It was getting too long , and i had to split it .....
Yeah ...getting back ALpha was my rebrush with Christianity.........I have always found solace in Christian customs and i admired many of their practices.....(except conversions but well thats smthing i am not going t discuss about ) esp their carrols in English ...that was something every1 wanted to sing........compare them to the Sanskrit sloka of Hinduism ......its sad that Hinduism doesnt evolve itself with the speed @ which Hindus do.
Alpha was a good school but pathetic management,most students didnt belong to my type honestly , alpha was a different world ! but the staff was the saving grace of the school , most staff members were very supportive. sadly i barely made 10-15 friends in the entire school during my duration of 2 years . and sadly 'm not in contact with 2-3 of them . But 11th and 12th were busy days , never gave time for me to do my fav things read,write or dream .........it was school and tutions all the way . we all had to cycle 15 kms a day almost , thats not a huge distance but then we werent probabaly used to it . studies had their toll and i used to be unshaven , unkempt which added to my already "great" looks (lol). 12th ending was a big relief iws tired of studying , and most of us thought like me. After being in ICSE and CBSE board where handwriting and text book never matter , the world was topsy turvey here .........handwriting ,size of ur handwriting and no. of pages ur answers went to were most important . Adding to this was the need for exact reproduction of defns.......thats the thing i hate all the way ......its difficult to be perfect guess......
Well after 12th , school life comes to an end , but mine didnt. So didnt it for around 700 other people from different parts of India and the gulf who made the million dollar decision of joining Sathyabama. Every told me it was going to be strict , but i didnt mind , well i thought i wasnt the kind of guy who faces strictness as a problem.........
On August 15th 1947 , India gained her independence , and the same day 54 years later We lost ours . AFter one year when someone asked me hows my college, my reply was Life in Sathyabama is best described as pathetic. i couldt think of any other word.
But those feelings i had in the first year changed soon....................lifes great and so are its events . No event is boring, no part of life is boring ...all depends @ the way you look at it .u can enjoy ur life in any place,any circumstances as long as u love life.
Sathyabama had sm rules , i'm not gonna make a list of it , most people wud have heard of it and any thing u have remotely heard abt it mst b true. new rules keep on being added and i'm thinking of suggesting some when i graduate ! What i want to discuss here was the managements stand made the students even more united .........students were pretty united and the boring 8-3 classtimes made most of them have regular parties outside after 'college-time'. people frm diff branches were always in synch and a small spark could have ignited the entire crowd as it happened in st josephs. but then big j was always in control and most students wanted to steer clear of any trouble incl me.
'll blog on sathyabama later as a seperate article .....i have enuf material to take a 300 episode mega serial !!!!!!!!! but 'll just make a note abt my department here ......i belong-ed , well belong to the Mighty IT , undoubtedly one of the best departments in our batch. IT dept had always been good in academics b4 , but our batch rightfully brought it an 'allrounder' name ........ECE edged us in many aspects , i admit but ECE has been there for 14 years while are bearely 5 years old . we had a fine dept , great staff and good friends..........u ahev ppl of every character in our dept. ......if i (or we) managed in the colege for 4 years , it was bcoz of our dept's support. every time any of us has been "Detained" for sm reasons by our beloved management , its been our HOD whos saved us.................
That was about my past and present , now i'm getting short of ammunition for both thinking and typing .....'ll jump to the near future.
Well like most other ppl in my circle , i have got a job and looking forward to join WIpro Technologies soon..............but software has not been my cup of tea , i wouldnt been too keen to work for too long , neither am i inclined to study any technical subject further .........MBA seems to be the only way , but who knows , let Time decide
'll get back wth more articles on what i think and my ruminations soon
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Thursday, April 07, 2005
Well get started !
amen
i am pretty averse to change , most people are. 'm equally averse to new activities , starting smthign which i have never done before , (of course there r exceptions) but........anyway here i go
blogging , hmm basically needs 2 things , smthing to think of and typing what u think of ...im ok with the first part....thats after all what i do best .....thinking to myself, reading , writing and dreaming .but the second part....thats smthing which requires you to work - and thats smthing which doesnt really please me ...............as a reason of what , i keep most of stories and poems i think of right in my brain...... ! cant call me lazy , but 'm lazy to type and brain has infinite storage , so no probs.
'personal diary' writing ws smthing which really appealed to me , but i guess that happens nowhere now except that in the movies....(my gosh hindi cinemaa has made full use of this concept , atleast when there is an imposter and theres has to be a scene where the imposter sings the same family song as the hero by sneaking into 'his' personal diary )
i might have even then started writing diaries, but then my handwriting was a serious point to be considered . SO it happens , i am gifted with such a handwriting that changes itself jus like the city traffic police which changes the name plate colors every once in a while . (but all the while i a have maintained a illegible handwriting ).....and i faced the risk of not recognising my own writings. so i decided against that . well bad handwriting also has advantages ......no1 borrows ur note , ur note is encrypted and undecipherable cipher doesnt interest many . Teh best thing abt e-way is it doesnt disclose ur handwriting ........... so i thought well lets start blogging anyway .....
Yeh now about me , my name ? hmm nothing actually there to tell abt tht , SHyam's a pretty decent name and i'm happy in spite of being born in an south indian family dont have a name like ponalugusamy !Most people might think Shyam's a small enough name not to be given shortforms , hmm but well my friends thought otherwise ........whats a name without a nick....
i do have quite a e=mc^2 kinda derivation for my nick , but most nicks have such a history if u go into them.......shyam -> shyamili (why , dont ask me , infact there ws even a song shyam shyamili ..dot dot i dont rem any further shyamili -> mili (obviosuly nicks have to be short), the mili -> mallu,malla,mallan and these 3-4 nicks i had in school . as for college ,no nicks actually..!
(had to have cut short the derivation reason.....i told u i hate typing !)
My initial schooling was in Durgapur , West Bengal ......(my first part of childhood passed here and this place left an indelible stamp on my character)
I did my prekg in DAV and then 1-4 th in ST Xaviers Durgapur ...! ICSE syllabus was and is very diff. from CBSE , i could feel the brunt in 4th standard !!!!! It had so many , so many subjects in the lower classes ....i rem i had not less than 14 papers ..spelling & dict , eng composition, eng recitation........ooh english is always given importance in Christian schools and they defi. over did it . English became my primary language and even today I speak English better than my mother tongue - tamil (hope pmk and dpi honchos dont read this !!!)
Durgapur was such a fine place, township culture is so good, people who ahve lived in such nvironments take time to adjust and 'm no exception. U'r far away frm ur home place but u have such a strong association that u never felt more secure........in my short duration of stay , (4 years is short but it seemed ages fr me ,after all i'm a cancerian !) i loved my place .
Here I must tell smthing abt Bengal. Bengal is such a fine place , fertile , green and but backward ! U know whenever nature is abundant , people tend to be lazy and / or less enterprising and over a span of time , in spite of their advantage of geographical location , t hey lag behind .........thats a reason why most fertile places in India are backward ......Bihar (ersthwhile Magadh...fertile ,rich in resources but undoubtedly the no 1 state from backwards !)
Bengal......smthing similar ...ganga's damodar valley and hooghly delta made farming v easy...ppl generally are easy going. In Bengal u see 2 kinds of people - one the Bangali Babu's who have a very laid back approach to life , drinking tea and reading newspaper is all they care about , very restrained in speaking( that consumes energy too afterall) , seldom move out of their 'circle' both socially and geographically . The second kind of people is the street smart people , the youth of Bengal ....these people are present in the dozens in every street corner, every tea shop and the best thing is they react to any situation around them , even in cities like Calcutta . problems with traffic ,delay is issuing tickets ......they seldom bare like most tamilians do (atleast in Chennai) and take law into own hands ....and flex their muscles ...well i'm talking abt Bengal 12 years ago , now i dunno
Sweets of Bengal , well every1 knows .......is mouth watering , and never miss a chance to attend a Bengali marriage , the fn is for 3 hours , rituals half an hour and khanna 2.5 hrs ...hehe ! again i'm talking abt things 12 years ago..now i dunno but hope things havent changed
Getting back to my education , i was then in PSBB KKNagar Chennai , my fifth standard to tenth.
PSBB was the school where i spent the best part of my schooling ........its an amazing school , great staff , great students , great infrastructure , not great but ok management , (well managements are never great ) . But one problem , PSBB is a school which will give quite sm an inferiority complex. to date i think i was a very average student in PSBB . But never mind it never matters as long as ur circle is good . my class was special and so were my friends. My first friends were Sandeep and Anand..........for quite some time. Then it was Karuna, chandy too and we formed SACK . I take a long time to adjust , and it did take me 2-3 years to get into the real 10j gang , that which ws headed by the most "decent" guy i have ever seen - shashank .
I got into it thro one famous game called TONGS ......in the 8th standard , that ws the best year we all had ..........! TONGS was played religiously with serious fervor and daunting concentration. TONGS group was a huge one .........shashank , vidat, KV, madhu,shivraj,vinod simon,omar and mani,badri,saik ocasionally and of course me. tht game brought us real close..............
Can never forget those days......KV and his lunch box, Karuna and Sai's SAavu Symhony, Saik's confession, Bhattos' "thuppinathu",KV and mummy later in 9th , vidi's stroll in the middle of the class.........i can write pages on that !!!!
After 10th , we mostly split up ..........the state board syndrome took over and most of us decided to change boards . nly the IIT aspirants stayed back ! We were 4 - Vidi, Bhatto , Subbu and me to continue our schoolong together in Alpha , shashank,karuna,chandy,vicky.....dozen of thm 2 continue in PSBB , saik,shiv in dav, nad rest split @ almost 1-2 per school.
In ALpha we took new avatars , we decided to call ourselves christian nicks - me - Sam , Subbu - Issac Newton .......etc , but our new found avatars met sudden death in a week of joining , as we found most ALPHA'ians having worser , more 'south' sounding names.........contrary to what we thought there were few western names. For me , it was a return to Christianity
i am pretty averse to change , most people are. 'm equally averse to new activities , starting smthign which i have never done before , (of course there r exceptions) but........anyway here i go
blogging , hmm basically needs 2 things , smthing to think of and typing what u think of ...im ok with the first part....thats after all what i do best .....thinking to myself, reading , writing and dreaming .but the second part....thats smthing which requires you to work - and thats smthing which doesnt really please me ...............as a reason of what , i keep most of stories and poems i think of right in my brain...... ! cant call me lazy , but 'm lazy to type and brain has infinite storage , so no probs.
'personal diary' writing ws smthing which really appealed to me , but i guess that happens nowhere now except that in the movies....(my gosh hindi cinemaa has made full use of this concept , atleast when there is an imposter and theres has to be a scene where the imposter sings the same family song as the hero by sneaking into 'his' personal diary )
i might have even then started writing diaries, but then my handwriting was a serious point to be considered . SO it happens , i am gifted with such a handwriting that changes itself jus like the city traffic police which changes the name plate colors every once in a while . (but all the while i a have maintained a illegible handwriting ).....and i faced the risk of not recognising my own writings. so i decided against that . well bad handwriting also has advantages ......no1 borrows ur note , ur note is encrypted and undecipherable cipher doesnt interest many . Teh best thing abt e-way is it doesnt disclose ur handwriting ........... so i thought well lets start blogging anyway .....
Yeh now about me , my name ? hmm nothing actually there to tell abt tht , SHyam's a pretty decent name and i'm happy in spite of being born in an south indian family dont have a name like ponalugusamy !Most people might think Shyam's a small enough name not to be given shortforms , hmm but well my friends thought otherwise ........whats a name without a nick....
i do have quite a e=mc^2 kinda derivation for my nick , but most nicks have such a history if u go into them.......shyam -> shyamili (why , dont ask me , infact there ws even a song shyam shyamili ..dot dot i dont rem any further shyamili -> mili (obviosuly nicks have to be short), the mili -> mallu,malla,mallan and these 3-4 nicks i had in school . as for college ,no nicks actually..!
(had to have cut short the derivation reason.....i told u i hate typing !)
My initial schooling was in Durgapur , West Bengal ......(my first part of childhood passed here and this place left an indelible stamp on my character)
I did my prekg in DAV and then 1-4 th in ST Xaviers Durgapur ...! ICSE syllabus was and is very diff. from CBSE , i could feel the brunt in 4th standard !!!!! It had so many , so many subjects in the lower classes ....i rem i had not less than 14 papers ..spelling & dict , eng composition, eng recitation........ooh english is always given importance in Christian schools and they defi. over did it . English became my primary language and even today I speak English better than my mother tongue - tamil (hope pmk and dpi honchos dont read this !!!)
Durgapur was such a fine place, township culture is so good, people who ahve lived in such nvironments take time to adjust and 'm no exception. U'r far away frm ur home place but u have such a strong association that u never felt more secure........in my short duration of stay , (4 years is short but it seemed ages fr me ,after all i'm a cancerian !) i loved my place .
Here I must tell smthing abt Bengal. Bengal is such a fine place , fertile , green and but backward ! U know whenever nature is abundant , people tend to be lazy and / or less enterprising and over a span of time , in spite of their advantage of geographical location , t hey lag behind .........thats a reason why most fertile places in India are backward ......Bihar (ersthwhile Magadh...fertile ,rich in resources but undoubtedly the no 1 state from backwards !)
Bengal......smthing similar ...ganga's damodar valley and hooghly delta made farming v easy...ppl generally are easy going. In Bengal u see 2 kinds of people - one the Bangali Babu's who have a very laid back approach to life , drinking tea and reading newspaper is all they care about , very restrained in speaking( that consumes energy too afterall) , seldom move out of their 'circle' both socially and geographically . The second kind of people is the street smart people , the youth of Bengal ....these people are present in the dozens in every street corner, every tea shop and the best thing is they react to any situation around them , even in cities like Calcutta . problems with traffic ,delay is issuing tickets ......they seldom bare like most tamilians do (atleast in Chennai) and take law into own hands ....and flex their muscles ...well i'm talking abt Bengal 12 years ago , now i dunno
Sweets of Bengal , well every1 knows .......is mouth watering , and never miss a chance to attend a Bengali marriage , the fn is for 3 hours , rituals half an hour and khanna 2.5 hrs ...hehe ! again i'm talking abt things 12 years ago..now i dunno but hope things havent changed
Getting back to my education , i was then in PSBB KKNagar Chennai , my fifth standard to tenth.
PSBB was the school where i spent the best part of my schooling ........its an amazing school , great staff , great students , great infrastructure , not great but ok management , (well managements are never great ) . But one problem , PSBB is a school which will give quite sm an inferiority complex. to date i think i was a very average student in PSBB . But never mind it never matters as long as ur circle is good . my class was special and so were my friends. My first friends were Sandeep and Anand..........for quite some time. Then it was Karuna, chandy too and we formed SACK . I take a long time to adjust , and it did take me 2-3 years to get into the real 10j gang , that which ws headed by the most "decent" guy i have ever seen - shashank .
I got into it thro one famous game called TONGS ......in the 8th standard , that ws the best year we all had ..........! TONGS was played religiously with serious fervor and daunting concentration. TONGS group was a huge one .........shashank , vidat, KV, madhu,shivraj,vinod simon,omar and mani,badri,saik ocasionally and of course me. tht game brought us real close..............
Can never forget those days......KV and his lunch box, Karuna and Sai's SAavu Symhony, Saik's confession, Bhattos' "thuppinathu",KV and mummy later in 9th , vidi's stroll in the middle of the class.........i can write pages on that !!!!
After 10th , we mostly split up ..........the state board syndrome took over and most of us decided to change boards . nly the IIT aspirants stayed back ! We were 4 - Vidi, Bhatto , Subbu and me to continue our schoolong together in Alpha , shashank,karuna,chandy,vicky.....dozen of thm 2 continue in PSBB , saik,shiv in dav, nad rest split @ almost 1-2 per school.
In ALpha we took new avatars , we decided to call ourselves christian nicks - me - Sam , Subbu - Issac Newton .......etc , but our new found avatars met sudden death in a week of joining , as we found most ALPHA'ians having worser , more 'south' sounding names.........contrary to what we thought there were few western names. For me , it was a return to Christianity
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