lol

 i tot another friend i had

 me: lol

 Shru : hehehe

 wat's yo surname?

 me: let me confirm..whom am i chatting with?:-)

16.  Shru : yo vinay from vims?
 im swamy from yo class

 me: yup

 thought so..
 Shru : yeah..

 so how was it?

 yo day?

 we had a let off at 12.30
 me: day was good.bunked coll

 urs?

 Shru : decent


17. MY BIRTHDAY TREAT
 The next time we had a chance to talk was when i called
them for my birthday treat in Beijing Bites:-)
Unfortunately I don't remember much about this day,
 except that i know i invited Shruthi and sanjana when
they were both sitting in class and i think they both were
wondering why i'm even bothered calling them.Well, I
called
 because they had stayed back for the cake cutting on
my b'day(and also cause sanjana gave me a big box of
orbit:-) lol.See, i told you she's not as scary as she
looks!):-)

18. SHRUTHI'S BIRTHDAY
 Shreya aunty invited us for the cake-cutting on Shruthi's birthday. I think Rakeshu
had to get the cake or something for her to cut.We hardly knew Shruthi and were
planning to bunk off.But then Shreya forced us to come near the ground for the
cake-cutting. Oh and, i suggested a nice little terrace place near our college
grounds for the cake-cutting. I was so proud of myself for having found such a nice
place. Also i had to opportunity to fullu show off my strength to shreya when i lifted
these two heavy stone bricks and moved them side by side so that we could place
the cake on it.Shruthi entered the terrace, wore her specs after sometime, finally
saw who all were there and proceeded to cut the cake.
Shreya messaged us once we got back home.I wish i had my old n70 to copy-paste
it, but i dont,so it went something like this
Shreya:Thank you for coming to the cake cutting. It meant a lot to shruthi
Me: No problem shreya
Shreya" LOSERS! I can't believe you wanted to run away
Me:We weren't going to run away shreya
I spent the next few minutes convincing shreya that we werent planning on running
away (Even though we were!I didn't know Shruthi at all, and we were planning to
 bunk the after-lunch theory classes).By the end of the day, i was convinced shreya
hated me.

19. ANTHARGANGE
 Finally ,the ice-breaker came in Anthargange :-)
The bus journey back to Bangalore was the first
time we spoke more than 2 sentences in a
conversation .I was sitting in the row behind
Shruthi,tarika and shreya and lightiga we started off
talking :-)She started asking my family history n all.
lol.She also told me that my kannada is very
different.And i thought that wasn't a compliment.I
thought she was makin fun of my kannada. "What's
your mother tongue?"she asked .And of course she
told me the famous "You're a Tamilian?You're a
Tamilian" dialogue for the first time ever.

20. BACK TO SQUARE ONE
 For some reason, she never used to listen to me even if
i spoke something to her.I guess it wan't really her fault.I
think i wasn't loud enough for her to hear.
 One incident which i clearly remember was the day after
Mathuga.I was walking into the hospital with Sushma
and Shruthi was walking towards us. She smiled and
said 'Hi Vinay' , and i swear I said 'Hi'.But apparently i
wasn't loud enough and Sushma asked me 'Why didn't
you say hi to her?'.
'I did!'
'Oh I don't think she heard you'
'How do you know?'
'Cause she just made a "Why the hell!!!" face'
And i though 'Oh god!All the ice-breaking in Anthargange
has come to nothing'

21. HAL
 The HAL day! I was so excited about the match.HAL were the only team
from bangalore to play in the I-league.This was way back in 2011. they
got relegated that season and unfortunately, have never made it back to
the top division since.Stupid Tejas screwed up the match timings.I was
quite disappointed that Tarika and shreya werent coming, but even more
disappointed when i heard that Shruthi are coming :-P "What is wrong
with tejas?Why is he inviting so many people?" i thought. And then of
course, i realised that she was more sane than most people who had
come to watch the match.So much confusion that day!
Mall!Shopping!Movie!Lunch!She were the only person apart from me
who was genuinly interested in watching that match.And i was pleasantly
surprised.The whole point of me getting up early on a sunday was to go
watch a football match! NOt to see celebrities wearing shades or go
window shopping.The photo session with the churchill brothers players
was fun too.
 Remember the story Tejas always brings up?About how Kayne Vincent
shouted 'Ehh benchoot' to his friend? :-P

23. MATHUGA
And then the mathuga trip.This was probably the
time when we started talking more for more than 2
minutes at a time. I was fullu impressed by her
captaincy
 skills during cricket of course.I thought it was
brilliant!

25. WHAT A PUSSY!
 And then there was this point where Shruthi used to
get scared for everything..EVERYTHING! We called
her ‘shruttttthhhhiiii’ in a seductive way, she got
scared; we flirted with her just a little bit, she got
scared; we gave her a seductive look, she got
scared. She was no fun at all.But eventually she
started playing along, and that's when things got
interesting :-)
 And then i guess i got to know her more and more
each day once i got close to tarika and shreya

26. RRRRRRAAAAASSSSTTTTTA
 And then the rasta ang was formed!First event-
Shruthi's birthday.The whole plan was so sudden
and spontaneous. The drive to the new airport was
simply amazing.We had a great time there ,and of
course whet out appetites for more such drives and
adventures
 1st October was of course another unforgettable
day :-) We had to convince you so much to lie at
home and join us on our night out. But once you
were out of the house, you were in no mood to
return.And who can forget the crazy
'Nammmmmaaaaaa Metroooo!'

29. CRUSH-A?
And then Nida messaged one fine day asking
about crushes and stuff.We kept texting for
sometime and then she randomly asked "Do you
have a crush on shruthi.Don't worry, i shall keep
this to myself".I just wanted to confuse her so i said
'maybe' or something like that. And that was all it
took for nida to find/create sparks between me and
Shruthi

30. DANDELICIOUS
 Kids, after we finished our 3rd year exams, we went on
this little trip to gokarna and dandeli.Before going, I had
fooled Shruthi saying that i wouldn't be going on that
trip, but decided to surprise her at the last moment. I
thought it was very awwwww that she was so happy that
i was coming :-) And then of course full bonding
happened off during the trip, which is very much evident
if you look at all the pictures. Sparks flying everywhere,
and nida definitely didn't miss seeing them.And of
course the bus journey back home that me and you
mommy were talking about so recently.. When she woke
me up to help her look for antihistaminics, stole my
pullover from me and pushed me away when i tried to
get some warmth by hugging her. Lol.Ok, she didn't
push me away, it was just not comfortable to hug in that
bus.The whole thing was so awwww :-)

32.  And the final year of course, things were great
between us. We had so much fun and so many
adventures. I don't want to spoil your 18th birthday
gift that i've been promising you, but all i can say is
Shruthi,Shreya,Tarika and I did some pretty crazy
stuff. Watching dirty picture at our house, Tejas'
22nd birthday ,watching chelsea win their first ever
champions league trophy(ok ok, i know i've told you
this story a billion times already!), driving till Tumkur
for Shreya's b’day and playing cricket, the list is
endless.There are a few stories of course which are
innapropriate for me,as your dad to share with you
both.But, this pretty much sums it up

33.  And as you guys already know, a few months late,
to no one's real surprise, we both were dating.And
i'm sure you've heard enough stories about what
happened after that.A few more years down the
lane, we were blessed with you both, the best kids
in the world.And kids, that is the story of how i met
your mother.

34. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHRUTHI!
 From not being able to text more than 2 messages at a
time , to spending a major share of my daily quota of
100 messages on you; from not talking to you at all ,to
talking to you all the time; from hating you, to liking you
a lot ; things have come a long way. And i'm really glad i
got to know you. I really am.And don't worry shru, i won't
let you mess things up between us :-P So stop worrying
 Have a great year ahead
 And a very happy birthday once again, shruthi/T.K
girl/shrublah/shruthi swamy/shrutttttthhhhiiiiiiiii/shrublah
swamy/shruuu/my shruberry
 Toodles,
 -Your Vinyyourpooh