S-C-H-O-O-L

S-C-H-O-O-L  This six lettered word, brings amazing and unforgettable memories which still stand afresh in our minds. Memories, which throb with life that it seems like it all happened  just yesterday. I still remember myself being in Kindergarten, hating that cruel class teacher who didn’t allow , us kiddos to talk. And in a flash, I’m out of school now. Fourteen years seemed to happen so fast, that I need this time to sit back and recollect what happened. 

      St.John’s, where I spent the major portion of my life, is indeed more than a school. Perhaps it’s what the school’s anthem says ‘My Second Home’. I studied till my 10^th grade at St.John’s English School and then shifted to St.John’s Matriculation, Mandaveli so that I could pursue a state board syllabus. My schooling days with the former is almost a blur to me. May be, I was too small to remember everything that happened or my past two wonderful years at the latter has just overshadowed it. 

 

 We were so restricted and confined ( discipline is what they call it)  at my first school, but when I stepped into the new one to do my Higher Secondary schooling, it was my first taste of freedom. Freedom that the teachers were nothing but friends to you,  you can raise a question anytime, after all you were a senior!. 11^th grade was the best time of my life, seriously. The best thing that amazed me about this school was that I never ever expected a state board school to have such high standards. To me ( and to a lot others) , Stateboard just meant mugging up the limited  textbook and presenting them in exams ditto. Contrary to my premonitions, this school amazing teachers who would just go out of the book and do whatever it takes to get  the concept straight into your head.  I never learnt to write the answers –verbatim ( as, they tell you to) till the very end .And, I did survive two years, didn’t I? They NEVER pressurized us to study, but studying happened- just like that :) ( to me, at least).

          What I liked best about the school were the English Teachers. The moment I write this , there is this tear drop falling on my laptop. Such wonderful teachers I had. 11^th grade English was a bliss with Albert Sir. He was such a teacher that he could even make the most boring lessons from the stateboard textbook come out with life.  He doesn’t talk loud, neither is he strict- but even the wildest child in the class would listen to him entangled in the web he spins, in rapt attention. Sometimes its only one line that he teaches in a class, but the info he gives you relating that is worth a hundred classes! 12th grade was even  more amazing, I had the sweetest teacher ever. Jayanthi Paul Ma’am- How beautifully she taught us the lessons from that dull textbook. Her voice and accent are unforgettable. They still and will always keep ringing in my ears. Her sweet, encouraging smile when I get things wrong .Bliss, truly.  I also happened to be the President of my school’s English Literary club. This meant I got to interact with her a   lot and hence I learnt a LOT from her.

Like most students out there, I hated math, very well. And then came this teacher- Viji Ma’am, who made me enjoy maths! This surprised the hell out of me-Hey! I liked math too ! . She was our class teacher too in 12^th grade. Chuck the subject, the pieces of advice which she gave us over the past two years were simply priceless. I got to take tuitions with her-lucky all the more.

The list is never ending- Physics classes were amazing, Chemistry classes were boring yet engaging. And yes, language classes- we had a teacher who would make us kneel down when we didn’t do our assignments (this didn’t happen even for the major subjects, but for language-yes!) . It was nonetheless fun: D. and well, he was an awesome teacher!

          And about my class- ours was the coolest class in school. That was because, we were extremely vulnerable and got into trouble for things which we didn’t do. Well, our class was branded bullies and any mishap happens at school, everyone’s head turns to our class- So doesn’t that explain why we were the coolest? Totally! And in spite of all the things we screwed up, well, we had fun to the core!

Lot of issues came up, best friends became sworn enemies and vice versa. People split up with a oath of not talking again at all (which was indeed broken most of the time) . Some left the school, some were put into another class and well, a lot of random things happened.

         And yes, how will I miss out the food?!  By the end of 12^th grade we had two canteens at the prayer hall, which could barely fit us all in for any occasion. There arose the ‘Which canteen is the best’ poll, and hence the dull daily menu of samosas and rolls were replaced by pizzas, chicken and soups!  Needless to say, all recess breaks were spent in the canteen and sometimes we even took extra time to savor the delicacies, which in turn resulted in us standing out of class ( If it is a Computer Science period, precisely) for coming late. Come on, it was yummy food Vs C programming. Which one, you decide!  

The list will go on, and I can picture myself four years from now, drooling about the fact that I miss college so much. Well, School-life may just be a chapter in the book of Life. But, it is the most interesting one. 

Toodles!

Done!

I am done with my boards. I am done with my school life. I am done with...kiddish-ness??

Woah, Once again, I just can't believe I am done! I know, this sounds like this , the post which I wrote the day I had finished with my class 10 boards. Well, I have become more lazy now that I found time to post just now. Two days after my exams were over.
The whole of school life has been a bliss. With memories to be cherished forever. And these last to years at St.John's are something that cannot be forgotten at all.
It also taught me not to believe anyone, cause people change so drastically in such a short span of time. *sigh* . Forget that. It was just some unstoppable thought from my mind.
Getting back, Now we have some four awesome months before colleges begin!
And this vacation is gonna be beautiful. We haven't planned for any trips and that's the way I like it! The only thing I wanted to do this holidays was to 'write'. Write a lot and also to read a lot. It's been a long time since I read any novels or books. I used to finish reading a book in a week and now I've not read anything except my boring, black and white textbooks. I want to read the whole of Twilight series once again!
And the writing part,I was just going through my blog . I just found that my blog was full of excuses. Excuses for why I had not written anything. The very first posts sounded so kiddish that I almost laughed at my own writing!. Perhaps, three years back, I was a kid ;) . It was beautiful to see for myself the way my writing has evolved.
I plan to take writing more seriously. I plan to write more serious posts unlike the funny ones and the ones about my everyday adventures. Well, it will be tough making the transition. It will also be tough to gain audience who would read serious posts instead of funny ones.
Well, what ever it is, I need to refine my writing. It's high time I did that. If you didn't know, I was actually awarded 'The Best Writer' by my school and i seriously can't afford to write lame posts.
Anyway, I will write more often. Perhaps, a post a week or even every alternative day.
So long then! Look out for some frequent posting from me :)

*puff*

I'M ANGRY! I'M FURIOUS AND I'M IRRITATED AND ERGGHHH I'LL KNOCK DOWN ANYONE WHO COMES BEFORE ME NOW!!

I 'm just back from school, I've not even changed my uniform and I've never planned to post anything so quickly! I seriously don't care if you consider this silly. Just read on or get lost!

I had My English Unit test today. It's like the only exam for which I don't even touch my book and yet get good grades. And perhaps, the only exam I enjoy writing.
And once again, 'the beautiful- knowing-everything-feeling' when I got the question paper. I did realize that the paper was quite lengthy and started writing with hyper-speed. I didn't think of anything even once. I just wrote what came to my mind..in a flash!

Now, what happened in the end was, I finished my final essay and I had some fine 15 minutes before the final bell and started off with the 'study-skill' part and I certainly had enough time left!.
And what happened was, this guy (lets say X, ),who was a total 'freak- out' and also unfortunately, a teacher in my school stepped in for invigilation. Perhaps this guy was so poor that he didn't know how to see the time he instructed us to tie the papers 15 minutes before the bell, so I decided to give him some respect ( which I regret was the stupidest thing which I'd ever done) and stood up to get a paper and tie with along with the rest and then the action began!. He stared at me and told me that I couldn't get a paper as time was running out! ( note again that there was 14 minutes left ) and he just held out the paper and I had to walk all the way to get it from him, while I was running out of time. I literally had to snatch the paper from him, which left him staring at me. I didn't care for all I wanted was to complete my paper.

It also happened that none of us liked this guy and my class sort of didn't have a good relationship with him ( not me!) . And with 5 minutes still left for the bell he started collecting the papers. He saw all of US writing and PURPOSELY started collecting OUR papers first.
I still had my error spotting to do and there he came to snatch my paper. I was stubborn and I was not going to give my paper until the bell rang. He told me he didn't need my paper, the voices inside my head told him that I didn't have to give my paper to him! duh!
He finally succeeded in snatching away my paper. I didn't draw my margin, i didn't get to answer two easy questions and I didn't even get to write the 'number of pages'.
What annoyed me was he collected our papers before the bell and also that other sections got to write longer, by longer I mean minutes after the bell!
I guess we will have to teach him ABC and at A and B come before C.
I know that all of you out there are going to advice me that Its my fault and I'll have to manage time more efficiently.
But today, It was not my fault at all and I would have had all the time to finish if it wasn't for this GUY!
This is after a very long time that I am this angry on some one. I feel like swearing right away, but I just do not want to deprave the quality of my blog by swearing at some unworthy random guy.
And to all the teachers out here, please..please..please don't do stuff like this. It's just not fair and please do justice to your profession. Please realize it hurts us so much when you do stuff like this.

You might wonder, why I am writing about this. Its sort of my habit to start writing when I am angry on something or when something annoys me. ( try it! It works like magic. You'll find yourself de-stressed in a jiffy!) And now as I am most annoyed, I decided to post it.

I know this post is "crude". But bear in mind that this is just my random feelings.

I' write about something worthy enough next time

Filler :) :D

Hey All!

This is certainly not the post I wanted to post :P

I was coming up with something nice after this long gap....something on my 'fantabulous' summer ..about class 12! (yikes!)..about new stuff at school...about the book I am writing which never seems to come to an end..and about a couple of random stuff which I don't remember!

BUT! I have some free time now and I just wish to blabber some random stuff! The other things will come up shortly ( I stress on the word shortly).

Hmm....
ok! let me begin with....
oh..where do I start?! hmmm...
Okay! Here are some random things that happened over the time I'd been away ( some are even happening now.! no offense)!

- I had a beautiful vacation. I visited South Korea and HK and had the time of my life there! How I wished for it to last longer...I want one such 'Fine' holiday after my boards!!

-I'm the President of my school's English Club :) . I've been planning for my club's first activity, an Interactive session. Every time I plan something, everything seems to fall apart :( .

- 12th grade is sick :(

- I am done with my quarterly exams.. And have my vacation now ( if 4 days makes one )

- We had to write 2 observations in 2 months of our summer holidays and now we have to write 3 records + physics diagrams for two lessons + solve our question papers + write a test on the re-opening day + prepare for unit tests which will begin shortly..ALL IN FOUR DAYS!

- The thought of it makes me dizzy.

-So..lets not talk about it :P

- I working on a project now. Its on ' Writing Practises in India'.

- I am too much addicted to facebook these days.

- I goofed up on my English paper II essay! The title i chose was ' The profession I prefer' and yea..I ruined it terribly ..ha..ha.. lets see how much I get for that!

- Again about school, I'm sort of hating it! I wish to be back- happy and careless in 11-C. We had a GREAT time last year!!

-I know this post is lame, but as the Title says, its just a filler. But, do expect pretty good posts soon!.

Bye,
Sheba

And then....

Hmmm.. Am bored..really bored ....too bored to be bored!!
Fine! Lets talk about something that's 'Not-Boring'!
I'm writing a book. And it helps me to put away with boredom. and yes, it is coming out well :) I started it as a classic fiction- and then jumped on to a bit of contemporary Everyday adventures...and then made it partly horror...fine! I'll be done with it in a year's time.! And its gonna be a mixture of all genres..what so ever!!
And then, it seems I'll have additional Responsibilities next year! :) I am happy...Very Happy in fact!!
hmmm...yea..and this post was just to brush up my "Lappy"
Give me some time, I have Exams Coming up starting from Tuesday.. And its not the ordinary ones.. 'Common Exams' which are nonetheless than the 12th Boards. So, i gotta Study!!
We're planning for a hangout on 26th. Probably to VTV.. I've been craving to see that!!
And I have Gaseous State, Chemical Equilibrium...and Oscillations to Study.!
I still Wonder what Oscillations and Covalent Bonds and Lens Formula have got to do with Journalism!! And, by the way, that's what I am hopefully planning to do after 12th grade!!
As a totally Unrelated note, Today was the last day of class 11 and yea..Time flies hyper-fast! The day ended with so much of reflections on the year! and my English Teacher made this statement ,"Of all subjects , the only subject that is written by everyone across the country is English! And this shows its superiority and Necessity" . It sounded new to me. I've never thought of this and for me English is more than a mere subject..its like my Passion and I still wonder how I'm going to survive if I'll be pushed into engineering or anything else!!

So..Keep Waiting
Till then..

Bye

Nicey!!

I know I've been posting a sort of frequently.! Yea. 'Laptop-magic'!
So..now, i just inspired someone to blog!
I guess that article in the School Magazine is going a long way! :)
And here is his blog!
http://isaacmanu4ever.blogspot.com/
and guys...inspire him too! :)

Tadaaa…

This post was published to Sugar n' Sizzles at 6:38:44 PM 11/27/2009


Hey!!

It’s been a long time. Something motivated me today!.hmm… It was this new insert-post-directly into blogger using word 2007! And in this way its real easy too! After all, I love experimenting things!

Nothing much happened this week. It was just another week with random happenings.

We had practical exams! and they were very easy! :)

And today…..yea, well, our class did make a considerate amount of howling about owing to the reason that the teacher wasn't there :P. And then this teacher from the next class popped out and said “Zoo, is it?” . May be its not humorous. But if you had been there you would have laughed all day at this on the timing this happened. And so did we! LOL!

We are having these Choir practices for Christmas. And this really peps up my Christmas Mood . It is this time of the year I feel really so high! And we even have a practice tomorrow even though it is supposed to be a holiday. *not fair!! Not fair!!*

We could at least go in our casual dresses! *hail*

Not much again! This post is probably entitled for the “Shortest and Dumbest post of the year”.

And As I said, I was just writing this to experiment this new system which I happened to notice a long time back and had no time to blog since then.

Speaking of no time, what do you think 11th grade is?? Time for enjoying after the hectic board exams?? No, its not!!! Not even close to that! These teachers here want us to be with our books 24/7. Is it like this in all schools? Or in state board? Or whatever!! May be I should have stayed there in CBSE. But I wouldn’t have met these wonderful bunch of friends , teachers ( be things should be this way.

And my blog, which was almost nearly anonymous a few days back, is gaining real popularity. I get nearly hundred visits a day ( thanks to the counter which I installed in with great difficulty :P ) . But one thing that I wonder is ,Why do people not comment when they can read my blog??................

May be my readers are anonymous too!! What’s the great deal! People are reading my blog!

This one blog of mine which resulted due to acute boredom one summer vacation has become my passion now. And Know what? I suggest you guys a new hobby out there! Blog!!

Toodles!

Religion Controversies

Yup.
Its quite a common scenario. quite common...until it happens in a class-room
One of my teachers happens to be a Muslim. ( no offense)
He is THE BEST teacher ever. He can make the most difficult derivations a child's play.
Again, he is THE BEST teacher.
When we are out of lessons , a little time is spared for chit-chatting now and then. These times are most awaited and looked out for. Many a time, we've had conversations on "Muslims are not terrorists" and "America is all Lying" I agree. I do agree when it comes from THE BEST teacher.
But it happened today that a religion-issue was raised.

He happens to say that there is only one God and that is GOD. ( it took a while for me to understand as well)
Also, he points that God should not have any family ( crashing against the Christian theory) and we don't need different gods for different jobs ( which I totally agree)
He says Traditions are stupid and people who put forth them are stupid as well.
He wants us to change the tradition, do something different than what our generations did.

Going in for a tradition- change would be simply great, as long as it doesn't affect our cultural integrity. A little bit of values from here- a little bit form there- mix it all together and you are with what you like and you call it yourname-anism and you are happy. Fine.
Would it be acceptable in a community?.
You would be weighed no less than a good-for-nothing-brat whiling away time by some religion-theories.
Religion is you Right. As long as it is only with you.

Back to the classroom story,

My real appreciations to this guy in my class who took up all the courage to stand up and tell that " Sir, I don't agree".

I don't either.

Whatever he told proved directly opposite to what We'd learned in our scripture classes the very morning. And my mind is joggling both sides.

And Who has time to think of this when I have My Physics and Chemistry records to write and my Math assignments to do which are due Monday?

And yes, I do put forth this question for you, Would you like a transition?
Bye till then!

It's a long gap.

I know all of you would have been wondering.... Why is Sheba not been posting??.. to say there are no special reasons except laziness + tons of School work + Homework + Studying+ Tuitions...It all started again..finally I found this free time this Saturday waving aside my Homeworks..Well Schooling in 10th is a bit different...like all teachers stress on the word "TENTH" whenever you don't do your homework or forget to Polish your Shoes.I am saying this out of Experience... and the usually boring and tiring Maths are back with a bang..I mean even more boring and within no time there are unit tests around the corner and also Oshin's left school..This is making a lot of difference without the usual giggles. anyways to compensate there are always Maria, Nithya, Malini etc to laugh away. This year's class teacher is Susan ma'am- Our English Teacher.. That's a thing to be happy about and we've also got new teachers..Bio ma'am, Geography ma'am and so many...And also the Monday Morning Blue's have started..way down getting to school n the morning is not a easy job..Is it? Actually this year I really wanted to sit near Malini but no way..she is much taller than me but anyways she is right at the back of me..and also today is the Student's Council day ..I hope I'll be going cuz I thought I may report it for YOCee. Also I've found a new thing called crystal balls..They are small little bead like things which when soaked in water for a few hours become huge round and transparent...Introduced to be By Malini..Of course she is the most jobless one around.I certainly know there isn't much of matter contained in this post actually this is just a space filler, Just not to forget that I own a blog and how to post on it..Well that's all folks I 'll get back to ya when there is sumting interesting..buh bye!!