saturday evening started with rock… 6 bands from all over delhi coming together to perform and showcase their talent in the “9th Great Indian Rock 2005”. Out of the 6 bands… 3 were from delhi and they were really awesome.. one thing worth mentioning here was.. the 5 band to perform in this GIR, Nakshatra.. the foundation of this band was laid in the basement of my very own college, PGDAV and i remember jamming along and listening to what they played !!!! Sumit was the guy who was the lead guitarist of this band and also the vocalist.. and on sat. he was there playing the leads for the same band… felt really neat when i could see them perform in one of the most sought after rock band competitions !!!!

the GIR was over in the early night and then me and Tushar, moved towards the domestic terminal, Palam Airport. The occasion… Neha was going to Germany in the night… and we were going to drop her…Something that i knew was always going to happen and never wanted to come face to face with it… we had not been able to talk to each other properly for a few days because of her being really busy with her packing and all.. and even at the airport.. i felt so awkward, felt a li’il out of place coz she was there with her family and i was more of an outsider…
she was going to go.. and i could feel that pain inside me already…of having a friend go away… of not having someone who i could just visit whenever i want…and things that cannot be put into words… i was there just looking at her and the conversations going on between her and the family and also managed to sneak in a few words myself when needed…

finally not before long, the time for her to go was right there greeting us with the devilish smile… and there was nothing that we all could do… i had to let go… shook her hand.. wished her.. and kept looking at her going with she waving to all her family members and me…. she went inside the airport and i kept looking till she vanished in that large sea of ppl who were going to some place or the other…

the feeling while coming back was very awkward… i could feel the hollow inside me… a friend had gone today.. things would change.. life would change…and ofcourse still continue… she would reach germany and start with her confenrence..and after a month to Paris and start with her research.. get busy in her work and and make me proud with all the amazing work she’z gonna do…

after i woke up in the afternoon .. i was feeling really miserable…the heart was really really heavy… i knew she was not where she used to be one day before and that feeling was almost killing me…the entire time we managed to spend together in the past few months flashed in front of my eyes.. and could smile… but the hollow was there… it made me really really sad…
in the evening i tried calling her up at her hotel…could not get thru the first time…and then talked to the security team of her hotel who could not transfer my call to her room and then spent some time listening to the IVR in God knows how many languages before i hung up the next two times i called…

finally managed to talk to her around 2130 my time.. anf was really calm after that.. infact happy to hear the voice of one of my best friends…and happy that she was fit and fine there… i am happy for her.. and i hope she does really well.. she has a presentation tmrw and i am sure she is going to do that very nicely…

Thank you God for giving me the pleasure of such great friends…

and pawan really helped me get back to normal while i was feeling miserable during all this.. thanks pawan…and tushar helped me and her folks out with the number of the hotel room.. thanks tushar…

God bless us all….