Moments

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Often I think that the moment a person leaving us is more touching and nervous than he join us . Once again I felt the same when my colleague Mr. Paramand Bhat was telling his good bye Last week. There was a delicious dinner party at hotel maimuna, Dammam followed by a photo session. I noticed that everybody’s face was under shadow of grief by separation. We had made a good cricket team in our company and all of our team mates were well bonded each other. It creates coolness in our professional life and made easy for each of our new joined employees to mix up with seniors.

Our weekend schedules are pre fixed with the Thursday cricket match at Kuwati building ground. We played in extreme summer season and extereme winter season becoz of this team spirit.

It was heavy heart time when Tahir Bhai (our Civil Engineer) declared his resignation. He was less speaking and limited involving in matters out of scope. But was thorough in his profession and managed a lot of project very smoothly with out any complication among the crews. I remembered him later when I read some articles about “Doing with out doing” and “80: 20” theories because of his smooth schedule and easy approach of project management.

He was always ready for the upcoming schedule and submittals. He never came to us for rescheduling the job. We were given enough inputs and allowed proper freedom for our work and always tried to finish our job before his scheduled date. All this helped the project running smoothly and made an invisible bond among us. I think that made the grief heavier when he left our company.

May be this feeling is only for companions who staying back. When I quitted from my old company, I did not felt much sorrow. May be because I was happy for going to a good company which can give better opportunities in my career and it was in same location where my friends are approachable. I don’t know how my friends – Afzal, Nazeer, sajan, kader bhai and all other colleagues felt on that occasion.

In late 2006 my only and one mallu colleague in Dammam branch also decided to leave company when he got the Australian emigration visa. Although it was sad but that time I was very happy to be my friend in Australia on pursuit of a good career. The time when another best colleague Mr. Mani Karthick left the company, there was a hope that he may return back. He was on visit visa and company was offering him permanent visa. So that time I personally hoped he may come back. He joined flour Arabia in Delhi and later after almost two years or so, left there. Right now he is in US.

We were used to conduct dinner parties on even small reasons. May be on account of first salary, driving license or even with out any reason. It was before we started cricket team. We were trying to make a platform to mingle each other after office hours. Lot of Members were joined and left our forum. Saibullah, Ganesan, Dinesh babu, Guru moorthy and Nazeer are few members in that list.

Long before there was a send-off party to our Imam of masjid in my native (kodur, varikkode). He was going to gulf for employment. In his speech our retired station master Mr. Mohamed Kutty hajee told an English saying- “separation is always sad”. Indeed it is very sad.