June 29th

 Friends, it has been a long journey. If you all remember, this is the day (29-06-1988) some of us met 26 years ago. Some of us are still in touch giving a feel as if we met yesterday. Thanks to Roshin for connecting some of us through this blog. Thanks to the social networks for bringing us closer.  It's understood that everyone is busy, but please find some time to keep this blog active. Ok bye friends, have a nice time. 

culture Shock 3.0. --while deepwoods is going on in MCC..

Hi, since no action.Requests from some and suggestion i post snow pics here.. thought can get You all to do some exercise.. and enjoy some fun.. like how we used to have during cultures. This is My oldest daughters school and another local school club doing culture shock. She and Priyanka the other child in black choreographed the dance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk8OOIsqWU&feature=youtu.be hope you all enjoy it. And hoping everyone will become more active. Hope You and your family is doing well. take care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk8OOIsqWU&feature=youtu.be

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Hope you all had a great year. Wish you all the best in the coming years. take care

Us

We took this picture last week.  Just populating the blog.  I will try and post Diwali pictures after my party coming up this week.

More pics of Alumni meet

Here are some pictures that I had clicked during the alumni celebrations.

Roshin.

Waking up to another day of fun

Prem inspecting I MA classroom

Heber Hall as seen thru the bushes and trees :)

II MA classroom

Programmes in Anderson Hall

R.I.P. KM Samuel

Annie's father passed away last week, September 10 to be precise. For someone I had known to an extent, I felt sad that he had to go so soon, so unexpectedly. When I spoke to her some days back,she said it was out of complications from diabetes. He was hospitalised for a couple of days - he had a stroke, hemorrhage and a cardiac arrest, if I remember right.
He was a familiar figure in college, teaching as he was in the Lab Technology dept of the MCC's Continuing Education stream. He had a smile and a mirthful way about him especially when he greeted us, Annie's classmates.
One of my everlasting memories of him is sitting with him on the steps of Loyola college and chatting as we waited for my brother who was taking a BBA entrance examination there. It was Robin's first trip to Chennai, and Annie's parents had heeded my request to accommodate him with them for 2 days. Uncle offered to accompany us to the college as we were not familiar with the city areas of Madras. He regaled me with a lot of stories from his life as we waited outside the exam hall for 2 hours, I think.
I also travelled with him and Annie in my only trip in an unreserved train compartment to Kerala. It was during the MCC unrest/strike days when college was closed and he came to my hostel to find out if I wanted to join them on that train journey to Chengannur. It was an uncomfortable journey, but Uncle's presence made it easier for us.
I was an occasional visitor to their house in Tambaram where I loved to play with his dogs Ruby and Sophie. The dogs had a free run of the house, and the fat labrador Ruby would go to Uncle's room as he took his afternoon siesta. Sophie the black mongrel would sit like a human on the cane chair and yawn loudly.
I remember him telling me that he had met his wife for the first time on his wedding day at church! Aunty was a quiet and loving person, who seemed like the rock behind him. Marriages of our parents' generation were like that - silent and solid where the wife quietly saw to it that her husband's needs and likings were humoured. May God give her strength to cope with his absence. May Annie and her brother also be comforted in the thought that her dad is in heaven with the angels.

Onam greetings

Dark is beautiful - The Hindu

Dark is beautiful - The Hindu
An article on our classmate Kavita Israel, now Kavita Immanuel.
A tribute to all of us with darker skins ;)

Why study English

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/08/why-teach-english.html
This vindicates our decision to do English major. For me, it was studying something that I enjoyed rather than something that I would have to cram up or would be a drudgery like any of the science subjects. Of course, it earned me some derision from hostel mates who did the "real" and "intelligent" courses of study.

Alumni celebrations

The day after the melee.

Road in front of Heber

Tree stump at Heber captured by an amateur (me)

The nostalgia of being in front of Selaiyur Hall

Our first MA classroom

Classroom was in a state of disorder

Tree opposite our usual gutter. Gutters lack depth now.

Prem and his friends.

Programmes going on inside Anderson Hall.

Oru college kumari.

Skinny Francis (behind Miller) has put on a lot of weight. So have we all 

My son Ashwin sings a song for Prem, just as we were leaving.

My kids making acquaintance with Arul.

One last photo before I depart.

Most of these pictures have appeared on Facebook, and most of you would have seen them. Anyway, since our blog needs some activity, let me put them here too.
I was there only on Sunday for about 2 hrs, so I am not qualified to comment on the 2-day event. I hope Prem will jot down his experiences.
I am told the first day was fabulous, and all had fun sitting in the gutters ;) I got to meet Griz & Miller, Prem & Venky, Meena & Janardhan and their kid, and a few other faces I could recognise. Prem did the service of taking me around a part of the campus, including Heber Hall and chapel which I had never seen when I was studying there. I also had the privilege of travelling (upto the pavilion from Thomas's) in Venky's limousine ;) And thank you, Prem, for gifting me a copy of The History of MCC, though you made me carry yours and Venky's copies in penance!
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Roshin.