14th & 15th December

On 14th visited CGHS for Venita's medicines. Spent about 4 hours in chamber visited Pravesh.Snacks with tea offered by him upset my stomach. On way visited Hanuman Temple. On 15th attended a lunch in Palm court club in Gurgaon. Food was excellent. Subhash had invited for it to celebrate the birthday of his grandson.Curiously I was surprised to see at least about 20 couples. When I asked his son about so many people attending lunch on a working day, he informed that all of them were retired people and mostly ex railway officers known to his father. I went because Venita could not go due to sickness.I skipped court and chamber work for the day. Due to a bad stomach I did not take dinner and slept off at about 5.30 pm and got up at 3 am next day. In the lunch met Subhash's maternal uncle who was the then Joint Secretary of MHA after a long gap of time. He is 78. The railway officers have a good network of get together and meet each other often by rotation. I cannot think of such a situation in regard to any other service. None else socializes so much even after retirement as the railway officers do. It is a good thing and we should meet like them regularly.