This blog (created in March 2011 by Lucky) is about new entrants to the Colombo Medical Faculty of the University of Ceylon (as it was then known) in June 1962. There were a total of 166 in the batch (included 11 from Peradeniya). Please address all communications to: colmedgrads1962@gmail.com. Header image: Courtesy Prof. Rohan Jayasekara, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo (2011 - 2014). Please use the search bar using a keyword to access what interests you
Nice to see Lucky Weera & Indra A.
ReplyDeleteWho is the "Third Man"??
They all appear to have developed receding hairlines & of course some no hairlines!!
It is I suppose the ravages of 'time'!!
After all we are now all still in our 'teens'... SEVENTY-EENS!!
Enjoy life when able & good luck.
Razaque, your last posting of flowers was so lovely-
DeleteI was a bit late to comment- wondered why you didnt intend to share it with us!
Hope you are enjoying your cabbages and leeks and keeping healthy too-cheers
Hi Rohini,
DeleteLet me put the record straight re: posts of flowers. Some of those posts were ones that I had already posted to you guys "for your pleasures"!!. So I did not want to duplicate any of them. Only the Dhalias I had not done so and was keeping them in reserve to post them with a 'usual' 'tarty / tardy' comment at a later date.
I was in fact sending the whole cohort to my daughters in Aberdeen, but accidentally also clicked on to Lucky Abey as well!!!
So that's it!!!.
Getting old and hands are 'shaking', you know???
Regarding the "Third Man", Indra had mentioned in one of his recent e-mails that he had met Nachinan Kinian in Florida. This person had been in our parallel batch in Peradeniya and had done his Internship at Ratnapura with Indra. I have met him very briefly somewhere. But I may be wrong.
ReplyDeleteI must say that Indra is very brief in his e-mails and leaves much to my imagination!
The third man is Bertie Dias from Peradeniya med. school.
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I cannot recollect meeting Bertie, but have heard 'of' him while in NZ. That was in the company of Waidyaratne & Chula at one of their parties. I knew them very well when we were at the !st MB, Course.
DeleteAt such a party I was the only one from the Colombo batch. In fact a non medic asked me loudly if I was @ Peradeniya along with the others. My 'un-political' comment was "No, I was from a Real Med. College" to a chorus of rather unprintable comments all in good humour and no hard feelings!!!
I expected never to be invited again but to the contrary I was invited again and again and again to many a party from all those present......
It was all said & done in good fun and humour.
Lucky Weerasooriya-so nice to see you.
ReplyDeleteHair or no hair, you look just as handsome as when I saw you last in med school-
I hope you are still doing your lovely paintings and your photography.
Look forward to seeing more of them- cheers
Thanks, Lucky, for posting these pictures of our much loved batch mates and prompting me by send an email. I have been away and not had a chance to look at the blog. It is so important that we keep in touch this way. I know I was getting 'Blog Withdrawal symptoms' so thanks for bringing me back. I would love to see more photos of our batch mates and I hope there's be a 'flood' of them soon.
ReplyDeleteAll the best to you all from
Zita
c'est superbe!
ReplyDeleteZita,
ReplyDeleteI like your remark about BLOG WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS. Yes it can be addictive.
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Yes Zita,
DeleteI could easily be addicited to a lot of things - including my Poppies!!!
You know what I do? I have my set of "Favorites" and every morning I go through them one by one. My E-mail, current news around the world and the Batch Blog are among them.
ReplyDeleteRazaque,I greatly enjoy your humour. I particularly found very funny your comment about receding hairlines and no hairlines.Luckily I still belong to the former category but only just!!Re seventyeens thinking young will keep one sprightly even if it will not restore one's long lost youth.
ReplyDeleteIt was very good to see Lucky and Indra.Lucky's parental home was just behind the"Small Club" our junior sportsground at STC MtLavinia.His brother was junior to me at STC but we were prefects together. As you all know he became the commander in chief of the SriLankan Army.We met a few months ago at our college centenary dinner.
It was very interesting to see the Ratnapura Interns group photo.When I locate our Galle Interns I will send it to Lucky A.See how many you can name correctly identify !! Kumar G