Bye bye frogies,
Bye bye termites,
Bye bye monkeys,
Bye bye seepage,
Bye bye kitchen taps,
Bye bye birdies
I promise I won’t miss you,
As I sing bye bye Gorakhpur
* My sincerest apologies to the original lyrics writer, but hey, I needed to get that out of my system.
We finally got our posting out of here and yes, my heart sings with joy to leave the borderlands of UP and Bihar to head for more civilized climes. It may be a tough deal to get the house at the other end, it may be more expensive a city to live in, it may be a whole lot worse for getting local help, but I’ll take it all the same.
I know when I signed up to be a fauji biwi that its never all the same in every station. Being a fauji baccha I was no stranger to the situation. And yet when its time to pack up and move with your bags, this is one place I leave with no regret. It may have been good in some ways, but it was equally bad in others.
They always balance out in the end, but for now I hear the beat of that distant drum to which I must march. The sound of the drum that calls to me as I pack trunk after trunk. It tells me its time to move on. The past is long gone. Its time to build things anew. So I move with a slight bounce in my step as I pack my curios in bubble wrap.
I don’t know when I’ll have time to update the blog next. The next couple of months are going to bring a mess. In more ways than one if you get what I mean! I’ll see you when I see you, and until then I’ll still be singing Bye Bye Gorakhpur.
Posted by Veneet Kumar on October 20, 2011 at 3:27 am
Hey, sorry for posting on your blog but I could not find your email address. I am also from India and have been trying to explore the Emotion Code and the Body Code techniques of Dr Bradley Nelson. I would like to discuss a few things about this with you. Can you please reply to this by an email. I have posted my email address here in the comment section.
Posted by snehal on October 21, 2011 at 12:59 pm
You better copyright this one because it is in a grave danger to be plagiarised by me for the same reasons only diff station which is Udhampur.its like you have read my mind and penned it down.my farewell speech is ready…my pacing material is ready …the only thing that isn’t is our posting orders….waiting eagerly for them
Posted by Cashmere Lashkari on October 24, 2011 at 11:31 am
No problem, feel free to borrow it!
Posted by Ravi on October 30, 2011 at 10:39 am
you should also add after all the ‘bye bye’ lines: ‘ buy buy goodies at ND’…LLOOLLL
Posted by Cashmere on October 31, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Oh Yes, looking forward to that Buy Buy TOO!!!
Posted by rekha golani on December 28, 2011 at 3:01 pm
hey cash…. i m also waiting to say bye to gkp only difference being dont know when… but i swear our tenure was great thanks to some good people like u all who made it so for us.. all the best keep in touch