Though miles
may lie between us, we are never far apart, for the friendship doesn’t count
miles, its measured by the heart.
Back to College,
back to connecting. Together is the
favorite place to be…Let’s get together..Is what we thought and planned.
On June4th
while chatting with Subbu (subramani) there was adiscussion on completing 20
years of our graduation way back in 1996.
So Subbu and I thought of bringing those memorable days back. What
better way than Whatsapp. On June 5th
we started this Whatsapp group KLE –
Class of 96.Class reunions are a great way to catch up with old friends,
relive old memories and bring back the innocence inside you.. It’s fun to share
experiences with people you have known for many, many years.
It all
started the journey of getting together.We were able to get around 40 people
from our class. Already the discussions
had started onthe blasting that we received from our lecturers, last day party
at a wine store where we were very lucky that the owner did not drive us out,
to the record Jeans worn by Nagi and myself for almost 6 months. Already, whatsapp
group had become Wattawatta and is still running in full zoom. We needed to plan the big day to meet. Looking at everyone’s calendar we finalized June
25th as the day. The Place….KLE Footpath..While many people will say
that high school and college was the best time of their lives, it’s also an
honor and privilege to remember some former teachers from our college who
taught us so much.
The first to
arrive were Ramanan and Srinivas. They
were so excited that they started sending selfies on the group. Waited for few more folks to join. Sandy, Arun, Sridhar, Manjunath, Sunil NS, Subbu,
Sanjeev, Dinesha, SunilMB, Suneetha, Bharathi, susheela, ShreeLakshmi, Bhavana,
Jayamala, Devrani. We first did a formal reintroduction, as recognizing people was
tough since many of us met after years. It was interesting to see how people had
changed. Everyone was really nice, an advantage of being older & mature.
It was
really nice for everyone to get together and just walk around the campus;we get
so busy with day to day jobs, that we don’t get time to keep in contact with
our friends. Also we could catch up on
much needed talks with our friends and find out what has been going around
their lives. We remembered our college Principal, Lecturers, parents and almost
everyone were trying to make us study. They tortured us, threatened us, called our
parents and complained and at last came to the point of begging. But you know, we guys were resilient. We never cared. (but there are times when i think we should
have cared.)
Its feels so
good to bring back memories of our college days i.e.20years back. Seeing the Classrooms
which we had attended 20 years back, entered and sitting in front of the
library and taking snaps was like getting back the old memories.
