Send off for Sreeni Ponnambily

Today it's a sendoff day for sreeni-ponnambily-ritcha. Although we got introduced around one and half year ago we became very close in few months. friendship is one other wonderful thing I cherish about a lot. havegot lot of friends in my life which I consider as a great asset. although I lost contact of most of my friends as part of destiny still I remember those wonderful moments. today infact I went back to my pre-degree college days where we had a farewell party and we're all sad and couldn't enjoy the farewell party. at that time it's unfortunate that never had a video camera or even still camera. were not planned. but still through the lens of memory I am getting the nuances of those moments. When I sang the song 'vida taroo..' it took me 2 decades back. Sreeni-ponnambily are great friends whom we will miss a lot. Although it's only one year and had only very few occassions of gatherings and sharing, those days were wonderful, which I have in my daily diary. Thru sreeni I got introduced to madhu whom I had seen in my childhood days and who was living in the same neighbourhood, but we never got chance to get introduced to each other. It's another destiny to meet in qatar.

Well we started with small speech by sreeni on Qatar, friends etc. Sreeni is proceeding to Abudabhi to join Occidental petroleum as finance manager and it's a great leap for him.

later madhu spoke about missing sreeni, followed by leena cherising the memories and small talk by ponnambily. children sang sujanajeevana song and gave individual performance as well. sreeni sang vande mukunda hare... in his own inimitable style. madhu rendered old classic oru nimisham taroo...leena gave nostalgic moments thru the song yaad aara hee hain... famous hit from 80s. ponnambily sang kabhi kabhi another hindi classic. deepa gave her contribution in the form of choodiyaan. finally I finished with 'vidataroo...'. may god bless all of us to be again together thru a wonderful destiny. thru different friends I have learnt a lot. from madhu it's the joyful humorous way of living and from sreeni to take challenges in professional life. it really need guts to take , go through it and come out of it in flying colors.