

{"id":1135,"date":"2020-02-17T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2020-02-17T13:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T13:36:18","slug":"down-the-memory-lane-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2020\/02\/17\/down-the-memory-lane-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the memory lane &#8211; II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1137 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ssa_mouli_7_feb_202.resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ssa_mouli_7_feb_202.resized.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ssa_mouli_7_feb_202.resized-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ssa_mouli_7_feb_202.resized-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ssa_mouli_7_feb_202.resized-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier blog on get together at School\u00a0 in 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/2011\/07\/21\/down-the-memory-lane\/\">Read<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having settled down North of Narmada, it is not often that I get to attend functions at Chennai or South of Chennai. And whenever it happens it has always been very special.<\/p>\n<p>As one ages ,one doesn&#8217;t really change but just becomes more of what one was , as a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1141\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-40-34-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-40-34-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-40-34-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-40-34-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-40-34.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/>At sixty-plus , most of us have retired from active careers and those who are still in service are doing it for fun rather than any compulsion.\u00a0 With career out of the way and children having left home, this is the small window in\u00a0 one&#8217;s life span when you have the time, money and health\u00a0 to indulge in attending such social events , wherever, whenever .\u00a0 No wonder senagers (sixty-plus behaving like teenagers) are the new big consumers today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1139\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-25-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-25-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-25-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-25-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-25.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 85vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I graduated from School in 1975 and there are some classmates I never got to meet in the intervening 40 odd years. Yet when we meet, it feels as if we never parted. Now that our children are in the process of getting married , a wedding becomes an ideal occasion to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>On 7 Feb, Chandramouli&#8217;s son got married and on 6th Feb we had a great get together at Nambi&#8217;s house. A big , big thanks to Dr AP Nambi.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies too had a great time and probably felt being part of the community as much as the &#8216;boys&#8217;.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1140 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-41-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-41-23.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-41-23-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-41-23-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Something unique about high school classmates&#8217; reunion\u00a0 i s that you find guys from all walks of life. During a\u00a0 gathering of classmates from professional colleges or Military Academies most\u00a0 conversations ramble on around the profession while with High school types it&#8217;s\u00a0 more like the age of innocence; conversations are unstructured and care free. The event was particularly special as three very senior teacher now in their eighties graced the occasion and one of them even took a class though on general issues\u00a0 and not on Biology, that was his subject.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1138 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-38-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-38-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-38-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-38-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-38.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 85vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many thanks to Chandramouli , Nambi , all ladies who have been putting up with the overgrown boys and all wonderful people who made it so lively be their sheer presence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-12.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-12-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-12-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_11-37-12-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before signing off , I convey my grateful thanks to my hosts Girija and Baskar,\u00a0 whose wonderful company we enjoyed for four days at West Mambalam.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1142\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1142 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-59-15-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-59-15-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-59-15-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-59-15-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/photo_2020-02-17_12-59-15.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 85vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(seen here with Selvaraj and Selvavinayagam)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Earlier blog on get together at School\u00a0 in 2011 Read Having settled down North of Narmada, it is not often that I get to attend functions at Chennai or South of Chennai. And whenever it happens it has always been very special. As one ages ,one doesn&#8217;t really change but just becomes more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2020\/02\/17\/down-the-memory-lane-ii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Down the memory lane &#8211; II&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}