Friday, June 23, 2006

Koolpool - Ageing like Wine

I have kept up my promise of being out of action for a long time and the complete credit goes to the insanity of Term 2 ISB.

Starting from where I left off ... The exams went of decently or so I thought coming out of the exam hall each day. On a couple of occassions I knew that a little more focussed/early preperation would have helped me leaps and bounds and a couple of them I knew that either you know it or you dont ... there gonna be no middle path !!

But at the end of it all you are left applauding yourself at the amount of material you have successfully perused (grasped a little too) in the miniscule period of time you are exposed to it and somehow it does not seem to be as volatile as the numerous Engg. subjects we have withstood.

Eventually the silver lining of returning to Bangalore made the exams almost bearable.

In life we tend to take a lot of things for granted and the Immortality of the KOOLPOOL spirit was one such entity. It has endured many onsite visits by all members (Vizag,Belgaum, Vijayawada, Chennai, China, Germany, Canada and of course USA).... But the one fact that you always have a Friday-night-out to go back to was just ...Assumed !

Not that anything was drastically different this friday night , Harry promised to come by the Late-night-Show-time but accentuating conditions at office conspired against him, Dillo and his Dimple arrived on time as usual (with Gowda in tow),Chicko uncharacteristically bluffed his way out of the meet, Vikky The-always-raring-to-go was missing his "Bacardi-Brother" as well as this OM-Partner, Bala was in the US, Anahosur ditto, Jackie ... Koolpool last known memory of this dude was "Maldives nalli yello hodita biddirtane" .... Pinto in cruise-control mode of marriage, other NRIs.. always on our mind !!!

It was a good koolpool meet for all practical purposes but the rumblings we had been feeling for some time now was sounding like a roar to me ....

The writing was on the wall ... Life Moves On !

I can't complain if Harry cant make it to a meet, office issues are priority as we move up the ladder, willing him to be in Taverns for a football match when his ass is on fire at office is selfishness on my part cos I know he really wants to be there but could not !!!

I can't complain if Chicko is tired after a long day in office and driving to Yelahanka, somehow we always just asked him to come over to MGs as if it was a "pakkada mane" and on many occassions he used to do just that ! Shuttling between South/North Bangalore now needs an incentive like a "Fiancee" and rightly so too ....

I cant complain if Vikky creates a fuss to drop us in his car to Jayanagar at 1 in the night and it takes a few senti stuff to convince him why we won't take an auto ... we never gave him an opportunity to do that even once in the past 6 years !

I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT ANYTHING !

But at this juncture of life when Dindu is engaged, Chickoo is engaged, strong>Shumi/Murla/Pinto/Giri/Jacks/Anahosur are married, Harry is in the market for a scotch-serving-damsel, Suauve ladies are awaiting Dillo's hint of an interest in marriage, Bala is waiting for the numerogically-perfect day to announce the news to the group, Vikky is beginning a new era in US (via frankfurt of course) .... and symbolically Tom & Jerry is closed , the Winds of Change are blowing for sure ......

Merci.

Comments:
Great Kiran GR, but what is this koolpool?
 
Absolutly spot on Keanu....The script was always on the wall. "Winds of change" blowing in Koolpool. I loved the Blog boy and keep on writing. It was a pleasure writing it
Ramesh
 
Chings,
good one...u think it is possible for KP to adapt to these changing times and demands ??

i have my own doubts....
Cheers
 
hey chings, late albeit...could not resist! its been 7 years of existance for koolpool and would not be wrong if I say we are our own nemesis. There were days when we would not mind driving home late at night for days together forget fridays. In the last couple of years thats changed. the frequency has changed from weekly to fortnightly to monthly to occasions now. There are reasons galore for all this but the fact remains..we are dying a slow death !
 
Hey..

nice to see u here too :)

RP
 
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