Good old friends
Had a great time this weekend on 4th November when i met RatnaPrasad, Girish and KP Rajesh. RatnaPrasad, whom we lovingly call RP, came down to Bangalore from Pune. He had some work with the RTO here and also was getting desperate to lose as many matches as he could in TT against his arch rivals, his own students :p.
I went to KP's house and from there we both went in KP's car in the evening through the weekend, hustle-free roads of Indiranagar and Koramangala to Girish's house in HSR layout. Girish stays in a very posh, colorful, colony like apartments with his wife, in a flat he bought about 4 years ago. There are lots of recreation facilities in his apartment premises including lawn tennis court, badminton court, swimming pool, gymnasium and ofcourse an auditorium converted into a TT room.
Met my earlier manager Nagarathna there after many years. I was interacting with RP after atleast 3 years now !!! Was nice to hear about his new adventures. After delving into fields like, "understanding a person while reading his hand-writing", carpentory, he has now moved into reading about history. He is currently reading the history of Maharashtra. I have asked him to blog about his new discoveries and i am sure it will be great to read about his findings, in his very own structured calm way.
After chit-chatting and getting mesmerised about all the old utilities and softwares we all were involved with, we went out to check out the recreation area. Infact, that was one of the prime reasons for all of us to come together. It was raining a lot that evening and it eventually meant that we could not play lawn tennis. We decided on playing TT, the one sport where we all four were damn good at. Infact, it was Ratna Prasad who taught me the discipline of playing TT. And it was Girish who taught me how to smash the ball and still get a point for it :)
We played for around 2 hours, with each one playing atleast 15 to 20 singles matches. Was very refreshing and tiring too !! It was great playing the defensive game against Girish, and i even succeeded in winning a rally where he was smashing and i was defending. Its a rare sight to watch Girish lose such a rally ;) ... RP was at his usual best. For the first half, he was just watching each of us play and open up all our cards, and then in the later half, he started giving back and defending for all the techniques that we were using. KP was chopping and spinning the ball all round the table.
I did have a great run in the beginning winning against all of them for quite some time, but later on I started running out of luck and the others started playing better . Then started the actual fun. The scoring was getting more competetive and it was bringing out the best in each of us. The rallies were getting longer and we were all enjoying the matches more and more. Finally, fatigue overtook us, except Girish, who played continously 6 games!!! 3 with RP and then 3 with me, and he was the winner, as usual. A very memorable and refreshnig weekend, none the less.
I went to KP's house and from there we both went in KP's car in the evening through the weekend, hustle-free roads of Indiranagar and Koramangala to Girish's house in HSR layout. Girish stays in a very posh, colorful, colony like apartments with his wife, in a flat he bought about 4 years ago. There are lots of recreation facilities in his apartment premises including lawn tennis court, badminton court, swimming pool, gymnasium and ofcourse an auditorium converted into a TT room.
Met my earlier manager Nagarathna there after many years. I was interacting with RP after atleast 3 years now !!! Was nice to hear about his new adventures. After delving into fields like, "understanding a person while reading his hand-writing", carpentory, he has now moved into reading about history. He is currently reading the history of Maharashtra. I have asked him to blog about his new discoveries and i am sure it will be great to read about his findings, in his very own structured calm way.
After chit-chatting and getting mesmerised about all the old utilities and softwares we all were involved with, we went out to check out the recreation area. Infact, that was one of the prime reasons for all of us to come together. It was raining a lot that evening and it eventually meant that we could not play lawn tennis. We decided on playing TT, the one sport where we all four were damn good at. Infact, it was Ratna Prasad who taught me the discipline of playing TT. And it was Girish who taught me how to smash the ball and still get a point for it :)
We played for around 2 hours, with each one playing atleast 15 to 20 singles matches. Was very refreshing and tiring too !! It was great playing the defensive game against Girish, and i even succeeded in winning a rally where he was smashing and i was defending. Its a rare sight to watch Girish lose such a rally ;) ... RP was at his usual best. For the first half, he was just watching each of us play and open up all our cards, and then in the later half, he started giving back and defending for all the techniques that we were using. KP was chopping and spinning the ball all round the table.
I did have a great run in the beginning winning against all of them for quite some time, but later on I started running out of luck and the others started playing better . Then started the actual fun. The scoring was getting more competetive and it was bringing out the best in each of us. The rallies were getting longer and we were all enjoying the matches more and more. Finally, fatigue overtook us, except Girish, who played continously 6 games!!! 3 with RP and then 3 with me, and he was the winner, as usual. A very memorable and refreshnig weekend, none the less.
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