Here goes !!!!!!

It was not to be, but still it happened. When a planned trip got cancelled, I was not really hopeful of making it to Calicut, let alone having a MCC get together. However once again proving, that if there is a will, there is a way, it took place. After the cancellation, when we made a sudden decision to drive down to Calicut for two days, I was afraid to inform people lest something came up again. And so, it was after crossing the border that I messaged Freddie. Interestingly, the first message that I got when I got the phone network back in Wayanad was a candy crush request!!!!!! Oh lord, will these ever end??? After umpteen breaks, we landed safely in Calicut and then I sent out an SOS in the group. ‘I am here’. Pat comes the reply from none other Sameer, ‘I am here too’ and so the wheels were set in motion and our dear old Freddie voluntarily took up the job of calling people up to see how many we can gather at such short notice. Abha had confirmed she would come down from Kal...

When old friends meet, time flies like it does nowhere else…………….Once again I experienced it yesterday in Bangalore, when a few of us from the batch of PDC 89, Malabar Christian College (MCC) met for a lunch. The lunch itself was the outcome of a whatsapp group we have got going. Though a few of us have been in touch throughout, for a few it was the first meeting after more than a quarter of a century !!!!!! Whew, any wonder then we got going as soon as we saw each other……….all at once, not a moment of silence, totally oblivious of where we were, and how we sounded. It was as if the years just fell away and we were once in the realms of the MCC…….Each trying to catch up with the rest of the crowd, the chatter of 25 years in one go J It really sounded like someone had thrown  a stone at a crow’s nest (Kaakakootil Kallenrinzha pole)………… And then the surprise came in the form of a cake ordered all the way from Calicut by our dear friend Freddie through one of his ...