Thursday, July 23, 2009

Teachers,Professors,Staff and Myself(Part II)

Continued from....
Teachers,Professors,Staff and Myself(Part I)...

The Thrill and Fun

Out of School.However Back to School.(Sorry.. I cannot term Vivekananda College as a 'college').Life after schooling is fun. No uniforms.No Homework.No need to go at 9 am.(My coll timings were from 4pm to 8pm).No need to wear shoes.No need to polish them.No need to wear socks(I hate socks!)and most importantly no need to Tuck in.
Perhaps , the happiest part of being at a college is the fun of bunking it and going to movies.The joy of bunking classes and subsequently altering the attendance gives us tremendous thrill and happiness.

Any college student would also tell you the most happiest moment in a class is derived by giving /receiving 'proxy' attendances.Mass Bunking is special.The way the idea creeps in and the spread of the virus is amazing. 'Dae bore adikkudu da... Variya beachku pogalam'..'illa da , attendance kammi..'...'Paravailla vada...polam...avanuku kooda thaan attendance illa...avan varaan illa...unakku enna.. romba scene podama vaa..'The poison is slowly inserted into every one in the class. Then eventually everyone is convinced and the last two hours ( 6 to 8) is spent at the Beach. Mass bunks are dangerous too.. As we found out...

I was Rusticated ... Well Almost...

August 25th 2006

I still remember that day.. It was a wet day..
I was angry (you may wonder when I have been normal) that I could not get the first day first show ticket to my Aandavar Movie.. Vettaiyadu Vilayaadu

Eventually we got tickets at Abhirami for the day's second show.(i.e Matinee). Since the original noon show which was to begin at 11 am that day got postponed by 1 hr,the matinee show began by 3 pm only. We had mass bunked not entirely though. Our row was absent.

I still remember the scene. "Raghvan.. Naan mattum dhaan unna kaapatha mudiyum.. Inba vaa... Namba pogalam.. " My cell vibrated. I ignored. It Vibrated again. Someone was making continuous calls.(Kamal had jumped of the window by then).. I saw a message. It read. "Macha... You all suspended..HOD has asked you all to come and meet him in the evening" .It did not jolt me too much ,for I thought it would be a prank.(Jo was beside Kamal at the hospital)...

The movie got over. We went to US( the tea shop at the other side of Round Tana). It was true. We were suspended for a week by our HOD for mass bunking and going to movie.We met him and gave an apology letter which he did not consider at all.He picked up the attendance and drew out a horizontal line against each of our names for the entire week.

We came out depressed. So what did we do the next five days?? We would start from home by 4 pm and go to park , beach , movie ( we watched VV once again @ sathyam).. Passing that week was very tough.. 5 hrs suddenly in the evening seemed to be 5 yrs... It was fun nevertheless...

During the second year , There was more fun.. Why??
We were the instigating force behind a historic moment in our college life.. THE STRIKE...

to be continued... (Coz my eyes are drooping beyond control)

2 comments:

Ketan said...

Sundar,

That was funny to read! The college people didn't send letters to parents about their wards' misadventure? ;)

TC.

Sundararaman said...

ah.. forgot to mention that.. well that was easily taken care of.. The letters are sent through the college peon only.. and peon was our man..