Some­thing I haven’t done in a while ever! Party till 2 am and give an exam at 9 am. All in the hon­our of birth­day gal Vaish. We started on Fri­day evening. Resumed on Sat evening. And ended on the wee hours of Sun­day morn­ing. Now that’s one hell of a long cel­e­bra­tion. And it feels like we’ve been cel­e­brat­ing her birth­day most of the week­end  Babes, you are one rock­ing woman!

The Gokarna trip had been pend­ing for a while. There were about half a dozen folks who were absolutely sure they wanted to go. And of course, as we approached the day of depar­ture, quite a few backed out. Fever, work, sud­den loss of inter­est : there were all kinds of expla­na­tions as usual. A pre­dictable trend amongst peo­ple who are very enthu­si­as­tic to start off with! “Let’s go,” “Gokarna, I would love to go!” “Count me in!” Alas, when the time comes to actu­ally pack up and go, it’s a hand­ful who remain.