Class of ’88 Rendez Vous…

Its almost a week since this event took place, I am miles away since then, but the day remains fresh and keeps coming to my mind as Wordsworth describes the Daffodils ''….In vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon the inward eye…''.The memories of that day continue to flash upon the inward eye.

A group of 26 of us class mates / bench mates for 10 Years at Christ Church Anglo Indian School met up after 2 decades…for the first reunion of the Class of 88 ….it’s a special feeling to meet up with friends with whom you began your scholastic pursuit, Friends with whom you literally learnt the A, B, C’s of life’s initial years. The friends who were with you during those most fragile but moulding years in a life span, Childhood and Adolescence.

So, we were all assembled at the picturesque Sea Crest at the MGM resort on ECR by 11.30 AM, with almost every one having You-have-changed-a-lot conversations. Some grey, some looked like they had worked long hours to hide their silver strands, Some receding hairline, some with no hairlines, The girls were all gracefully ageing women with different surnames from what we knew, the childhood giggles and loud laughs were replaced with very dignified smiles and not so noisy chuckles… wasn’t those close-up ad types though.

Each one had to talk about his / her crush in school though nothing worth mentioning came out of this much awaited session and after which we went on to share what we did since we last met, our family, kids etc etc…

We had a round of Dumb Charades in which we cracked some of the not so dumb movie names which we would have dreaded to even utter when we were in school, like Basic Instinct and Avaluday Ravugal…Faheem kinda did his best at being dumb but all of us were dumber that we cldnt crack it, or was it the other way round, we were less dumb than him and hence cldnt crack it.

Finally we helped ourselves to the memorabilia of the day, a nice mug with all our names printed on it, and on returning to Doha I reverently unpacked it and placed it in the front room.

A special mention should go in here to the people who made it possible, Chocks, Venket, Faheem, Pamela, Glady and thanks to all those who made it to the event.