Memories
Lets see what I can do with my blog.
Lets make the first post on memories.......
After our boards results,march 2007, we are gonna land up in different parts of the world. Most of us will go to India, USA, CANADA, UK and some to Singapore, Australia, china, Germany etc. And sooner or later we will start to forget each other. I know it will happen. We will meet new friends. We will meet new people. Rarely will we come back to Dubai and meet as a class. Even Though there is an alumni association in our school, somehow i feel it won't work that well. Lets see if this could work.
I was talking about this to someone, I had forgotten a lot that i had done in 1st grade or 2nd grade and slowly slowly i started remembering small incidents that had happened. I remember in Springdales, Delhi, my first grade teacher, Mrs. Khanna, had hit me on my head for playing cricket in class. It was a hard shot on my head and my best friend rahul had said " kya shot hai, yar !!! " and since then every one used to make fun of me by saying that. Once i had said "SALA" to a boy in my class, i think his name was gurnish, and he went and snitched to the teacher and she called my parents. To take revenge, Rahul and I had filled his bag with mud during break and didn't tell anyone. All his books were spoilt. HAHAHAA!!! Once I remember in second or first grade i shat in my pants, yes go on laughing, I remember myself standing infront of the class stinking and waiting for the maid to come and all the boys and girls laughing at me and making funny noises. That was one of the most embarrassing moment of my life. It still makes me laugh. And Govind do you remember the pen fights??
I bet u guys have plenty of such moments. Lets see how much we can remember. C'mon write all your funny, embarrassing, happy memories of school and friends. Maybe we will connect with each other. Who knows what secrets will be revealed???
posted by Romit at
1:18 PM
20 Comments:
hey romit...that was an awesome first post! was seriusly laughing a lot man! hope this is the first of many...
My Memory for the moment:
When i first started hanging out with romit, i was going to play pool with him in karama when he called me one day...i was supposed to goto alis house...when ali asked me why i hadnt come i sed im going to play pool with romit.
ali flipped.these are his exact words..."YOUR GOING TO PLAY POOL WITH ROMIT?!?!?! THAT GUYS SUCH A LOSER MAN...SCREW HIM COME TO MY HOUSE NOW!"
who'd have thought?
NICE..romit, sala made a one hit wonder.....keep going
good start!
and shit, ashiq beat me to the 'welcome to the blogosphere' - talking about memories - i got that phrase from my sisters friend who had commented on my sisters blog.
shat in ur pants? :P - well i must admit, i once peed in my pants, and it was in 4th grade - i guess that makes it worse! Ask shayaan, neeraj, angad about that - maybe even ali or omar would remember! But hey it was only a couple of drops - i tried controlling so much! alas...
well done romit.
and thank you tejas, for making my statements public.
ashiq..... anish and i were discussing the same thing a few days ago. a blog with all of us as regular bloggers. i think its a brilliant way to stay in touch. must do!!
well, my memory for the moment:
in tenth, ashiq the tall monitor of the class, made romit sit next to anish tejas and me, thinking it would curtail the noise factor a bit. quite on the contrary, it increased 10 - fold.
romit would get screwed for anything the three of us would do (and come to think of it, he still does)
mrs joshy would hear a large amount of talking from our corner, being produced by me anish and tejas, with romit studiously carrying on with his work. however, it was poor ol romit who would get caught and get screwed!!! hahaahahahhaa..
and ever since, all of romits friends have been.. 'baaasst**** man"
Funny, reading anish's and tejas' blog yesterday, I wondered what it would be like if you and some others had one, and what you would actually post.
PEN FIGHTS .... who could forget. The most jobless game, and yet ...... YOU HAD TO CHEAT BY BRINGING THAT DAMNED SQUARE PEN OF YOURS THAT WOULDN'T MOVE EVEN IF A DAMN WHITE INK 5 TIMES ITS SIZE HIT IT. I couldn't protest - there were no rules! Needless to say, I still won!!!!
Lets see ....
I remember being frightened by Bharath's spectacles, before I knew him.
I can't forget being awestruck the day Ali, who had just joined 8B from 8A, sitting next to me the first week. I thought he was this big genius who knew everything ...... I tried to copy down all his notes, everything he wrote in his book etc ... till i realised. :P
... and other stuff. Have to return to SAT prep now!!
hey...c'mon thats it .... thats all the memories u have of school which are worth puttin up. I expected more embarrassing, more hilarious and more memories coming out from all of u guys. C'mon...i didn't know u guys at all before 7th so tell me something before that... i wanna knw!!!
yea i forgot to mention.... Aritra ure incident with Mr. Shering and Rohit das in 9th grade still makes me laugh like crazy. why the hell did u say sorry???
hi ! good job romit:P
since mi SAT iss tmmrw i wont comment today but will tmmrw hopefully .
all abt the wondeful time where i put two contact lenses in the same eye and spent 15 minutes looking for them thinking i had dropped them both
and this happened in 12th!!!
seeya!
Hi! greetings from Singapore!
It's so nice reading about your post on school & friends. I miss my school days & classmates too.
Well, if anyone's coming to study in Singapore. You can look for me. I am an Education Consultant for schools in Singapore.
Best wishes.
I remember well the day Harendra joined our school - he was so damn shy and would blush when we would call him. For one whole year almost no one even knew he existed - he would sit quietly and write '355' all over his hands, face, legs (amongst other places) in 7th and 8th grade....
I don't think I'll forget what Ali did in the clinic once, but he claims it was me... More on this later maybe?
Can't ever forget the famous Anish vs. Karan fights of which Mr. Arya was once a part of! It all starts with Karan saying that he doesn't believe in religion and thus begins a conflict between 2 ppl on the oppsite ends of the spectrum. Anish joins and voila ... Hindi period is as good as done. We shut our books and watch the drama!!
Comp classes of Grade 9 ... who can ever forget.
Firstly, the printing of blank pages every 2 minutes, sending Mr. Gupta off into a fit. Occassionally, there were comments on it that I don't really recall, but all the same, it made him red to the face.
Secondly, the Ali related incidents like
'Enter 7 names'
Mr. G, Mr. U, Mr. P, Mr. T, Mr. A, Mr. S, Mr. U, Mr. X (Read the letters if you still didnt get it)
'Enter a number from 1 - 10'
... and if a number out of range was entered - 'No Mr. Gupta, ONE TO TEN' ... lol
Then there are the 11th / 12th comp. memories (many of which are penguin related)
Lets see, calling Ali an attention seeker and pissing him off for 2 periods.
Calling Bharath an instigator of fights and teaming up against him.
Bharath whispering something to Ali and looking in my direction all the time going ... 'Ali Ali, look at Govind blah blah' which gets me all irritated and not to forget the staring in my direction saying 'luscious lips'.
.. and the shutting down of computers, the occasional fights when ma'am turns to write something on the board, penguin throw, penguin smack, admiring the amount of blood that can come out of a blood penguins small head, String programs, the WG Grace jail break game, the penguin hit, penguin snowball game, yetisports, etc etc.
Can't forget the wierdest look on Subbu's face the day he joined. It was Physics practs and Mr Harish asked me to introduce him. I had no idea what to do ... so I just took him around to each guy and what followed was 10 mins of me saying. ' Sebastian this is ____ and ____ this is Sebastian.' And subbu was trying to smile each time and ultimately got soo bored of it. It was funny ... atleast to me.
Grade 4 ... I get a 9/10 in a Maths test (hard to believe, isn't it .... :P). I notice a mistake in the paper and I show it to Mrs. Feroza Soares. She looks back at me and suspects that I changed the answer only after receiving the paper (we wrote in pencil then). For 20 mins, in front of the whole class, she kept asking me whether I cheated or not. After 10 mins of defiance I started crying and admitted that I cheated (THOUGH I DIDN'T), to make her stop. For a term after that, many people thought I was a cheat, ... that was quite sad.
About the original topic of your post ... I just hope we don't lost touch. For those of you who remember, I had this best friend called Dinesh (who was quite like Bharath ... Tamilian). He left in 6th and we lost touch. A year or two later, I found his number and called him when in India. It was awkward speaking to him ... it was like I didn't want to say on the phone ... it was too formal. The same was the case with another guy called Ankit, who came home 2 years after leaving.
Btw .. wonderful way to start the blog!
mmmm ok
in 8th, mitchell called mansoor over to his desk once. this was after the exams. he had suspected mansoor had cheated. using his super human powers of interrogation (thats wat they seemed like at the time) he forced mansoor to accept. then he turned to the class and asked very openly, for the person who assisted mansoor (gave him the answers) to own up. i being a noble, proud (and very idiotic) guy, owened up.
mitchell didnt screw me for that.
however..... while he was lecturing us, i couldnt help myself and shamlessly began laughing (trying to escape his view). but i was caught, and the mighty mister mitchell could take it no longer. he was furious.
he dragged me with him to the admin office. he called my parents and arranged a meeting with them to discuss my behaviour. i was crying all the way.
i felt so bad that day. bloody mansoor.
will continue later. have to try and practice some maths :P
I remember once in KG2 (Or UKG) once a hornet/bee/wasp (some bloody stingin insect) got into our class. We all were running around like crazy - when the bloody thing stung me. Ali was at hand and he took me to the nurse while I was sobbing uncontrollably...
since u'll prob only relate to anything i say from grade 6 to 10, i'll stick to some of those random memories!!
grade 6- divya, zerene and i used to walk on the wall joining our buildings... climb on from the parking lot then onto the higher wall of the next building, jump and slide down the dumpster to the floor (shit we smelled so bad after!)
grade 7- upasna, tanvi, karan pantaky... enough said!:P
grade 8- asha, yazhini(reluctantly) and i hid in the girl's toilets so we could bunk our bio test with premkumar... when brendish walked by we had to rush into the cubicles but manage to keep our legs out of sight so i had to stand with one foot on a door hinge and the other on the bumshower tap... the minute brendish left, asha rammed open my door so my legs slipped... The tap turned on and the bumshower flew in all directions... we got completely soaked and couldnt go back to class... we had to dry our uniforms using the hand drying thing (which btw only switches on if there are hands under it not cloth!!) within view of premkumar!!... just perfect!
grade 9- So nicole walks into class having finally figured out the difference between countries and their capitals... we decide to test her and i ask so nicole what's the capital of u.a.e.. she replies abu dhabi and we're all highly impressed... lakshmy, "oo nicole what's the capital of dubai"... nicole displaying her knewly acquired knowledge, "uhhh... abu dhabi!?" (sorry nicole... but that was just classic!) she hasn't heard the end of it yet!
grade 10- ankita...was it 9th or 10th? I can't remember... but for creative festival the two of us got into this really physical fight over who gets to wear what skirt for the flamenco dance... and i asked her if i could try hers and then i never took it off... lol she nearly tried to rip it off me... u were so pissed!:D
grade 10 tuitions... where romit finally declared his undying love for beckham...agn...enough said!!
grade 11- ohh yeah econ class where we were playing dumbsherads and i had to act out uuhhh shit what was it... the one with the remake of 'thoya thoing' in it... lol it was hysterical.. i did like every scene possible in the movie coz ankita couldn't remember the hindi word for secret!.. what is it btw?
anyway im off for dinner... good post... made me think back to so much stuff that i'd completely forgotten about!
Grade 7 - Romit invents this fictional character, whose supposed to be his brother.
His name ...... wait for it ..... MOMIT SEN. I'd heard of Rohit and Mohit. Even Romit was new to me. But MOMIT. Anyway, this went on for a while until I think even Romit was confused about whether or not he had such a brother.
In reply, some time later, while I was chatting with Romit, I added this 'French Cousin' of mine to the conversation. This cousin was actually Adhitya Srinivasan. We had a lot of fun with it for a week or two!
Then there's this calculator incident in grade 7/8. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I know Romit thought I had borrowed a calculator of his and that I had lost it. For some time, the only word that he uttered to me was 'calculator'. Even during Art periods, instead of drawing the fruit bowl, he preferred to draw squares with ROMIT's CALCULATOR in a huge font and flash it at me every minute. That was until he found it in his bag again.
Fights involving Romit and I in grade 9 usually involved him threatening to throw my pencil box/its contents into the dustbin and I holding a chalk duster over his bag, threatening to dust it. And then came the day I actually did it. His bag was WHITE, covered with duster marks. He tried to wash his precious bag both in school and at home. Everntually, he had to buy a new bag! I haven't apologised to him for that yet!!
Ankita did tell me abt the fight u guys had over the dress. Who got it in the end? And Proma thanks for the gift it was reallly sweet. Hope others are like that 2!!!! not hinting at anything. lol.
And i still love Becks even after all the mess up.
And Govind,
firstly, Momit is a very funny name. Thats why we made it up remember!!!
And no i didnot believe aditya was ure stupid french cousin and it was done only once over msn.
i will agree to the Calculator incident. it was my new calculator and it was really fascinating to me. that time i used to wonder how could a small device such as it could calculate everything. I still don't know the real reason!!
And i will never 4give u for that Govind, The bag was really kool and u made it white. White! since then i have never found a bag like that. U still carry your ugly blue bag, don't u? u wait and watch what i do to that!
since proma is the only one who has given a little account of the great happenings in the girls section, i guess ill pitch in too!
2nd grade, 2nd term, 2nd day : my first day of school. Mrs. Fatima Ali was in the class. being new to dubai, and quite a shy kid (hem hem), i was instantly frightened of learning a new, foreign language... which is why i stood outside the class, clutching my mom's hand while mrs dorothy cazo coaxed me into the class.
[i learned many years later that the first impression i gave to the class was that of a very white arab kid. (thanks, aarthi kumar!)]
4th grade : komal, upasna and i, being the better singers of 4G1, bonded harmoniously over 'but im sad to say im on my way, i wont be back for many a day, my heart is down, my head is turning around, i gotta leave a little girl in kingston town'. also a grade of ghosts and sanjana's absolutely freaky stories!
6th grade : 4th October.
komal, ishika, upasna, and i (dont remember who else was there, sorry!) got into such huge shit after we skipped classes to draw in the art room! we wldnt have gotten into so much trouble if mrs. jolly hadnt snitched to biswas, who told brendish, who was the most feared lady EVER! luckily, thanks to a lot of tears and komal's birthday chocolates, we werent punished at all.
romit, i have to say that your blog has got me remembering my own school life. good post! so many more memories coming up, but i gtg! adios!
Dang...i've had a load of embarrasing
moments. I think you might remember the one outside your house. Bharath and me were waiting for you to come out(Why is bharath involved in so many of others embarrasing moments?),
I'm just assuming that you remember what happened then...as dear bharath put it, there was an explosion. Its just too embarrasing to go into details of.
Another time was when i was giving Bharath(yes him again) a bear hug. He beckoned Prateik to chuck the ball at me, just to get me off him. As luck would have it, Prateik got me in a particular spot! I think i nearly passed out!...OUCH, and everyone had a good laugh out of it!
Nice idea for a first post, keep it going.
heyy romit!
nice blog.. really good topic to start it off with!
memories.. hmm ...
grade 4-
when i first joined school .. komal was the one i sat with and we hit it off immediately. reason? we were both obssessed with jurasic park...and we used to go around imitating them... screeching like them... hahaaa :P soo now u know why i can scream at such a high pitch..so naturally!:P
grade 6 or 7:
i used to use a fountain pen and carried an ink bottle! upasna was thouroughly amused and used to spend half her time smudging her fingers in it!:P
one fine day during prep time... we both got under our desks and crawled our way to leena's (ex mhs) chair. we emptied the entire ink bottle on her white socks! it was brillianttttt! she didnt realise ANYTHING! the entire class was in splits..! we both went up to her and asked her why she was wearing her blue socks.. she looked down confused.. and then she was like " oh shit i must have worn them by mistake!"
grade 6 - 7 again:
now the whole crawling under tables and chairs had become "in".. shireen crawled over to komals chair and tied her shoelaces to her chair... and komal as u know gets up with such enthu! she fell soo badd!! ouch! sorry komal! :P
(there were many more victims to such similar situations done by shireen, upasna, ishika and me..i may have left out some others) -- apologies to all!
grade 7 :
oooh.. ishikas house used to be our fav place! do u guys remember the our fashion shows!? hahahaa upasna and me used to inevitably be in one team with riddhika and pash in the other ...and ishika would ALWAYS chose to be the judge (since she was bored of wearing her clothes!:P)
ishika used to find it soo hard to disclose the "results" bcos upas and me used to always win...( wow we used to take tht fashion show soo seriously! and ishikas face while announcing the resultss...hahha! its like which friend to chose over which !) and riddhika and pash used to get sooo pissd off and wouldnt talk to us! wow the fights it led too...!
all the cricket in ur corridors.. all the lights we broke..:P and OMG!! all the spyin on KPs housee! hahhaaa!
grade 9 :
yeah this was the famous proma and my physical fight over the skirt! The skirts were made to our respective measurements.. we tried it on.. proma wasnt happy with hers ..she liked mine..:P we were changin back n she was like "hey can i try urs on... JUST LIKE THAT" (pls note):P n poor innocent me gave her the skirt which once she wore ... she refused to take off!
hahahha i remember the whole scene!
well then she took the MY skirt home:P... n i remember we fought over it the next day as well... but the weird thing is i cant remember who finally got it:P.. do u proma? (sorry romit cant help u out with that)
lots moree ... will write some other time...!
c yaaaaa! and yea keep up the good work!
ohhh wait i suddenly remembered 10th grade where my entire class but one decided to bunk school for the day! It was hysterical and so totally not planned... no one believed us and for weeks we had younger students peeping in through the back window and asking questions like so 'were you from the class that dint show up for schoole that day'... shit haha.. we were considered so 'cool'..even in the other section only three ppl landed up for school... we had to wait in line with signed excuses in front of the admin... n we got more screwed coz no one could stop laughing!
oooo and then there was 7th grade when asha, nicole and i decided to bunk assembly and brendish caught us and she gave us this long lecture, made us stand up through the first two blocks, freaked the crap out of us when she sent a senior girl to write down our names and then she sent another girl to tell us she 'thought we had learned our lesson'... hey it was as bad as pissing in your pants!!:P
ROMIT... I can't stop thinking... like everytime we meet up its always stuff bout the guys section but i just suddenly remembered all this shit that noone ever toks bout nemore!!! Great Post!
ooo, i got one! was it 8th or 9th grade... upasna got her basketball to school, and we were playing catch in class during tea break, and then what do you know... the ball goes flying high up and hits the fan! thank god no one noticed! but it had a pretty bad dent!
and once, in 6th grade, simone kambatta and her friend were taking charge of our class in prep... and the inter house basket ball tournament for the boys was being held at the time, with cygnus playing, so guess who was playing.. simone got so excited, she leaped onto the teachers desk and looked out of the window, and guess who walks in! mrs biswas! and she starts lecturing simone on what kind of example she should be setting, etc etc. fun!
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