The Season of Reunions!

This summer has truly been a season of reunions. I have been a part of three gatherings of TEESA friends in the past couple of months, and needless to say all three days were wonderful.

First, it was the trip to Mhaismal in Abhijeet's WagonR. Six of us, namely- Abhijeet in the driving seat, Sudeep, Anuraj, Mahindra in the luggage space (Kudos to him and Sudeep for fitting themselves there!), Mudit and I had a real good time on the warm afternoon of 15th April 2006. It brought back lots of memories from the 4 years @ GECA. This was probably the first time that even this big a group had got together. And mind you, this was a totally unplanned trip and turned out to be much better than the one we had tried to plan @ the time of Diwali in 2005.

Sudeep was enjoying his post IIM holidays, and Anuraj was going to be there for Good Friday and Easter. Mahendra, Milind and I had a long weekend. Mudit came down to Aurangabad to collect his degree certificate (which I believe, he has not received till date) and I and Sudeep called Abhijeet and persuaded him to come to Aurangabad. And there we were, on Saturday afternoon @ Sudeep's place. We decided to give a visit to the college and found the department deserted because of some seminar. So we left for Lucky, to chill off with Thanda Fresh Fruit Juice.

And I think, the juice got our brains working and we decided to head off for Mhaismal. We enjoyed the sunset there and visited the Balaji temple and chatted about everything from Prof. "Lalu" Gaikwad's style of talking and walking (demonstrated again by Mudit of course) to the Discipline Committee in college gatherings. We re-lived some of those unforgettable moments again.

On the way back, we stopped @ the Fauji Dhaba to have a dinner, for which Milind was supposed to rejoin us. Well, he did and also did Devendra and Manik, a nice surprise! Devendra had come all the way from Bangalore on a week long holiday, and decided to come down to Aurangabad to see us when Milind told him about our plan. It was time for the hostelites to dwell into the hostel days. Courtesy to the poor service @ the dhaba we enjoyed our dinner for more than 2 hours, anyways it was secondary to the talks. It was a wonderful break from the daily Mumbai routine for me, so much that after 2 and a half months I still feel as if it was yesterday!

Next was the trip to Matheran, more about it in my next post.