In the corporate world, farewell mails are commonplace. It is customery to thank your peers/team/ bosses and leave on a nostalgic and cordial note. Who knows, you may have to work with them sooner than you think. People who you have spent 10 hours of your weekdays gone out for dinner with, make their way out of your life with calculated ease. The push of the 'send' button and poof, all obligations are put to rest.However, every now and then, some people come along and strike chords and stay connected with, not as a social obligation. and they are the ones i am going to miss the most...
In a few days it will be my last day at work and It will be time for the expected farewell mail to reach people's inbox,and most have a fair idea of its content and intentions. However, since a few days I find myself sitting motionless, staring at my monitor, and at a complete loss for words, even actions sometimes with the way nostalgia and leaving jitters have clouded me.
Creating Hungama with a certain set of people somehow didn't just strike a chord, it strummed one hell of a sequence, and I know I want to stay connected to them for times unending and years to come.
Neha Sabherwal - I still owe her dinner
For being the person you are- straightforwardly enigmatic, and for being the leader and friend you have been - simply brilliant!
You will always hold a special place in my heart for inspiring me to pull up my socks take action and start off all over again. For all the constructive criticism, for the uncomplicated friendship, for god-knows-how-many-books-dinners-and-colaba-causeway-sprees, for the appropriately timed messages, for those frog eyed dirty looks (forever etched in my mind), for taking punctuation to a whole new level… Of course, none of this changes the fact that I still owe YOU dinner!!! Hehe…
When I saw her blog about me that evening I was touched, and since then, there have had a million things I have wanted to tell her... and as everyone knows I am mostly at a loss of expression... so Here it is.... Thank You...
- for being there for me
- for being witness to my fall (literally)
- for being there everytime i have to get my swollen right feet moving (even though it meant taking my hand and dragging me, exchanging footwear for my comfort.....)
- for calling me KHUBU, after which everyone now calls me that in office... :)
- for having started to blog again
- for teaching me how to be a child at one minute and a demanding leader in the next
- for making work something to look forward to
- for showing me an intesnsity unknown for people she loves, for her hometown, for a mere tree - witness to her childhood woes and wants.... and of course, ...
- for finishing my dabbas, poking the hell out me, to reminding me how many things i have promised her we'd do together
- for massaging my legs right in the middle of the office when i am in pain
- for making me see clear and so many things unsaid and unheard. :) Thank you Nia... Owe you!
Kabootar... Ja Ja Ja... a.k.a. Priyanka Kadam
One comes across so many people in an organisation, You hate some and you love some... My initial Hungama Days when i had come across Kabootar... I had been apprehensive and hesitant about getting to know her... Dont know why... maybe because of her straightforwadness which has always been dipped in sarcasm and meaness.... :) or maybe it was just me...
Anyways... Time flew and not the Kabootar... She stayed and has become one of the most cherished friends I have made here... and with whom i have shared a million taxi rides, so much gossip, so many stupid jokes, which only both of us find funny...
Fun, Masti, Coffee, Laughs, Stupid sms conversations, antakshari on sms, being mean to each other yet loving it ... loads of , sometimes intelligent conversations, my microwave buddy, my corn stealer and just so many things... :-( ...Kabootar Do miss me... Drink all the appys you can in my memory... but leave the chotus for me... they need to grow... and they have so much to learn in life before they can be devoured... I have seen her grow from the person i first knew to what she is today... Dont change... Keep in touch and as you would say... If you miss me you will fly down to meet me... Will keep a look out for you in the skies...
Priyanka ki baat ki aur Rakesh na yaad aaye... yeh badi na insafi hai...
Rakesh - My Constant Irritation
He just needs a reason to irritate me... Who is going to fight for my paani ka bottle from now on.. Who will pretend to slip every time he comes to my desk... Who will comment on the food i get... Who is going to talk about me with the Cabbies.... Who will scream "Bachao" out of a cab only for no one to hear him?
Who? ........
Thank you for teaching me how to play pool... and telling me that "its all about the attitude" :) and these days i see all you guys following me... You play with the "Red" ball and not the white one.... (remember)
.... and No I am not going to give you a treat at Dominos... nor ever will i get you pepsi... :) and I know Hungama will be never the same for you without me.... :-)
Praggy Baby - Idea actually changed her life.
Pragya Sharma... My partner in crime when it comes to torturing Nia... We've had such good times together... had so many "bitching" sessions together in the pantry... yes Prags... you actually have become negative... thats what this place has done to you... :) but dont worry its for our good...
Look up to her for her knowledge of the industry, her initations and innovativeness at work even though she refuses to give herself the credit... That reminds me we have to work on ur CV... :)
Health freak, except when it comes to cakes... Praggy actually lusts after cakes... :) and can actually fight for it and have it tooo... The one person who deserves and is worth so much more that what she is getting right now... praggy keep in touch or will not give you any cake on my farewell :)
Some-sher Khan --- Humesha Moje mein rehta hai....
This stupid kid at Bollywood Hungama is one guy who actually stands on my head for work to get done... cracks the most silliest jokes possible, expecting everyone to laugh... has made a new friend in Mitali... and has told me a million filmy stories...
My partner in crime for making fun of people in office... for coming up the most stupidest comments and conversations ever.... and laughing our hearts out at them... Wish him good luck and load of success...
These are hard times. I will be leaving Friends and these last few days with them has been, apart from the inevitable nostalgia exercise, an eye-opener. These are guys I’ve looked up to in many ways (though I know they’ve also looked up to me in others - blogging, you see, isn’t the only Mutual Admiration forum!) - partly because they always seemed much surer about career direction than I was.
It was hard to call it quits. It was a long time coming, overdue, but still it's sad to leave something I've contributed to for more than a year. It was someplace, where I actually enjoyed. But like all relationships, people grow and change, and eventually it will be time to leave as I have miles to go before i sleep... miles to go before i sleep...
