I gave my car for valet parking and started walking towards a group of four men - one of them was Morten Harket! Oh my God! Please - Please - Please let us meet them today. Please - Please. I kept saying and walking as fast as I could trying to catch up with them. I needed this moment for my sister Pooja who is one of the biggest fans of AHA since we were teenagers. Our room was filled with Aha posters and we knew all their songs. Pooja made sure that the whole family including our cousins, knew aha and had heard their songs.
Her dream was to meet aha and visit Norway. If anyone we knew was travelling to Norway, we would request them to get a bit of soil of that country. hahahahahah. Well, no one did!
We would constantly play their songs...Take on me, Cry Wolf, The sun always shines on TV, etc...Pooja knew them all,
Last year when we heard that aha was coming to Dubai....Our excitement knew no bounds. My nephews immediately bought 4 few tickets for Pooja, at a premium price - fan pit at the Dubai Opera House for 11 Feb 2020.
All our friends in school (when we were kids) knew how crazzy Pooja and her friends (Ritu, Rekha and Beena) were of aha and when they came to know that aha was coming to Dubai, they all started sending Pooja messages. Yes she was famous in school for her craze for aha.
And now ....wishes were being fulfilled, dreams were coming true. Aha was in Dubai and Yes we met them.
By the time Pooja reached Emaar Boulevard, she missed meeting Morten Harket and Magne but she sure did meet Pal. She chatted with him and gifted him our book. Yes, he graciously accepted it.
We are sooo excited about the concert tomorrow. She cannot stop discussing tomorrow with her friends. " Palak, I think I'll be tearing away tomorrow" she keeps saying. I know I sure will. I get goose bumps even thinking about the moment tomorrow.
