Kazaks in UAE had a get together to meet PCN Sir who is on a visit to Dubai. In spite of the meeting being arranged at such a short notice and that too in the middle of a working week, it was heartening to see around 15 Old boys turnout and some of them with families. Niaz (1004/80) one of the most spirited Kazaks in UAE, came all the way driving 150 kms from Abu Dhabi for the event. Vinod Krishnan (1365/83) was the first one to reach the venue at sharp 8 PM. Bobby Krishna (2470/94) coordinated the meeting and arranged the venue. We missed the Trimurti's of UAE chapter Dileep, Krishna Kumar & Saju of 82 batch and the other Kazaks as they couldn't attend due to prior
committments.
Cijal & Sajith Raja of 95 batch were the juniormost among the lot. The other attendees were Roy, Sunil Kuruvilla, Rajeev (GDT Sir's nephew) and of course Rony (PCN Sir's son). I am sure I have missed few names here, guys sorry for that.
Vinod Krishnan of 83 batch will be visiting school after a gap of 25 years for this OBA . He seemed all excited to know from PCN Sir, what all has changed in school.
We really had a nice time. PCN Sir will be leaving Dubai next week and those in UAE who want to meet him can contact Rony.
(Writeup by Saji Vasudevan 2487/94)
Showing posts with label get-together. Show all posts
Showing posts with label get-together. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Pune get together on 01 Jun 2008
A get together of SSKZM alumni at Pune was held at the Officers' Mess, 101 Inf Bn (TA) MARATHA LIGHT INFANTRY on 01 Jun 2008.
The attendance though was not overwhelming, was encouraging. It was heartening to see that besides those settled/ located in Pune, Kazaks came in from Mumbai, Ahmednagar and Lonavala.
After navigating through the lanes of Pune Camp ( some did manage to get lost!) people started reaching the venue by 12 o' clock. The warm climate was ideal for a couple of glasses of chilled beer which was available in plenty. Most came in by about 1 o' clock or so.
Informal introductions broke ice and then Thilakan took over to inform everyone about the way we would go about conducting the event. It started with a brief introduction of each one attending to include his name, roll no, batch, family details and some interesting episode from his/her schooldays. The last part was what made the afternoon so interesting. Each one had a hilarious yarn to spin and this time the theme was ` Shank's Humour' ( with due respects to late Sri CVSN ). It really went on and on till someone looked at the watch and said that he had an appointment to keep. Reluctantly, the session wound up at 4 pm and then everyone moved for lunch. Before moving for lunch, everyone together sang the English School Song which once again took everyone back to school. A sumptuous meal later, the crowd slowly broke off with a promise to meet again in the near future.
The following old students( all young at heart) attended the GTG:-
171/62- Brig(Retd) Shyam Lal
642/72- Capt LG Meprath, IN with family
835/78- Col (Retd) Thilakan EV with family
914/78- Col PP Davis with son
967/80- R Sreesankar
980/80- CG Krishnakumar
988/80- Jagdish Nair with family
1013/80- Col K Nandakumaran with family
1039/80- Lt Col Rajesh Nair
1234/81- Col(Retd) Shyam Nair
1433/85- TH Gopalakrishnan with family
1598/85- Satheesh Manmohan with family
2011/89 Mrs Medha Vitekar with family
2376/93- Shyam V Srivatsa
2654/97- Blessan CK
2859/98- Lt Rishi Das, IN
2862/98- Radish Pillai
3107/2000- Lt Nilesh KG, IN
3117/2000- Lt Abbie George, IN
3216/2000- Raghav Pachauri
A highlight of the event was the presence of Capt Louis George, the President of our OBA.
MP Anil was requested to attend but his medical condition did not allow him to be moved over such long distance but most who attended the meet also paid a visit to him.
Thilakan, the `Karanavar' of the Pune Chapter requested to be relieved of the responsibility since he is shifting lock, stock and laptop to Mumbai. The responsibility was then handed over to Col K Nandakumaran for as long as he is posted at Pune.
It is high time someone took the initiative and compiled all of CVSN's jokes. The compilation would be a bestseller. Anyone who is reminded of his jokes, please start putting them on the net. They will remain on record.
Those who took photos that day, may I request them to upload them on the net.
Hope the families also had an interesting time as we had.
The attendance could be much better. Hope we achieve that from the next time.
(writeup by Col K Nandakumaran 1013/80)
The attendance though was not overwhelming, was encouraging. It was heartening to see that besides those settled/ located in Pune, Kazaks came in from Mumbai, Ahmednagar and Lonavala.
After navigating through the lanes of Pune Camp ( some did manage to get lost!) people started reaching the venue by 12 o' clock. The warm climate was ideal for a couple of glasses of chilled beer which was available in plenty. Most came in by about 1 o' clock or so.
Informal introductions broke ice and then Thilakan took over to inform everyone about the way we would go about conducting the event. It started with a brief introduction of each one attending to include his name, roll no, batch, family details and some interesting episode from his/her schooldays. The last part was what made the afternoon so interesting. Each one had a hilarious yarn to spin and this time the theme was ` Shank's Humour' ( with due respects to late Sri CVSN ). It really went on and on till someone looked at the watch and said that he had an appointment to keep. Reluctantly, the session wound up at 4 pm and then everyone moved for lunch. Before moving for lunch, everyone together sang the English School Song which once again took everyone back to school. A sumptuous meal later, the crowd slowly broke off with a promise to meet again in the near future.
The following old students( all young at heart) attended the GTG:-
171/62- Brig(Retd) Shyam Lal
642/72- Capt LG Meprath, IN with family
835/78- Col (Retd) Thilakan EV with family
914/78- Col PP Davis with son
967/80- R Sreesankar
980/80- CG Krishnakumar
988/80- Jagdish Nair with family
1013/80- Col K Nandakumaran with family
1039/80- Lt Col Rajesh Nair
1234/81- Col(Retd) Shyam Nair
1433/85- TH Gopalakrishnan with family
1598/85- Satheesh Manmohan with family
2011/89 Mrs Medha Vitekar with family
2376/93- Shyam V Srivatsa
2654/97- Blessan CK
2859/98- Lt Rishi Das, IN
2862/98- Radish Pillai
3107/2000- Lt Nilesh KG, IN
3117/2000- Lt Abbie George, IN
3216/2000- Raghav Pachauri
A highlight of the event was the presence of Capt Louis George, the President of our OBA.
MP Anil was requested to attend but his medical condition did not allow him to be moved over such long distance but most who attended the meet also paid a visit to him.
Thilakan, the `Karanavar' of the Pune Chapter requested to be relieved of the responsibility since he is shifting lock, stock and laptop to Mumbai. The responsibility was then handed over to Col K Nandakumaran for as long as he is posted at Pune.
It is high time someone took the initiative and compiled all of CVSN's jokes. The compilation would be a bestseller. Anyone who is reminded of his jokes, please start putting them on the net. They will remain on record.
Those who took photos that day, may I request them to upload them on the net.
Hope the families also had an interesting time as we had.
The attendance could be much better. Hope we achieve that from the next time.
(writeup by Col K Nandakumaran 1013/80)
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Gettogether at DSSC Wellington - 25 Apr 2008
Kazhaks at DSSC Wellington had a get-together at the Golf Hut of Wellington Gymkhana Club on 25 April 08.The occasion marked the visit of Lt Gen Thomas Mathew to Wellington, and the graduation of the 63rd SC which had three Kazhaks also happened to be on that day.
The following attended,
Lt Gen Thomas Mathew
Col Jacob Dominic
Brig CA Krishnan
Col V Anoopkumar
Col George Jacob
Col PR Murali
Col NV Sunil Kumar
Wg Cdr Benny Mathew(Moving to Shillong)
Lt Col Rajesh Bhanu(Moving to Srinagar)
Cdr MH Rajesh(Moving to Mumbai)
The last three were student officers who graduated with the 63rd course on that day.
Any Kazhak joining the 64SC must contact Col Jacob Dominic,the senior most old boy at the College on arrival.
The following attended,
Lt Gen Thomas Mathew
Col Jacob Dominic
Brig CA Krishnan
Col V Anoopkumar
Col George Jacob
Col PR Murali
Col NV Sunil Kumar
Wg Cdr Benny Mathew(Moving to Shillong)
Lt Col Rajesh Bhanu(Moving to Srinagar)
Cdr MH Rajesh(Moving to Mumbai)
The last three were student officers who graduated with the 63rd course on that day.
Any Kazhak joining the 64SC must contact Col Jacob Dominic,the senior most old boy at the College on arrival.
Friday, March 21, 2008
OBA get together at MHOW on 26 Feb 2008
An OBA GTG was held at Infantry School, Mhow on 26 Feb at 2000 hrs. Details are as under:
The following attended
The following attended
- Brigadier JP Alex (391/1970)
- Captain Louis George Meprath (642/1972)
- Group Captain V Raghavan (854 /1977)
- Colonel KT Sreekumar (1012/1980)
- Captain P Ashokan (962/1980)
- Col JP Mathew (1168/1982)
- Colonel K Narayanan (1208/1982)
- Major Robins Mathews (2362/1993)
- Captain Prajith P Varma (2868/1998)
- Captain Keats K Das (2990/1999)
- Lt Arun VP (3462/2003)
- Lt Nithin Narayan (3513/2003)
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Hydrabad chapter meeting
Hyderabad Chapter meeting was held on the 09th of January. The get-together was organised under the aegis of Brig Rajeevan Gopalakrishnan (592/74) who is the Cdr Arty Bde at Secunderabad. Col Shailesh (1513/1984) coordinated the event. This was in honour of the visiting officers of Defence Service Staff College, Wellington. The following attended the event:
- Air Cmdr (Retd) BR Nair (45/1961) and wife Mrs Sridevi Nair
- Col Jacob Dominic (139/1968)
- Brig DK George (Retd) (315/1969) and wife Mrs Rebecca George
- Col PRM Ravi (469/1973) and wife Mrs Vinodini Ravi
- Brig CA Krishnan (514/1972)
- Col NP Rarilal (580/1974)
- Brig Rajeevan Gopalakrishnan (592/1974)
- Col George Jacob (896/1979)
- Col KP Jose (990/1980)
- Col KB Jairaj (1242/1982) and wife Chandni Jairaj
- Lt Col CV Shailesh (1513/1984) and wife Mamta Shailesh, Children Sruthi and Kalash
- Col Jose Kurian (1523/1984)
- Col Mangesh Vitekar (1534/1984) and wife Kanchan Vitekar, sons Atharva & Advait
- S Anil Kumar Nair (1634/1986)
- Lt Col Jerrish Paul Jacob (1845/1988) and wife Mareena Jerrish and son Daryl
- Sqn Ldr Suraj (2291/1992) and Suja and children Nilin and Nikhil/
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)