HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU NISANTHA — aka Zubin Mehta !!!!
All good wishes to you and may you enjoy this day to the fullest with dear
Piching and your lovely daughters and grand children and extended family .
May you have many more birthdays to enjoy in the years ahead .
It was really nice meeting both of you at the RU 64- as these few photos
show- just a few of many with both of you- that very photogenic couple !
The Block Concert photo- you are teaching your student a few good things
looks like !
By the way- I took this photo- with date included in the photo.
I remember very fondly, all the fun we used to have at your place , back in
the day, when border crossing was a piece of cake, during the Sinhala-
Tamil New Year time in Pitts with Zavahir, Esiri , Kumi- Siri and familiesn
and Sam’s brother and wife Shirani, and a whole host of others , not to
mention the GREAT food lovingly prepared and served ever so elegantly by
Piching .
I really do miss those days .
And, back at the old Block and Kynsey Rd days, 50 yrs ago, did we ever
think ahead this far, when we will be wishing each other Happy Birthday in
our 70th year !!
Have a Very Happy Birthday and Wishing you good health and happiness in the
years ahead
– Deepthie .
Dear Nisantha
I think its only a few of us in Batch64 who can brag about a friendship that goes back to their high school days. I often think about our days at Richmond, followed by sharing accommodation at the Jeevaka Hostel, and the wonderful times we had since then which includes being the groomsman at my wedding!
Enjoy your special day Nisantha. You are a special friend .Wishing you health and happiness in years to come.
Sam
My dear Nisantha,It is with great pleasure and prideI address you as my dear mateAccording to Narme’s list, you are a Fir treeWith ability to stand against stress, and think freeCares deeply for those close to you, an ideal social beeSend this card with a warm heart, my friendTo wish you a fantastic birthday and beyondWishing good health, peace of mind & contentmentWith your lovely wife, Piching a very happy long life.AriyaI know we are getting old,Septuagenarians by Ariya we are told.Whatever the age you are a wonderful friendSo we wish you God’s blessings that will never end.Praxy and Ranjit
Dear Nissantha
Many Happy Returns Of The Day
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Thank you Rani.
Nisantha
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Dear Nissantha wishing you a very happy birthday and a happy year.with regards Maithri
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Thank you Maithri.
Nisantha
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dear nishantha
Wishing you avery happy birthday and also long and very happy life with my dear friend Pitching!
Deppthi always have lot of pretty pictures of of our past.
Swarna
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Thank you Swarna. Yes it amazes me how Deepthi is able to produce these pictures that bring back lovely memories.
Nisantha
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Deepthi – Thanks for the good wishes and the kind words. Thanks for posting the pictures . It brings brings back the wonderful memories of RU 64.
Yes Sam ! our friendship goes back beyond 1964 to our high school days. We were room mates at Jeewaka when we were in med School. I remember those days very well. Again thanks to you we are able to communicate with our batch mates and keep in touch.
Ariya – Thanks for the kind words. I always enjoy your poetry. I will be the first to buy your book when your Poems are published.
Praxy and Ranjit – thank you for your wishes. All of you are wonderful friends . Hope to see you again soon at the next RU 64 or earlier.
Nisantha
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Dear Nisantha,
Many happy returns of the day & many more birthdays to come. With a lot of help from God, we all pray for longevity. Main thing is to be healthy & happy
Seelan
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Thank you Seelan. I really enjoy your sense humor trying to solve the picture puzzles and quizzes on our web site. Please keep it up , I mean the humor.
Nisantha
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Many happy returns of the day ,dear Nisantha. May you and Peeching have many more years of good health ,contentment and happiness. It was great meeting you both at RU’64. You are a real fir tree. May the Triple Gem give you blessings.
Narme and Nirmali
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Thanks Narme for the kind words and the blessings. It was great meeting all our batch mates at the RU 64. As I said before ,thanks to you and the rest of the crew from Sri Lanka , from abroad , who did a marvelous job , we all had a splendid time.
Nisantha
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Dear Nisantha, I am wishing you a very happy and memorable birthday. Enjoy the day with your family and close friends and relatives – Indragee Amarasinghe🕴❤️
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Thanks Indragee , will do.
Nsantha
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Happy birthday to a wonderful and close friend since 1964.Many more great and happy returns.
Esiri
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Thanks Esiri it is a 52 + year friendship.
Nisantha
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Dear Nisantha,
Wish you a Happy Birthday & Many Happy Returns of the Day & many more to Follow.This exchange of wishes etc bring back fond memories of the past The B,C & Ds of the batch have been together most of the time during our five years at Medical College sigs appointments ward classes etc and you were able to make fun of some of us with out even batting and eye lid.,
Dalpe
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Thanks Dalpe I remember the block days very well. I remember the times when we were in the same ” Sig ” groups together B , C ,D’ s, and even the A’s sometimes.Yes we did have lots of fun.
Nisantha
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Happy Birthday, NISANTHA. It is an honor to call you “Our Friend” for the last 40 years & for me personally, from 1964 [ Gosh!! Long Time!! ]. We always have a good times on phone almost every month & also great times when we meet. We recall great Med School days & Memorable Jeevaka days, when you sang ” Vo La Re!”.
Wimal & Iranthie Fernando.
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Thanks Wimal , it is nice to be able to continue our friendship for the past 52 + years. As you mentioned the Jeewaka days are unforgettable. I shall sing ” Volare ” again when we meet.
Nisantha
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Dear Nisantha, Best Wishes on your birthday today, and wishing you many more years of good health and happiness.
Indira and Ana
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Hi Indira and Ana thanks . It was nice to see you both at our reunion. Ana I like your ” no hair look “. Two bald heads are better than one.
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Dear Nisantha
Happy birthday. Wishing you more happy and healthy years
Asokan and Mali
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Hi Asokan and Mali thanks for the birthday wishes.
Nisantha
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Dear Nisantha,
Wish you a very happy birthday.
CJ
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Thanks Cj.
Nisantha
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Hi Nisantha,
A very happy birthday to you today. Have a fantastic day and enjoy your birthday with Peach . May I wish you good health, happiness for many more years to come.
Ranee Gunawardene , NSW Australia.
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Thanks Ranee for the good wishes.
Nisantha
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Dear Nisantha
Please accept our belated Birthday Wishes.
Maharojani and Sreetharan.
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Better late than never they say. Thanks for the wishes Maharojani and Sreetharan.
Nisantha
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Dear all
I am having total knee replacement of my right knee tomorrow , so please remember me in your prayers. I was to get it done on the 15th of last month but got it changed to tomorrow .😳😳😳😳😳Having had my left knee done last year I am a bit apprehensive but feel positive. Praxy
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HI Praxy- All good wishes for surgery tomorrow- may be you are already in the OR – in UK .
you will be the ultimate Bionic Woman when all is done and over with !!!1
Blessings to you my dear friend .
Nisantha- you are a very popular guy for sure – all the lovely comments I see , brings back lots of good memories !
I hope you had a good time with Peecha and kids and grandkids and I am sure – Peecha cooked up a real storm for you in the kitchen !!
Oh by the way- the photos- I seem to be in the right place at the right time with the camera !
Good wishes again- Deepthie .
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Thanks Deepthi for the kind words. Yes we enjoyed my birthday with my one daughter who is here in Pittsburgh , her husband and our grand sons . We had a lovely evening at dinner in a restaurant.
Thanks for your good wishes and the pictures.
Nisantha
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Thank you Deepthie for your wishes. As tomorrow approaches I am getting a bit anxious as I now I have to suffer that pain and physio along with it all over again. Dongt worry I will never be able to keep up with your hikes even with the bionic knees. You are truly amazing..not only a good hiker but a good photographer too.Now that we have the BS project at least I can go through all the blogs right from the beginning while I am recuperating in hospital. Praxy
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Praxy – Piching and I wish you the very best for a speedy recovery from your surgery. Please keep us informed about your progress.
Nisantha and Piching.
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Thank you Nisantha and Piching for your good wishes. I sure will keep you posted on my progress. What a wonderful thing to have this means of communication. Praxy
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Kathy and I wish you the best with your knee surgery and keeping you in our thoughts and prayers.
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Thank you Sam and Kathy for your kind wishes. Sam this time I will have plenty to read….. all the blogs right from the beginning while I am in hospital. You and Ariya have done a wonderful job setting up the birthday salutation project and we are very grateful for this…..it is so amazing.I am looking forward to reading all the blogs right from the beginning. A thing I do every morning is read all the blogs, and even with pain of the op I don’t think I could miss this..Praxy
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Praxy,
Here is a message from Sreetharan,
Sam
Dear Praxy
I was having Yoga training with a 92 year old yesterday. Day before I was having training with a 99 year old.
This lady had 3 hip operations in the past. From 6.7.17 to 9.7.17 Yoga Festival was going on in Beale Park near Reading. I was there for the whole period.
This 99years young lady’s name is : Tao Porchon Lynch.She demonstrated and we followed her up for one long hour.She won the 2012 Guinness Book Of Records Award for the Senior most Yoga Trainer.
What she was advising at the end of the class was for us to be determined and keep doing Yoga Excercises like her for us to get back to the appearance and flexibility of age 50.
If you are on WhatsApp I can forward my photos with both of them.I need to get my daughter’s help to get the photos sent to our Web.This will take some time.
I am sure with the support of all and by your determination we will see you and Ranjit as you both looked 50 in another six months time.
Wishing you a very successful operation and very fast recovery.
Kind regards from Maha and myself.Please google and read about Tao Porchon Lynch during the post operative period and let me know how it was helping you.
Sree.
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Dear Sree,
Yes I am on WhatsApp and please send me the details. My mobile number is +447759479504. Thank you for yours and Maha’s wishes. I am very anxious this morning a thing I have never felt before. I will read about Tao Porchon Lynch. Thanks for the information. Praxy
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Happy birthday on July 9th Nisantha and wish your surgery will go well and you have a complete & full recovery. It is so nostalgic to read all the comments from our batch-mates. God Bless.
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Dear Nisantha, I am so sorry. I mis-read a message and thought you were having knee surgery. I see now that it is Praxy who is having the surgery. Please forgive me.
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Hi Cletus thanks for the birthday wishes. Thank goodness It is not I ,who is having surgery at the moment. But who knows. My knees show age as well.
All are good wishes are with Praxy.
The main thing is you made Praxy laugh and more cheerful.
Nisantha
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He sure did
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many happy return on your special day,hope you all have an enjoyable and memorable celebration
best of luck
paul
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Hey Cletus your message to Nisantha made me laugh. Anyway it is a lovely thing to see our friends communicating with each other though this wonderful blog….thanks to Sam our wonderful web master who is doing a grand job publishing all the comments and our wonderful poet Ariya. Keep it up. Write whatever you please and everyone will enjoy the fun. Praxy
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Thank you for understanding Praxy. Hope your surgery went well and that you will have a quick and full recovery. My prayers are with you. God Bless.
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I am home now Cletus ” operation successful patient in a lot of pain ”😀😀😀😀Thanks
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Dear Praxy
My wishes and prayers too for a successful surgery & for a speedy recovery from your surgery. Hope you will be up and about soon.
Dalpe
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Dear Dalpe,
Many thanks for your kind wishes. I need them badly. Praxy
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Dear Praxy,
Just a note to let you know
Our thoughts are with you
Hope the surgical procedure
And the recovery to normality
Will perfectly go through
We do pray for it to be,
An overwhelming success
No pain or suffering
With blessings of Almighty
Ariya and Thavam
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Thank you Ariya and Thavam for your wishes. I have had many serious spinal operations here in UK and also last knee op and have never felt so anxious like today. Operations have never bothered me but today it is different, I do need the blessings of Almighty to take me through. I have not told Ranjit about these anxieties as I don’t want to worry him but hoping to watch some Wimbledon tennis when I go into hospital, to occupy my mind. Op is in the afternoon at 5.30 pm. Thank you. Praxy
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Dear Praxy
Remembered you, daily prayed for a successful knee replacement surgery and an uneventful recovery. I know for some unknown reason one is very anxious the second time around. Please be confident and all will be well. Daily ice packs to the knee and exercises will see you through the the first two weeks and afterwards it would be a smooth journey.
Take good care of yourself
Best wishes
Marina
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Thank you Marina. Having a phone chat with you gave me a lot of encouragement as you too have had double knee replacement. Thank you for your prayers as I need them badly. Praxy
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Dear Nisantha
Sorry for the belated Birthday greetings. Which you good health and Gods abundant blessings. Very sorry to have missed all of you by not attending the 2014 reunion. SAMs idea has brought us all back to our college days remembering the days which were happy and care free. Hope you ,Petching and family are in the best of health.
Best wishes
Marina
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Thank you Marina for the good wishes. Piching ,Kids ,grand kids all are keeping well. Wish you and all your loved ones good health and happiness.
Yes we are back to college days communicating with everyone. Thanks to Sam.
Sam tells me that there are so many of our batch mates who look at the web site but do not communicate or comment on any thing . May be it is time for them to take an active part. I am sure everyone would love to see that.
Nisantha
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Dear Praxy,
Thanks to Nisantha. Because of his Birthday, we all came to know about your Knee surgery. I also want to borrow a small space in Nisantha’s pages to wish you all the very best.
Jean joins me in wishing you too. We will pray for your speedy recovery & I will have an extra Chivas tonight ( Lord Shiva’s Holy water)
P.S:- A small advice :- After the surgery, get an extra copy of the X-Ray of both kness & carry it with you whenever you travel for 2 reasons : 1) to pass the airport security 2) to get wheel chair !
Seelan & Jean
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Dear Seelan thank you for your kind wishes and prayers. Any excuse for a Chivas Regal?😀😀😀😀😀😃😃😃😃😃
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My dear Seelan,
I am very impressed with your thoughtfulness
Practical advise given to Praxy is of high class
Radiological view of things, seem quite useful
She will pass airport barriers despite alarm bells
I have one question to ask from you, dear mate
Has your high IQ got anything, with Chivas Regal
Being one of the few teetotallers to survive Bloem
Since too late to regret, started sipping Babycham
Ariya
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Dear Ariya,
If I can borrow some more space in Nisantha’s page, I like to inform you that my IQ is zero! That’s why all my replies are rubbish.
If you want to equate the IQ with me, its easy :- To compensate for the loss by being a teetotaller, just start enjoying the Chivas : 125 mls tds (half a bottle) for an year. Not only your IQ but every other thing will ride high!
(Don’t discuss with Thavam)
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Hey Seelan !
Say you get cold feet- so a Chivas will help the circulation !!!!!
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Hello Nisantha
Belated birthday wishes from Satha and selvi
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Thanks Satha and Selvi , better late than never.
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Message from Praxy,Dear all
Thank you 🌹🌺🌸for all your kind wishes for my op, both personal and on the blog. The op went well and now of course the pain and the physio that I dread but have to do to get mobility back. I will be going home on Saturday.
Deepthie you will have competition at hiking with my bionic knees ( just wishful thinking 😀 ) I have been looking at the photos and write ups to the blog in the past and have enjoyed them.I think you have missed your vocation in life as a photographer.
Sam and Ariya I cannot stop thanking you for this wonderful BS project you started…..especially today as I keep reading all the blogs of the past and enjoying them while lying down on the hospital bed.They have kept me going as they provide good enjoyable reading material . Hope many more will join, as through the blog we are privileged to have our own Facebook.
Cheers😊😊😊😊Praxy
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Dear Praxy,
Get well soon
Glad you are on the mend, fitted with two new knees bionic
Hope physio be brilliant, soon you will be running up the attic
For God’s sake spare him, do not exert my old mate, Ranjit,
Can visualise you running circles pressurising his joints arthritic
Deepthie and yourself, integral solid pillars of strength of ‘BDS’ project
If not for energy,enthusiasm and encouragement, you willingly put to it
Lotus would have died in the waters, without even seeing the daylight
It blossomed today, blessed by creative web master and on your sweat
Hope you have returned home and reading my nonsense laughing
Really great that Sam has connected all of us as well as educating
Surely our batch is the greatest to have so much care for each other
Rest must be envious over our unity & friendship keeping us together
Best wishes,
Ariya
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Thanks Ariya for the lovely note.It is a long way to start running around as I need the crutches even to walk from bed to the toilet. But will eventually will get there.Honestly this blog has kept me going as I love reading various comments poems trying to identify photos and listening to various songs and bails.Even on my bed the first thing I do after saying my Morning prayers is to get my iPhone and read the blog. It is truly amazing. Praxy
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