Ramesh left today, with his family back to India. It has been nearly one and half years, since we came together. Sushil had come from Switzerland, today and Mark and Yangin(his Korean girlfriend) were also at the airport to see him off. Sushil has comedown for his SAP training, and will be here till sunday.
I drove to the airport with some luggages and with Ramesh’s wife and kid, and Ramesh had left before us in a cab with most of the luggage. He had trouble with the tickets, with the excess luggage and god knows, will he have trouble with the customs officials back in Bombay.
Our story begins back at Andheri, where we were interviewed, and finally when our Work Permits came, we were not really knowing what to do, I had no pre-planning and got together whatever I could lay hands upon, which I felt essential, and off I was to London. Mom as usual was smiling, and it was my father who really got upset., he was in tears and was praying for me, when I did my namaskarms to appa and amma., we were off to Rajappa mama’s place at Mulund, where we would have our dinner and from there, go to the airport. Santosh & Raja also were there.. Appa and amma decided to stay back, and didnt want to come to airport. Soon we reached Sahar and found Ramesh also ready for the flight. Sam, sunil and others from bitmappers had come to see me off. and there I was embarking on my first flight, and that too an International one.
I remember having revised everything, some days back, before my flight, since I wanted to do my best at work at London. Long indeed was the flight after the break at Dubai. and Smruti was there at the airport to receive us. Myself and Ramesh stayed together, till he left the job at DT, and moved on. But we still keep in touch. Sushil, soon joined the flock. During initial periods, we had not seen Sushil, since he was working at Switzerland for DT. It didnt take time for us three to gel together once we all met. We took a seperate apartment together and moved in. It was fun. I remember that during that time, I had played chess with Sushil for long durations. We would play chess in the bus on our way to office, we were improving our chess tremendously. Ramesh, was happy watching and wasnt interested in chess. Sushil and myself started playing pool, bowling and tennis.. We have learnt it atleast to the level, where we can play easily.
During the tennis sessions, Sushil used to concentrate on the placing and I was putting my all efforts on Service. The result being that, I served well, where as he placed the ball well. Our game would always be interesting., and with Ramesh, I could at anytime win 6-0. He didnt want much physical effort. But he was integral in our companionship. We had a lot of fun together.. many evenings spent cooking and going for walks.. Now Memories…
Myself and Sushil were remeniscing this when we were driving back from the airport after Ramesh left.