Yet another nostalgic leaf added to my eventful tree

Being at home in Bangalore, today I was watching ‘Travel India with Harsha Bhogle’ where he was interviewing a Buddhist monk in Bodhgaya, Bihar and what the monk has to say is our mind is just like a monkey..always wandering around..so if I just close my eyes and let my monkey mind wander around then so many faces and places of pune is flashing across my mind. Before I can concentrate on one face or place, one more pops up and I can hear few familiar but still vague voices.

I came out of pune on a maharashtra day i.e on may 1st. Travelling to airport in an rickshaw with all my luggage stuffed inside, the clouds which was planning to let out some rains out of its bucket anytime, I was missing some of my new friends who dared to spend some last moments with me in pune.
For a moment I was so amazed at my own mindset, this mindset of mine which wanted to spend few more time in pune now, was not the same 2 months back.

So here goes the flashback...
Date : 2nd feb 2010.
Place : Electronic city, Infosys campus. Bangalore
Travelling back to my home in a Volvo bus from Infosys campus on this sunny afternoon, I can easily visualise this moment even now. I was happy, excited and a relieved person. I bet, if I was alone there, then I would have danced around as well, but I’ am a person with some dignity you know hehe…so was able to control my emotions and behaved normal. Reason being, after a long patient wait for a job change and frustrations galore of many issues (which i'll discuss some other day may be :)), I had just got through Infosys. Now I knew, I can come back to Bangalore after 2 months and get to see some badly needed changes in my boring life.

A couple of days later, I came back to pune and resigned my job at Techm. Some of the events (both good and disturbing ones) which followed were something which I’ll always remember for a long time to come…

Though I don’t want to write up everything here..would like to share few good ones with you. One such event which I enjoyed the most was box cricket which was organised within our project and I realised that I am not a bad player at all or may be I was able to give my best shot on that day and my team won eventually :) ( please note: I can write a separate blog on box cricket as well :) ).
I met some of my good old friends and relatives in Mumbai and bid adieu to all.
I enjoyed an outing to Mumbai to watch an IPL match (you must have already read this blog :)).
Some of my friends and colleagues left the company and new friends came in to my life as well and some friendship bonded even better.
And guess what, I had become a sort of a broker showing around my flat for rent for some of the techm guys and gals (I had posted an ad in techm website) and yes I managed to get one (no brokerage for me though :))
I also realised that I love writing and was able to post so many writings thru blogs very frequently.
I attended one of my friends sister’s wedding. For me it was rare sight, a maharashtrian mulgi(girl) getting married to a tamilian payyan(boy)
And finally an unforgettable emotional farewells by my colleagues and friends wound up to a perfect ending.
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So here I was, still in the autorickshaw travelling with a kind of hangover in my head. At this moment, the rain gods started sprinkling water from there bucket and before I could realize, it was raining heavily. I reached the airport and I could not escape from getting drenched while getting out my luggage and shifting it to a nearby trolley. Once I reached the shelter near the entrance, I just stood there for a couple of minutes looking at the rain and thinking that I have to move on to embrace yet another change in life when I was just beginning to like this place. This was not the same kind of feeling when I moved out of Mumbai..or when I moved out of UK..or when I moved out of Bangalore..yes I was missing all those places whenever I had to move out…but this time it was completely a different kind of feeling.

But I moved on pushing the trolley towards the security guy with a smile on my face to begin yet another journey......