Tuesday, October 21, 2008

REWIND UR DAYS...

Gone are the GREENY days...
When the school reopened in June,
And we settled in our new desks and benches.
When we queued up in book depot,
And got our new books and notes.
When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays,
yet Managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.
We learnt writing with slates and pencils, and Progressed
To fountain pens and ball pens and then micro tips.
We began drawing with crayons and evolved to Colour pencils and finally sketch pens.
We started calculating first with tables and then with Clarke's tables
and advanced to calculators and computers.
When we chased one another in the corridors in Intervals,
and returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat.
When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors, Playgrounds,
under the trees and even in cycle shed.
When all the colors in the world,
Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays.
When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,
Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons.
When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,
And Neckties and socks rolled into balls.
When few played "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,
While others simply played "book cricket" in the confines of classroom.
Of fights but no conspiracies, Of Competitions but seldom jealousy.
When we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,
In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks.
When few rushed at 1:45 to "Conquer" window seats in our School bus.
While few others had "Big Fun", "Chock-o-bar","kulfi ice" and "Pepsi" at 2:00 Clock.
Gone are the days Of Sports Day, and the annual School Day,
And the one-month long preparations for them.
Gone are the days of the stressful Quarterly, Half Yearly and Annual Exams, and the most enjoyed holidays after them.
Of tenth and twelfth standards, when we spent almost the whole year writing revision tests.
We learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, and we lost, We laughed, we cried, we fought, we thought.
With so much fun in them, so many friends, So much experience, all this and more.

7 comments:

Aslam said...

Ahh yes.. good old school days..!

You seem to have covered most of the aspects i think..!

not all of them though.... like copying homework in the mornings, getting scolded by teacher, getting punished during morning assemblies etc etc... oh well maybe these things didnt happen to u..!!! Exactly... how dumb of me :P

Visu said...

Oh well.. Gone are those days!! *sigh*

@Aslam

Ahan, apparently, she haven't had experienced such things. She also have missed somethings which i experienced(et tu brute), of which i shall speak no more. :P

Aslam said...

@Visu

Ahaan.. i can quite easily guess what that is.. ;)

the way i view said...
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the way i view said...

@aslam
hey i've experienced everything watever written here nd also copyin homework,reach class after assembly nd not got only scoldings but also beatings...
:(:). FYI schook priya nd college priya were totally different..


@VISU
appadi enna nadanthuchu???????:O

Aslam said...

ahh well.. i knew neither the school version or the college version properly.. so i guess it was wrong for me to be so judgmental and presumptuous..!! :P

Visu said...

@Priya

Well, nothing to be ranted. But I just wanted to say,
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost"

@Aslam

Amen to that.