Office memories

I am holed up in one corner of the university,trying to study for a final which is not quite my cup of coffee (please read my previous posts to know my views on tea!). While feeling absolutely bored,I started thinking back to the days when I used to work in a start-up construction company. A few months after I joined, came in a new entry-Lekshmi. Now Lekshmi and I hit it off from the beginning. No,not because we were from the same part of the country (though that was an added advantage when we needed to criticise somebody). Both of us would go on and on about anything under the sun. The company had an intra-chat service.Ohhhhhh!the joys of chatting on it. Lekshmi and I must have exhausted its capacity before leaving that place. To add twist to chatting, Lekshmi suggested we type whatever we wanted to say in Malayalam. Now, my Malayalam is passable but I was game. God!the things we did in office....since nobody else understood Malayalam,nobody questioned us and since we were using Jabber (by the way, thats the name of the intra-chat) there was no objection from anybody as we could always say that we were discussing a site in Malayalam!!! All this when Lekshmi and I used to sit facing each other!My boss once caught us red-handed in this act...but he being a nice guy(though the reason may be because he too used to do that everyday with his friend in office) chuckled and looked the other way.Hmmm...those were the days.Never a dull moment. I miss Lekshmi today of all days especially. When she left the office, I lost all interest in going to office. I have many memories of that place where I went to work. But my thoughts of Lekshmi are the most memorable. Hope she is doing well wherever she is. Lekshmi,nammal raksha pattu...ormagal matrame...