reds n blues

Awww...My School Days.!! Ewww My school days?

2011-02-11T00:25:00.000-08:00

When I talk about school, the very first thing that comes in my mind, is the particular odor of the children uniform, one smell whenever we enter a particular class.
Has anyone noticed that? When you enter a K.G class, you will get to smell different types of oils, as their mothers apply litres of parachutes on their hair making it drip till their foreheads. If you go more closer, you get a peculiar smell of snots, as this time the water is dripping from their noses. These smells are followed by vomit's and pee's smell too... which you might not be fortunate to smell everyday though!! Ok jokes apart.
I was never so fond of School anyway... I hear a lot of people getting emotional when they mention about their school days, saying those were the best days of their life.

For me School meant Jail, full of strict,partial teachers who if are not able to handle their students, punished them harshly,forcing them to learn by heart all the questions and answers(In my case I used to byheart the answers and then would get blank in exam coz I never knew to which questions those answers belonged to!)
I was not a brilliant child..I hated studying(I still do!) but I was sincere..I didn't like teachers making me stand and answer their questions. I was a very quite child,no mischiefs, an average student who wished to remain invisible to teachers n most other classmates. I used wake up at 8 in morning,have lunch at 11:30. My lunch was fixed- fried ladies finger with plain rice & no daal, (Everyday) and sometimes if their are no ladies fingers then Tomato ketchup.I used to have breakfast watching Scooby Doo,lunch watching Josi and pussy cat, after coming home watched Flintstones,Richie Rich n etc...In short I was boring. The one thing I used to like doing in school was Day Dreaming! Sometime, I brought my barbie set too and me n my friend would play during proxy lectures!
The thing why I hated teachers were because of their stupid Dhamkis!!! Some would hit on student's knuckles,some would play wordgames(mind games),some would say they will undress the student if they dont listen!!! Pathetics..Okay okay there were some who were good too.. Like Beena Ma'am. My teacher of class 4. She was the one who encouraged me to be more confident,to participate in competitions. She was the one who understood that I was not an introvert but a shy child and took me out of my shell!
But Sorry friends Except a few I hate teachers I truly hate.. There is this certain kind of fear that still persists in me.
Okay coming to our topic about our school.. one thing I liked about my school was the campus..My school was on Main Road. At the entrance their was a garden full of trees on the right, with a black statue of the founder of our school at the center.We had to first walk through a C shaped road which led us to the school porch.
Our school was a vast three-sided yellow colored building with 4 floors and a mini floor which was at the center of the 3rd floor(consisting of 2 classrooms,one of which was a combination of two).
Our school had a backyard. Full of bushes and trees.This was the most ignored area of our School. Their were rumors of seeing snakes there and some even said that they had seen a girl ghost sitting with white saree,red eyes. Very common ghost indeed! Our school had a huge playground and also there was an empty area between the three sides of school which was the second entrance,where mostly all students would queue up to get into the school. Although I hated school I loved going early so that I would reach first in the queue and be the first one to enter the school, This achievement was more greater than getting a prize.
The queue used to be an interesting sight to watch for. Students pushing each other to get in first..even if the door is closed! And then getting into fight if some other enters in between claiming his position was 'booked' by his/her best friend. If this is not enough..you will get to see their respective parents also getting themselves in the fight. I missed my mom very much at this time. Because I had to fight alone(my fight means keeping my mouth shut! I was the biggest 'fattu' that time). My favorite grand pa (he was my grandfathers brother) used come to take me,leave me to school(he loved teaching so he took care of my studies).I never wanted him to get into such petty issues of those ladies quarreling, so never told him.
I just loved when sometimes mom would turn up to take me,when she left early from her office.
I loved my school classrooms, they were very well ventilated..with 3 windows in it.As my school was surrounded by trees it looked awesome when it rained..there was one classroom where one could see sun rising early in the morning..Aaah the orangish-yellowish rays just made our day!
I don't know whether all school use it or not.. but whenever someone would get hurt while playing,he/she was taken into caretaking room where they would apply some red-colored medicinal solution on the injured area..and gave peppermint to the student so that he stop crying. Okay I never understood this funda,and I was small at that time..so thought that.. only by applying the red medicine along with eating that peppermint will reduce the pain. I always wished falling somewhere in school for that red medicine..But my badluck I fell hundred times, even once dislocated my hand, but never ever fell in school. So what to do now!! But one day, my luck shined, and one of my classmate got injured. Being the monitor of the class I took her to the caretaking room. The lady who applies the medicine was not there so I myself applied it on my friend. And I was so happy to see my red hands.. It felt as if I am a bharatnatyam dancer who have applied latta on her hand!
I was very very shy during my early years of school although in secondary the picture changed. I was so shy that I used to never go to toilet in fear of asking/talking to ma'am. Once Ma'am had given us punishment to stand for one lecture. I felt like puking but was afraid to tell anyone..so? err.. so drank my puke. I know.. I know .. can hear u ppl saying eeeks,yucks!!!
There are many such stupid things I did..Hello.. cant disclose all and insult myself on my own blog!
If I have said so many things like this why not tell you one more 'eeks thing' . Our School's Toilet!! The most dirtiest place ever seen. Water overflowing.. and err..many other things overflowing with it!! There was one which was near backyard.. near teachers staffroom..Due to fear of teachers very less students went there. and so it remained clean.
Our Library was one mess. The rule was one can go to library only in break. Unfortunately we used to have only one break that too of 25 mins,which had one warning bell after 15 mins,where teachers would land up coming very early,so it was expected from students to be in class before the teachers land up or else they never missed giving them punishment.Anyways.. So.. most of our time was spent eating our tiffins, for tiffin-less students,going through the pain of facing a huge crowd to go to the canteen which was on the ground floor(I pitied students of 3rd n 4th floor)
This was one more battle to be won. Getting their first, or else pushing - kicking and ordering for one vada pav, our student's staple diet.
Our teachers would scold us for not reading library books..now tell me..In this time how are we going to finish our tiffins? go to library?find some good book to read?.. and if u need it to tk it at home register the book which u will get the next day, and had to be returned by a week??!!! pheww.. Sometimes ma'am would bring a large chunk of books and distribute it among students.. if you are lucky you'll get good one. I always was unlucky.. Being a day dreamer I loved reading fairy tales / or weird, mystic, mysteries. So after having food I would go to Library.Again a place with huge crowd.. where students used to fight for the same book.. just that the difference was it was a silent fight.. where students pulled the book instead of their hair!
Our sports day was pathetic...I loved to be the onlooker but not to be on the other side. MCC (Maharashtra Cadet C.....err.something somethign) was good. I was the head but I hated sports. We had the most pathetic sports games like sack race, running,relay,then there was one where two ppl were tied and had to run.. something like tht..and the most stupid of all was to find a coin hidden in a flour with the help of our mouth and our hands tied down.The other foolish one was lemon and the spoon.! I managed to be in finals only once. and came 4th..Even now thinking of standing near the starting line and waiting for the whistle to start the game gives me jitters!

One thing I always waited for in school was the science exhibition,and Ganapati festival to see its decorations.. There are many happy moments too..like bunking lectures and going to school auditorium for dance rehearsals..the skits.. and you wont believe it.. once I was there in singing competition too! All, including the teacher who selected me,were bad listeners I guess..but then I was spared of my singing talent the next time to give opportunity to the new comers..and guess what even the ppl were happy for not being harassed by me!
Anyways I can go on and on like this..but can understand..you all must be bored.. So better stop now :)
Have Nice Day.

Dare to be Different - Mandy Moore

2010-12-01T23:55:00.000-08:00

Black Sheep Among Snow
There is an open door,
But I'd rather take a window.
No need to feel the floor,
I prefer to fight against the flow.
A black sheep among a flock of snow,
Standing apart from the rest,
Fighting against the status quo,
Hoping to pass the test.
Only time will tell,
As the pressures mount.
Will I give in to what they sell?
Will I loose sight of what really counts?
Or will I stand my ground,
Alone and yet strong,
And to my morals remain bound,
Following the beat of my own song?

Face the Book

2010-10-29T02:09:00.000-07:00

I loved coming home from college,watching T.V, going out with Friends now and then,chatting with loved ones on phone,enjoying everyday get together at dinner. Everything was going peacefully until one fine day I decided to check my mails and started my dial-up Internet connection(which was connected with the famous 'screeching dial-up' sound) and saw a mail from my friend with a subject line "Orkut Friend Invitation".
Without thinking and reading much... I logged in and was immediately bombarded by tons of questions like whats my name, my hobbies, my fav cuisine, my fav actor,movie....blah blah..This was the start of Orkut Era!! Orkut helped me find my long lost classmate from 1st grade. I had never talked with her, so obviously never heard her voice! I only knew she existed coz of the attendance which our class teacher used to take everyday! That was the power of Orkut..finding a familiar past and placing them as your friend suggestion!(a good searching option for all those brothers of 70's who got lost in melas during their childhood!)
When people started getting bored of orkut,far far away in Germany a boy named Mark Zuckerberg came with a new social networking invention! And named it FaceBook... apt name for youngsters like us who only like to face the book rather than reading it..
And there started The Facebook era! Parents were kept updated of their children s whereabouts through there status updates..
With Innovative fb applications people got to know.. what their future second husbands name will be! or who were they in past to- past-to- past life! Many built there own Farm and also fed their pet fish, some started working in cafe and some searched for treasure.. Many used to get late for work coz they had to harvest their crops(and m dead serious about this!).

"Are you feeling alone? Do you want a partner?" then put ur fb relationship status as Single and their will be hundreds of offers for you!.. Because of FB.. the guy who once had no friends and was ignored by everyone have 1110 friends by just keeping a really handsome guys pic as his profile pic!!!

Then came The Twitter era..where people crazily are giving all updates of their each move!
Mr ABC: "I am walking"."A chewing gum got stuck on my shoe"."M trying to remove that","Some black sticky thing also got stuck on it!" eww!.
(If people are trying to change history syllabus..they can keep social networking eras.. I bet children will take more interest in learning History and wont even need a tutor)
Anyways,with social networking sites getting more innovative and bigger,are people getting more sociable or loner?

P.S : I came across one news article of pets joining FB & Twitter! I wont be surprised if the next weird thing i'll hear is new born babies signing on Fb! and updating on twitter "hey guys I just arrived!"

Twi-Potter

2010-10-24T04:34:00.000-07:00

Recently I read an article from the news paper about Emma Watson slamming 'Twilight' for selling sex...
and then I read another news about kissing scene between Hermoine and Ron as well as Harry and Hermoine!!
Shouldnt a children's movie like Harry Potter be kept off from all such scenes? Ok. I am not 'anti-Harry Potter' (I love the way they say this name with British accent) but aren't the movie makers spoiling the sweet camaraderie the three characters shared in the movie? I personally disapprove it..
Ok just leave everything aside.. I would like to tell you all I like both the movies.. Harry Potter Movies are way too good compared to their books ( C'mon they weigh 10 pounds have 500 A4 size pages!!!)
Twilight on the other hand have nice movies with good looking starcasts(teenage girls go crazy for Rob,Kristen n Taylor!) yet their movies fail to have the enigmatic feel of the books..
Anyways, at least both the movies have made their starcasts millionaires or I should say billionaires or trillionaires or... ok stop..

The execution of HPmovies is really very good, emphasizing the most critical scenes very narratively, with good cinematography as well as good sound effects,not to forget their special visual effects..in which Twilight really sucks(No fangs,the flying doesn't look like flying without any support as it should look!)
But Twi-story is more simple and short..Love between a really good looking..handsome(concentrate!!!! concentrate)vampire guy and a human girl.. then there is also a wolf who loves the girl but hates the vampire.
The girl finds herself in dilemma as to whom to chose. A leech? or a Dog? The one who always turn up with latest of cars Or the one with superb bikes? The one with a "straight from the fashion magazine" model-like face Or the one with overtly build up body with cute baby face and really good macho voice. The cold one or the warm one..Ok enuf..! So she eventually chooses the one who is voted as the sexiest man of 2010!
Also there are other vampires who are after that girl(dunno why they cant smell other ppl's blood!)... n many more things about it..
HP is bit complicated..I mean frankly speaking, the movie is nothing but somewhat similar to Tom & Jerry. Tom(Voldemort) is always behind Jerry(Harry Potter)
Every time Voldemort tries to kill Harry, Harry spoils his plans by fighting bravely. If you are a good movie observer then you will see, in each movie Voldemort just comes in the beginning and then runs away in the end.. I wonder why the hell is Hogwarts(including Dumbledore) still is afraid of "the one whose name shouldn't be taken" ;-)..
When people want fame the one thing they do is turn a simple story into difficult one, extend it till 8 parts, confuse the viewers so that they remain intrigued, thinking Harry will be killed and at the end what they get to see is same like a Bollywood movie where the hero is alive, married to his girlfriend(who was no where in the sight till the 6th part) to whom he was told to get attracted by the author and to forcibly kiss her..even if no one is actually bothered to see them kiss! Emma.. umm now dont u think that kiss, and love story was unnecessary? (Its a different matter when it comes to Twilight when all are waiting for it!)
Whatever are the opinions of others I still like to watch both "out -of- life dream like" movies. One my childhood favorite,and the most loved movie of our generation and the other is my current favorite, with a wonderful and touching love story ever written!
Twilight is for young adults while HP is for children and teens..both of different genre..so why all r fighting over it?
You know what?? To make peace I came up with this brilliant realisation. Robert Pattison was Cedric diggory in HP who is attacked by one of the Voldemort's ppl. In the movie they have shown that he dies but the truth is, he doesn't( here starts my story!). Thats when Carisle finds him and turns him into a vampire! And gives him a new name 'Edward'. Then they come to Forks where he falls in love with Bella!! And then all live happily ever after, Harry in Harry Potter and Edward in Twilight saga..... Howzzthat!! no??? okk.. :-|

Interviewer's call

2010-10-13T04:32:00.000-07:00

Rhonda Byrne in the book "The Secret" tells us that in order to achieve our dreams one should first imagine oneself in that dream. Her logic is simple 'You get what you think'. Everyone advises me to listen to Rhonda as I keep on cribbing about my unemployment status.
And so I obeyed and started imagining myself. But the one difference between others dreaming and mine was...I have too many dreams which keep on changing! To top it all, if at all I start thinking about getting a job and working somewhere I end up day-dreaming of how my office will look like? What I should wear? my timings? my colleagues? Everything !! except the most obvious thing- My JOB Profile!!
Talking about my unemployment, I feel so awful to tell u all that its been 6-7 months I have been searching for job! I was selected in few,but i didn't join coz in some didn't like my job profile, in some-too less salary,sometimes company was too small and in some....uhh..without any reason! Am a big lazy bone!
And then there are those interviewers to add to my frustration!
1st of all I have to dig out my wadrobe for my formal clothes as they like to hide themselves & get crumpled whenever I need them. Next is the office location which is purposely situated in no man's land, that by the time you reach there you start sweating like a pig!(Its only when we have to go somewhere urgently, the trains r running late or there is too much of traffic!)
Then again they(interviewers) make u wait for another 1/2 hr or 1 hr..you r bit nervous,bit irritated for waiting so long and these mixed emotions fills ur bladder and when u r about to decide to go to pee,ur interviewer calls u.

U give him a fake smile and sit uncomfortably,and then the chair squeaks more than it should be. There starts the famous standard interviewers questions! Folks,no need to buy interviewers guide book, just give 2-3 interviews and you urself will answer prior to the questions he is supposed to ask you.! Bingo!
Here are some standard questions asked by the interviewers:
Int- Tell me something about yourself?
You- Umm (do my answer help me get more salary?)
Int-Who all are there in your family? what your father does?
You-(Uh? is this job interview or marriage?) Me, my mom,dad,sister,brother,grandpa,grandma,mama,mami,masi,masu,my kamwali..blah blah..
Int-So what does success means to you?
You-(Money! Money! Money!) err....(for this you have to learn success's definition frm wikipedia/oxford..that's it!!)
Int-Where you see urself 10 years down the line?
You- In heaven :) (oh they say worlds gonna end in 2012,thats y)
After this brain grueling session, interviewer tells you that you r selected and then tells you about ur salary package and you faint. He just says one word, that one word can attract u if you see it on a product's pack but it will repel you if u hear it from an interviewer. Join as a Trainee and work for "free! free!free!"grr...
Anyways I want to end this with my friend Tany's advice: Dont try to follow others make others follow you. Job is not the ultimate thing,mental satisfaction is.!! My warning: If you r a girl and your interviewer is also a lady then.. Dang!!! All the best!! (dunno if samething happens with guys!)

P.S: I was having grilled sandwich from a very famous sandwich center in Santacruz(w), there they had put job vacancy,wanted sandwich wala! psst...the salary mentioned there was more than the one I was offered by a very good company.

Parents

2010-10-07T23:40:00.000-07:00

This is just and sms Forward.. But I really Liked it...I am sure many must have read it still wanted to share with who didn't....

Just a Bird!

Once an Old man was sitting on a bench of a garden with his 25 years old son.
There was a Tree beside the bench.
Old Man saw a bird sitting on the tree.
He asked his son,"What is dat?" pointing towards the bird.
Son replied',"Its a Crow".
The old man again asked,"What is dat?"
Son said(bit irritated),"I have already told you dad! Its a Crow!".
Again the old man asked,"What is dat?"
This time the son got very angry and replies," Pa! are you deaf or mad?? How many times to tell you thts a crow!!!!!!Cant you understand??!!"

Old man patiently replied," Son, when you were 3years old , you asked me 120 times, the same questions, I replied every time with a Kiss, That is a crow..and now I only asked you 3 times and you got irritated so easily."

Moral: Please do your duty when your parents are dependent on you.

Because in pukka Bollywood style "Its all about loving your Parents" :)

Mom

2010-10-07T23:22:00.000-07:00

Dear Mamma..
I am not able to write a poem for you
coz words feel short to express how special are you..

In your arms I feel so divine..
God has sent me an angel who is only and only mine!

When you are beside me Oh..Mamma...
I get strength to face the World without any fear!

We make mistakes again an again
& learn never
But you absorb them so patiently like
a serene river..

You take so much pain to make us live a better Life!
We are blessed to have you!
Is it God's blessings Or deeds of Past Life!!

"People say that they are known by their children
But mom you have shaped us into a wonderful human beings
That we are known to the World because of You!!!"

(When I was small I loved writing letters and making greeting cards for my loved ones..-this is one of them really close to my heart!
'coz when you give them without any special occasion..the surprise filled with happiness on their faces makes you feel so good...)

Life

2010-10-07T11:56:00.000-07:00

Life is hard
Life is pain
Life drives you crazy
until you get insane..
   Life is full of injustice
                   Life is full of sorrow
   Life makes u meet many empty hearts
                   which are nothing but shallow..!
It hits you
When you least expect it to do..
and crushes you down leaving noone with you.
                   You Cry,
   You are hurt,
                   You feel dejected..

and you curse the God for being neglected
But amidst the dark skies, my heart still feels connected..
To the most precious thing
God ever has gifted..

Its called HOPE !

Yes! Life is harsh
Yes Life is unfair..
What matters is not how you lose but how you Regain..
'Coz Life wont seem so beautiful

Unless you have gone through Pains.........

I want to..

2010-06-22T23:01:00.000-07:00

I want to stare at the sky full of stars

but time lapses quickly...

I want to fly like a bird

but I am buried in worldy beads deeply...

I want to dance like noone else

but my feet budge to do so...

I want to be free of all worries

but my mind doesnt let it go...

I want to reach my goals

but the paths are twisted...

I want to be what I wish to be

but never try to get it started..

Do these things make my Life so poor and dull?

Or is it that..... I myself make it so blurred!

The 'D' DAY

2009-04-30T04:33:00.000-07:00

Today is 30th of APril.. the D day....some people observe it as one of the most important day for India while some dont care about it!I am a citizen of India and I am proud to be an Indian...but does this mean that my duty towards India ends here? I really want to do something for my country. But dont know how to get it started !!!
I cant forget 26/11.... the day noone can forget atleast any mumbaikar...and please dont call it 'mumbai's sprirt' for continuing living life as before..its just that they cant help it...we as citizens of India dont know what to do but just to keep on moving..I still feel the pain our mumbai has gone through...my country has gone through! All those bad memories are still fresh in my mind...Why I am again trying to remember all these incidents is because today is the voting day...like any other careless youth even I used to say tht I wont vote as it does nothing to us..But I think 26/11 was an eye opener for me.. and I feel sorry for the people who suffered that time as I cant help them atleast by voting the right candidate. I had applied for voting registration but still didnt get the voter's id. I m sorry to all Indians for my mistake of not applying for voter's card early... I feel sad because I have noticed many of my friends are giving votes based on the work their respective candidate has done... I dont have any right to say anything to them its their own way of thinking...But then I think that.. people have become so selfish that they only think of their locality and not of their country as a whole..

I want to request all Indians to please vote by taking into consideration our country and not only your own wards..