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

15th International Jawa/Yezdi day

At the 15th International Jawa/Yezdi day attempting a Guinness World record for the most out of production Jawa/Yezdi motorcycles gathered at one place. Riders came in from Mangalore, Bombay, Pune, Pondicherry, Kerala, Tamilnadu. The final tally for the record was 409 though many more came in after the deadline.
One rider completed a solo 8000 mile journey over the past one month on his 1975 model Yezdi, returning early this morning. He went from Bangalore to Leh/Ladakh, Lahaul-Spiti and returned via Rajasthan, Gujarat.

 Reached early to get the number 1 tag

 My bike

Phot credits: Kuldeep, Kishore's son. (I forgot to carry my phone and camera)

For some more photographs/videos of the event go to the following links

https://www.facebook.com/bikersofindia/photos/a.1623249771042080.1073741848.220117744688630/1623250167708707/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/bikersofindia/videos/1623610474339343/

https://www.facebook.com/bikersofindia/videos/1623280537705670/

Mini meet at Hyderabad

Date Monday, June 19 7.30 pm

Venue: Minerva Grand, Hyderabad

Hosted by Ramesh J and family

 Ramesh, Varsha and Shriya

 Matilda, Richard, Raghunath, MB, Ramesh, Varsha and Shriya

 Matilda, Richard and Raghunath

 Shriya

 Ramesh, Varsha and Matilda

 MB and Raghunath

 

MB and Ramesh

Golden Jubilee Class of 67 Stanes High School Coimbatore

The class of 67 of my school, Stanes High School , Coimbatore, of which I am a part, celebrated their Golden Jubilee on 28 and 29 Jan 17 with a short function at school followed by a bash at Vision Resorts, Annaikatty. Attached below are a few photographs of the event.

 The crystal glass momento with all the names internally laser engraved 

 Group photo in the school hall. The lady in the middle is Mrs Alice Mathew, one of the only two surviving class teachers of our vintage, it was a Golden Jubilee for her as well as she joined the school in 67

 The better halves who accompanied us

 Lunch at Niligiri Biosphere reserve

Group photograph of classmates, their spouses and some children at the resort

 

Farewell dinner at Cosmopolitan Club, Coimbatore on 29th evening after the event

The official group photograph

Key chain gifted to all classmates

Views of the resort

Mini get-together at Bangalore, Thursday 09 Feb 2017

Srividya, Incognito, Arden and self met at Century Club at Bangalore for lunch as Srividya was in town. Few photographs placed below.

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8th Anniversary THCC

Was pleasantly surprised late in the evening when Ajeesh landed up at my residence to present me with a cake on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the THCC blog.

Thank you Ajeesh.

Grand Finale IXL-2016

The finals of IXL-2016 were held at Hotel Royal Orchid, Bangalore. Ramki won the trophy making it a hat-trick of wins.
Some photographs of the event ...

The setting for the finale

Attempting the 21x21 preliminary CW, Vinoo's pose says it all

Another view of the preliminaries

Ochintya Sharma, the MC conducting the on stage round

 Ramki Krishnan, Arvind Ramaswamy, Abhay Phadnis on stage

Jose Abreu, Srividya Krishnaswamy, Vinoo Sanjay on stage 

Ochintya conducts the on stage round 

The audience 

 Another view of the audience

Ramki the hat-trick winner with Vivek Singh the mentor of IXL

It was Ramki all the way right from the first answer MARTIAL which he got in a flash, no one was anywhere close to him all through the two CWs of the on stage round as well as the buzzer round. So commanding was his performance that his score at the end was equal to the sum score of the two who were placed second and third