It has been raining old classmates of late. Well not exactly raining, but sort of drizzling. And here I have to mention that I am talking of those from my postgraduate days studying Economics at the prestigious Kariavattom University (the class of ’81, to be precise). By the way, you may absolutely not ask me how I wound up at the aforementioned *prestigious* institution. Truly speaking what’s more intriguing is how I got out of said *prestigious* institution, with pass marks to boot. Anyways that not being the point of this post, I will give that a miss.
When there has been a drought for thirty-three long years (except for a couple of lunches with The Nuts), a drizzle is much appreciated and welcomed with open arms. Truly speaking finding 15 people out of a class of 25, and being on the verge of discovering two more (we know which country they are in but have no clue what they are up to, there!) is not bad at all.
Now this is the kind of thing I expected to happen when I got into social networking: long lost classmates popping out at me from all over and Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing, not those total strangers who wanted to be ‘fraands,’ and one who suggested meeting up prior to tying the knot, totally disregarding my much married status, and another who gave all that a go-bye and in his direct way asked, “Will you marry me?” I kid you not. Sadly Orkut did not rise to the occasion and help me locate school or college-mates. It needed Facebook to come along and reveal many of those faces from long ago, more so in these past couple of months.
Predictably so, it has been an exciting few weeks. College is after all college, and I should say that in spite of being a misfit among the intellectuals that thronged the Kariavattom University, I can say with certainty that those two years spent there, were the best days of my student life. So now we have formed a Facebook group with those ‘found’, and have been busy filling each other up on the lost years. Those already in are being pestered endlessly for any scrap of information on those as yet undiscovered. Phone calls are being made back and forth to arrange a possible meet.
The result? A re-union scheduled for next month, a mini-meet, because at short notice only a dozen are in a position to make it. Those out of the state, and country, have to make do with pictures (which we are going to click, yaaay!) for now. So why am I writing this post? Yes, of course, I have a motive, not a sinister one. So chillax. I want to find a few more of these people from the photographs below (which, by the way, has both senior and junior classes) so they can attend the meet too. In case you were wondering, yes, it was my bright idea to cut the photograph in two to accommodate it in my album.
The left half
I want to ask readers these questions on the off chance that I might be lucky enough to get a positive response:
Are you one of them? If so contact me.
Are you related to one of them, a son, a daughter, niece, nephew, brother, sister, a relative by marriage? Please inform them and ask them to contact me. You can give me their details too, and I will gladly contact them.
Are you a neighbour? Or do you recognise them from some part of your life and know where they are at present, or at least where they were a few years back? Contact me, give me details. I will take it up from there.
Are you a colleague? Please let them know.
Are you a student of theirs? Many of them are in the teaching field. Do let me know if they have taught you.
With three separate colleges and six different schools under my belt, you have not seen the last of this topic on my blog. I will be back with more. It is a pity that not all have the same enthusiasm to find old friends or meet them, but then different people, different lives and ways, I guess. As for me, I am elated to meet people, of course only as long as you let me be. There is definitely that.
Now, my regular readers can make a guess as to which one I am in the above pictures. 😉
no mam, I dont recognise any of them . so sorry 🙂
and I dont beleive this someone asked you all that directly .. oh boy .. he sure had guts .. I cant ask anyone even now .. let alone then
all the best for the meet , hope you get to meet everyone .. and heyyyyyy if you meet up and order all the yummy food then invite me too, I promise only to come when food is being served and then go away immediately after eating it all 🙂 what say 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Oh yeah, why not?! 😉 Hehe… By the way, could you find me? 😛
I found the questions extremely funny and I blogged about both instances 😀
No I could not recognise but I can BET you are one of them in the picture 🙂 he he he
bolo bolo am i right or am i wrong 🙂 🙂
Smart answer, eh? Of course you are right 😛
It’s always good to meet former class mates and yeah, the marriage proposal was phunny. What did u say? 🙂
Oh man, nothing! Whatever I had to say I said in my post 😛
Are you the one sitting in first pic, second from left , next to some bell bottom wearing guy?
Have fun , have a great reunion.
Thanks Kirti. Errr… did you look into my Facebook album by any chance?! 😉
Meeting old friends is always so exciting. You are lucky that you found many of them even after all these years!
And as for your questions, I don’t any of them and I couldn’t guess where you are in the picture!
Yes, it is indeed lucky, considering most of them aren’t on Facebook! 😉 Well, I am in the first picture 😉
in left half pic, the second one sitting??
Did you guess just like that?! 😮 Hmm… or did you peep into my FB album? 😀
Bell bottoms and chappals!!!
Those were the days! 😀
Yes, Facebook has brought many old friends together. For me, it has brought my school classmates. Out of 49, 27 are on FB now. And you are right, not all have the enthusiasm and eagerness to meet and unite. Some are very reluctant. Good luck for your meet. Have loads of fun and bring more posts 🙂
I am looking forward to the meet next month 🙂 Its a pity not all have the same enthusiasm. Oh well… 🙂
Shail, I thought you were the lady in the front row, 2nd from the left, in the left half of the picture? She has open hair (not in a braid). Am I right or wrong? 🙂
You are right! And I won’t ask you if you peeped into my FB album because you are not yet my friend on Facebook 😀 😀
In the right half, third from left in the top row ?
Nope, Seena. Left half, first row, second from left 🙂 the one who looks like a ghost 😛
They are the ones who keep us young and who keep the child in us alive aren’t they ? I mean the friends and class mates. I wish you have a grand reunion . awesome pictures:)
Thank you. You are absolutely right! 🙂 We have even planned a visit to the college premises 😀
heheh!! Already know the answer to that question from Facebook!
I think it’s wonderful that you all are putting so much effort to have a reunion! I’m sure it will be a spectacular one!
Yeah, you’d know! 😉 I am sure, as long as those we found turn up duly. Keeping fingers crossed 🙂
I was there at the campus too, much later (97 MCJ). May be some of your teachers were still there, or some of the classmates, as teachers. Is the one sitting third from you Kuttappan (?) sir? Our dept. was far away, but we used to come all the way to the Linguistics dept for our electives. You look so sweet.
Have never been to the place since I left it. The cashew trees, the library, the hostels, Hymavathikkulam, elections, trips to the city on the Univ bus,….ah, this post makes me nostalgic.
Kunjhaman Sir? Trying to recollect the name…