Celebration of togetherness

We were a touch behind our schedules when we started off our journey to Silver Oak. The reason being late arrival of the bus in which Roni and his family were travelling on their way from Kerala. The bus was expected to arrive by 6 AM in the morning and it actually arrived at 7:45 AM. By the time Roni and his family were at my place, Vijay and his wife also dropped in. it was almost 8:30 when we left to board the bus. Meanwhile, we were receiving continuous calls from Arun, Jenson and Sudheesh as they were waiting on the way. We reached Sajith's residence from where we boarded the bus. We were a bit disappointed as we had a last minute drop out in Aby. He could not make it due to some personal and professional reasons. Given below is the list of people who boarded the bus from Ejipura:

• Roni, Asha and Akhil
• Sajith, Jeni and Jerish
• Vijay and Preethy
• Jolly, Shyja and Griffin

Jenson and Sudheesh joined us near Mayo Hall. The ambience was already great, fun and laughter pouring all around. Arun joined us near the Hebbal fly over and now we had a complete quorum. We had a pretty good breakfast in the bus itself, courtesy Jeni or was it Sajith :).

We reached the resort at 10:30 AM.

We were blessed to have a very cool and pleasant weather through out the day. After the welcome drink we (guys) thought of getting ourself warm with some outdoor games. We moved on to the Volleyball court while the gals kept themselves busy with Table Tennis and carroms.

It was after a long long time we were involved in some outdoor games and we were a bit rusty to start with. After a decent game of Volleyball the guys moved on for a bit more adventure in football, all this while the gals were busy with the indoor games.

The strenuous effort in the ground had taken its toll on all of us. and we moved for a much needed refreshment. We had some beer, all of us, except Vijay. All this while we were talking about the days in college and all those good times flashed past out memory lanes. All fundoo leg pulling stuff was happening, I presume Arun has developed an expertise in this field over the past few years. After a fair drink we moved in to join the gals for the lunch.

We had a nice and savory lunch. Since we were very tired, we had a very heavy lunch indeed.


After the lunch, we gathered again for a game of Dumb Charades. We could sense a little bit of acting in all of us. We witnessed some innovative ways of identifying the movie names and famous personalities. Now it was time for some water sports and we jumped on to the pools. We played water polo and also found some very swift swimmers within the gang.


After a tiring session in the water we had a hot cup of tea with some snacks. now it was time for us to pack up and we started our journey back. The party mood was still on as we played Antakshari in the bus.

Overall it was a tremendous day, with lot of fun and frolic. I wish we have a get- together like this more often. I will be remembering November 6th 2005 for a long long time from now and hope that all others who were part of this outing will also remember it for long.