General Information
| Shilp Verma has been vouched for |
| VERIFIED MEMBER Name and Address Locked more info |
| Couch available | Traveling at the moment |
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| CouchSurf requests replied to | 100% |
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| member since | March 2nd, 2007 |
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| profile views | 23153 |
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| age | 31 |
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| birthday | 30 January Everyone can see this. |
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| gender | Male |
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| membername | SHILPV |
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| occupation | PhD Student / Professional Poker Player ;-) |
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| education | Masters in Water Resources Management |
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| grew up in | New Delhi |
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| ethnicity | East Indian |
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Languages- English (United States)Expert
- HindiExpert
- PunjabiIntermediate
- GujaratiIntermediate
Groups I Belong ToCouch Information
No couch currently available for surfing. **UPDATE**
I'm back in India for a while, and will be in Delhi and Gujarat. Hope to see some of you around. Cheers!
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Anand, Gujarat, India: Currently looking for a place of my own. When I find one, CS'ers would be most welcome.
New Delhi, India: Parents' place, West Delhi. Couch Unavailable.
Delft, the Netherlands: Almost always happy to meet travellers for a coffee/drink and to show them around. Couch Availability limited since I'm in a student house. Friends (152)
Nisha Choudhury 31, Female New Delhi, Delhi India Friends since December 1995 "known him since college, were studying together..." Friendship Type: Best Friend
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Ali Dastgheib 31, Male Delft, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since December 2005 "We study in the same institute" Friendship Type: Close Friend
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Avinash Kishore 32, Male Boston, Massachusetts United States "Friend"
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Valeria Perez 28, Female Maputo, Maputo Mozambique Friends since October 2007 "I met Shilp in Delft...thanks Igor for introducing us!" Friendship Type: Close Friend
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DRAAKJE2000 29, Female Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since November 2008 "bumje:spank: " Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Shilp Verma
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MagdaLena Rożek 22, Female Krakow, Lesser Poland Poland Friends since February 2009 "parrrty" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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SERENDIPITOUS 41, Male Schaijk, Noord-Brabant Netherlands Friends since January 2009 "....." Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Shilp Verma
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LIN. 21, Female The Hague, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since April 2008 "CS meeting!" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Natalie Cherene 21, Female Madrid, Madrid Spain Friends since December 2008 "Chaddicts till the end, and we had a "Christmas" meet up here in Madrid" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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PHIXOD 34, Male Bangkok, Krung Thep Thailand Friends since September 2005 "We shared apartment in Delft during our masters programme" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Personal DescriptionI'm an Indian student in Delft, the Netherlands... hopping between India and Europe. Love to travel with friends, meet new and interesting people from different cultures and spend the rest of the time websurfing.
 visited 19 countries so far (only 8% of the world)...so miles to go...
create your own visited country mapHow I Participate in CSGreeting new members, meeting travellers and local CS'ers when I'm travelling myself.
View the CS Delft Google Calendar for updates on CS events in Delft.
CouchSurfing Experience
CS Activities in 2007
 Apr '07 - Met Anita and Babs in Vienna
 May '07 - Amrita visited Delft for a day
 Jun '07 - Rita visited AMS for a day
 Jun '07 - Hosted Romana [4 days, Delft]
 Jul '07 - Hosted Anne [4 days, Delft]
 Jul '07 - Organised the First CS Meeting @ Delft
 Jul '07 - Hosted Valerie for Poker Night ;)
 Jul '07 - Hosted Eleonora & Martin [3 Days, Delft]
 Sep '07 - Hosted Guillermo [1 Day, Delft]
 Sep '07 - Hosted Silvia [3 Days, Delft]
 Oct '07 - Parisa visited Delft for a couple of hours
 Dec '07 - Met and Travelled with ShAi* in Gujarat
 Dec '07 - Attended CS Ahmedabad Dinner
 Dec '07 - Surfed with Mitesh in Ahmedabad
CS Activities in 2008
 Mar '08 - CS City Ambassador, Delft
 Apr '08 - Met Anita, Evelyn, Isa, Adam, Vinsenc and a few other wonderful CS'ers in Vienna
 May '08 - Met Carolina, Cristina, Gisela, Antje (& her Indian friend), Ana and more wonderful CS'ers in Lisboa
 Jun '08 - Met Rahul, Amit, Nishith and more wonderful CS'ers in Ahmedabad [CS Day Meeting]
 Jul '08 - Travelled with Anne and Nic [Delhi; Agra]
 Jul '08 - CS Meet @ Rodeo's [ link]
 Sep '08 - Hosted Kerri after a CS Delft Invasion meeting in Den Haag which went on till 4 AM!
 Sep '08 - Met Madelon in Rotterdam
 Oct '08 - Hosted Swati [3 Days, Delft]
 Dec '08 - Surfed LIN's couch with Bumje, Nutty and Henri [1 Day, Den Haag]
 Dec '08 - Met Natalie in Madrid
 Dec '08 / Jan '09 - Surfed and Traveled with Valeria in Madrid, Seville, Cadiz, Granada and Cordoba [13 Days]
CS Activities in 2009
PhilosophyToday is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday!
Locations TraveledTRAVELED: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland LIVED: India, Netherlands IS GOING TO: France, Sweden References
From Yana Ra Lviv, Ukraine Oct 6 Positive none
From Puneet Sahani New Delhi, India Sep 21 Positive Shilp is rad bloke from all angles - balanced, educated, traveled, sensible, witty, (uglier than me), (shorter hair than me) etc... Jokes apart a very welcome, warm, and contributing presence. Please excuse his grumpiness for he has a baby elephant in his stomach; though species of his kind have the longest gestation period, it does end eventually!
From Ashutosh Mehta New Delhi, India Sep 7 Positive Thanks Shilp for organising such a wonderful CS meet last week. Never thought you can gather such a large gathering in the middle of a week! Since I am new to CS, it was a great chance for me to meet so many CS face to face. My wishes got fulfilled :)
From GURDEEP SINGH VINAYAK New Delhi, India Sep 3 Positive ship thanks for inviting in d cs party really enjoyed ur company and met new friends
cheers
From Kathleen HERRGOTT Lutterbach, France Aug 23 Positive Shilp is nice!
I dont skow CS and it came to offer me its help as soon as I need!
He is cool !
From Rasmeet Chhabra Carbondale, United States Jul 6 Positive I am not sure if I should believe this person any longer. Haha!
Well, he did not tell me he was in the Netherlands for like days :)
From Barbara Miller Elegbede New Delhi, India Apr 22 Positive It was our pleasure in Delhi to have Shilp with us. He inspired us to coffee and then onto to higher places like a rooftop paradise up a ladder. He's a great guy, full of fun and imagination.
From Marloes Nieuwenhuis Delft, Netherlands Mar 9 Positive Relaxed guy with good taste in movies :)
From Sheung Hei Brian Choi Rotterdam, Netherlands Mar 6 Positive OH my god! Shilpv is just the greatest CouchSurfer I've ever met! Experienced, Cheerful, and he's just so nice!!!
As a newbie in CS like me.....Shilpv will just be like a mentor! ok! seeya in the next CS gathering! must be fun!
From DRAAKJE2000 Dordrecht, Netherlands Feb 23 Positive shilpffff is my bumje (L)
i can tell you a billion things about how great he is..but you just have to meet him !
bumjeeeeeee ;)
From Soreya Montpellier, France Feb 20 Positive Ok, I've finally decided to add this pfffffer to my list of friends..
Got to admit I even quite like him, go figure out why, I got no idea!!!
But he can be so endearing and sweet and even smart(when he agrees to get off his goofy cape)
Met Shilp in the flesh(after months of chatting) at a CS meeting in NL, then we surfed Esther's couch. Was great to finally spend time irl together and learning bit more about Indian culture and especially music.
He tried fooling me by being extremely nice, but I know better haha...
And he gave me the cutest ciggie box I will cherish forever...
(L) :kiss: mon lapin!
From Clara Gassiot Barcelona, Spain Feb 19 Positive In this caothic CS community of Delft, we all appreciate having among us such an Ambassador, always ready to organize, join, and - even better - bring some beers to the meetings!! ;)
all in all, a great person who will be the nicest host and perfect guest
From Dennis Davids Holte, Germany Feb 17 Positive Shilpffffer and me pfffffinally met at th pffffvalentines party in Dordrecht affffter we've been chatting on CS for quite some time. Shilpffff is pfffffunnny, ppfffffreindly and pfffabulous! We will surely meet again!
In the meantime, stay pfffff-ing my friend!
From Natalie Cherene Madrid, Spain Jan 3 Positive Shilpy's a great great big lovable huggable teddy bear, with a huge heart..and an adorable accent!. We greeted each other as though we had known each other forever and were old friends- with a great big hug! Just like everyone else i luuuuuv Shilp!! I don't remember one minute of being uncomfortable with him or even a minute without laughing and sharing funny stories.
He's a true gentleman!
We walked around all of Madrid - stuffing ourselves with tapas and cañas, taking pictures in shiny x-mas hats and of course my good deed was done mwwahahah!!! THE spankings pictures were took, they are worth a million bucks!
Hoping to get hosted some time soon in the low-lands or getting chopped up into a million pieces and put in his suitcase when he goes to India!
Muchos besos and spankings to my dear Shilpy! From 1 to 10 you are ELEVEN!
p.s. more to come if I get inspired again WMMUUUAHAHAH!!
From LIN. The Hague, Netherlands Dec 22, 2008 Positive Shiiillppiieee! First we met at some CS meeting in The Hague for like 5 seconds! Then we kept on meeting in the chatroom and finally I got to see this hottie in Rotterdam again! Then he surfed my place last weekend and he was the only one who slept well! ;-) Just kidding, Shilp is an amazing person, a good friend with some great sense of humor.
Come visit me soon again, your beer is missing you!
From CERY Istanbul, Turkey Dec 12, 2008 Positive the Indıan Latino!! hope to meet you soon..
From Ozge Paker Istanbul, Turkey Oct 27, 2008 wowwwww:D:D:D
From Guillaume Delgrange Delft, Netherlands Oct 7, 2008 Positive Shilp is the kind of person who makes meetings funnier. I'm looking forward to meet him again.
From OSCIMON Rotterdam, Netherlands Sep 23, 2008 Positive Just like everyone else i luuuuuv Shilp. I mean...honestly...find something about him that isn't likable. He is just the most huggable guy on earth..uhm...and Jupiter...and my planet;)
From Silkkat813 Weehawken, United States Sep 14, 2008 Positive I finally got to meet Shilp when I traveled to the Netherlands! And he was even nicer than he is in chat! (He didn't spank me in real life.) My host in Amsterdam was busy one evening and Shilp invited me to come to The Hague to meet other CSers. I spent most of the evening looking and waiting just for Shilp to show up (but I did quite enjoy the company of the CSers I met!) When he finally came in, it was like meeting up with an old friend.
After a late night in the bar, followed by some late food nearby, and then a bus ride full of drunken Dutchmen (who got kicked off the bus!), it was pleasant to arrive at Shilp's place and his hospitality. Don't let his chat persona fool you. He is really a nice guy. :p
From Abhinav Ratan New Delhi, India Aug 5, 2008 Positive it was nice meeting shilp and anne.they had organised this meet and this was my first CS meet.he is a nice guy
From Destiny Tokyo, Japan Aug 3, 2008 Positive Princess!!! I love this princess!!! His poshness is 2nd to none!!! :D Shilp is a huge teddy bear with a huge heart and has cute accent when he speaks English. He drove us fearlessly in crowded Delhi streets to show us around everywhere, introduced us the posh districts, Inditalian/Indexican restaurants and endured my endless abuse throughout our trip to Agra to see Taj Mahal. Thank you for all you've done, I miss you princess, and hope to meet you again soon!!!
From Faisal Shah New Delhi, India Aug 1, 2008 Positive Just realized that Shilp and I have a very good friend in common. Hope to know him much better now! From last party's passing meeting he appeared to be a chilled out, interesting guy. Wish we could spend more time together. Soon mate!
From PHIXOD Bangkok, Thailand Jun 29, 2008 Positive We somehow always floated around the apartment with no discomfort....a highly reccomended company...
From bloody! Berlin, Germany Jun 23, 2008 Positive shilp fed me a nice breakfast every day and introduced me to some of his friends. hes a laid back kind of guy and is a good person to go out to eat with. he took me to a party at his apartment complex that was latin themed (he lovvvvves latin culture, food, and women lol~), and i got to sample some delicious tapas after being deprived for months living in germany. the food was prima!
all in all shilp is a good candidate to stay with or ask questions to about the netherlands or india when he is in either place.
From Amit B Shah Ahmadabad, India Jun 15, 2008 Positive I met Shilp at my first CS meeting. He's cool, can talk on any topic, very passionate about his career in international water management, on which he is doing a Phd, so soon we'll call him Dr Shilp ! I gave him a tip about a common habit ( we share the same brand too ), hope he has tried it, haha !!
It was grt of him coming all the way to Ahmedabad from Anand on a rainy day & driving back late night; just for the International CS day gathering. I later realised he's an very active member of CS whn i saw his profile. Grt to know u Shilp !!
From Rahul Sanghvi Ahmadabad, India Jun 13, 2008 Positive Ohh, he is such a nice & calm guy with lots of enthusiasm about CS. He helped me a lot for arranging a CS meet for Internatioanl CouchSurfing day. He is really very very helpful, he tried with all his efforts for making our CS meet a success & it happend :)
We together enjoyed Rajasthani folk dance & had a nice dinner too. Learned a little bit about water resource management.
hope to see you again in life :)
From *GI* Lisbon, Portugal Jun 1, 2008 Positive Can you imagine making a bet over blowing a plastic cup to the ground? Weeeeeell me and Shilp did!! :) So you can see how crazy this guy is!! But beside his crazyness i found a really nice, sweet and easygoing person and most of all really interested about the CS community!! And a great person to chat too!! Even though he forced me to drink a wine cup in one zip we still managed to have a really interesting conversation!! :)
Hope to see you again soon!!
From Kim van Rijssen Leiden, Netherlands May 20, 2008 Positive Shilp was the first CSer to send me a welcome message, and he was as kind to meet me for coffee right after that. Ever since I've been very happy talking to him at CS meetings; he's smiling, considerate, and not to forget: he succesfully put Delft on the CS map!! Have a great time in India, and see you again soon in NL! :)
From Avinash Dhyani New Delhi, India May 19, 2008 Positive It is always good to know people like Shilp.. You always have a feeling that you are sorrounded by some nicest people on earth.
Hope to meet him again during our Chaddicts Leh Road trip.
From angel_goes_traveling Vienna, Austria May 5, 2008 Positive I met Shilp - thanks to my friend Anita - for dinner/lunch/coffee and we had some nice talks about lots of topics, but I still feel that there are a lot more things I wanna talk with him about :-) So, we just have to meet again - either in India, Netherlands or Austria or somewhere in between :-)
Update: he hosted me for one night in Delft and it was a very good experience. Hope to meet soon again ;)
From Licancabur Vienna, Austria Apr 28, 2008 Positive update:
one year after our first meeting, he came back to vienna again (and cooked delicious lunch for me and a friend ;-)) i just can recomment anyone to meet him ! and i hope to see him soon in india .....
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i saw that shilp was in vienna and wanted to envite him for dinner with my other guests, but because of his limited time we just could meet for a coffee. he is an experienced traveller, very nice and open mindet person. too bad that he just where so short time in vienna. hope to see him again when i travel to india ! and of course, when he come back to vienna , he is welcome any time at my home.
From Adam Nagy Vienna, Austria Apr 27, 2008 Positive Yeah, time was short and the meeting was randomly organised but we exchanged some wisdom on PhD stuff, hehehe. Veel success en tot ziens!
From Ghazy The Hague, Netherlands Feb 24, 2008 Positive nice guy!
From Parisa Noorishad Groningen, Netherlands Jan 24, 2008 Positive It was a nice experience to meet Shilp in Delft (almost first couchsurfing experience)but unfortunately had a short time...such a nice guy he is ...I hope to meet him again and we will share more interesting talks and experiences...
From ShAi Pune, India Dec 27, 2007 Positive SHILLLLLP!!! We had known each other for sometime by the time we met and he has proven himself to be an incredible friend who will happily drive you nuts and see you tear your hair out at one point though be there for you when you need it most...a great guy he is hilarious, great sense of humor and for someone like me who talks a lot, he has the endless ear looking out to catch me when i go wrong with great glee...Sporting, easy going and intelligent, he is excellent company and fun to travel with...Highly recommended and someone who is softspoken to start with but once he gets going youre guaranteed to have an awesome time. ...btw..he SNORESSSSSS
Chil - Good luck with your PhD proposal and see you around soon!! get on with it
UPDATE...I adore u princess!!!!xx you are an awesome friend
From Silvia Delgado Berlin, Germany Oct 16, 2007 Positive There are no words in any language to describe him in any language.No words can decribe how great he is except in playing pool-just kidding. I surfed his couch in his lovely village (btw he calls it a TOWN) Delft. He makes me feel comfortable from the first minute as I met him. And you surely won´t get bored with him being around…he´s simply a lovely guy. A sort of humans who you can trust 100% and it is hard not to like him. He is born to be a tourguide. We went to a lovely church in Delft, which has a 100 m high tower, it was cool although I'm a bit scared of high places :) but you don´t need to worry when Shilp is around because he will forced you to look down ;) and you will loose your acrophobia (vertigo ;). And he introduced me to his crazy friends and I got to know Belgian beer. He makes a good job as babysitter when you will get pissed;) so you don´t need to worry because he takes care of you.
He gets my gold metal for hosting .Looking forward to see him again. Thank you very much for all your help and the splendid time with you and your friends. I simply like this awesome guy. See you and take care sweetie.Oh and he is always up for a meal so make sure that you´ll loose some kilos before you are going to meet him *LOL*.
From Guillermo Ferrer Moregó Delft, Netherlands Oct 4, 2007 Positive Shilp is very cosy. I went with him for a drink with his friends and I enjoyed it!
I spent a good time with you. Thank you again!!
From Nicole Carrigan Rocklin, United States Aug 18, 2007 Positive Shilpv is the best....always has coffee around:) He is so funny, but always good company in chat...I like to steal his coffee...everyday:)
From Sufiness Northfield, United States Aug 16, 2007 Positive Thank you for your kind welcome to Couch Surfing. You were the first person to welcome me here. :)
From GRAVIOLA Barcelona, Spain Aug 14, 2007 Positive very nice guy :) i feel sorry that he can't say "cheers" in his native language hehehe it's pity that hadn't more occasion to know him better
From IMENSA Maia, Portugal Aug 1, 2007 Positive Well, Shilpi def. is one of the sweetest person here around! He was extremly sweet with me from the very first moment on, and coz of this I consider him as one of my friends here. He's a fellow chat buddy that I'm gonna hopefully meet in November in the Netherlands!:)
From Eleonora Flach Vestmanna, Faroe Islands Jul 18, 2007 Positive Shilp is a very nice guy, very positive and hospitable. He helped Martin and me alot, introduced us to his friends and made some deliiiiiiicious Indian food for us. It was a perfect stay - if you ever have the chance to meet Shilp, do so!!! Thanks for everything, and visit me in Dresden!
From Valerie Sarah Fort-de-France, Martinique Jul 10, 2007 Positive He looks really calm and nice person and he's a really good host, full of attention!!! We have a drink in Delft (known for it great nght life!!;o))then play poker to his place until my first morning train arrive!!
Thx to be so patient and walk as i was so scared of the bike!!! :o)
From Weston Hankins Guadalajara, Mexico Jul 8, 2007 Positive I joined for beer & cake at his place and enjoyed his peace & philosophical conversations. He has very interesting views on being selfish. Definitively get to know him if you have a chance!
From Texas_Girrl Dallas, United States Jul 8, 2007 Positive Shilp is amazing, but it's hard to decide which things about my stay with him I liked the best...was it the curry? the drunken bike ride where I was NEVER in danger of falling off? the rain? the terrible cakes? the laziness and sleeping all day with a terrible hangover(oh wait, that was me)...? Or was it the AWESOME 40's themed party that we went to? All, in all....SHilp is the only one who could make the small town of Delft so exciting AND be so nice to his guests (even when they are awful, like me..hehe). =)
From Jim San Francisco, United States Jul 8, 2007 Positive Shilp hosted and took care of my great friend Anne and I'm glad to have met him. Thanks for being so cool!
From Giddy Abraham Delft, Netherlands Jul 7, 2007 Positive What can i say, he' a really sweet guy, has some really cool dancemoves and he will always light your cigarette :D
Shilpv, you are a true gentleman !!!
From Kaloyana Sofia, Bulgaria Jun 27, 2007 You are th first person who helped me out here:) Thanks! :)
From rome2202 Ribnica, Slovenia Jun 18, 2007 Positive I stayed over at Shilp for three days and have no words to express his kindness and generosity. It would require too much space here to go into details, but I can say that he was taking care of me as if I was his little sister. That tells everything. Thank you for ever my brother. I miss you.
From Margarita Dolinskaya Moscow, Russia Jun 14, 2007 Positive It,s my first expirience. I showed Amsterdam. Thank you, Shilp, & your friend Ali.
Best regards, Rita.
From ELUSION San Francisco, United States Jun 8, 2007 Positive It was really sweet of Shilp to take out time from his Master’s thesis preparation to show his city of Delft. Shilp and his friends made my short stay in Delft pleasurable which would otherwise have been quite boring considering that Delft doesn’t have much to offer as such. Biked and walked around, saw the sights, had some yummy lunch and coffee. A short yet pleasurable stay! Hope to meet you again someday!
From Louise Ottossen Nuuk, Greenland May 17, 2007 Positive i thinking he is very nice to talk him :D
From Babs Mosgöller Vienna, Austria Apr 21, 2007 Positive I met Shilp in a nice Jazz location in Vienna. I had a confused but good day and his reaction on my mood was nice. My impression of Shilp is : open-minded, humorous, fascinated of philosophy and astronomy and in the best way a combination of both.
I look forward to eating an Indish dish cooked by himself :)
From ADELINALUISA Bucharest, Romania Mar 16, 2007 Positive Shilp is a very interesting person, nice to talk to and ready to help you. He seems very enthusiastic and warm and I hope we'll meet someday. |