10 things i can never forget about my 1st school - II

If You have not read my previous post : The first 5 were listed here ..

Continuing ..

6- "SUMMER BABU SIR" - Yes !! thats how teachers name were. Jeevan Babu Sir , Shankar Babu Sir Tushaar Babu Sir , Kamal Babu sir , Gopla Babu sir .. But the most EPIC , UNFORGETTABLE , SCARY  [ and what not ] of all was him.. The SUMMER BABU SIR. Whenever he shouted , entire school to came to a stand still. Such was his aura that kids from all the classes were dead scared to even look at him and have an eye to eye contact. I remember one i had got caught while cheating , in 8th standard , the invigilator took my answer sheet and refused to give it back. It was all calm till he told me "I am gonna give this cheat paper to SUMMER BABU SIR along with this incomplete answer sheet". Tears started flowing , as though someone opened the Dam-Gate of Bhakra Nangal Dam. Your career at Ram Krishna Mission [RKMV] is over if you are caught red-handed and the information reaches SUMMER BABU. People would stop playing cricket and leave the bats and wickets right there if he came in the sight of the students. They would Literally shiver , such was this man's hold on the entire school.
The great man is though no more with us :( it was mainly because of him kids learnt the meaning of Discipline and Manners at RKMV.

7."CRICKET" - I do not know how many of you remember those hard plastic balls we used to get in late 1990s. One of the famous ones used by us at RKMV was an Orange and White striped ball hard plastic ball. yea the colour of that ball never changed. We were not allowed to get Cricket Bats in school , so we used to play with Wood. Students like me , who used to reach school an hour before the scheduled start would around the park in search of a long thick wooden plank which could be used as a bat. And every day after the end of the play , One of the most difficult tasks of those days was to hide that plank at such a place , so that its only our team who gets that next morning. Watte difficult task i say !! :P

8."NandLaal Bhaiya" - The guy who always put a smile on the entire school. So the school had an awesome way of letting us know about the holidays. Management would send Nand Laal Bhaiya to each and every class with a big holiday Register in his hand , that would contain the notice. Each teacher in the class would read that out aloud to let us know. So basically the sight of NanLaal Bhaiya with a register in his hand even 50 metres away would send a wave a joy across all of us. By the Time he entered in the class to let us know about the holiday , we would have already selected the Playing 11 for the game of cricket. ha ha !! Yea , for every holiday there used to a cricket match pre-scheduled between Section A and Section B [Obvious way to celebrate a holiday]. A Cricket match was all some of us needed always , anytime , anyhow , anyway , anywhere with anybody !! No Exaggeration :)

9."PEN FIGHT" - This all started once we all matured and there was nothing much to do during lunch breaks after we entered VIth standard and were moved to a separate building , ONLY BOYS building.. :(
So the Fashion was to move girls to a separate school altogether after 5th standard. Till Vth Co-education after that "akele hum , akele tum" :P So basically bird watching was no more a time pass. We had to find something and find it soon. In came the Pen Fights. People would literally get special pens for the fight. A FOUNTAIN pen was the favourite and most sought after. Reynolds Jetter was considered to be a strong opposition. We were so crazy that , we would even have fixtures for it.Interested ppl were divided into two groups !! and these league matches would be played on benches.. and winner from each ground would play the GRAND FINALE would take place on Teacher's Table.. Bigger Game , Bigger Ground , Bigger Crowd , Bigger Fight and Bigger Craze.. Aaah those crazy days.. !!!

10."PICKING UP LEAVES" - The Principal would be called Maharj Jee there.. and the trend was to touch his feet and greet him each time you come across him in a day :) The rules set by him were weird and crazy and yet amazing. So if anyone is late for the assembly , his punishments for them were irritating. There were few basic rules. haha ..
If u are late .
Do not walk and try to be smart by joining the assembly queue. Just stand still and recite the prayers right at the entrance of the ground where assembly used to take place.
Once the assembly is over and when u see all ur seniors juniors batchmates going to the class , you keep ur bag aside and start picking up the fallen leaves from teh ground and put them in the dustbin.
and no need to worry , you always would have the company of the other late comers too :)
God help u , if u are the alone late comer some day :) The entire Ground is yours baby ..


The school had many many many many other memorable moments..
-Like the amazing sports days , having three-leg race , Sppon and the marble race ,Mathematics race and Biscuit race..
-Moments like Shutting all your holes and walkk in the queue and spend an entire hour in library . yea can u believe that Library hour was a compulsary hour.. mentioned in time table and to be followed strictly..
-Moments like saving your lunch box to be eaten in the bus while going back home.. things like going and grabbing the last row in the bus and then doing arm wrestling and fighting till ur stop comes..
-Moments like going on stage right from std II , III days.. wearing half Pants and nerdy specs and giving sppeches on Swami Vivekananda and Ramkrishna Paramhans..
-Moments like participating in Hindi/english Recitation competition and handwritting competition..
-Moments like going and attending NCC training even when not being part of it , would get u Samosas and Jalebis :)
-Moments like going and picking up White Jamuns from the ground as and when a heavy shower would make them fall from the huge tree..Oh yes that special White Jamun Tree which i have only seen in my school ever gave us some Utterly Tasty and sweet white jamuns :) :)
And the list can go on and on and on... My RKMV batchmates might wanna add some :) comment section is all Yours !!! Non-Rkmv people might have got bored reading completely non-related stuffs !! My sincere applogies :) He he..

10 things i can never forget about my 1st school- I

Almost every post here begins with a sorry and a promise..
A sorry for not being regular at blogpost..And a promise for being regular from now onwards..
For now forget the sorry and the promise coz we all know I'm never gonna change :P :P

Ram Krishna Mission - Katihar , Bihar
The place where it all started .. and went on till 8th standard.
11 years .. i was almost about to finish my entire schooling from one single school , but for some reasons i changed to a CBSE school.. Nevertheless i've got only memories memories and memories to share .

1-"Masi-Maa": I was in L-KG when So there were these old cute cute bengali ladies whom we used to call Masi. Yeah , these maasis used te around us always. my favourite maasi used to have a paan in her mouth forever :P She used to tie her saree in such a way that she was comfortable in running behind brats like me. Each maasi used to have a small box , aluminium box with herself , filled with pencils sharpners and erasers. and the best part was whenever my mother used to come to school , i would get dead scared , coz i thought this fav maasi would complain and tell her evertything abt my nautankis.. But then she always ended up praising me :P

2-"KHICHDI" : Every year as kids we used to wait for Saraswati Pooja. First and foremost bec all our books used to be near the idol , so we used to get an awesome excuse for not studying , "Mummy books to bhagwaan je paas hai na :P" and the second most important reason was KHICHDI , This pooja was celebrated in a grand way in our school. All of us were invited and the teachers used to serve us some finger licking khichdi and crazy tomato chatni. Yea , the entire school loved this khichdi , all the benches from classes , were pulled out and arranged in the ground. they would put a PANDAAL on top of it, to create a shed for us and then we would sit there like kings , and our teachers would come and feed us :) :)

3-"Fancy dress Competition" : The last day of annual sports meet , we used to have a fancy dress competition.Most of us would slip into some avatars and go for a walk in school. Few of us would become statues and stand/sit on a table in the middle of the ground. Being Charlie Chaplin in 3rd standard is one of my fav moments. I remember my mother got all the things for the make up , put a small moustache got me a hat , stick everything and just asked me to loaf around in school campus, teasing others ..i loafed around , showing my tongue to everyone and walking/dancing/falling here there everywhere :P

Others would take up roles like Swami Vivekananda , Maa Sharda .. Few would dress up like beggars. the school would be at its best that day :) : )

4-"THE PENALTY SHOOT OUT" : We would make sure we reach 1 hour before the regular classes start. We would divide ourselves into two teams and play football in that one hour. Remember those MILTON water bottles , we used to flick their CAP and used that as the football. and the two pillars on the school stage would be the goalpost. Trust me this game used to get so intense , that sometimes teachers and other peons used to intervene and stop us. Some days if didnt have those CAPs we would go to lost and found dept of our school , saying we lost our water bottle. when the peon used to take us to the room and ask us to choose from the bottles , we would say none of these belong to us. but we would make sure we come out of the room with a CAP :P :P and the Game goes on :P

5-"LUNCH BREAK" : We at Ram krishna Mission had one of the most special lunch breaks. The main gate of the school would remain closed. but it was a HUGEEE green colour iron gate , below which there as a small gap , off which a plate would pass by easily . I m sure u didnt get what i meant.. There used to a famous Chat waala . He would sell us Chaat at Re 1 :) During lunch breaks we would lie down on the ground , pass him money form right under that main gate and then he would pass us the plate in return :P There were few permanent loafers too. they would not use this space , instead climb the wall and sit on top of that. Then they would act as mediators btw us and shat waala/icecream waala/Matka Kulfi waala. These loafers would take money from us , pass it to the other side of the gate and get us the chat or ice cream we needed. Well Off course , one spoon chaat or a couple of bites from our ice cream used to their FEE :P

the remaining 5 things to be continued in next post ..  :) View it Here

Failed at first attempt : Never dared to try again- The only such instance in my life

For some reason , known only to God, I have always hated Physics !!

Some say its my negligency..

Some say I m just not good enough to understand something like physics..

Some say I over act about it..

But trust me ! all I know is that,  I hate Physics , I was/am/ll’be scared of physics and that’s pretty much about it J

Ohkey now lets get to the topic of the post .. How many of you have tried to leak university papers ?

Aaah ! Be honest J now tell :P Yes I knew it !! I tried it too..

Here’s how it all happened..

I was studying in Jain college , Bangalore and my 12th board exams were ON..

Physics exam was just a few days away , and i was at my horrible best. Worried , Crying , Scared but not studying Physics. One fine evening i was talking to one of my friend Varsha Ashokchand and she's like Dude Dont worry abt physics paper , "Main Hun Na"

How Comforting it feels na , when in a tough situation your friend says Main Hun Na. Yeahh , i was back to smiling and my naughty best as we now decided to get the physics paper leaked. She is like Dude i know people who can get us the paper , but it'll turn out too costly if we both share the cost.

There u go !! Here comes My Contact list in picture.. Loadsa friends , all loafers , always ready to pay if u can get them the even internal exam paper.. and buoy we were talking of university paper here. 12th board Physics paper.

Was i dreaming ?? Woaahhh..

I thought , i will not have to study at all for the last physics paper of my life [i didnt know i will have to study a few physics subjects in Engineering too :( ]  Damn i was jumping around the house.

Days passed and now After one day we had our paper..

My friend Ritesh Agarwal [we have been friends since nursery class 1991:P] was my room mate , and he was shocked at my plans. I told him also come on!! stop studying Physics and start enjoying.. i will give you the paper too.

Ritesh- Bhai , Dont get into all this , We still have loads of time .. today full evening, tomo's full day and then day after tomo at 9a.m we have our paper. Come lets study.. i will teach you.

Jitesh - Oh Come on !! Bhai paper mil raha hai paper. life mein pehli baar.. Listen to me.

On the day of exam our guys will steal the paper at 3a.m and then validate for its correctness.

The paper will reach us max to max by 4 a.m . and exam is at 9 a.m

We will still have 5 hours to prepare for it dude. chill relax..

Ritesh - Dont trust all these people. At least study something. keep studying and then if u get the paper well and good !! prepare well for that question paper later.

Jitesh- Why to waste all my effort .. When i am gonna get the paper anyway. Varsha hai na , she has promised me she will get it somehow. Dude even she is not studying.

Ritesh - AS YOU WISH.

Jitesh - AS YOU WISH.

Ritesh Off to study..

Jitesh Off to Sleep..

Next full day i slept like a dog and Ritesh studied like THE MAN..

In between he tried to wake me up like a Dad would , Got me lunch like a Mom would , I had the food and Slept again , like a dog would :P

Night 10.pm - Me and Ritesh meet again in the hall :P

Face to face !!

Hello it was dinner time . He was the same , Padh le Bhai [Study dude].. and I was also the same.. Chor na Bhai [Leave dude !!]

End Of Discussion..

Less than 12 hrs left for the Exam Time.In the meanwhile me and Varsha were msging each other , how sexy our life would be at morning 4 a.m and all such Khayali pulav [Dreams]. Its gonna be a dream come true.

It was 3 a.m now.. I was up , ready and excited..

After a  few mins , Varsha calls up.

Varsha- Dude our guys are On it.. Be ready for the good news soon.

Me- Yo man.. Sexyyyy

10 mins later..one more call..

Security is too tight today.. but dont worry we ve almost got it..#As updated to her by her contacts.

10 more mins passed by..

Dude it will be a lil late.. i guess shayad 5 baje tak mil jaega [i guess we will get it by 5 a.m] #As updated to her by her contacts.

At 5.15 a.m

Dude We are F#$%ed.. no paper.. sorry .. #As i heard it.

And thats it.. the fairy tell ends..

oh wait it didnt, still 4 hrs to go for paper.

I enter in Ritesh's room and start crying , bhai fail ho jaunga :( .. Save me.. Teach me something :(

He  spoke to me for 5 mins and calmed me down.

All he told was get up and start studying i know u will still do it..

I remember we had some 28-30 chapters.. Ist section had abt 6-7 chapters which were on reflection and refraction of light and all that.. Took me half an hour to complete those [yeah i had studied them well during mid terms and they were shit easy #LateRealisation].

Went to last section of the book. it also had some 7-8 chapters i guess.. neil's atomic model and all that. took me around 45 mins to finish them. [i mean just read them somehow , so that i could write some shit]

It was 7 by now.. 2 hours left and around 14 chapters left..That sick mid section of our book . that had all magtenic field , electric field and all such aliean stuffs and all i had heard of, was Cricket field :P

I went back to ritesh and started crying again.. i was dead scared.. My arse was on fire.. Literally..

I started flipping pages in front of ritesh and we both found out that i knew just one question each from all those mid section chapters.

and by the time we found out this , Time was up..

No breakfast , No bath , We enter Exam hall..

I didnt even have guts to turn the paper and see whats there in next page.. in fact i didnt even have guts to look at the next question..

I was hiding the next questions from my hand and solving one at a time..

After 3 hrs of patience i realised i ve solved everything in that paper :P

All those mid chapter questions came from whatever one-one question i knew from each chapter..

Watta Luck.. i will never be able to forget this day . It scared me to death(u dont know my mom, had i failed, Thats it End of Story :P)..

Anyway As soon as i come out of exam hall , i recieved Ritesh's call [yes his exam centre was different]

Ritesh- Saale lucky bitch.. how are u bhai.. How was the paper..

Me- it was good man , shayad 84-85 aa jaye [out of 90].

Ritesh- F$%^ B#$%c#$% .. Harami.. saala.. how man.. how..i am so happy for u bhai..

Me- God alone khows HOW ??

Ritesh also told me that after he saw full paper , he was smiling for next half an hour in exam hall and thinking abt how happy i would be.. bec Ritesh knew whatever i told him in the house.. that i know this answer.. i know this one.. i know that..

All those were in paper.. Oh GOD !!! i still get goosebumps if i remember that day.. that exam morning..

Phew..

Yes i never dared to get a paper leaked again..

In My engineering though We had a paper called Logic Design , Me and few of my friends almost got into this stuff but i remembered my past experiences , went and hid myself in a senior's room and started studying there decently for it :P

And yeah.. I got 74 in 12th boards Physics :) :) :) :) :) and varsha passed too :P and So did Ritesh [#obviously].

Dunno whether i deserved those marks or not.. but nevertheless i was happy and i knew i would write abt this someday for sure :)

Failed at first attempt : Never dared to try again- The only such instance in my life

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And that's how i stopped CHEATING

 I always stood amongst top 3 in my class [from Nursery till 3rd std i guess :P]
With each passing year after that , my rank decreased exponentially .. I got more and more into playing/watching Cricket , Doing Loafergiri on roads, Playing Video Games , Bullying others and making a fight out of no where.. and hence i was least interested in studies anymore.

By the time i reached 6/7 std , i used to get scoldings from each and every teacher who used to come to my class, i used to get belted everyday at home [read 'by my mom'] , my tuition teacher used to slap me hard once in a fortnight [i mean he used to slap me almost everyday , but slap so hard that ends in breaking my glasses/spectacles used to come once in 15 days]
But But But.. Like I Cared.. :P :P
Most of my friends who used to be behind me in rankings were unapproachable now and had become legends of Ram Krishna Mission Vidya Mandir [yeah thats where i studied till 8th std].

It was sometime during Mid term exam of 6th std that i got to know , i wont be able to pass if i continue like this. I have to change myself to score good marks , to regain my image and to get less belted at home. Thats when i decided, i guess i will have to start CHEATING.
Not that i never cheated in exams before [fudging from a friends notebook was common] , but  now i was talking about making cheat papers and taking them into exam hall..
I started trying with small paper , and a couple of long.important answers written on it [which were very difficult to mug up], and i SUCCEEDED..
Cheat papers went on increasing from 1 to 2, 2 to 4 with each passing Exam.
My confidence rose exponentially :) :) and i was the happiest man on earth. Not that i topped all the exams in 6th std. But the graph which was going down , stopped at a level and became constant.. and i remained one of the top ten for at least next 4-5 exams.. I brought stability to my results :P :P
                                              I still remember very well , we used to have 2 exams in a day, and we used to get a 2 hr gap between the papers. While all my friends used to be busy in studying , i used to sit in one corner of an empty classroom and prepare cheats. Font Size had reduced immensly , More answers could fit in now in a single cheat paper , and i could guess the important ones very easily , I was a CHEATER now.. A Developing/Developed/Smart Cheater :) Some of my friends used to give a pat on my back [u know na ? how kamina these friends can get when it comes to leg-pulling]. They used to come and say Saala tu toh TOPE hai be, Mast hai be. Kaise cheat karta hai , mujhe bhi sikha na ? And i used to feel proud and answer TALENT chahiye be.. u need TALENT..
                                               Time passed by.. Now we were writing 8th std Final exams. History exam was going on. I had some 4-5 cheat papers stuffed in my socks , pant pockets and all.. Seeing the suitable time i took out a paper , put inside my answer sheet , and decently copying stuffs from it.
Parallel to my bench , there was another bench where Sanjay Jain , one of my classmates was seated.
His face lit up with joy when he saw me cheating , as if i was on the verge of achieving something great.
so now , this guy looks towards me , smiles , looks towards the invigilator [standing at the door of the classrom] , smiles.. and then again looks at me , smiles , looks at teacher , smiles.. and continues this for a minute or so.. Mind it , i was completely unaware of all such gestures and deeply engrossed and busy writing [copying] my answers.. A couple of mins later i see , the teacher comes to my desk and takes my answer sheet away and keeps it on the table. He asks me to SHUT THE FUCK UP [read 'just keep my mouth shut and dont create a mess in exam hall' ] and sit at my place.
this might be a normal thing for many of u reading this , but why was it the one of the most scary/memorable/unforgettable moments ? Read the reasons below..

1.It was a final exam , i would be detained in the same class if higher authorities get to know abt it.

2.If my Mother gets to know , i would be HOMELESS , CLOTHLESS and HELPLESS [i was always shameless :P] , beaten to the core . She would call all my friends home , or she would probably come for next day assembly and beat me right there on the stage.
[Guess what my mom doesn't know abt this incident till date , i hope she doesnt end up reading this :P]

3.There used to be a Exam dept head by name SUMMER BABU SOR [yes u guess it right , he was as weird as his name or probably 10 times more than that.]  If this guy gets to know - i would be insulted in front of whole school , he would make me kneel down right in the centre of the ground on a freakin hot sunny day. He would call my parents and insult them . He would beat me to death with a cocky stick, he would throw away my bags and notebooks miles away and none of my friends would dare to pick it up for me [even they would get belted if summer babu gets to know] and bet u !! he won't repent doing any of these things, yeah he was that ferocious/deadly for a 8th std poor kid . :(

4.My Friends would make fun of me, and i would be left with  no respect in front of my other teachers who ve taught me for 8-10 yrs now .

5.No image in front of junior girls :P :P when they see me crying and kneeled down in the centre of the ground.

And for several other reasons on the similar lines whatever u guys could think..
I was scared, Shivering, Abusing Sanjay Jain and the teacher who caught me, crying and praying "GOD PLS TAKE ME OUT OF THIS SITUATION SOON"

10-15 mins later.. I am still seated at my place with just the question paper. All my kamina friends are writing as if there is no tommorrow.. me and teacher and talking in sign language..
ME: Joined my hands.. and begging pls sir.. pls sir..
Sir: Kepp quiet and sit..

And then he comes to my desk , gives back my answer sheet but keeps the cheat paper in his pocket.
He then asks me to take out all the other cheat papers i had.. I took out all i had and gave it to him.
I was happy that now i will get to complete the paper but I was upset as i was left with nothing to write [No cheat papers da :( ]
Some how i wrote some shit in that paper and came outta exam hall..
Went to meet the teacher whose name is SANJEEV BABU SOR. He had suddenly turned GOD for me.. as he didnt inform anyone abt this incident.. i touched his feet took blessings and decently went to play cricket after the exam that day :P :P
I swear .. that was the last time i ever took cheat papers to any exam hall. Yet again it was proved to me that LOVE is the best Medicine. The teacher never ever scolded me at all , in fact he tried to make me understand properly what i was doing was wrong and what could be the consequences of that...
I would never forget the gesture and i know its kiddish to be so emotional and remembering such a incident and writing a blog on it..
But thats the way i am.. there are a lot of special things in my life which needs to be given special places.. whether or not some ppl like it . Some things and incidents always remain special for u.. People might have different perspective and its not your job to think what ppl are thinking about you :)
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