Double Treat

One blessing of summer is that you wake up early. For, it is day-break early. And you arrive at the Garden early. So what do you do before the exercises begin at seven?
Gang up and gossip. The corner reserved for the Club’s inveterate ‘Chandaal Chaukdi’ (see post of December 27, 2010) during the winter months, has now been usurped as everybody’s favourite pit stop before entering the Garden. On the pretext of waiting for the others to arrive, this is where (above) they discuss the health of the nation, get themselves educated and generally, shoot the breeze.
The agenda today was the double treat in store – one, to celebrate G.R.Garg’s birthday ex-post facto and the other, to observe Fehmida Khan’s (left) birthday in advance. Mr Garg had already treated us to chocolates yesterday, but wanted an elaborate phapda-jalebi spread laid out in keeping with what has become Club convention.
Fehmida’s explanation was that since Hari Singh Shekhawat would be away to Rajasthan during her birthday, she'd rather celebrate today itself in his presence, along with Mr Garg. Many were however, unprepared and had to leave for home by eight, thus resulting in a huge pile of leftovers. Let’s hope nothing got wasted. If only an announcement had been made yesterday, people would have come in better prepared.
Today’s announcement was that we would be gathering in the Garden on May 8, Sunday, to celebrate the World Laughter Day. Conventionally, this day is observed on the first Sunday of May every year. Somehow, we gave it a miss on May 1 (last Sunday) and now, to make up for the lapse, we shall be commemorating the occasion with renewed vigour – ex-post facto of course!
Better late than never.
Renu Babani says:
Considering no announcement was made in regards to the birthday celebrations, there was a good turnout. I am sure the leftovers have been made into good use. It is true the hot weather is actually not helping during the morning exercises. However, we end up having enough to talk about in the hope of distracting ourselves from the humidity and heat. Celebrating Laughter Day on a Sunday is not a good idea, as many members do not come to the Garden. Hopefully there will be some turnout and we shall make the most of it amongst the members who decide to get up early on Sunday.
--Renu