Important events that shaped us, enriched our past, and formed important milestones in our college life...YAADEIN!

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1995

1995 MAY - ENTRANCE EXAMS

Over 10,000 students write the entrance exams in various centers around the country.


1995 JULY 10, 11, 12 - INTERVIEWS

About 120 candidates with numbers pinned to the back and front attend the interviews. All of them are formally dressed, some exceptionally so. They are all filled with air of expectancy - some pessimistic, some optimistic.


1995 JULY 14 95 IS BORN

The batch of 95 crosses its most important milestone. MCMXCV officially enters the portals of CMC though one person will leave and a few others join over the next few months. Over the next few weeks, initiation into the institution goes on. Few quotes long remembered include "I'm Renol, like the pen", "I am he", etc. The girls are thrown into the pond.


1995 JULY - GOVERNING BODIES

The first governing body is elected with Jeyanth Rose and Rashmi Jesudas heading them. The first class GB is held at SA hall with extravagant plans and hopes for the future- a first class GB
Fresher's welcomes come and go. Harikishan's quote gets known by all. Kiran's Anjali is the talk of town for a few days. Premila's joke was also remembered. Hostel days come and go. And 95 goes on and on.


1995 OCTOBER - GRAD DAY

95 as usual is working hard - decorations table arrangements, serving in ties and saris. At the end, a well deserved picnic to Amirthi.


1995 ? - FIRST YR. RETREAT

95 goes to Yelagiri. We go climbing mountains and enjoy ourselves. Playing monkeys/ guns/ stones is almost impossible as each time the teams choose the same thing.


1995 DECEMBER - COP

95 go to Nanjukondapuram for the community orientation program. Guys stay at the village. The girls commute from hostel early in the mornings. We end with a song and dance session adapting the jailhouse rock to Nanjukondapuram.


1995 ? - FIRST SPECIAL SERVICE

95 conduct their first special service in chapel, which is a grand success. Songs include "Behold I am The Lord" and "A mighty fortress is our God".


1995 DECEMBER - PRISON DINNER

We go on rounds for donations for Dr. Guna's Christmas dinner - the only non-vegetarian meal in the whole year for the prisoners at the Vellore jail. SVT actually manages to go right up to Dr. Guna and stun him by asking him for a donation.

1996

1996 JANUARY 15 - MAHABALIPURAM

We go on an eventful picnic to Mahabalipuram. We watch the sea, the rocks, etc. Later every one is scared out of our wits as we watch a handful of our classmates nearly drown. Friendships, which were forming, are cemented during this trip.


1996 JANUARY - INTERCLASS MUSIC COMP.

ICMC is conducted. 95 builds huge props on the theme "We are the world with a globe in the center and a hut an igloo and a wigwam but fail to impress judges with them. However the music is excellent and we win best instrumental/ instrumentalist. The gumbal well practiced and executed too fails to impress judges.


1996 JANUARY 26 - CARNIVAL

95 helps in the arrangements. We also manage to break the table by getting the most number of people onto it. We manage to swap the first and the second prizes. Basu gets the tape recorder and Tony gets the dinner set. And Sameer gets a Riverview dinner for selling the maximum no. of tickets.


1996 MARCH - EASTER

We exchange Easter gifts between girls and guys starting a new tradition, which we will keep till final year. The girls give the guys Easter eggs and gems while the guys give the girls toffees.


1996 APRIL MAY - STUDY HOLIDAYS

95 is the only batch around as we have our study holidays for anat., physio. And biochem. Exams. We start having class prayers everyday, a tradition that we will keep till the end. This is a wonderful time of fellowship, giving each strength, peace and courage to face the exams, a feeling of togetherness and above all encouraging each one in a closer relationship with God. We also drive the librarian crazy by sleeping in the library, bringing in Walkman, setting off alarms and even playing hide-and-seek, and treasure hunt.


1996 MAY 3, 6, 16-19 - EXAMS

Exams come and go and 95 goes for summer holidays.


1996 JULY - FRESHERS JOIN

This marks the end of 95's term as freshers. WH continues their tradition of terminal initiation in T-wing with Anila singing to a tree, Priya nodding for some time as she admits to reading Noddy; the bank collects a lot of smiles.


1996 JULY - INTER-HOUSE MUSIC COMP.

95 excels in their respective houses with Arpita chosen as best western vocalist and Gopi best eastern vocalist.


1996 JULY - CAPTAINS

Arpit and Satheesh take over captainship of Cochrane and Lazarus houses respectively.


1996 OCTOBER - REHAB

We arrange a Christmas service in rehab where we sing songs in different languages learning from each other.


1996 NOVEMBER - EXAMS

95 write exams to pass on to clinics. After the exams a few try climbing toad but climb the tadpole instead.1996 is a year of hospitalizations with Priya losing half her thyroid, Karuna having major surgery, Manish for asthma, Sameer for arthroscopy and Anton breaking his arm (climbing down tadpole).

1997

1997 JANUARY - CLINICS

95 enter the world of clinics and major groups and minor groups armed with steths and loads of books.


1997 JANUARY 26 - CARNIVAL

95 conducts carnival along with 97 with a lot of games and having fun in the process. The jail, juke box and roses steal the show.


1997 JANUARY - INTERCLASS MUSIC COMP.

We go for our second music competition. The props and special effects are dazzling and neatly done with the mirrored ball and the dancing girl being especially eye catching. 95 gets best props and backdrops. We also sing , as our gumbal, do a dee dee dee dee dum dee dee do which becomes very special - ?95s anthem- as we sing the same song with some variation s in the years to come.


1997 FEBRUARY - GOVERNING BODIES

95 takes over the hostel governing bodies.


1997 APRIL - EASTER SERVICE

95 put up a self compiled musical with well coordinated acts and lights and costumes which is the result of a lot of prayer and comes from the heart. This makes it a grand success in spite of hitches during practice and in spite of there being a power cut halfway thru the act which makes Arpit suspect, as usual, the lights people. Anton as Jirus provides a sight to see when getting caught up in the emotion of it all puts his arm around Suman and Gina.


1997 APRIL - FIRST CLINICAL YEAR RETREAT

We go on our second retreat to Yelagiri refresh our commitment to serve the Lord. We visit the lake this time. A shorter retreat but it still brings us new friends and a closer walk with God.


1997 MAY - PERIPHERAL POSTINGS

95ites spread out to go to places around the country from Raxaul near Nepal to Neyyoor down south. We have a lot of fun and luckily return unharmed! We also learn the working of different mission hospitals. People receive surprise cards from Smitha, Mary and Synthia!!


1997 JULY OCTOBER - FUNCTIONS

All functions this year have the touch of 95. Mens hostel project is an innovative self designed neatly built monument. Womens hostel project is on the theme China with a pagoda, a Chinese dance. Grad day is well organized and at the end a picnic to Amirthi.


1997 AUGUST 15 - PICNIC

We go on a picnic to Hogenekkal with its beautiful mountains and white water. Some go on the boats, some go hiking and some go fishing.


1997 DECEMBER - EXAMS

Exams start on the usual note but halfway through micro shocks us. In the first few minutes after MCQs there is pin drop silence and then laughter as we realize that half the paper is from the portions for the second semester. As we are asked to attempt all the questions creativity at its best is on the papers. Presumptive coli form count number of E.coli in stools, number of E.coli in urine, from the number of E.coli in the stools we presume the number of coli forms and therefore the E.coli load in the gut, etc. Arboviruses are viruses that live on trees!! All of us clear the micro exam though.

97 is a year that 95 enjoys to the utmost Med 2 gives its group a memorable posting, all of us flunk endocrine integ. lecture and 95 goes on and on.

1998

1998 JANUARY - PONDICHERRY

After a lot of persuasion the administration allows us on a trip to Pondicherry. We behave in an exemplary manner so much so that the administration will give us permission a second time to go there. We have a lot of fun and games and shopping with Jeyanth getting stuck at a freaky restaurant and others having to rescue him by saying that since they didnt have south Indian dishes wed eat elsewhere.


1998 APRIL - EXAMS

Exams come and go and we move on to pre-final year.


1998 JULY - PEGASUS

Pegasus is arranged by 95. A lot of work goes into it. We secure a lot of sponsorships thanks to untiring efforts of a few guys as well as get a rock band to put up a show. The girls come with an innovative way to solve the accommodation problem they put the freshers in their own rooms this serves the dual purpose of making place as well as gives a wonderful opportunity to get to know freshers which is rarity in pre-final year.


1998 OCTOBER - GRAD DAY

The songs made about 94 are well received and sung with full gusto especially the song on Kumar Reddy and the African song Ambaoolay Ambaoolay Ambaoolay..

98 is an eventful year when we face Randy and get through ophthal as well as comm. health and forensic.

1999

1999 JANUARY - FINAL YEAR

We enter our final year with its tensions and tones of cramming.


1999 JANUARY - PONDICHERRY REVISITED

We go for a revisit to Pondicherry with boating on the lake, a visit to a beach and shopping. On the way back we land with more people than we set out with as a few from the batch of 97 are left behind and we give them a lift.


1999 JANUARY - MUSIC COMP

We participate non-competitively in the music comp and enjoy the best music comp ever. The best of 95 props are on display in addition to the freaky live props. Gopis badi mushkil hai takes CMC by storm while humma humma has everyone tapping their feet with Pankaj displaying hidden talents!!


1999 ?? - FINAL YEAR RETREAT

We complete a hat trick of visits to Yelagiri. We climb the hill with a lot of patriotism among the various ranks with sepoys and sergeants and lieutenants and colonels shouting to march forward, and also go boating. We learn to trust with trust lean, trust fall, trust lift electric fence trust in each other but above all in God Almighty. A serene time, a break to prepare us for the year and the future ahead of us.


1999 JULY - FRESHERS

Batch of 99 join and 95 is the Godmother batch. There is excitement in WH with the good and bad angels welcoming the newcomers ending it all with a party. It leaves us feeling ancient.


1999 OCTOBER - COLLEGE DAY

Its college day, our day. We start off with a special service with songs thanking God for his boundless mercies and grace and His immense love. The girls are in white saris and the guys are in blazers. All are wearing red roses and ferns fresh from Bangalore thanks to Renols parents. The song session starts off with Doston aaj college ka aakhri din hai
The song on labor room residentials brings the roof down. The will is cancelled. We get our crests. Later we play a game of volleyball and then dodge ball with the freshers. The cheering is on a hilarious note with Give me a nine nine give me a five five what do you get ninety five I cant hear you NINETYFIVE and then, when the lights go off suddenly I cant see you ha ha ha. On grad day we carry the jasmine chain in the solemn procession.


1999 NOVEMBER - STUDY HOLS.

Study holidays are here again. Everyone is slogging it out individually or in twos or threes, in larger groups. In the midst of all this some find time to go caroling and add a cherished memory to their mental diaries. The staff give us a dinner attended by most of the class during which they manage to pull all our legs; some try to allay our fears; a lot of advice is given.


1999 DECEMBER - EXAMS

We face our final exams. We attend them with nervousness bordering on terror, especially the practicals. The day after our final practicals we have a dinner hosted by Drs. Anna and M. C. Matthew. We get some more advice, have fun but the sobering thought of the exams pervades throughout the dinner. We get our results that night with mixed feelings.

99 is year of studies but we also cherish our last few days as medical students.

2000

2000 JANUARY - INTERNSHIP

Part of 95 joins internship joined within four months by the rest and we split into the various departments with their minor postings and paper readings and projects.


2000 OCTOBER - GRAD DAY

Baccalaureate service is especially meaningful with songs like Alpha and Omega carry your candle. The message is given by Dr. George Chandy. We finish on a happy note despite a false start to the sevenfold Amens . We have a nice dinner including all the families at big bungalow during which we meet Kirans fiance. The next day is Grad day and this time we take our place as graduates in the procession. Following this we have a dinner and then we have entertainment at the auditorium.


2000 OCTOBER - THE FIRST WEDDING

We have the first wedding of our class with Georgene getting married to Chandra. A few attend the wedding. Quite a few attend the reception held at Tiruvannamalai.

2000 is a year of haaaaaard work!!!

2001

2001 JANUARY - BREAKUP PARTY

We have a breakup party at Darling residency with music and fond speeches and autographs and a good dinner. Some enjoy a good walk back to the hospital.


2001 FEBRUARY-JULY - BOND

People leave to join their bond sorry, service obligation in various places. Each has their story to tell. Some stay at Vellore to finish the bond. Those who do not have any write all the entrances. A few join PG Manish in medicine, Abha in paeds. Jeyanth and Anita get engaged. Quite a few attend this.


2001 MARCH - WEBSITE

Basu G starts our new Website, an easy way of getting to know news and keeping in touch.


2001 AUGUST DECEMBER MONSOON WEDDINGS

Kiran gets married to Kavi on August ?? And Archana weds Praveen on November 23rd. Sujoy clears PLAB part 1. Archana clears USMLE step 1 and 2 and leaves to the US. Anugrah weds Elsa at Bangalore on 27th December, and a whole bunch of 95ites (nearly 25 of us) traveled in the Bangalore mail from Bangalore to Chennai to attend Jeyanth-Anitas Wedding in Tambaram on the very next day! Jessie announces her marriage on 27th May with Paul Vedhanayagam (Batch of 1994 CMC Vellore)

2002