The Pilot - Introductory post

Ive been putting this off for a while now. The usual excuses were at play, too much work at office, all-day plans on weekends, blah blah blah. A stern reminder from Spot was all that was needed :).

A little background for the uninitiated fellow-blogger:'The Five' constitutes : Kuheli (Kuhi), Shanti (Shan), Soumya (Som), Spoorthy (Spot), Sudha (Suji). I know, quite a lot of 'S' s :).

We had met each other while pursuing our graduation (the Indian version of it, as my friends would be quick to point out). I wouldnt call it a particularly blissful period but Im sure each of us would agree that the company of the other four did lessen the pain. We've long since gone our different directions, opting for what we each thought would take us closer to our dream.

We've had fun times aplenty: the "combined" studies, 2 hour telephone conversations, the video games, shopping trips, birthday celebrations, Five Star (was it? bit foggy but will elaborate on it in some other post), heck I even remember the day we spent hours applying make up to resemble devils just because we had nothing better to do. And like any other set of friends, we also had our own share of problems; ego clashes, misunderstandings, frustrations, disapprovals, incomplete get-togethers, infrequent mails, unresponded calls, you name it.

But through it all, the sense of belonging lingered.

What I believe this blog aims to achieve is to serve as a common ground where we would pen down our thoughts, our opinions and our critisisms, our dreams and our reminiscences, our hopes and fears, culminating to offer a glimpse to what we were and what we've become.

So. Here we are. The Five of us.