My 10th was just over (1993) and my best friend (now deceased, 2002) took me to one of his school friend, who happened to have a huge family of sisters, cousins - who lived in a typical big large Indian Family setting.
I was introduced to quite a bunch of the siblings, cousins, etc. including my would-be partner, who was the younger sister of my friend's friend. She was studying Mathematics and was in some troubles understanding few concepts (or something like that). My friend jokingly told them that I was good with Math. Her bother and my new-found friend told me to impart some Math idea and help her out a bit. Nothing substantial happened, taught her few mathematical stuffs and how I usually approach problems.
Going forward, we all became close friends. Visits to her place became frequent - birthday parties, casual visits, et al happened. Well, that chapter closed when I moved out of my sleepy town and to one of the fastest metropolitan city in India - Bombay (1999). Everything was lost - no connections, no phones, no nothing, no news - everyone went their ways.
Forward to 2006, my small team servicing clients was approached and acqui-hired by a Valley Startup and I became one of the founding team of our first Startup. We move to a city next to Bombay. Due to some odd circumstances, that brother/friend called up and we got talking. Her sister had just graduated from engineering college and was looking for an internship. He asked me if she can intern with our company. So, she fly down to the city and worked with us.
We got married the next year - Jun 7, 2007. We, now, have a 6 year old daughter.
I think I forgot to mention that my would-be wife was once a cupid for my girlfriend who left me. I used to bribe her with ice-cream. We had no mobile phones (1997-1999).
I was introduced to quite a bunch of the siblings, cousins, etc. including my would-be partner, who was the younger sister of my friend's friend. She was studying Mathematics and was in some troubles understanding few concepts (or something like that). My friend jokingly told them that I was good with Math. Her bother and my new-found friend told me to impart some Math idea and help her out a bit. Nothing substantial happened, taught her few mathematical stuffs and how I usually approach problems.
Going forward, we all became close friends. Visits to her place became frequent - birthday parties, casual visits, et al happened. Well, that chapter closed when I moved out of my sleepy town and to one of the fastest metropolitan city in India - Bombay (1999). Everything was lost - no connections, no phones, no nothing, no news - everyone went their ways.
Forward to 2006, my small team servicing clients was approached and acqui-hired by a Valley Startup and I became one of the founding team of our first Startup. We move to a city next to Bombay. Due to some odd circumstances, that brother/friend called up and we got talking. Her sister had just graduated from engineering college and was looking for an internship. He asked me if she can intern with our company. So, she fly down to the city and worked with us.
We got married the next year - Jun 7, 2007. We, now, have a 6 year old daughter.