Even More Memories

We happened to go to Sri Lanka for the first time in 2017.

 with family at the destination wedding of my niece Miskil.

 Vaseem and I pose.

 My foot poses.

 Can Pooja be far behind? At World's End, Horton Plains. Below, a mask in the showroom, Laksala.

 Second trip to Colombo,..for a conference. with Bhakti More and Fanni Wong.

 Also went to National University of Singapore. For a training program.

 Met my music group in Hyderabad.

 Muthu and Vasanti in KGA Bangalore. Borrowed a flowery shirt from him.

And of course, caught up with Osmaniacs in Hyderabad-my engg. classmates.

Bangalored

It is always a pleasure to be in Bangalore. This time it was work that brought me here, and a highlight was discovering some places and even better, rediscovering people I had not met in some time.

I spent some time in the MR (Market Research) industry after my MBA, and one of my friends from those days is Muthukumar, who is still in the industry, while I veered off into academics. Our friendship grew over the years, and we independently started on Golf too. It was great meeting him and his family after a while.Here we are, at the KGA (Karnataka Golf Ass.) one evening.

Again, meeting old students is a given, as I try and catch up with my FB friends in person. This time I got lucky, and met three former students from different institutes-one at IBM, another into her own Exec Search frm, and the third at SAP. Also met my former assistant at Indore, Saumya, who works for Hansa research at Bangalore. And got to catch up with Aniruddh, an old friend who works for NetApp as a lawyer. Wonderful time spent with all.

The beer pubs are a great attraction, and I went to a couple of microbreweries that make exotic beer varieties.  Missed out on a few others (pubs and students), but there's always a next time