This is not an April Fools' hoax.....
But in real....., I did hear from Lionel Vasant Kumar today... !
As we all know, thanks to Harry and Peter's efforts Lionel came on board just recently -- and after some preliminary interactions he had with the core players in Mangalore, I was happy to get a one liner from Lionel on March-19:
On 19 March 2010 15:25, Lionel Vasant Kumar <elfahoist@indiatimes.com> wrote:
Hi Maxie,
This is LIONEL. Do you remember me ? We used to sit on the same bench (2nd row with one Melville. So now you try to locate me in the group photo. (Clue : Shorty with specs.)
Regards,
Lionel
I was of course delighted, and lost no time in responding to him immediately:
Regards,
Lionel
I was of course delighted, and lost no time in responding to him immediately:
On Saturday, 20 Mar 2010 at 01:08:51 +0530 (IST) Maxwell Pereira wrote To: elfahoist@indiatimes.com
Dear Lionel,
Of course I remember you...
In fact if you go back into the earlier postings on our blog when the class photograph indeed was first posted on the blog, in my very first email iwhile dentifying people whom I could remember, you were among those I could easily place and remember.
Also, if you go into the postings on the Blog for December last, you will find a specific post with my comments on each classmate as I remembered him - whether or not I could pointedly place them on the class photo!
You and I perhaps were among the shortest in the class, after "Chicky" Bonaventure Martis, Walter Andrade, Subodh Malli and Canute Machado - so we per force had to be either on the first bench or the second. The memory of which made Raphael funnily comment in his email to all after I visited him in Boston in January earlier this year, telling all that "....Maxie is not 'small' any more!"
Lovely to hear from you Lionel. Would love to hear from you more in detail - about you and your family, about what you did in the last 50 years since we left school - and whatever else about you that you want your classmates to know. Quite a few have already done it, and I have posted their life sketches already on the Blog. Would love to extend this courtesy to you and all others too, especially to those who have not so far shared with the rest a single word about themselves.
There is enough on the Blog about me - so I do not want to repeat and once again flood it with information on I, me and myself!
My warm regards to you and your family...
Maxie
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Of course I remember you...
In fact if you go back into the earlier postings on our blog when the class photograph indeed was first posted on the blog, in my very first email iwhile dentifying people whom I could remember, you were among those I could easily place and remember.
Also, if you go into the postings on the Blog for December last, you will find a specific post with my comments on each classmate as I remembered him - whether or not I could pointedly place them on the class photo!
You and I perhaps were among the shortest in the class, after "Chicky" Bonaventure Martis, Walter Andrade, Subodh Malli and Canute Machado - so we per force had to be either on the first bench or the second. The memory of which made Raphael funnily comment in his email to all after I visited him in Boston in January earlier this year, telling all that "....Maxie is not 'small' any more!"
Lovely to hear from you Lionel. Would love to hear from you more in detail - about you and your family, about what you did in the last 50 years since we left school - and whatever else about you that you want your classmates to know. Quite a few have already done it, and I have posted their life sketches already on the Blog. Would love to extend this courtesy to you and all others too, especially to those who have not so far shared with the rest a single word about themselves.
There is enough on the Blog about me - so I do not want to repeat and once again flood it with information on I, me and myself!
My warm regards to you and your family...
Maxie
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It was then that I heard from Lionel again today....
It just happens to be April Fools/ Day, but then, more auspiciously, today is also Mondy Thursday in the Holy Week of Our Lord's Passion.
Let me share with y'all Lionel's latest communication:
On 1 April 2010 15:29, <elfahoist@indiatimes.com> wrote:
Hi Maxie,
So sweet of you to to send such a long mail. Thanks to Peter!s list both of us are standing in the first row. But the problem was I could not recognise gawky profile of mine. So Maxie how are you ?
Here is a short list of my blunders. After PUC I joined KREC Surathkal. Came to Bombay worked for acouple of years and started afirm with local partners to manufacture Electric Cranes & Hoists
in a small scale at Thane. I have three sons. First one an MBA settled in Bangalore with Magazine catering to Hospitality industry. Second one BE who I thought will join me but got attracted to IT world and migrated. Third one a Commerce graduate working with a Japanese bank. So I am left all alone looking for some one to take over. Rest when we meet.
Regards,
LIONEL
So sweet of you to to send such a long mail. Thanks to Peter!s list both of us are standing in the first row. But the problem was I could not recognise gawky profile of mine. So Maxie how are you ?
Here is a short list of my blunders. After PUC I joined KREC Surathkal. Came to Bombay worked for acouple of years and started afirm with local partners to manufacture Electric Cranes & Hoists
in a small scale at Thane. I have three sons. First one an MBA settled in Bangalore with Magazine catering to Hospitality industry. Second one BE who I thought will join me but got attracted to IT world and migrated. Third one a Commerce graduate working with a Japanese bank. So I am left all alone looking for some one to take over. Rest when we meet.
Regards,
LIONEL
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Maxie's Post Script:
Thank you so much Lionel. for sharing with us details on you and your children....
Could we now hope to be treated to some of your family photographs too...? That would indeed be so wonderful...
Just this morning in an earlier post, I have uploaded two very nice family pictures that Peter shared with us....
Maxie
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