School friends are special and after waiting for a year, finally the day arrived to meet old friends from school times. This Sunday we met at the Barunei Hills, Khordha and this was our third meet up, inviting everyone from the whatsapp group, that has been set including friends from Primary school to High School. It's not possible to have everyone, but the organizers did a nice job of reminding everyone and finally doing the arrangement for fifty people. I never miss these functions, because these are some great moments, that takes us back in time, to get away from the inexplicable anxieties that we deal with everyday and remind us some lovely old memoirs, that possibly happened only in our generation. Unfortunately back then we did not have means to capture them, but they stay permanently in our memory, till we are alive.
A meet without good food is incomplete and we had limited but delicious items in the menu, including mouth watering chicken pakoda (fry), mutton curry and 🦐 prawns masala.
Dahibara Aludam and chicken pakoda in starters - who can deny!!
A charming invitation with flowers from the jungle - instant idea from Bhabani (wearing the cap) on the spot - he came by bus from a distance of 60 kilometer to just attend this.
The inaugural speech was no formal - everyone was free to step up and share few words and it felt like everyone was feeling young here - like we traversed back in time.
For the first time, we had a music chair event done for gents - watching the video only can let you feel the fun which was the prize - no cost, zero digital game were our primary means of entertainment then.
Unlike last year, everyone wanted to go ahead for the lunch before the dance, seems being in this ambience made them more hungry, not to mention the aroma of mutton curry and prawn.
The lunch did slow us a bit but could not entirely stop our dance - the video (along with this post) will be a long time memoir for all of us - for those who came and even for those who missed, inspiring them to come next time.
Some more photographs from the event before winding up - some people came from long distance, so they started leaving early.
One of our friend invited all of us to his daughter's marriage sharing invitation card - the red card that you see above.
At this particular age of life, education, wealth, positions do not make much difference - but well being does.
Before I wind up this post I must mention a real fun of our time that Bhabani shared - Once they had to sleep in a bus when going to participate in a cricket tournament - bus was the only means of communication then to go to places that was not possible to reach by bicycle. And that too, govt buses were the primary means that time and they definitely were not in best conditions. So the bus broke down near a jungle and all that was possible is to sleep inside the bus till morning, closing the doors / windows. Nothing to eat, everyone had to sleep hungry, but after some time, they could not resist and discovered a ripen full banana bunch parked in the backside corner, covered with fabric. And then you can imagine, what must have happened - by morning when the person waked up, there were signs of only the bunch minus bananas.
The view of this side of the hill - you can trek to the top as well.
This post is in response to the slow living sunday prompt, there could not have been a better way to spend the Sunday, taking it back in time and enjoy the simplicity of the moment.
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