TGIF! :) Is what she thought...She wanted to always quit on a Monday but a girl can't have all the luck.

And so like most of them knew by now that it was her last Friday there.....16 months ago She came in a yellow cab to work with a few hundred dollars and an indomitable spirit. Then she had nothing to loose for she never had any, and on the last Friday though she drove her own car she wanted to leave in a yellow cab reminiscing the glorious past and a future beckoning her with another set of endless possibilities and challenges to keep her going in the mindless space...

She had started with 2 sheets ,a porridge bowl and some manna. She was leaving richer than ever and equally wiser. The city had made her endure hardships, tested her, broken her down completely, taught her to laugh and cry through pain and sorrows, made her and finally remade her.

When she left she did not owe anyone any money or code, all she was leaving with were memories to go write another chapter in her travelogue that her work authored!

It wasn't that she thought the world of the people she was leaving or that she didn't ! What it definitely meant was that she had learnt something from them all and was taking a part of them with her, for after all they were her extended family for a year and a half and it was her first home in the land of free that she was leaving behind. Her first port of entry...

Their companionship had validated her being and provided food for her soul as it did for them. She was hated and loved to the extremes. She didn't mind either for the only thing that mattered to her was if she was inspiring...

She always thought that it’s not the years that you put into your life, it’s the life you put into your years...and they definitely had put life in hers in some way thereby leaving an indelible impression...

She had tormented many of them for loving her ,for hating her ,for not getting her cookies from home and also sometimes maybe simply for the joy of tormenting but all that was in good spirit. They all took it in a lighter vein and forgave and forgot. She was one of them..

Joys and sorrows were shared, in dire circumstances even a cup of coffee was shared when the vending machine ran out of refills and Oh! Yeah! all the sleepless developer's night out, Weekends.....

When she left she told them that though it sounded cliched she wanted to leave them with her words and that were....

Nobody dies a V*rg*n , life manages to scr*w us all anyways :) so live life king size!!!
(* intended !)

To some though she said what she always liked saying .....

When winds of fortune blows against you
Remember you can harness them
And blow you towards your definite purpose
Through the use of your imagination!

She bid her final goodbye and urged a spirit of goodwill and camaraderie to remain.She told herself that the purpose of her stay there was to forge the next link in the chain of events that would make up the story of her life ....

She had come, She had seen and She had conquered...