Thursday 19 July 2007
hello all
hello everybody , this is for all my batch mates who were in mount carmel and passed out in the year 1990 . After a long silence now some of us have at least come in touch with each other , thanks to orkut and also to all our seniors who have inspired us to start this blog . i have a simple request to you all my friends of 1990 batch both a division and b division do save all ur photos which u have and all ur memories and post it to this blog . try and link as many of our bacth mates as possible thank you rosetta
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great effort rosetta !!...good luck n happy blogging!!
sabina (class of '89 MCC)
Its me mary bennet. Wonder if anyone has old school photos?
Hey Rini, I guess the new way forward is blogging. We too started one..
good job !!! Rosetta ...You have done a wonderful job to bring the 1990 MCC batch together ... AS soon as i reach india , my first job will be to search for school photos ...let me check my albums ..
hello friends,
do post your good memories of your school days and please make this blog active . nay thing that u remember that will refresh the nice school days we had ! and at least we can plan for a get together with our dear teachers in our school after 5- 10 years . so that everyone can make it .
our batch had two divisions a &b and we used to come together for the malayalam classes , even though there were few of em who went for french and hindi classes ! i think it was dipti , pauline and swathy who went for french and there were lot more who took hindi as the second language
do you know that the miss mount competion that we had during the fare well was stopped with the 1988 batch or so i think . well when i saw 1982batch had the miss mount i just thought that i would mention it
i do not have any photos with me at the moment to post them . but if any of u have them please do post them and add your comments . more and more people are coming in touch thru orkut and i will mention the names in my next comment
i have contacts with
nishya murali in uk
swathy alexander in uk
mary bennet in europe
juliet peter in europe
nidhi rajeev in kuwait
dipti nair in australia
vineetha varghese in usa
anuja alphonse in bangalore
hari priya in abu dhabi
rechana in changansserry
remya in kollam
janet german in kollam
farzana in mumbai
some of them i just know where they are - so if you know more of our class mates please try and link them to this site . and do post some comments of our school days
iwill definitely try and get some snaps at the earliest.....the idea of a get together...GR8!!!!!! just looking forward for that......
betty mary francis
hey everyone,try to go down memory lane and and resurrect some comic anecdotes so we can all have a good laugh, but make sure you try to keep in mind the feelings of the people concerned, so try not to mention names. Whether it is a teacher or a student.
i remember this particular incident when we had to dissect a frog , it was nothing for the faint hearted and animal lovers( for whom Mrs Cabot had absolutely no sympathy). i remember her telling them to just get on with it and stop fussing.
Even before the chloroform worked, we got down to our gruesome deed with clumsy fingers,and a shaky heart.The poor creatures at a last attempt at escape gave in to their natures call which brought about shreaks of disgust.Except for the serious and the studious who carried on as if it was the most normal thing to be doing on a fine sunny, breezy day.
After we had pried and poked and examined the poor creature ; some of us pretending to take a closer look in order to avoid Mrs. Cabbots disapproving glare, we were asked to dispose of it. I still remember some of the soft hearted asking if we cant just stitch it up and let it live( perhaps they were the budding surgeons).
Any way due to the lack of needle and thread we had no choice but give it an undignified burial.Its always interesting to watch how each person disposed off the poor creatures. Some tried to hold it under the running water( after all frogs loved water ). Well some of the frogs did come around and weakly hopped a few feet and drew their last breath.Others got a more dignified death, little graves were dug and in went the poor creatures dead or alive, we would never know.
A lucky few got even flowers strewn on their graves.Then there were the
hard hearted, the pranksters, who saved it until lunch time, threw the poor creature over the wall hoping it would hit an unsuspecting IJHS boy on his way to the Gujarati shop to get some snacks.Then there were a handfull of us ,who left it under some bushes and let nature do its job.
Wonder how many of them ate their lunch that day. If we had been in France instead of India we would have eaten a pair of frogs legs for lunch(except the vegetarians).
Wonder if Mrs. Cabbot would have approved!
Its also an hommage to Mrs. Cabot who was one of the best teachers; who tried her best to teach us science. But i am afraid my brains did not think scientifically so all her efforts were wasted on me. But i still remember her with a lot of affection.Beneath that serious face was a just and kind teacher.
Fellow Carmelites, have any of you realised during all those years we studied in Mount Carmel, that we were indeed privileged to have studied in a place filled with history and natural beauty. I only realised when i came to Europe where we have to pay exhorbitant prices to go for a vacation at the sea coast which is not half as beautiful as our coastal regions and the million dollar views we got from the backyard of our school.I have yet to come across a school in Belgium which lies in such a fabulous location. Here the schools are just square brick, buildings, colourless and depressing especially in the winter. Wheras our school looked like the hanging gardens of Babylon with its colourful array of bougainvillea flowers.We were even given our own little gardens to tend for SUPW classes.We could hear the waves gently crashing against the rocks and the soft breeze that cooled us during the warm summer days.
The european tourist would surely envy us. They have to cross seven seas and empty their pockets to come to a destination like that and we had it on our doorstep.
Rosetta great work. i have lost all my old albums with my tragic past.just waiting for others to put up old pics to see our gud old snaps. Thought of a reunion is great. Hip Hip Hurray !! Three cheers to you.
thanku all for ur comments . it is good to see that many of u are getting time for logging on to this site and ye we may plan a get together if every body approves it .
to our dear principal rev sr mary patricia ....
idont think i have ever come across a sister like her . i used to like her calm and serene manner . we used to celebrate her feast day on st patrick s day march 17 . now that i am here i always remember her feast day every year as they celebrtae it here and in ireland with the leaves from the shamrock tree . in the tenth std , we had catechism classes from her and she used to tell us lots of good values and behaviour. she even gave us classes on how to be a good wife and how to lead a happy married life !
yes mary bennet i agree with u regarding our school we had such a clam and quiet environment away from the busy traffic ... and the beautiful view of the arabian sea which i dont think any of the schools in kollam have ... i remember we used to go tothe old building during exam time andsit there .... as it was so peaceful there . i miss all those times ... and i long to go back as i have never been to school since i left after my school days . rosetta
well an idea about the reunion is really wonderful.. let us together work out for it ... Come on girls make our blog more beautiful ..post some photos of our beautiful days in MCC...
Fantastic idea Rosetta, hopefully more and more girls will join...I don't have any photos with me here, but will definitely try to get some added to the site when I get to India. I know Farzana has heaps and heaps, we had some great times looking at them when I caught up with her last year.School was great , do yuo guys remeber Gujarati aunty and her picle packets,..sip up from the school Sweet shop ( if we can call it that !!! ). Rosetta can you remember falling down the stairs!! I can't remember exactly how it happened, but a group of us held hands and ran down the steps and you landed on the floor!!!!!!!!!
of course dipti i can remember it and i still have aches and pains now .... i remember sr lilian asking my sister " where is she looking and walking " i will keep in touch with farzana and ask her to put the photos !i do have them but it is all at home ... do put up the lovely memories of our school days
that is good mary bennet of you to freshen our memeories of the dissection classes and the fun we had
Fantastic Rosetta! Eagerly waiting to see some of our old snaps posted here
how is everybody hope you are all fine and doing well ... just to freshen ur memeories .. . do you remember we did a programme for the feast day or some thing i cannot remember exactly what it was we were supposed to be couples from the different states in india and it was fun as we had to say the welcome in the language of that state !i was dressed as a man and my partner was rechana and i still have the snap ! it was nice we had greta fun as the entire class participated in it !
hello friends it is friendship day and i would like to wish all my friends a happy friendship day ! make new friends wherever u are and dont forget ur old ones !
" friends are angels following you through life "
when we have found all the names, we will make a proper list.
Those of you who have GOOGLE EARTH, click Mount Carmel,Kollam and you can see the ariel view of our school.
Strange that now life seems to go so fast,but back then the days seemed so long.Always a sigh of relief when the last bell rang.At least some of us looked forward to the extra curricular activities, even a trip to the lab for some experiments was a welcome change from the routine. The ritual of lighting the bunsen burner,counting and arranging the test tubes,fingers itching to begin the experiment even before we finished listening to the instructions.
But one incident i still remember that always brings a smile to my face.
Usually after the experiments we were supposed to wash our testtubes and keep them hidden in the drawer that was given to us. But often the testtubes disappeared. So a very good friend of mine decided to take it home in her schoolbag and completely forgot about it. So for the next class she came to the lab still thinking her tubes were in the drawer.Its only when the teacher asked her she remembered she had kept it in her bag. To the surprise of the teacher she came down with her school bag,"where are you going "asked the teacher" "no, Miss" she answered, "I came down to dust my bag" and there it was her powdered test tubes, looking like it had gone through some drastic experiment.
how is every one ...hope fine- no comments from others! please do put some memories and keep this active ......when i go home i will bring all the pictures that i have with me!
hi,rosetta well done ,i had gone dwn to india for holidays, by the time the blog took off,sorry i was late........well to say late ,remember hw latecomers were made to stand back after assembly and to avoid that trauma we ran through the gates and threw our bags in the corridoor before indran shut dwn the gate and sometimes was caugt by sister poline -{i guess thats the name }while sneaking in thru half shut gates..jayashree
after long 17 yrs i met three of my school friends,recently, nidhi here in kuwait,sindhu & smitha back in klm ,got contact of lekha and with " sofia das "the bonding was always there and the rest of them here in orkut and this blog has surely brought back more names.
well done jayasree for ur comments and yes even i remember it all i used to get punished
as well for being late by sr pauline ... we had to stay back after assembley and every body used to look at us as if we committed a crime !!!talk of the buses do you remember the names like jm travels and all that and how they used to be packed with students from mcc and ijhs only !
happy onam to all our friends and enjoy the season of prosperity . we had lots of celebration in school for onam like attapoov , and we used to go to all the houses near the school and manju used to be our guide to lead us to the houses which had garden ..oh yes it was done according to our houses and iremember i was in the white house ... well those were the days .. any way those of my friends in kerala have a good sadhya &think of us who will not be able to have one !
happy onam to all my dear friends
hi gals,deepa here '90 batch glad to know we have a place of our own.great job!
hi girls,lubina here
ONE DAY HOPE WE CAN HAVE A REUNION IN SC.IT WOULD BE SO NICE TO SEE EVERYONE TOGETHER.HOPE IT HAPPENS SOON.......................
I never knew if this place..a cosy little place u guys were hanging out her since 2007! MCC bloggers 1990. God job ppl. What abt the reunion?
Anytime soon?
hope you all knew that our seniors had a get together they had posted the pictures !hope we can have one in the near future.....
hi friends,
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http://mccclassof85.blogspot.com/
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