School alumni meet...

It was my school`s first ALUMNI meet today....Little lilly`s english school, yeah yeah , i know funny name, so what.
It was organized by a very enthusiastic bunch of a few juniors that i don`t know about.Was held at the MLO club, which for the moment is being renovated, no wonder we got to do it over there this time.

I was kinda held back at going to meet coz there were apprehensions about how many people i know would actually turn up for the event n i was in no mood to be left there lingering all alone.Then when i knew that ravi would also turn up, that's when a good feeling a started to fill in also there was hope of a few more people turning up that day.
So we went, along the way i came to know that vinod was also turning up for the meet.
VINOD----he needs no introductions at all, but still,he was a very normal kid at school, donno wht hit him along way during college days that he turned up to be a psycho of sorts....became a major major bookworm, a nerd, a geek n could bug anyone to their ultimate core which was irritating at times but at the same time was happy coz atleast there is someone who knows where he is heading towards...that's all about the turn out from our class.
To make matters not so worse, a guy who a year senior to us had joined up--VENKAT, that was a major major major relief coz i din want to be labelled as among the grand daddy`s of that event out there, coz in fact we were the senior most people at that event till then.
It was kind of a let down at one point because of the turn up that i saw from our class people compared to all the other batch guys that were there was very minuscule.So the whole meet actually was kind of boring coz i expected to meet up with a lot more people out there than did.I guess that's how things are for the moment and that's how things might end up to be also.

It kick started with usually how it has started of all over these years...with a prayer n a classical dance performance by 2 girls from school.....Things have not changed at all, the dance performance was good even though not many people including me were looking at it, just a slight glimpse at it for a a minute or so.
After s few minutes of killing time in a few formalities...There was a lamp lighting ceremony that took place to which actually we were invited to do the honours as were the most senior people out there.....fortunately venkat was there to spare me the blushes.
Then, it was turn for the lectures to get kick started.....Princi at his his usual best, not that he gives a bad lecture or something but it just was that i was in no mood to listen to any of it.since he din`t remember any of the old faces at school, he formally asked everyone out there to give a introduction about themselves....i thot to myself, oh shit no again...its like iv been introducing myself to the whole world out there for the past year and it had got boring.The only difference..this time i had t do it with a mike in hand, infront a decent crowd.When i first uttered hello to the mike i realised that my voice sounds kinda different with a mike...after all the blah blah blah form our side, it was the turn of some more blahs form our princi..
It seems that over the years that have passed by, he has also turned out to be a part time medical practitioner...that was interesting.He gave all of the people seated out there a looooong talk about maintaining good health, its benefits and blah blah blah.....after sometime we actually started to feel sleepy out there coz it was hot, it was humid and a lecture was the last thing we wanted out there.After some time it was the turn of the people seated out there to actually shoot something at every1 else....Vinod as expected did give a speech, something that we could relate to , but also something i did not wanna hear there......he talked about recession, voting rights , about the next election and other stuffs...was the right thing to say but it din sound so good coming out from him coz i knew for a fact that he said the things he said for another reason....But he did say it n actually got the crowd`s attention.....kudos to him for that.

A few more talks later, the food was served...the fact that it was already hot out there made matters only worse coz the food was also kinda spicy....ate some of it, instigated an argument over something that vinod decided to start which i actually fuelled up a bit more.....at the end it was worth the while, caught up at least with someone that i usually don`t and for a change felt nice about the whole thing......hope if at all i turn up for the next gathering, then some more people that i actually know in person turn up....