This piece had been originally written in the month of june,2010 for my other blog
.........but since it has some very special references to our alma mater,I decided to share it here as well......do read and comment............
.........but since it has some very special references to our alma mater,I decided to share it here as well......do read and comment............After the initial euphoria of being back home I find myself treading on similar lines 2 what col.karuna datta had predicted almost one nd a half yrs ago..."being an AFMCite(AFMC=ARMED FORCES MEDICAL COLLEGE),i can very well say that after the 1st 2 vacations u'll start missing college sooner than you expect to do now"....I remember seeing many expressions of disbelief then.... i myself was a part of that bunch...
In hindsight I realise she might have been right..
5 days at home and i'm done...a lack of things to do coupled with some savage weather has ensured that I do not venture out of home....
yesterday being no different,i was biding my time by watching some basketball vDEOS....the NBA finals b/w the LAKERS nd the CELTICS....
engrossed in the match,i failed to notice my 7 year old neice who had snuggled up beside me in bed,her object of interest being my laptop and not the game....
one kobe bryant dunk and she suddenly started chirping with glee"yellow house won!!...yellow house won!!"....
Irritated,I gave her a shouting..
On the verge of crying,she hugged her teddy and walked out of the room cursing me"no wonder green house never wins...its because u behave dis way 2 me"
In hindsight I realise she might have been right..
5 days at home and i'm done...a lack of things to do coupled with some savage weather has ensured that I do not venture out of home....
yesterday being no different,i was biding my time by watching some basketball vDEOS....the NBA finals b/w the LAKERS nd the CELTICS....
engrossed in the match,i failed to notice my 7 year old neice who had snuggled up beside me in bed,her object of interest being my laptop and not the game....
one kobe bryant dunk and she suddenly started chirping with glee"yellow house won!!...yellow house won!!"....
Irritated,I gave her a shouting..
On the verge of crying,she hugged her teddy and walked out of the room cursing me"no wonder green house never wins...its because u behave dis way 2 me"
a 7 year old had been comparing her school's house colours to that of the biggest basketball teams on the planet...
not 2 be blamed....her loyalties lay with the colour...
-colours that had taught her to compete..
-colours that had taught her to savour a win..
-colours that had taught her to accept loss sportingly..
-colours that had taught her loyalty..
suddenly,i felt nostalgic...wasn't it school that gave me my first experience of all this??
yes..!..I remembered my days as a proud Tagorian...green was my colour in school
nd my neice ws a Bhagat house gal...yellow being her colour...
I called her back...after much cajoling and a cadbury five star she finally agreed .....i made her sit in my lap and watched the entire match with her....
I was grateful 2 her...
today...I visited school....after a full 6 years.....
A smile played on my lips as I passed the school playground,it being a mish-mash of red,green,blue and yellow shirts enjoying themselves to the hilt....
P.S-my niece's curse did affect me in more ways than one......
YELLOW DID WIN FINALLY......
(LAKERS(yellow jersey in pic) finally beat CELTICS(green jersey in pic) 4-3 in one of the most closely contested NBA finals in recent history)....nt that i'm complaining,me being a LAKERS fan...
-Hitesh Mahato
ICSE 2004
3rd year MBBS,
AFMC,Pune
I am closer to Boston but always loved the Houston rockets..:-)...I think they wore red as I did many years ago
ReplyDeleteAfter the initial few lines, i really thought of not reading further. But I recalled the idea of premature listening(we read in commerce/mgnt) and so read the whole text.
ReplyDeleteAnd... wow.. really nice post. How colour had been correlated to school House.
As a former capt of Bhagat house, I still hav ae bias for yellow.
Infact I went to sports day (2010) and was happy to see Bhagat house as winners though it really didnt matter to me in my work or present surrounding..
That bias for school house will always remain and will make me remember the nice school daz....
@TANMOY SIR-Houstun still has red as one of its colors...bt then lakers and celtics are a class apart :)
ReplyDelete@abhijit bhai-'truth can really be stranger than fiction'.....my cousin again teased me after this year's sports day when BHAGAT house won...but I didn't mind...loyalties to our school colors will remain forever :)