The "Bird watchers" of Mumbai

In the suburbs of Mumbai the day started for the blogmaster clicking birds in motion and in "loose motion"(to use Faiyazism). By evening he got so bored that he decided to round up the oldies of SVC to do some real bird watching around Nariman Point.

That's how Sir Stanely, Ashok Soni, Vims and yours truly got together for some gup-shup.

Sir Stanely has started living up to his knighthood status. He has really taken the 'Sir' bit very seriously. He finds road food, like chanaa choor garam, chai garam, peanuts etc. as dicey. He avoided Tandoori Chicken at Leopold, labeling it as carciogenic. Even beer was a no no, too much of tri-glycoride you see. Luckily Vims put his foot down on the road side tuck and I put my foot down on the beer. Sir Stanely went quiet after some time because we agreed politely to the dicey and the carciogenic lectures but went about doing our own thing!!

Ashok Soni, the vegetarian teetotler that he is, must have felt as comfortable as Malika Sherawat in the company of Mother Teresa. He updated us about all that is happening in Berhampur. He really has an elephantine memory when it comes to recalling people and incidents that are almost thirty years old. In between all the gossip he also reminded us about his daughter's wedding that is coming up in a couple of months time. My my my........ how time flies!!

Ashok and Vims were happy to meet their Hindi miss. We were all thrilled that we could talk to Miss Shamim, Sushmita (not Sen), Sarita and Louis. In between it so transpired that Abha's hubby- Binoy Mishra and yours truly were together in JNU. So courtsey Vims I got his number and spoke to each other.

All in all we oldies had great fun talking about the good old days, remembering all of you and wishing that the golden era of our SVC days had never ended. No wonder Nov. 14 is designated children's day. We sure miss our childhood.

You are right Sir Stan..... ajab shehar ki gazab kahani!!