hello Cyril...

.....in reply to Maxie's mail of July 18, Cyril wrote on 19 July 2010 at 05:51

Dear Maxie

Your kind and thoughtful letter reached me last night, and before I proceed I must apologize for this long silence. The fact is we are now around the close of the semester, and in three days time I will have to conduct the semester examinations. However I did follow everything that went on in Mangalore with deep interest, and I have looked at and copied all the photographs that were sent out by Raphael and Jossy. Looking at you guys in the snaps, I could not resist a smile. We were all so different in our school days, but those early links have remained intact these many long years. Seeing your faces in the photographs, it is obvious that by and large the years have treated all of you rather well. I felt sad though to see so many missing faces, such as those of Bopayya, Yeshwant Karnad, and others.

I will be going over to India around early September, but since I will be traveling on government money for some University work, I will not be able to visit Mangalore or Bangalore. In any case I am sure a time will come when I see you all again. I am glad you met Andrew. Since I did not see Andrew and Susheela during my last trip to India, I guess I shall have to try and make it to Pondicherry this time.

So that is all for now Maxie. If I ever get a chance to come near Mumbai I shall definitely try to see you, Peter, Norman, and all the rest of the crowd.

Yours affectionately,

Cyril

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On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Maxwell Pereira <mfjpkamath@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Cyril,

Long time no hear. I hope all's well with you...

We missed you at the June reunion - I thought may be there'll be some interaction, some mail or the other from you... but don't remember having seen any.

The period was rather hectic for me too... The visit to Mangalore had to be combined with pending court cases, attending to neglected property matters, as also visits to the properties up the Ghats (Saklespur), and at Bangalore...

Tragedy struck unexpectedly during the Bangalore sojourn, when news of the death of a dear friend (Vincent Mathias) in Pondicherry came in - we had just left him hale and hearty convalescing at the AB SHetty Hospital in Mangalore after an operation. Just picked up a car from Bangalore, and drove down to Pondicherry in time for the funeral, after the body arrived by road from Mangalore the day after the death.

Met your brother Andrew at the funeral - not long enough though for a proper chat or interaction, as I rushed back to Bangalore to pick up the strings of tasks to be attended to before returning to Delhi that very weekend.

The day before I left Bangalore, I attended a get-together of the Bangalore gang and their wives at Prabhakar Bhat's place. Only Jossie Rego and his wife Yvonne could not make it due to some prior engagement.

Do drop a line now and again - I hope you are at least keeping abreast with the postings on the Blog. For whatever it is worth, I try posting on it some little news or the other that comes floating up to me from our classmates.

Do share with me your tel nos - maybe I could try and call u up some tines.

That's it for now,

With warm regards,

Maxie

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