It was all over by 21st May. I boarded the Chennai-Mumbai Express to join my new employer in Mumbai. I sat blank in the train. I was going through mixed emotions. It’s really hard to explain in words.
I must say I enjoyed every moment I was in chennai. I was very near to Kerala as compared to mumbai. I could reach my home in just a night’s journey !. I met a lot of new people in chennai and some of them really made it to my close friendship.
The best thing that happened to me was I got Biju S Balan as my room mate. He was my class mate in Sri Kerala Varma College and we are continuing our friendship for more than 11 years now!. He made every moment so vibrant that I ddn’t knew how days were passing by. We used to discuss about everything under the sun. I was totally dumb in most of the subjects we talked about, but I used to give him some arguments through which I cleared my doubts!!!! 🙂
Then there was the true “Kerala Style” food. I am a non-vegetarian. I found some excellent kerala restaurents with the help of Biju and his sister Bindu S Balan. I was a regular customer in “Kalpaka” , one of those hotels which served a good variety of non-veg food. It really helped me to maintain my figure ! 🙂
I got a lot of new friends in my company ( SlashSupport ). Vivek, Sriram, Gokul, Ajay, Anand, Praveen, Srini, Vincent, Prasanna, Anuradha, Jayakumar, Dominic, Deepu…. to name a few. We were the tech-support team for VMware. Our team was responsible for supporting some of the biggest comapnies in the IT field. The work load and the job timings were hectic, but we always maintained a cheerful atmosphere inside the team. I still cherish those moments which I spent with them. We used to go to a near-by tea-shop outside the company during the night shifts. That was when we used to discuss about future plans, dreams, love…. We used to play Table-Tennis in the wee hours of the morning ! I spent only about 9 months in Chennai, but that episode of my life is something I will never forget.
This is definitely not the end of my chennai experience.. I will share memories ( good and bad ) of chennai time to time..