He is the first friend that I made in Infosys. An enthusiastic, a caring but sometimes a little stupid - that's all he is. A part of me always thought he's lying when he said that he's going to Canada very soon, about a couple of months ago. Well, he did not lie and infact, he is in Canada now. He's Shyam - one of my best buddies that I made in Infosys. He was my room mate in Pune as well as in Chennai. The room's never the same without him! When we went to the airport to send him off, I thought I saw some tears (Well, Rajesh also told me so), but not sure if he cried because of leaving us or because of leaving his love/family behind.
When we were in the airport, apart from sending off Shyam, we noticed a couple of other things. A scene in the Tamil movie "Unnale Unnale" where the heroine gets a 'spiritual' and emotional sendoff from her family, we saw one similar there on the airport - except that was a guy. Ofcourse, it was funny and Rajesh kept saying that until we came back to the room. The other one was an elderly couple who were there to send off their granddaughter. The tears that were shed by those elderly couple made my heart heavy. They were waving goodbye to the granddaughter even after she was out of their sight. How alone are we going to be in the world!
Well, Saturday early morning was Shyam's flight, so we had to send him off on the Friday night. Saturday was off for all of us in the room and Karthic suggested that we go see The Dark Knight Rises. I've already seen the movie - but all Christopher Nolan's movies are worth watching more than once (Well, some of them had to be watched more than once to get the real story). So, I decided to join them. It was booked for the evening show and we were too much preoccupied watching The Dark Knight (in my laptop), we forgot the time. It was already 5:30 and the show was at 6:15. We'll need atleast of 30 minutes to travel and none of us were ready!
So, a quick face-wash/bath were done in a hurry and we started our bikes. As if it was waiting for that to happen, the sky started pouring down herself! I've always felt good when it's raining when I'm riding. So was the case with Karthic, so we started and the others stayed. We went there on time and it was about 10 minutes after the movie started the other joined us! It was one hell of an experience - riding while it's raining (that too in Chennai after very very long time! The last time I did in Chennai was by 2006 when Vettaiyadu Vilayadu movie was released and it was a rainy bike trip to Mayajal!)! Ofcourse, I had a lot of those in Pune! Good old days!
Dedicating this Post to Shyam Nainamalai. Wish you best of luck buddy! Hope you're doing good (whatever, that you're doing there)! Miss ya!
When we were in the airport, apart from sending off Shyam, we noticed a couple of other things. A scene in the Tamil movie "Unnale Unnale" where the heroine gets a 'spiritual' and emotional sendoff from her family, we saw one similar there on the airport - except that was a guy. Ofcourse, it was funny and Rajesh kept saying that until we came back to the room. The other one was an elderly couple who were there to send off their granddaughter. The tears that were shed by those elderly couple made my heart heavy. They were waving goodbye to the granddaughter even after she was out of their sight. How alone are we going to be in the world!
Well, Saturday early morning was Shyam's flight, so we had to send him off on the Friday night. Saturday was off for all of us in the room and Karthic suggested that we go see The Dark Knight Rises. I've already seen the movie - but all Christopher Nolan's movies are worth watching more than once (Well, some of them had to be watched more than once to get the real story). So, I decided to join them. It was booked for the evening show and we were too much preoccupied watching The Dark Knight (in my laptop), we forgot the time. It was already 5:30 and the show was at 6:15. We'll need atleast of 30 minutes to travel and none of us were ready!
So, a quick face-wash/bath were done in a hurry and we started our bikes. As if it was waiting for that to happen, the sky started pouring down herself! I've always felt good when it's raining when I'm riding. So was the case with Karthic, so we started and the others stayed. We went there on time and it was about 10 minutes after the movie started the other joined us! It was one hell of an experience - riding while it's raining (that too in Chennai after very very long time! The last time I did in Chennai was by 2006 when Vettaiyadu Vilayadu movie was released and it was a rainy bike trip to Mayajal!)! Ofcourse, I had a lot of those in Pune! Good old days!
Dedicating this Post to Shyam Nainamalai. Wish you best of luck buddy! Hope you're doing good (whatever, that you're doing there)! Miss ya!
