"
Hiiiii!" I say as I shake hands,my voice quivering, as his cuteness hits me... 'I am a big fan of your work!'
'Obviously. DUH! ' He must have thought to himself,while he smiled at me, holding a glass of red wine.
Looking for something meaningful to say, I took a deep breath and said,
'You know, your music brought the love of life back in my life and brought the love of my life (trance) in my life!'
Now, he grinned and said, 'Well, that's what this is all about, hey!'
' I just love the positive energy that you spread in the world.. through your music!,
'I love it too!' he said!! still smiling.
'I just wonder if there is any way I can give it (the love) back to the world?'.. me getting all philosophical in the moment.
He says, 'You already are, by being the person that you are!'
What an insightful answer, I thought to myself.Surely he had a deeper side to himself...
My spiritiual query answered, I attempted being like a Normal fan, 'Hey, I can see that you truly love what you do, is there ever a time when you need a break from the music, that it becomes too much?'
'Nope! Never!' he says. (What a stupid question!), he must have thought to himself!
'Hey Armin! shouts the bouncer, We'll be leaving for the hotel soon!'
'I was planning my life around you, just to come to Europe to watch you live, am so glad that you came here instead!'
He smiled a huge smile.. and I shout out in the green room,
'Someone, please take a picture of me with Armin!!'
So one beautiful white girl, who was busy talking to her friend, said, 'Why not!' As she came over to us, I raised my empty hands;'but I have no camera!' I was empty handed, remember!
'I can take a picture, but what's the point? You won't get it!' chirped an Indian fellow, who was passing by.
I said, 'I don't care, just take the picture and it will get to me, somehow!'
So well, the white girl's heart must have melted, she got out her Blackberry and clicked a picture. She said, 'Let me mail it to you right away! So I type in my email address. Mail sent."
She says, 'I am not too sure if you will get it!' .
I say, 'I am sure it will! Thanks a lot, you have NO idea of how much this means to me!'
She looks at me for a second, gives me a look that must have meant 'Oh!you are so star stuck'.
With that, I say 'Bye Armin! Am so glad I met you! All the Best!'
He says, 'To you too!'.
We exchange a smile and then I take leave.
5am:
The crowd had thinned. Monika, her friend and myself decided to leave.
We sat in the Hotel Lobby for an hour chatting. She could hardly believe all the stuff I was telling her about my entire ordeal. But that's how the two of us are. We like to climb over mountains. She has a lot of stories of her own.. of times when life has given her a dream and she has chased it .. one day, maybe I will write some of them down on her behalf...
6am:
The Metro restarts. It is time for me to leave. We say goodbye at the Metro Station and am on my way back to Gurgaon. She would leave for Jullundhar at ten am, with the guy friend of hers.
In the Metro, I found two familiar faces. One guy had been dancing right next to me. And there was another girl, whose shoes were killing her. We all made eye contact that said, 'I know where you are coming from' and ended up sitting together, talking about our love for EDM, music and how we first got introduced to it. This time the three of us were getting stared at by weary looking early risers, who had grumpily gotten ready for work to catch the first Metro. We three we weary but as far away from grumpiness as possible.
7.30am:
I was in a rush to reach my place in Gurgaon, Run!, turn on the computer and check my mail. And it is there! I got the picture with Armin! Of course,the first thing I did was to upload it on facebook and comments started flooding in. By far the best comment I got was,
'richa guy next to u ... look like dj armin van burren ... serch on google and see his pictures ................. worlds best dj ......'
and I thought to myself, grinning, 'Yea,tell me about it!'
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Hiiiii!" I say as I shake hands,my voice quivering, as his cuteness hits me... 'I am a big fan of your work!'
'Obviously. DUH! ' He must have thought to himself,while he smiled at me, holding a glass of red wine.
Looking for something meaningful to say, I took a deep breath and said,
'You know, your music brought the love of life back in my life and brought the love of my life (trance) in my life!'
Now, he grinned and said, 'Well, that's what this is all about, hey!'
' I just love the positive energy that you spread in the world.. through your music!,
'I love it too!' he said!! still smiling.
'I just wonder if there is any way I can give it (the love) back to the world?'.. me getting all philosophical in the moment.
He says, 'You already are, by being the person that you are!'
What an insightful answer, I thought to myself.Surely he had a deeper side to himself...
My spiritiual query answered, I attempted being like a Normal fan, 'Hey, I can see that you truly love what you do, is there ever a time when you need a break from the music, that it becomes too much?'
'Nope! Never!' he says. (What a stupid question!), he must have thought to himself!
'Hey Armin! shouts the bouncer, We'll be leaving for the hotel soon!'
'I was planning my life around you, just to come to Europe to watch you live, am so glad that you came here instead!'
He smiled a huge smile.. and I shout out in the green room,
'Someone, please take a picture of me with Armin!!'
So one beautiful white girl, who was busy talking to her friend, said, 'Why not!' As she came over to us, I raised my empty hands;'but I have no camera!' I was empty handed, remember!
'I can take a picture, but what's the point? You won't get it!' chirped an Indian fellow, who was passing by.
I said, 'I don't care, just take the picture and it will get to me, somehow!'
So well, the white girl's heart must have melted, she got out her Blackberry and clicked a picture. She said, 'Let me mail it to you right away! So I type in my email address. Mail sent."
She says, 'I am not too sure if you will get it!' .
I say, 'I am sure it will! Thanks a lot, you have NO idea of how much this means to me!'
She looks at me for a second, gives me a look that must have meant 'Oh!you are so star stuck'.
With that, I say 'Bye Armin! Am so glad I met you! All the Best!'
He says, 'To you too!'.
We exchange a smile and then I take leave.
5am:
The crowd had thinned. Monika, her friend and myself decided to leave.
We sat in the Hotel Lobby for an hour chatting. She could hardly believe all the stuff I was telling her about my entire ordeal. But that's how the two of us are. We like to climb over mountains. She has a lot of stories of her own.. of times when life has given her a dream and she has chased it .. one day, maybe I will write some of them down on her behalf...
6am:
The Metro restarts. It is time for me to leave. We say goodbye at the Metro Station and am on my way back to Gurgaon. She would leave for Jullundhar at ten am, with the guy friend of hers.
In the Metro, I found two familiar faces. One guy had been dancing right next to me. And there was another girl, whose shoes were killing her. We all made eye contact that said, 'I know where you are coming from' and ended up sitting together, talking about our love for EDM, music and how we first got introduced to it. This time the three of us were getting stared at by weary looking early risers, who had grumpily gotten ready for work to catch the first Metro. We three we weary but as far away from grumpiness as possible.
7.30am:
I was in a rush to reach my place in Gurgaon, Run!, turn on the computer and check my mail. And it is there! I got the picture with Armin! Of course,the first thing I did was to upload it on facebook and comments started flooding in. By far the best comment I got was,
'richa guy next to u ... look like dj armin van burren ... serch on google and see his pictures ................. worlds best dj ......'
and I thought to myself, grinning, 'Yea,tell me about it!'
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