Back to School- Down the memory lane- contd.

I was in the OT today. Didn’t have anything to do. Other than holding hands, I mean. So I realized that I had missed out a lot of things. So here we go with the continuation.
26. Apology letters. Was a funny concept. Don’t know what they were trying to get at. I think Subbi wrote an apology letter for not writing an apology letter!

27. Yeah as KV said, we had labs for everything. Math lab? English lab? We listened to someone talking in an American accent. Lol. Might have as well made us watch friends :P he he. Funny, but we didn’t have Sanskrit lab. It would have been hilarious.

28. Mohan sir ranting about Vedas, stopping for a few moments only to tell Dj and Subhashini to meet him after class. Lol.

29. Our English classes were absolute fun. Every year, we had a funny English teacher. 6th standard, it was ‘shree’ and then fill in the blanks Chitra Pandey. And Vikram Seth’s crocodile and the monkey poem. She read out one elephant poem with so much emo. Was hilarious. Then 7th std was Sybil. Can anyone forget her? She cut subbi’s hair in class one day. or was it vekram? Lol. She used to measure the hair length. She was always threatening us about internals. Like we care. But the funny thing is we did. We cared hard. And then it was 8th std with miss AVC and her lady bird. She spent a whole class defining the difference between a tragedy and a misfortune. And then there was Geeta Rajendran. Ogden Nash and the anorexic poem. Mazaaaaaaa was next. Lol… English classes were the best at PSBB. It wouldn’t be complete without mention Mrs Rani Chandran. Hats off to her. Shakespeare never sounded better. Merchant of Venice is still etched in my mind.

30. Another funny concept was volunteering. Much like what I am still doing, sadly. Running around for odds and ends. But it was fun then. Now it sucks. Maybe I’ve become old. Grey haired and toothless. Sigh.

31. Fancy dress competetions. I for one, wouldn’t mind doing that again. I remember A Rohit dressed up as the ariel patti. And I was some sort of a chef, I think, with a mousche and all, and an egg in my hand. Lol.

32. How could I have forgotten the TM classes? Lol! Lol! They told us the ‘mantra’ in secret . whispered it in our ears. And then we transcended. Up into heaven. Lol. They could have just distributed free weed if it was the detached loose feeling they wanted us to experience. Lol. Psbb would have been way more popular then :P

33. One of our hindi teachers was very unhappy with the way we used to rock the chairs. She said she would tie us up if we continued the habit. We were instructed to bring a rope and keep it in the class cupboard. Some freaking person actually got the freaking rope. I know. Because I was the one tied up the next day.

34. Salwars and canvas shoes. What a fashion statement. Correction- pink salwars and white canvas shoes. We were THE thing back then.

35. And then they decided to take the whole fashion thing to a new level. Changed it to the ones that resemble the onyx uniforms. Flouroscent and grey. Only they don’t glow. But thankfully I had moved on by then.

36. There was a time when we were referred to as ‘patani sundal bajji bonda suda suda sambhar’. Aka psbbsss.

37. And yes, like kv said, we always went to snake park. If not snake park, then the plan-ate-arium opposite it.

38. There was a weird rule that we couldn’t talk in tamil. Or rather I thought it was a rule. I and a few others followed it as if our lives depended on it. And the rest tried their level best to make us break it.

39. Our vice principal used to swallow the mike and spit it out everyday. I promise. Ask anyone. They will all concur.

40. Oh another one… if you knew a few bad words, you were ‘corrupted’. Lol.

41. We had to do a Radio show once. I remember meeting up in Vekram's place on a sunday and recording it. There was an interview with Dunston. I was the interviewer. And vekram was dunston. I had no idea what the script was. As I started asking questions, all Vekram said was Brr brr brrr. I laughed so hard for so long, that they had to threaten giving the part to someone else before I controlled myself. You can still hear the quiver in my voice though. That was mindblowing awesome. It came out so well.

42. There was this thing about writing the thought for the day on the board. And I was assigned the task of writing it. So each person in roll call order had to tell me each day what to write. I am short, and I cant reach the top of the board. When it was subbi's turn, he gave me the longest thought ever.On purpose. :(

43. Our school was all about flowers. Like some others are about rivers and world leaders. We were divided into red rose, bluebells, sunflower and lotus. Could have been a bit more innovative :P

44.And there was this other time when we used to go singing in the streets in december. Margazhi month.

45.Fights between boys and girls used to be hilarious. Freaking out of the world. Apart from just saying 'shut up ok' or jumpokotax or snubbed, the fighter and the fightee would have an extremely encouraging audience.

46. Although this has nothing to do with Psbb, would like to add this- After the tenth board exams, I went to school to meet all the teachers, and malathi sampathkumar maam looked at me, and asked - yenna ma un kannam ellam veengi poyiduthu? What the F****? Lol... :P

47. Computer science classes. Another huge big ass mess.They tried teaching us everything. All that I used to do was dab on paint brush :)

48. Post diwali used to be 'colour dress' day. Which basically meant we could come in our diwali clothes. That would be one sunny day :)

49. There were so many many sections in psbb. From A till M, and then they added N and another letter. But sadly there was no Q. I would have loved to be from Q.

50. In 2nd standard, I dont know how many will recall this. But we had seniors from 7th standard, coming and sit by us during the lunch break, to make sure we eat properly. They taught us how to use the napkin, the spoon, and how not to leave anything behind. I thought that was simply adorable.

Ah I miss psbb!! :( I want to go back to school!!!!!