from Zurich

A month back, I had to take on the toughest assignment (not as tough as the assignment I am working on now!) of coming back to India.... leaving behind all the fun and friends in Switzerland! It was difficult, the recession had set in, but again, perhaps I also wanted to come back for some reason or the other.

First Mumbai, and now Zurich... being there for work, and then leaving them after being there for almost a year, then leaving them to come back to my city with a new assignment... had been difficult to deal with. I still miss my days in Mumbai, and now add Zurich to that :(.

Each and every moment in Zurich had been fun filled, even the not so exciting work at office seemed great, thanks to some wonderful friends I managed to make at work. Friends, who have been with me through the good and the bad times (yes, I had my share of bad times too ;-)) there... I miss many moments I spent there: I miss my night-outs on almost every Friday or Saturday, my swimming, my fussball post-lunch at office.. I miss them all. My friends back there complain that post my home-coming, their social lives is not half as rocking as it used to be... and its true for me too!

A gathering of patrons of Indian Association of Zurich

But again, coming back is an awesome feeling, I got to meet my parents after a long gap, met so many old friends, met relatives. Seriously speaking, I never felt like missing any of them over the period! Communication has made things so easy!!

Given an option, I would definitely like to go back there, into the greens of Switzerland, into the not-so-good English speaking but wonderfully nice people, into the stringent and monitoring laws, within the friends I had made there, and ofcourse make my parents travel and be witness to all of this. I probably will meet most of my friends currently in Switzerland sometime in Kolkata, but those I dont get to meet here, I am already working on plans to meet ;-)....

Till then, take care.. and dont u dare forget me.. just happened to remember a high voltage hindi film dialog from a drama, where the ex lover utters the nonsense about his girlfriend: "Main tumhe bhul jau, ye ho nahi sakta! Aur tum mujhe bhul jao, ye main hone nahi dunga!!" The dialog still rocks..... ha ha.