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Kerala...
My dad had to leave for Kerala cos he was starting a new factory there.
So we MOVED to
All my Grand Parents, my Aunts, uncles from Chennai, Pondy and almost every single relative of our in India had visited us at that time, the time I was about to re-join HELL aka SCHOOL. it was a Chinmaya Vidhyalaya I guess...who cares, its a bloody SCHOOL, thats it, so I went there, the 1st day in a school in
I remember them (my aunts :-p) singing "Aaduvome Pallu Paaduvomey, Aanandha Sudhandhiram Adaindhu vittome"! They were so happy that I finally joined School! Just to annoy me!
I do not remember which grade was it, probably 1.5 or 0.75 ?? whatever...Guess what the first period was... it was 2nd language...MALAYALAM! I was DEAD ! couldn’t understand a word of what they were speaking MY GOD!
I even remember the lunch period of my 1st day there, when I had my lunch, ( I know, u have do have lunch during lunch, Dinner during night etc, now proceed..) I came down to wash my hands, I washed my hands, but made my whole body Dirty!! HOW? I slipped and fell on the WET FLOOR near the Tap, which had a layer of PAASI (Algae), it ruined my Uniform, the AAYAA took them off (GOSH! She saw me Naked!) & gave me a Towel…I was staring at her...I couldn't even ask her what to do with it, she did not SPEAK TAMIL/English!!! Next scene...I was sitting in the Class the rest of the day wrapped in a TOWEL…a BLOODY TOWEL!
After a few months, we moved from
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SINGAARA CHENNAI !!!!
We finally moved to Chennai after a few months in Marthandam. Again, it was a middle of a School-year, so none of the schools wud accept me except for one school, named
This time she got in touch with an Actor friend of ours, Mr.Ravindar, he used to be the favorite villain for Rajni & Kamal in those days. It happened so, that he was a good friend of Mr.Udayaar, yeah the "Saaraaya Kadai" Udayaar, a BIG SHOT, probably the BIGGEST SHOT (rumors say that even MGR used to borrow money from Mr.Udayaar), wait, Ravindar was friends with Udayaar's daughter, yeah...she helped me getting the admission for PSBB, for 5th grade!!! It does not mean that it was a Piece of cake, I had to do my share too..I bloody had to write an ENTRANCE EXAM! I should've passed or at least done a decent job...Oh I forgot, we also had to pay Rs5000 as Donation.
Everyone, at least everyone in Chennai, knows that its no easy task to get into PSBB. They would mostly accept the studetns only to join the KG grades, getting the APPLICATION form for admission itself was/is a big deal, I've seen ppl waiting outside the school, in the line, for like 2 days (including my uncles, for their children) to get the application form, which reminds me of the US Consulate, which I finally entered too. After getting and submitting the application, its no guarantee that u'll get the admit, they prefer "Educated Parents", preferably Brhamins and Doctors, of course, there are students from lower levels, like sons of bus drivers, daughters of watchmen too...oh by the way, the bus driver and the watchmen used to work for PSBB... So anyways...I joined the great PSBB...KK Nagar branch.
I was there from my 5 th to 10th grades...Lotta memories...good n bad...so many friends, especially Jaba, Ganesh, Nimmi, Sara, another Sara, Siddharth, Anand, Isakki, Giri, Vino, Arun, Pramod, Sujan, Ramanan, Ballon( K.Sathish), S.A.Sathish(Pallavaraayan), Sudhakar, Srinath(KAKA), Raghavan (Pichai), Yadesh & Gopi (My Srilankan pals) Pavitra, Uma, Sangeetha(Jaba's sight sorry Sangeetha's sight was Jaba hehe), MNV Lakshmi, verum Lakshmi, Prasanna(My tuition ma'am's son)...mmm...Rajesh, another Arvind(who went to college with me to)...& 100s more...so many teachers...WOW...PSBB...it was great..except the studies part...hehe
10 grade results came...like the usual kids, who jump to State board schoools for their 11th & 12th grades, I jumped to MAK, a State board school, located in Ekaatuthaangal - Ashok Nagar. Opted for 2nd grp, Math+CompSci, actually thought of shifting to 4th grp - commerce after a month, but got brain washed by parents and remained in 2nd grp. Ganesh & Jaba from PSBB went to the same school too, Ganesh - 4th grp, Jaba - 1st grp.
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"Hell" Lok...
Oh!!! I forgot about Bal Lok...how cud I...ok...before joining MAK for my 11th, I actually joined another Jail, sorry School named Bal Lok, run by 2 A$$H@L3$...The husband is the Correspondent and the Wife is the Principal( the rumor is that the wife used to work for PSBB).(I shall call them as C & P from now on) My god...It was a hell of an experience im telling u...they should probably change the name to "HELL LOK". Actually Sara(who went to PSBB with me) went to HELL LOK too, Poor guy, he stayed there till the end, I mean completion of 12th, guess when did I leave...right after a MONTH!
I definitely need to mention the atrocities that happened there...
Everyone, the Principal, Correspondent. staff, faculty, carries a wire, folded into 2 and twisted and taped at the end - to use as a WHIP!
Anyone can HIT a student, anyone = Faculty Staff, Principal, Correspondent- They use the WIRE WHIP
Everyone should start WORSHIPING this guy named "SACHIDHANANDHA" - what the hell!!! - every student and faculty must go to this hall in the morning for prayer session, every morning, for like 1 hr...its not a prayer for the usual GODS that we know, its for that SACHI guy!! we were being FORCED to become his DEVOTEE..what the F*#K man! we need to be standing for the first 20 mins, then have to sit on the floor, in the hall, where no one can sit straight, like there was not enuf space to accommodate everyone, we had to squeeze ourselves, I got a cramp everyday! after the prayers, songs, bajans and other crap, ther'll be an interrogation session...its the session when the C & P will have around 4 to 5 students on the stage, not for singing any songs or for a dance competition, but to embarrass them in front of the hundreds of students sitting in front of the stage, they would've done CRIMES of various types eg. passing ladies toilet, sitting next to a girl in the bus, bringing MEAT for lunch, talking ill about SACHI etc...
One day, one of my class mates, who was like 6" , brought a brush to clean his shoes, cos he got whipped by the PT SIR the day before cos his shoes were dirty. Our Class Leader, who was a hard core devotee of Mr.Sachi, complained to the C & P about this guy brining a BRUSH, a simple, Shoe cleaning BRUSH! The funny part is yet to come...the C & P arrived at the Classroom...invited the brush guy near the black board...they started to hit him, sorry whip him and finally asked him to LICK his bloody shoes...yeah LICK!!! guess what happened...HE LICKED THE F%#^$G shoe!!! That was the day I decided to leave the school, remember, I have not been hit even once by them, meaning I was not caught, for a month, but I was not able to digest the things happening next to me...so I went home, cried to my "
Now...MAK...First Day - for me...but actually 30 days of school re-opening! A lotta memories there too...Here is where I met my other close buddies Arun, Muthu, K Manju K, Sathish & RajaRam...and many more
A bunch of interesting/stupid/dumb ass/cant mind their own biz - Teachers where there, except for one Teacher, TAMIL SIR, who was our (Arun, Sathish, Jaba & Me) favorite and vice versa. Though French was my 2nd language, I somehow got close with Tamil Sir!
So...there you go...after a bunch of schools...I finally finished "SCHOOLING" and went to "COLLEGE-ING"...
Phew...so many schools...