Gupta is leaving Chennai....

As Appya has put it, "Finally Gupta's tryst with Chennai is ending" (A tryst he's having with a soul in Chennai might as well continue in Pune and even blossom :D. Ahem...that's a different ishtory...ishtory ke ishtart maich divert ho re apan, back on track now.) I'm sure he's going to enjoy in Pune as well...such a jolly person he is. We (Me, Gupta, Appya, Mridu, Bhau, Khobra, Psycho, Saket) had made this "Maitri" apartment in Chenani as our second home over last 2-3 yrs. And then there were NRMs (Non Resident Maitriites) like Tiffy, Nandini, Rajesh and Bikram ;) Everybody's moving on now. Me and Appya came to 'amrica', Mridu n Nandini got busy wid their married (with each other! ;)) life. And now, Gupta is leaving too.
For the initial months in Chennai (when I was put up in guest house) I had never thought that I will miss those Chennai days ever. And used to lament about being away from Pune. But now, sitting here in Florida, I do miss those Chennai days. Solely because of the the wonderful and enigmatic life ishtyle we followed in Maitri. Each one of us beign a "character". As I've written earlier in this post, Psycho is a character worth a study of life-time ;). For khobra, sleeping was the second best pleasure on earth. (No, you perverts...the first one was chatting in yahoo rooms :D) He would alwasy keep his ass facing the roof...easy to kick for us :D. Working in an IT tech solutions company, Bhau was called the call centre boy , for he would be on his cell phone 24x7!. And as Psycho puts it "after God their is Gupta" ;) Gupta really carries that charming persona...and delivers crispy dialogues with great timing. I left Chennai in a haste and hence did not get time to take stock of the things. Gupta's leaving Chennai and that made me nostalgic. I will definitely cherish those memories for life time. I will always remember Gupta's special chai on those lazy Sundays. Those visit to Mridu n Nandini's place and food we got to hog :D. I remember scribbling about one such visit. The new year parties at home...birthday parties in some rocking pubs like Bikes n Barrels and Savera.
Waise, I would not prefer to go back to Chennai. But for some strange reason, I hope we all get back to Maitri in Chennai sometime in future - Sipping either Aavin's lassi or Gupta's chai, jogging to the thiruvanmiyur beach with Psycho, pulling Psycho's legs and kicking Khobra's a$$, playing galli cricket on road in fron or take badminton lessons from Bhau and line marofying same-wali-aunty :D. Who knows this could ever happen or not. As kishor da has sung in his eternal voice "Jindagi ke safar main gujarr jate hai jo makaam.....wo fir nahi aate. Wo....fir nahi aate". But I do wish so...and that's what signifies ...

PS: Go thru' Appya's take of the Chennai ishtory here :)