But it was a party at our house with i2 friends and there was a cake involved!

… but, Sharmila, Raji and Karthik seemed to be all attention for that. This was over 22 years back. I think San Diego beach.

A few days back, I was talking to Lanell to wish her a happy birthday! Lanell was our front desk person at i2 and a class unto herself. A visiting customer had once aptly described her as “i2’s best ambassador”.

In any case, we were talking about the good old days when she suddenly asked me – “Where is Spider-man?” I had to ponder for a few seconds and then instantly remembered that Halloween evening when I had taken Natasha and Sunil/Anannya’s son Adreesh to i2 offices for candy collection.

Had to dig back to that day – Nov 2, 2002 (both were 4 years old) in my photo archives to relive that day. That picture of Adreesh slouching in the chair is priceless. It is like Spider-man was really tired after putting in a full day’s worth of work (mostly collecting candies, though).

1995, I am guessing?

This goes back nearly 30 years. An apology to cricket was being played – replete with tennis racquet (for bat), tennis ball, trash can (for stumps) and basketball (the non-striker’s side stumps).