Think of the Don (and Lulu is there!)

(Lulu with her friends)

Don Lulu Bolivar (I'm joking, she is just Lulu; though she was born on 17th Dec., the day Don Simon Bolivar died) is a friend from Mexico. I met her online in 1999. I used to chat in Cyberspace then, and suddenly someone called lulu sent me a request for talk. It was Unix machine, and talk was the program we used back then. Yahoo messenger had either just, or not yet, arrived. My login was, in a way, androgynous, a reason I found many people were eager to chat with me.

Lulu, however, just logged on for the first time and was trying to check what it had to offer. We had a chat. She did not know much English back then; but then she never studied English at the level we had to. We continued to chat, and then moved on to Yahoo messenger.

Over the years, I came to know about two more Lulu's. One is the woman who sang the theme song in "To Sir With Love", the other being a poem by Orhan Veli Kanik. However, I still prefer the original Lulu.

Meanwhile, Lulu studied history, did her Bachelors and then went to do a Masters. She plans to do a PhD. For the past one year or so, we have been out of touch, but I'm sure I will again hear from her.