Summer Vacation - S. Ramesh

vat it brings to my mind :
Summer vacation at Ashok colony:

1. Matches with the next colony guys
    ( ball match , sign match...etc.,. ).
2. Cricket all the time.
   ( used to be innings too.)
3. Swimming every day with appa.
4. yeah ! Raghu had that flow in freestyle
    and he did butterfly too !
5. i used to grab on to the inflated tube.
  ( now i swim well too ... 2yrs of swimming
    at pentafour apartment.)
6. PR.Srinivas the umpire .
   ( he listened  to Raghu.. some understanding there.)
7. Marshal was everyone'e hero then.
    ( 9 F Balaji used to like him lot)... he is now 
    at the Middle East.
8. I used to like Michael Holding somehow.
9. The score sheets.,. ( the lemonades 
    from amma.)
10.One hot day ...The old man walked in with
     something totally new to us ..."comics"
     with polythene sheets covering the comics.
     ( I think he talked good Engish.)
11. All parents enjoyed the thought as that made
      all of us stay at home.
12. We used to exchange the comics.
     ( mostly super heros and stuff like that.)
13. Evenings .. parents used to comedown
      for their chat ...which usually centered around
      us the- kids .
14. parents who usually met were Arun's,
      our  parents and kishore- Akila's parents.
15. They always had so much to talk about us.
16. Evenings kishore used to go to violin class
      with Gurudatt and 6 C Murali ..so he'd leave 
      early.
17. Hey remember kishore's cousin Suresh ?
18. And 9-F Rajesh ( he was my collegue at
      Pentafour) he is at LA for the past couple of
      years.
19. Gouthaman and Koushigan? "Anncahi"
      wonder vat they are doin now!
20. Raghu remember one day Kousigan came
      home and u asked " yaaru?"
      reply was : "nanthan"
      Raghu: " ooru?" .. for that he said " Nagarkovil".
      "Preu?" ...." kosigan".. and we  all had a hearty
        laugh !
21.Then one fine day Arun got operated.
     (boy! it was fun...he was wearing a vasti 
       all the time.)
22.Chinniyan used to be that calm observer
     ( used to be busy with his tyre).
      guess he is at Ohio now.
23."Somy, somy unn per yenna?"
     my buddy used to answer " sowmya dhamodaran".
     man ! he used to answer that way every time man!.
     Devanathan M-7-F uncle asked him man. 
24. nights we used to play " Allicebyes"
      "donno vat the heck that meant!"
     It was fun man .... exchange shirts ...,
     remember Balji used to stand on top of the volleyball
     pole so that the catcher woud mistake him to be 
     part of the pole .!!! " can u handle it ! ? ".
25.Then comes the MAy first week
     (i used to hate that ... scared all the time..)
26.The 1 Re self addressed envelop which we wrote and gave.
27.Man i used to so scared man! 
28. Always felt like giving that grinning postman the
      upper hook and then a straight jab on his face.
      ( he will wait there for the sweet....he always
      had more confidence  in me.)
29.First the 'Sugan' discount coupen will be there with the
      result. I always used to fumble with the cover man !
      then oo la la !  the word "promoted" used to mean
      the whole world to me.
30. ..from then on vat ever amma/appa says would'nt
      fall in my ears grab the bat, grab the rubber ball..
      and off to the ground ...


Man ! i  love Ashok colony man ... no one is around now..
met Arun a couple of times ... at the shed he is
always with his wife man ! then last week just had
time to say Hi ! to cheechu ( srivaktsan ).

these kids now have got all park we dreamt about...
( saw Neerja's daughter with janti there at the park
  couple of days back.)
but the bench that 'sailappan' made for us at the shed cannot
be replced ..vat say u? 

cheers to the gang !
Ramesha

The gang:
PR.Srinivas,B.Kishore,Akila, cousin Suresh 
and his brother,Arun,Neerja,Raghu,Sowmya,Ravibabu,his cousin suresh,
3A remember 'thatta moongi?', in 5 Chennaiyan,poonmudi
used to join us at times, then Ananth, Gouthaman, kosikan
9F Balaji, 9e Rajesh and his younger brother,10A kannan ( kanna is 
with DBSS Sathyam software),Srivaktsan and his cousin Rahguram, 
Catherine kalpana, remember the eldest  of the gang Magesh at 12A
( yeah,  he used to talk too much.)
     

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