Copied from the yahoo groups archives... written by GD Naveen Kumar ( 92 – 99 )
Bro's an girls ( I cannot say sisters to everyone),
Before I start to keep my hands busy on key board here is big round of applause for Ravi Prakash, Nadig, Sushruth and Rajesh for all their efforts in making the Alumni meet a grand success and a memorable, heart warming experience.
22nd Jan 2006 - Day on which all good old school buddies of Shigod joined under one roof to share their experiences and to mark the dawn of new day for JNV alumni. Myself and Rajesh met at around 10:00 AM near forum to reach the venue. Lazy Rajesh had asked me to get ready by 08:30 AM itself as Ravi prakash had asked him to come little early to the venue to arrange for the meet. We reached the venue at around 10: 30 AM where Danappa and other seniors were standing right in the entrance to welcome their schoolmates. Everyone just started chit chatting about their school life and nobody could count the time. It was almost 11 AM when we all assembled in the MP hall (pseudo name for the venue - Lakshmi Venakteshwara Kalyana Mantapa) to begin the function. (How can it start on time when the person who prepared the agenda himself got late by 90 mins). Ravi Nadig delivered the welcome speech and commanded the whole function(P. E. Master). Everyone introduced themselves . Introduction took little long time and went on till 01 : Am as there were many latecomers to the function. Ravi Prakash shared the Balance sheet for last fiscal year and on the activities held by JNV alumni for the last year. Many of our seniors shared their thoughts on actionables and outlines set for the next fiscal year and believe me there were valuable thoughts except the one about the overbridge (No hard feelings). Mr. Ashok (1945-1996) is gonna send the minutes for the goals set for next year by JNV Alumni which were decided on the meet. Everyone were just getting of their energy levels as it was getting late for lunch. I don't who smelled the food that they declared the lunch break on spot. Ravi had arranged a delicious lunch (hard to get in Bangalore) for all of us and everyone just started batting right after getting on the floor. Each and every person at the lunch were just sharing their experiences at Navodaya and were batting at good strike rate.
Lady Icon of our School Mrs. Ramya Rani arrived at lunch time and met everyone with their ever lighting smiles. People were just walking around and meeting their bro's and sisters giving suggestions and sharing their memories at Shigod. Lunch break got over by 02: 30 PM and we assembled again at the hall to share our school experiences. One person from each batch were allowed speak about their batch in Navodaya. The interesting part was each batch were sharing their Chatri moments apart form other achievements and other sagas. Everyone just described what all tharle things they did in the school. It was good to see that they remembered each moment as if it happened two days back. Ravi Nadig (P.E. Master) was keeping track of time and did not allowed to speak about our batch completely. He was asking us to finish ASAP. Just kidding.. Its okay Nadig, we can understand that time is very precious for a tecchie. Then, it was fun time for all of us. Rajesh, Nadig arranged a DumbCharads session for all of us which had lot of fun. We had eight teams from around 100 people. The teams named themselves like Naanu, Shigod Siddha, Shigod Sizzlers, Enigma etc... Nadig identified the Oscar talent in the DumbCharards and the person who has it is Sandeep from 2001 batch. He was just awesome he could not convey Movie Baazigar to his team. It was really fun time for us and we all enjoyed each moment over there. Sun was just getting down every moment when organizers decided to call off the meet and asked Shipa to deliver the Vote of Thanks.
We had a singing session as a valedictory program where we sang all our Navodaya songs. This also was gr8 fun. Then we had little photo session and people were just giving their best postures to the photo shoot.
We formed a 14 member Alumni team which has >= 1 member from each batch and is responsible for all activates related to improvise the career path for all JNV'ians. This team discussed few value added thoughts (14 point note) after the meet which will be shared with all of you through email from one of our seniors.
I have few suggestions (might be nonsense also) but thought of sharing with all of you... Each batch person was getting along only with their batch mates and many people were left behind. Also, There were many students in the meet who needed our seniors and our advise/help related to their career path. They were uncomfortable to express themselves. Now, my request for everyone is to just step up and speak to our juniors and make them comfortable in expressing themselves. Many juniors > 2000 batch were left behind in the meet and they were not able to express themselves to all of us. We need to actively involve the representatives of their batches to get to their root problems. Please pardon if it sounded like nonsense to any of you...
I am really bad at ending sequences, and I do not know how to end this ever living experience which gave us an opportunity to live our Navodaya life once again for a day.
Bro's an girls ( I cannot say sisters to everyone),
Before I start to keep my hands busy on key board here is big round of applause for Ravi Prakash, Nadig, Sushruth and Rajesh for all their efforts in making the Alumni meet a grand success and a memorable, heart warming experience.
22nd Jan 2006 - Day on which all good old school buddies of Shigod joined under one roof to share their experiences and to mark the dawn of new day for JNV alumni. Myself and Rajesh met at around 10:00 AM near forum to reach the venue. Lazy Rajesh had asked me to get ready by 08:30 AM itself as Ravi prakash had asked him to come little early to the venue to arrange for the meet. We reached the venue at around 10: 30 AM where Danappa and other seniors were standing right in the entrance to welcome their schoolmates. Everyone just started chit chatting about their school life and nobody could count the time. It was almost 11 AM when we all assembled in the MP hall (pseudo name for the venue - Lakshmi Venakteshwara Kalyana Mantapa) to begin the function. (How can it start on time when the person who prepared the agenda himself got late by 90 mins). Ravi Nadig delivered the welcome speech and commanded the whole function(P. E. Master). Everyone introduced themselves . Introduction took little long time and went on till 01 : Am as there were many latecomers to the function. Ravi Prakash shared the Balance sheet for last fiscal year and on the activities held by JNV alumni for the last year. Many of our seniors shared their thoughts on actionables and outlines set for the next fiscal year and believe me there were valuable thoughts except the one about the overbridge (No hard feelings). Mr. Ashok (1945-1996) is gonna send the minutes for the goals set for next year by JNV Alumni which were decided on the meet. Everyone were just getting of their energy levels as it was getting late for lunch. I don't who smelled the food that they declared the lunch break on spot. Ravi had arranged a delicious lunch (hard to get in Bangalore) for all of us and everyone just started batting right after getting on the floor. Each and every person at the lunch were just sharing their experiences at Navodaya and were batting at good strike rate.
Lady Icon of our School Mrs. Ramya Rani arrived at lunch time and met everyone with their ever lighting smiles. People were just walking around and meeting their bro's and sisters giving suggestions and sharing their memories at Shigod. Lunch break got over by 02: 30 PM and we assembled again at the hall to share our school experiences. One person from each batch were allowed speak about their batch in Navodaya. The interesting part was each batch were sharing their Chatri moments apart form other achievements and other sagas. Everyone just described what all tharle things they did in the school. It was good to see that they remembered each moment as if it happened two days back. Ravi Nadig (P.E. Master) was keeping track of time and did not allowed to speak about our batch completely. He was asking us to finish ASAP. Just kidding.. Its okay Nadig, we can understand that time is very precious for a tecchie. Then, it was fun time for all of us. Rajesh, Nadig arranged a DumbCharads session for all of us which had lot of fun. We had eight teams from around 100 people. The teams named themselves like Naanu, Shigod Siddha, Shigod Sizzlers, Enigma etc... Nadig identified the Oscar talent in the DumbCharards and the person who has it is Sandeep from 2001 batch. He was just awesome he could not convey Movie Baazigar to his team. It was really fun time for us and we all enjoyed each moment over there. Sun was just getting down every moment when organizers decided to call off the meet and asked Shipa to deliver the Vote of Thanks.
We had a singing session as a valedictory program where we sang all our Navodaya songs. This also was gr8 fun. Then we had little photo session and people were just giving their best postures to the photo shoot.
We formed a 14 member Alumni team which has >= 1 member from each batch and is responsible for all activates related to improvise the career path for all JNV'ians. This team discussed few value added thoughts (14 point note) after the meet which will be shared with all of you through email from one of our seniors.
I have few suggestions (might be nonsense also) but thought of sharing with all of you... Each batch person was getting along only with their batch mates and many people were left behind. Also, There were many students in the meet who needed our seniors and our advise/help related to their career path. They were uncomfortable to express themselves. Now, my request for everyone is to just step up and speak to our juniors and make them comfortable in expressing themselves. Many juniors > 2000 batch were left behind in the meet and they were not able to express themselves to all of us. We need to actively involve the representatives of their batches to get to their root problems. Please pardon if it sounded like nonsense to any of you...
I am really bad at ending sequences, and I do not know how to end this ever living experience which gave us an opportunity to live our Navodaya life once again for a day.
As the wind catches and the autumn dawns,
Old leaves part from their trees giving way to the newer, fresher ones.
So that we can celebrate life, so that we can celebrate spring,
So that birds can fly with their new wings!
Old leaves part from their trees giving way to the newer, fresher ones.
So that we can celebrate life, so that we can celebrate spring,
So that birds can fly with their new wings!
Rajesh had sent a mail earlier with Alumni invite which had a quote "Some People Make Things Happen. More watch what's happening..Most wonder what Happened..!!" ,Now all of us who attended the meet really should feel happy that they are not the second part.
I am not running a spell check as I need to catch my sleep and it is already 55 mins past 1 in the night and need to catch my cab in next 5 mins. Let us keep the Jnv torch with full of colors and light. Kudos to all of you who made your presence on the day.
- GD Naveen Kumar ( 92 – 99 )
I am not running a spell check as I need to catch my sleep and it is already 55 mins past 1 in the night and need to catch my cab in next 5 mins. Let us keep the Jnv torch with full of colors and light. Kudos to all of you who made your presence on the day.
- GD Naveen Kumar ( 92 – 99 )
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