reunion

(left to right)GunRanjan(bajji), Chaitanya, VijaySai(zambie), Anand, HariPrashant(ship), Pramodh(best student-1994)

Dad would come the next day to take me home for summer vacation. I was really very happy abt getting back home from hostel, but a bit sad abt leavin friends. Anyways, Id get back after 2 months, and receive all the hugs n then they'd lift me up n throw me on the beds n make a lot of mess(thats how we used to treat each other when we met after vacation). I fought with rakesh the other day n wasnt talkn 2 him. I thot we'd patchup after vacation. SV had already left wid his aunt (manorati ma'am).I knew he'd get some strange thing for me from zambia like he always did. "Well zambie(dats how we called him), see u after 2 months" I said. And thats the last thing I remember to have spoken to him. It was May 1995. 5th
grade exams were jus over n we were so excited abt getting into high school, 6th std that is. I thot I'd meet up wid them again in july.

But things were totally different. Dad dint want me to be in that school anymore. As a kid I was obviously happy abt staying with mom n dad instead of livin in a hostel. But I could'nt forget my friends. They'd be expecting me. I dint even tell them abt me leavin the school. I wanted to visit the school sometime so i cud atleast talk to them. But I never got a chance to visit the place again. There were no e-mails n stuff. I dint even have anyone's fone numbers. I wrote a couplof cards, but never got a reply. Days passed n I had
almost forgotten all this. Years passed n I grew old. I wondered whether I shud visit the place atleast now, because I was'nt sure as to how many ppl wud remember me.

A couple months back around april-may, I registered in a network called orkut, where I happened to come across a community of the students n ex-students of my school. With a little hope, I dropped a post there. And the next day I was totally shocked to see so many messeges in orkut as well as in yahoo msngr. I finally caught up with them. Then v all had a long conference on yahoo for 3 or 4 hours, talkin abt all the things that happened in school 10 years back. Even they were very happy to find me coz it seems they'd been trackin down all our classmates wherever they were, and cud'nt track only 3 guys one of them being me.

We decided to meet up in brindavan campus in whitefield. But there were'nt many guys in there. Many had left after 12th. Only those pursuing BSc were in brindavan. I went there and met them in the same old fasion. Same hugs. But they dint throw me on the beds this time(they're grown up). And guess what I got to know!! Zambie's no more a Zambie. Now, he's Aussie coz his parents moved to AUS, n he's goin there after his Bachelors. We spent some time together talkin abt our primary school days.Then we decided to have a biig reunion on Jan-11 thats when the Sports day is held. Its the most spectacular extravaganza held by the institute. And this time, its goin to be better than ever for all of us. Im jus waiting for the day................