S and B Meet at Chennai 20 Jan 19

 Had a lovely small gathering for our S & B meet at Chennai. A new face appeared this time in the form of Sudarsan Balaji (The Battosai) his last special had appeared on the THCC Blog on 27 Jul 13. Hopefully we will see more CWs from him on the specials.

I was also given a pleasant surprise when I was presented with a 'Ponnadai' by Bhargav to celebrate the forthcoming tenth anniversary of the THCC blog which falls on the 4th of Feb

On the whole it was a good get-together, I only wish we had a larger gathering.

Some pictures and a video are attached

CV, Bhala, Sudarsan 

 Ramki, Paddy, Bhavan

 Bhargav, CV

 Ramki, Paddy, Bhavan, Self, Bhargav, CV, Bhala, Sudarsan

Bhargav presenting a Ponnadai

Bhala (xChequer), Self, Bhavan (Buzzer), CV(Gridman), Ramki (KrisKross), Sudarsan, Paddy, Bhargav

Mini S&B at Chennai on 23 Oct

At the usual haunt ie., Presidency Club, but on the terrace this time

S&B Meet No 9, Sunday 03 Dec 2017, Chennai

I was great to meet up with old friends and new. New friends being Ram (Ramani) and Prasad (Sree-sree), As usual at Chennai Bhala did all the legwork and we met up at our favourite haunt, Platinum Point at Presidency club. Some snaps attached below.

 L to R - Self, Bhavan (Buzzer), Subramaniam (Ramani/Ram), Bhargav, Ajeesh, Rishikesh (Gridman/Chaturvasi), Ramki (KrisKross), Dr Satyen Nabar (Dr. X), Bhala (xChequer), Padmanabhan, Prasad (Sree-Sree), Rengaswamy

Last minute drop outs due to fever/other commitments were Devanathan (Arden), Shrikanth (Afterdark) and Abhay.

Vignesh, Rajalakshmi and Suresh Babu were the others who could not make it.

Bye then till we meet again

Bhavans visit to Hyd, Chennai & B'lore - Oct 2016

Some photographs of Bhavan's visit to Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore

While at Hyderabad

KKR, Raghu, Ramesh (Singh!!), Bhavan and Sandhya

While at Chennai

Bhala, Bhavan, Paddy and Rishikesh

Ramki, Bhala, Bhavan, Paddy and Rishikesh

While at Bangalore

Mohsin, Devanathan, Kishore, and Bhavan

Mohsin, Devanathan, Self and Kishore

S & B Meet, 12 Mar 2016, Chennai

Here are some snaps from the S & B Meet held at Chennai. Unfortunately quite a few of us missed out on this one.

 Vijay (VJ), Ajeesh and Aakash

 Bhala and Rishikesh

 Vijay, Ajeesh, Aakash, Bhala, Rishikesh and Bhavan

Bhavan (Buzzer), Rishikesh (Gridman), Bhala (xChequer), Aakash (Exa), Ajeesh (Rainmon), Vijay (VJ/Vulcan), Ramki 

Bhavan, Rishikesh, Bhala, Ramki, Aakash, Ajeesh and Vijay

Shrikanth and Abhay missed the meet?

7th S&B Meet, Chennai, 08 Feb 2015

Here are the snaps of another memorable afternoon spent at The Presidency Club, Chennai in renewing old acquaintances and meeting new. Thanks to Bhavan for being the catalyst and thanks to Bhala for all the legwork in organising the event.

Bangalore was represented by a 6 strong contingent and Hyderabad made a maiden appearance with   2 attending from the twin cities not to forget one from the land of Oz. We had the pleasure this time of having 10 setters of THC in attendance. 

The meet was attended by

The Australian presence
K Bhavan (Buzzer) with Amudha and little Nina who were present for a short while.

The Bangalore Gang
Kishore M Rao (Incognito)
Shuchismita Upadhyay
AR Devanathan (Arden)
Mohsin Ahmed (Mac)
Aakash Sridhar (Exa)
Col Deepak Gopinath

The Chennai gang
Vijay Sarvagnam accompanied by his wife and brother-in-law
Bhalchandra Pasupathy (xChequer)
Shrikanth T (Afterdark)
CG Rishikesh (Gridman)
CG Bhargav
Abhay Phadnis
Arvind Ramaswamy
Ramki Krishnan (IXL 2014 Champion)
Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
Srividya Krishnaswamy
David Jayaprakash John
Ajeesh VM
N Rengaswamy
Padmanabhan PB
Navneeth Chandrasekaran

The Hyderabad Gang
Raghunath Parthasarathy (The Phantom)
Ramesh J (Sunnet)

 Preliminaries

 Awaiting the others. Vijay can be seen at the head of the table

 Almost all in. Mrs Vijay with her brother standing behind her are visible here

 Exam time with Buzzer's Teaser. Srividya can be seen in the corner at the rear

 5 more minutes

 Relieved after the exam

 Aakash, Bhavan and Devanathan in serious discussion

 Socializing

 Gridman, Afterdark, Exa, Buzzer, Bhala, Mac plotting outside

The Phantom joins the plotting gang. Wonder why Sunnet, Incognito and Arden went missing from this shot

 Abhay being congratulated (by an over happy Colonel) for his cracker of a Jumbo used as the prize special on the 6th Anniversary of the THCC Blog

 Arvind, Kishore and Laksmi strike a happy pose

 Awaiting the group shot

 Some more discussions. The venue of the meet 'Platinum point' can be seen in the background

 The happy posers are joined by 2 more though Gridman is striking a serious look

 Exa and David

 Bhavan, Shuchi and Mohsin exchanging notes

 Kishore, Devanathan, Laksmi and Shuchi flanking yours truly

 Bhala trying to convince Gridman to have a glass of beer (he finally succeeded)

Shuchi and Bhavan ...

 ... joined by Bhala and Shrikanth

 Kishore gets his prize from yours truly ...

 ... and so does Mohsin

 Mohsin, self and Ajeesh strike a pose

David clicking a selfie with me

The Groupie shot

Standing from LtoR - Lakshmi, Padmanabhan, Bhargav, Rengaswamy, Ramesh, Abhay, Rishikesh, Arvind, Ramki, Aakash, Devanathan, Mohsin, Kishore, Bhala, Raghunath, Self.

Sitting/Kneeling LtoR - Navneeth, Ajeesh, Shrikanth, Bhavan, David

Another groupie shot

Standing from LtoR - Lakshmi, Bhargav, Padmanabhan, Rengaswamy, Ramesh, Abhay, Rishikesh, Arvind, Shuchi, Devanathan, Ramki, Mohsin, Kishore, Raghunath.

Sitting/Kneeling LtoR - Navneeth, Ajeesh, Shrikanth, Bhavan, David, Aakash, Bhala.

PS - I wonder how no one managed to get a proper photo of Srividya as she is the only one missing from the photographs.

Ciao till we meet again hopefully in Hyderabad.