Get togethers galore!

The feeling that you get when you meet up with old friends is beyond description. Of late, I have been experiencing this quite frequently and am enjoying it completely! Right now, I have 2 gangs that are expanding. One is the set of school friends I have in and around Kochi. We were all together in school and have literally grown up together. We are in professions as varied as Animation to Accounting to Aeronautics- but our alma mater runs as a common thread connecting us all. I would be wrong if I say that we had been completely out of touch at one point of time, but that said, there was a certain distance that had crept up, largely due to everyone being busy with their own respective professions. It all bounced back to old days when K returned to Kochi. K, an aeronautical engineering and an aviation management graduate works for a famous IT company at Kochi. He was instrumental in bringing all of us back together and thats when I realized that we have quite a big group over here- M, an accountant who works for a telecom company; P, a practizing criminal lawyer; G, who works for a machine tool manufacturing company; M2 who works for an engineering company and visitors from other cities like S, G2 and V who work for IT companies in Bangalore and G3 who works as an animator in Mumbai! As they say, the more the merrier. We are an enthusiastic bunch now and make it a point to meet up at least once every month for dinner! With the visitors from other cities, it becomes even more fun as we experienced recently at one of our do's. We would solely miss the overpowering presence of D though, who has recently moved to Muscat.

That is not all my dear readers. I have one more group which is my college group. We bonded with each other over some interesting and some not-so-interesting accounting and business topics while in college. The group is no less strong than the previous one. The active members apart from yours faithfully are- M who works for a yarn company; K who works for a stock broker: J who works for a housing finance company; V- the HR guy and A- the cartoonist. At least 3 of us meet up once in 2 weeks or we keep dropping at each other's homes if not to catch a movie, then to go out for dinner. Things got bigger last Friday when we all decided to meet up at M's place (his parents were away) and we had S1, S2, S3 and C for company- 4 girls who studied with us- 2 of them with their kids and 2 of them with their respective husbands- and all of us together had a whale of a time- thanks to M whose wonderful idea it was! I was meeting the girls after almost a decade and it was nice and sportive of their husbands either to accompany them and join the merriment or to allow them to attend these parties. The point is that we had a great time and we parted that night promising everyone else that we would have more such events in future as well. Here is looking forward to more ...after all, these get togethers refresh and re energize me like nothing else :-)