ahhh! 29 minutes to go for the festival of lights. second diwali outside home! missin mam’s enna thechu kuli, appa’s parrys corner visits, lalitha athai sponsored venky darshan.friends, romans, countrymen…here’s wishing you a joyous outburst of color and happiness!
HAPPY DIWALI!
coming back to today’s agenda, today started off quite differently. i don’t know what exactly woke me up, but surprisingly i was off my bed @ 6.45 am. YEAH! 6.45 am! unbelievable, but true. woke up, went to the washroom, admired my handsomeness, and gave wardy a heart attack when she saw me up. she was in our room to do her daily “sathish, varun, akash…wake up” chant and was pleasantly surprised to see me up and unpleasantly surprised to see manas up. dhoom, whizz, blast…first fireworks went up today morning :P
uske baad, maine kya kiya, haan 5 minutes of sleep, JUST, 5 minutes of sleep. 5 minutes slowly became 1 hour and soon it was 7.45 and varun was next to me doing “kamala kuchakum kumakum…”(ahhh! those north indian admirers of mine…these are the lines of a devotional ‘good morning’ to lord venkateshwara). jumped off bed, found chikoti, didn’t find him actually, so had to do ironing on my own. uske baad went to the shower.
“i m siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing in the raiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin…i m siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnng in the raiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin…”! then brushed teeth (harvey metcalfe types) and went to school
school! varshini, sanjana, shinjinee, pradnya…whatta beautiful place it is :P! today’s heroine is however someone else. ishita. english patriot, sheeja mam’s biggest headache, and 3 day-in a week neighbour. ishita, the story of a girl who wants to grow up and become an english professor. lolololololol! more aptly put, what “one minute, sir” is to niru, “mam, could it also be this?” to ishita…ahhh! jokes apart, ishita is a really sweet, slightly anorexic, fun-loving person, often on the receiving end of mine and varun’s jokes and brings really delicious lunches courtesy mommy.
why is she today’s heroine? well, actually because of me. sheeja madam wanted someone to do a boring old lecture on blogging and as i was temporarily unavailable, the mantle fell on our dear sweet ishita. and ishita with all her misplaced, misdirected enthusiasm went about writing everything she found wonderful about our class including certain highly controversial statements about me. what an awesome beginning to a beautiful thursday!
me: ISHITA BETA, please change karo na
ishita: nai, it is already published, i wont change it.
me: aaanh, please na, kyun aise karte ho? you are so sweet na…
ishita: sheeja mam has already approved it…
me: array, kyun nai samajthi ho…please please please change karo na…will get you lollypop…
shinjinee(trying to act all cool): it is just a blog, sathish, relax…
me: varshi, nee sollu…sanju, tell na.
sanjana: is she mental?
varshini: change it na…
finally, after much cajoling and coaxing, made it sound less controversial.
mission accomplished.
thursday first period – assembly! aah, was a complete flop show. 21 guns became “sorry, that wasn’t 21 guns”. a bullockcartexpress thought for the day. a “iwouldratherhavebeenplayingsoccer” news. fiasco would be an understatement!
highlight of the day was nidhi, who tried to salvage 9 igcse’s falling nah...subterranean image. she tried to control their cambodia presentation from downstage, signalling the speakers to stop, trying to mix video and audio with reasonable success. otherwise, complete FAILURE!
and then started the great blogging session. GIIS blog...yelled the projector. a more outrageous statement followed “blogging goes global”! LAWL! with sworn giis loyalists swarming over, it wasn’t the best time for smart-ass comments. this realization struck everyone minus paras. and yeah, time to introduce our subject 2 of today, rashida mam! facebook supporter, ever-smiling, beautiful by looks, beautiful by heart. she began “why do you think we have started a blog?”. the whole audi fell silent. however, paras (none of the above adjectives fit him...neither beautiful, nor smiling), aajka roadside romeo, HAD to act smart. “it is because some other school came up with a better blog” romeo yelled expecting appreciation from his buddies. the volcano that was parul mam erupted. “come here, come here and continue the presentation...what do you think of yourself...some cool wannabe?” !@#$%^&*()(*&!@!@!@#!$!%!< expletives deleted>. aaahh, the poor lad, every drop of color drained out of his face after that and he shut up. for a while.
meanwhile, rashida mam dazzled us all with her “guts to face the crowd”. she calmly stood and faced all out catcalls, boos and hootings. everytime i have seen her, a smile remains forever etched on her face. as she goes about her daily routine, she infuses activity and energy into everything, everyone around her. academically, she was the real sweet invigilator during my mat sem 1 paper, class xii, where she was sweet enough to help me with sorting my paper and hardly said a word criticizing me. today, she was amazing, simply amazing. when vish questioned the need for a moderator on the much-hyped about GIIS blog to a thunderous applause, she waited for the applause to settle down answering with a decisive finality in her tone. her “you honestly think teachers are going to read your blog to find out what you are saying about them. we know what you think of us. come what may, we are your teachers. PLEASE, give us a break!” was 1000 TNT ownage! she also was one of the few teachers who rang up varun during his unfortunate chicken pox episode to wish him get well soon. hats off to you, mam!
and then began the juggernaut called ishita. her offhand speech went pretty well but for the part where she got caught in the dream world of class xii a, where we respect her english prudence and wisdom. her “no hooting” please was well, ROTFLMAO but overall her speech was worth a ‘8.5/10’ (overshot word limit, controversial statements, more like an article)
eventually we dispersed and met again for our chairman atul termunikar’s talk. this was a really exciting and entertaining lecture with students pouring in their own tragic tales and srividhya mam making a list of “vellilava...vechukaren” people(me, prash!). he gave us several strategies to cope up with studies and it made everyone assembled feel more confident about taking exams and feeling normal about their weaknesses. thank you sir for that!
aaah...finally singapore flyer! mrs.prema...sweet, cute, old aunty who came to school today. a planned talk on “stress management” veered disastrously off course after she went into a tirade on pernakan museum, evolution walk, and of course, masala dosa. her adventures in the mystic land that was singapore left the audience clearly unimpressed but what impressed me was what she was trying to convey throughout her tale. “when faces with stress, bow to it. if someone asks you to do something, do it” that’s the best way out of stress, she told us. short, sweet, simple :)!
and then the bell rang and the travel & tourism talk came to a much awaited end.
‘happy diwali’s rented the air.
it is diwali, time to celebrate, time to hog on sweets, time to dress up and time to visit lakshminarayan temple!
time to burst crackers, time to chill out with friends, time to call up relatives and wish “happy diwali”!
surely a time to regale and relax...
so bon voyage, my reader!
happy diwali and good night.
ciao.
