The month of June 2008 has been really amazing for US (me & Debs) personally. It was good news galore.
The month started off with a very close friend of ours – Milind & Pallavi blessed with a son, Aryaman on 9th June. Though we wanted to be there on the D Day, we could only visit Aryaman last weekend. Here is a snap of Aryaman in his sleep mode. Amongst our friends, we are waiting to see if he develops to be as crazy as Milind, or does he grow up to be like his mom. I would place my stakes on the former.
This was also the month of my birth and hence it was a period of celebrations and wishes. Debs, my wife, says that she has not seen a person as unique as me. I have birthday celebrations on two consecutive days. I was born at 0047 hours of 13th June. My mom made it a point to celebrate it on 12th probably because it was Friday the 13th that year. But officially it continues to be 13th of June. So it is good fun with an annual confusion session amongst some of the well wishers as to when to wish me. In fact, Debroop asked this year “what is the favoured day this year” lest he is late in wishing me.
Then was the arrival of Aratrika. A very old and close friend of ours, Parijat & Gargi, was blessed with this wonderful baby girl. The wonderful human beings that they are, Aratrika could not have got better parents. We haven’t been able to visit her yet but are itching to go to Goa on a short holiday, just to meet her.
And the month was topped with the icing of Shreya. Shreya Kalra was born in the distant district of California in the US of A, to Piya and Vipin. Shreya is the only person younger to Oindrilla in the family. We are all waiting to see how they interact – East & West!
The month of July has started with the flavour of exodus. One of my closest friends, Hiren, left for the Americas. Hiren J Patel went to US for his higher studies after his engineering. His brilliance was supported by the fact that he went to Johns Hopkins on a full scholarship. But cranky that he is, he did not do his PhD and went working. I met him when he returned to India to do his MBA and by extreme providence, became my room mate at SP Jain. Post MBA he joined IBM solely for the purpose of staying with his parents at Pune and refuted quite a few highly enticing offers. Rarely have I met a person of such simplicity and genuineness. Down to earth, simple, fun loving and ultra cool. We have shared many a personal moment and thoughts during our one year together and he is someone very close. But probably India was not for him. He got married to the love of his life, Kruti, who is based in US. His love story is interesting (he says it’s like the movie “Hum Tum”) but will talk about it later. He left yesterday to answer the calling of his heart & mind. I, for one, will definitely miss him. Here's a snap of Hiren with Jia.
And today we have got a hot potato of an exodus! One of our very reliable team members of our already stressed out small project team, Nikhil, put in his papers. Nikhil joined us about a year back, fresh from his Diploma and with all the josh and spirit of learning. He has been selected for doing his graduate studies in Engineering. Ofcourse one cannot attribute his resigning to a poor manager, but it will definitely be a loss to our Project which is today in the throes of the first assembly. Nikhil is an example of the youth of today. Smart, fast on the uptake and ready for the grind. He has been a highly sought after team mate and will be missed greatly.
I only hope that the session of exodus does not continue in the spirit of the advent.
Cheers and best wishes ……
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