Now thats called a start. We finally did manage to cross Half Century. We were expecting a lot more attendance but due to whatever reasons some people just couldn't make it and sent in their regrets. Nevertheless we also had a breed of perpetual defaulters and late comers who startled all of us with their benign presence.
Regrets - Ajay Kumar, Vishal Sharma, NS Chib, Karan Yadav, Amit Bhardwaj, Jidesh Krishnan, Ajinkya Deshpande, Vikrant Sharma, Rajneesh Dhar, Jaswinder Singh, Mandeep Dahiya, Adarsh Rai, Faruq Khan, Dharmveer Singh, Karan Singh Bains, Simi Bashir Umesh Mehta.....................phew....what a long list................but you guys missed it
AWL - Girish Nair, Jatinder Jasrotia, Shalini Singh, GP Singh, Rahul Singh, Rohit Dwivedi, and the rest of SS74 :(.......WTF
The Party Animals - Now thats a very long list. Those who attended already know it and those who didn't know as well.
Highlights - Rajeev & Shivani were the first ones to reach. Rajeev being at the helm of affairs for the arrangements ensured everything was in place for the evening. The guest started pouring in dot 1930 onwards. Anupam Kher's graahi Dhankher was probably the next alongwith his better half and our MH specialist Nitin Soni. Soni's love for the MH is known to all and to strengthen this claim he was staying at AIIMS Guest rooms.So the guest continued to arrive and the excitement could be seen with jhappi and pappis and MC/BC-ies flying in all directions with absolutely no regard for the accompanying ladies and children. So bloody what! I guess we have a stronger bond with our coursemates than our spouses! otherwise why would people lock their wives sleeping at home and drive all the way to my place at Greater Noida from Dwarka, Gurgaon and Delhi for a 5AM breakfast.
So lets continue.... people kept coming in and we finally started with Dhankher taking charge as the emcee to the not so structured program. Thereafter we displayed a small video of the academy pics wherein Jessami pics were missing in the video since the Jaguars have been sleeping without contributing anything. We might need to start another movement Save the Jaguars like we have one for the Tigers lest they go into oblivion. The video was appreciated by one and all and there were war cries and claps for various pics. Nandal was pretty embarrassed for the pic in which he was wearing just the underwear and the pouches (His wife had not seen this naughty side of him ;) The pics brought those wonderful memories alive. Ritesh jha could not hold his tears when he saw Bhanu's pic.
Post refreshing the memories we had a one minute silence to remember our martyrs, Bhanu, Lakikant, Prateek Mishra & Selvaraj. These soldiers laid down their lives for the motherland and have made us proud. Our D3 Celebrity - Kshitij Sharma, made a proposal to make a corpus for the War Widows which will be deliberated upon in the days to come and taken to a logical conclusion.
With the drinks going down, people started feeling nostalgic and high. Sonika Sinha sang a lovely song with some bathroom singers contributing to the chorus. Riya sang the famous auld lang syne on which some people managed to do Dheeray Chal. 8 years on and we could still do it. Thereafter we all danced to the tunes of Human Orchestra Chacha Varun Visen with his ganja shetty look! Ritesh Jha who had expressed his desire to sing and was finally able to get his hands on the mic and sang Pal in remembrance of the martyrs and the batch. The next generation made merry at the big inflatable bunjee jumper specially catered from them while the laptops editions were with their mothers, amused at the loud music and rather subdued ambiance!
More drinks down, the floor was open now for dance. Dance drinks and old Memories were indeed a deadly combination. Rest of the evening was spent in chit-chatting and remembering pleasant memories from the academy. We had people from as far as Udhampur, Guwahati, Bangalore & Mumbai. Karan Yadav called from East Timur islands specially to mark his presence in absentia.
Josh of some people is worth mentioning. NS Rathore, Yash Naudiyal & Rajeev Pandey were in proper Company T-Shirts. Shirts off to you guys! Some people like Thakur, Sadotra & Me donned the company colours atleast if not the actual T-Shirt. NSG gang of Yuvraj, Shinde & Pandey was there at the last moment to join the celebrations. Course Cap with our new logo on it became an instant hit. Sejwal has ensured that the quality of the cap and workmanship was immaculate. So all those who paid but couldn't attend! please wait for your couriers from Sejwal to arrive.
Guys it has become an essay now and I better stop. Those who attended, enjoyed and those who didn't, keep f@#king guessing and sulking. Photographs will be uploaded on the website very soon so that you can feel sorry on missing the event even more. Jokes apart lets make an endeavor to have such an event every year... irrespective of all our busy lives, schedules etc and even get the NRIs to attend too.
So long from me! Thank You everyone for making this even a grand success. Please convey our special thanks to your spouses and children for bearing with us. And lets get together again next year and then in 2012 we will celebrate 10 years of passing out in a big way.
Photographs are appended below
regards & love
3 comments:
lots of good wishes for everyone
take care of yourself and your family members
Thanks Rohit and party
Galore!!!!!
Gopika
Thanks Saxy for the Sexy event and the minute update.
I could never imagine how nice the get together would turn out to be. All of us had a great time there.Thanks Rohit for putting up a great show. I just loved it.
I am proud to be a member of the SS74 family :)
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