Thursday, June 9, 2011

Days 566, 567 & 568: Farewell!

6, 7, 9 June, 2011

I had written here about a very close friend all the way from our NUS days, who is leaving Singapore and is going back to India to pursue his MBA and probably his career thereafter as well. He is leaving tomorrow and over the past three days, we were able to spend quite some time together - it was almost like catching up on everything as much as possible because you are not sure when the next chance to do so would come by.

On Monday, we had dinner together and he came over to collect some of his stuff that were in our storeroom. On Tuesday, he came again... this time to drop some other stuff in our store room. This time too he stayed on for a while and we had a nice long chat all the way until 1:30 am. Then today, we had a farewell dinner and a round of drinks with the entire NUS 'gang'.

It is not like he and I used to hang out all the time or that we are evidently the best of buddies. In fact he is much closer to my hubby and they spent hell a lot more of time together with each other, and am hardly around usually. But there is a comfort knowing that certain people are around, even if you don't meet up or talk with each other that often. He is one of those for me. So it was quite special to spend as much time as he could spare over the last few of his days in the country. Needless to say, it was the highlight of the past three days.

Here's wishing him all the very best!

432 more to go.

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