I met her online, like something out of a movie hmm....now what was that movie, oh yeah! You got a mail!!!, but this was not through mail but through a game called Human-Age, A game that I used to play for fun along with Frantic.
It was not until mid way through Age 2 I actually met her online. Back in Chennai early mornings just before I brush my teeth I sit and play Human Age, and one fine day I saw a message in the message log saying
You have been awarded 2 reputation points by IreneI thought must have been some honest mistake by someone, so I did a favor by giving my rep points back. And we could only do this once a week. It was not until next week that I noticed that it happened again
You have been awarded 2 reputation points by Irene.Now this was no coincidence, so I send out a PM to her asking if she had accidentally put the Rep points for me mistaking me for someone else and Then I saw the most polite and sweetest PM ever returned.
No I did not put it in accidentally, I think my points gives you good luck. (Actually she put it that sentence in a sweeter way but I just cant remember that.)Hmm...Interesting I though, so we used to exchange rep points regularly every week, once in a while I used to send her a PM and she used to send me some PMs.
She was a very self sustaining person in the Game, never asked for any other favors during our little PMs, I found it very interesting as many times I was struggling to keep myself alive in Age 2. I was a little shy to ask her help too.
Now in Age 2 in Human-Age people can get married :D, of course most of my friends know that getting married in Real Life is of last priority to me, but I did not mind getting married Virtually. So one fine day I popped the Question to the sweet Irene, "Will you marry me?"
Being a virtual proposal I did not have ring and did not go down on my knees. I just put a PM to her asking the question. I got a surprising answer she was planning to ask me the same question but she was thinking that I already has someone else in mind, I replied saying that no there was nobody else and then I send her the official proposal and all it took was nothing click from her side and yet another Celtic Wedding took place. the one between Grey.Fox & Irene <3 :)
Now we had a common chat window where we could type messages so we kind of chatting regularly, but it was a kind of deferred chat not a live one. It was like a month that passed by before we exchanged our messenger IDs it was after that I got to know her better.
I haven't met a lot of persons online as such, most people on my list are people whom I have met offline or were friends with. So it is one of the rare circumstances that I add a person whom I haven't met especially after getting to know her through a game :).
She used to be online from 5:30 PM IST to about 9:30 PM IST and sometimes even till late mid night. And it was real nice time zone to be in as I could keep in regular touch with her. And it was during this time I got to know her more. She told me she was working in a company and her job was related to Translating documents. I was surprised to hear that she spoke atleast 5 different languages including Romanian, French, Spanish, English and German. I myself had a hard time understanding my own mothertongue and the national language and not to mention the tough times I had in English class. What was even more surprising is that she was still a student studying Business and Economics. The time she added me to the list was during her exams.
I thought that we both were at two ends of the spectrum when it came to common interests, because on the surface if you look at it I am a guy who is deep into Computers and games and tech stuff and here is a real smart girl who is fluent many languages and is doing a course in Business and Economics and working in a company rest of the time. But things were very different than expected. We shared similar musical tastes, Iron Maiden, Metallica :D are some of them. We both shared the same sun sign. And our date of births are just a week apart. The study pattern during exams where in I used to spend sometime with the books when I get bored I used to hook on the computer and play some game or just log on to Human-Age.
We both liked photography but she had a better camera with her :D, she used to show me pitures from all over Europe, she gave me a tour of France, Italy, Romania, Austria and many other places. I used to show her some of my insect photography and places around here. She was kind enough to show me some of her personal moments like the time she painted her house, her home and family too :).
We also play computer games, Duh!!! Isnt that how I met her? well not just Human-Age, we both have played Diablo and both of us do like to play RPG games :).
We both have similar movie tastes, almost all the good movies and old movies we have seen them. We also used to discuss some of the movies during our chats.
We both got a sister who is studying Medicine. This was total coincidence.
And guess what we both like to have a drink once in a while too :), she once said to me her favorite drink was Vodka and so is mine.
She also used to talk about Indian food and hotels there and she had one very prominent comment "The food is too spicy". She also reads Rabindranth Tagore's Poetry and even attempted to read the Mahabharatha (She said she did not get time to look into it yet). I was like "WOW" I haven't read those things, well I need to get more acquainted with these things, so that I can tell about it when people ask me things and not have a blank face indicating I have no knowledge about these thing after being an Indian.
After getting to know her more, I came to one big conclusion she was way smarter than me, now why I say this is from the following facts. She really knew how to play Human-Age, the tactics and strategies for dealing with Market, buying selling, hunting, playing as a team in game. She is the one who advised me and led me through the game. And she did that better than any in-game mentor could :)
And now what made this girl so special was that she was a good listener too, never used to complain to all the typing I did, it ranged from problems in work to problems in life and she always had a positive and calming answer of every problem. Not an ideal optimist (the kind of person who believe that no matter how bad the situation at some point good will occur) but a real optimist (a person who sees the bad situation and then says may be things will get better but you should never let yourself down and that is the most important thing). She was also one of the few persons who actually whole heartedly supported my decision to resign from the company.
Even though I never met her in person, chatting with her was quite different from most of my friends and yet I never felt that she was a stranger who I had not met. This did bring up a question in my mind, a question that I had not asked myself so far, are the qualities that I should forward in a Woman I wish to marry? Will I meet a person like her again with so much similar tastes as mine? or May be I am just over reacting, hmm I dont know...
May be I should catch a plane to Romania one fine day and then go to Irene and I might ask her out on a date, we both will have a Vodka Maritni (Yup shaken but not stirred) and then dance under the beautiful moonlight...(Oh! yeah dance, yup I know that you all know I do not dance, but I am sure the smart and beautiful Irene will have a strategy up in her head, All I need to do is just listen to her :D), life is all about expecting the unexpected you never know....
P.S 1: Looks like Computers have languages too, I know about 5 of them almost hmm....is that a common thing between Myself and Irene, she knows 5 languages too...
P.S 2: I really miss you these days after you disappeared from the messenger
