farewell lunch for shamini @ muthu's

the postponed lunch almost did not materialise. at one stage, it seemed as though there would have to be another postponement. we had planned to leave the school for serangoon road at 2.00pm. at 1.45pm, daniel had to opt out because something suddenly cropped up; he had an unscheduled meeting with someone connected to the family life seminar. at 2.30pm, jameela was still held up with some matter regarding total defence day.

i called shamini who said that she was on her way to the meeting place. at around 2.30pm rages called to let me know that she and angeline were ready to go with me. we had another 10 minutes wait before jameela appeared.

when we reached muthu's, shamini was already waiting for us outside the restaurant. she had taken a taxi there with her younger brother.

we had our lunch at ten past three o'clock. lunch consisted of naan, white rice, papadum, masala chicken, large prawns, mutton, fish cutlets and masala brinjal. jameela, rages and shamini had gulaab jammun after the main meal.

on our behalf, jameela presented shamini with a small parting gift ('some stones') from about ten of us.