Its for you, Birthday Girl :)

People come into our lives, & make an imprint but only some of them, remain with you throughout your life and make sure their impression is still there and not dulled down due to situations & things.
After coming to US in 2009, Pakistan was on my mind 24/7, it was one of those initial homesickness stages and during this period, all I enjoyed to do was talk to someone in Pakistan, find Indians in the mall, listen to patriotic songs(yes i did that too) or just countdown the days till I went back & get all teary eyed when Ami called, and keep in touch with friends via facebook, & then I started talking to this real good friend of mine and everyday we would exchange a wall post,about something literally too stupid, & the routine of being silly on facebook continued, me sending her a message everyday to tell her about that cute guy at school, or simply because I was bored or missed home cooked meals; Her, listening in to all my situations, suggesting stupid yet some opinions, and always telling me to hang on there no matter how low I was. She called me for the first time to greet me for Eid, and as I expected due to her lack of any COMMON knowledge she called me at the wrong-est possible times, & I glancing at the bed-side clock and immediately knowing who else could call at this odd hour ... Oh yea my friend, who is absolutely clue less about a thing called " different time zones"
Then came along Skype in our lives our all night long 24/7 Skype sessions, come storm or hurricane we would never compromise on our Skype sessions, looking at the world's most blackest bananas together to Pakistani Rotis & oranges and that pair of cute shoes, We shared our lives through computers, even though she was called stupid/dumb/crazy by her lovely sister, she still came online on the promised time, its alright if she would miss an exam but OH NO! all hell breaks loose of we cant skype, but we had our problems, when the Pakistani electricity decided to be the villain in our friendship I decided to use the alternative! YES the mighty cell phone, and time would fly while we would talk/laugh/gossip on the phone and hence the crazy high phone bill! but I being me still didn't care and continued calling & got a madder, crazier high phone bill!

Through all those all night skype sessions, and phone calls; things changed. If I didn't answer her calls she thought I was kidnapped and if she didn't answer my phone calls I would jump to the worst conclusions, she would sense when I was about to cry or I was excited, & I would know if something was out of tune with her, she told me to move on and not care, when I was too stubborn or too let down, she made my monotonous life more exciting, telling me her crazy/stupid/and some sensible stories ... she didn't let me feel weird when I was sharing the most wildest of the things, she accepted me as I am. We have stories for each other everyday so much that we have to write it down on a piece of paper & make sure no one else gets hold of it, in case we have some explaining to do, we laughed/cried together, we hated the same people and stalked facebook profiles & watched movies, and made plans to run away to Brazil and already made a checklist for things we would be doing over the summer. In short my life would'nt be what it is now, if it were'nt for her.

This is my bestie, Versha Qazi, vex, cp, qazi and today I am happy to write, an OFFICIAL AURAT, I really really wanna be there to celebrate your BIG 1-8 today, but you know these stupid oceans, make things harder, so this is what I could do, cherish the stupid moments which made us who we were, and I wish nothing in the world would change it, you know I hate to express "love" :p but I'll do it anyways, even though I suck at it :). I wish you nothing but the very best girl & would always be there for you.
so ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY QAZI.. & I hope you get many more, cuz you know I don't wanna die old/alone whiteout any one crazy in my life

Here's to our awesome friendship and to your turning 18
Love,
Baakh Nusrat, BN, Mangan :)