Wonderful June is here!!



Dedicated to my school - PSBB, my wonderful teachers there and my friends and schoolmates: Thanks a ton for making my school years special enough to generate memories pleasant enough for me to blog about it all!





Ah! June is here again...June for me has always meant the wonderful smell of new Bata canvas shoes, brand new and neatly ironed uniforms - with a resolve of not outgrowing them, at least horizontally, before the year was done - a new backpack (which emanates an odour like everything new usually does - a smell that I actually hate .. but love in this context) filled with a new text books and several notebooks covered neatly in brown wrappers with prominent mickeys and Donalds waving out to me with my name plastered next to their tiny figures :-D June meant the beginning of another new year at school, meeting up with friends and classmates -who seem to dissolve to another world during the vacations - and of course the important first steps - creating a good impression on the new class teacher, getting a desk that wasn't too far away from the board to alarm the teacher's 'naughtiness' antennae but at the same time not too close to smell the perfumes the teacher used (or rather didn't :-) ) June almost always began with the usual - "I can't believe the vacation is already over" - attitude on the outside, while inwardly wondering what ever makes us the way we are - praying for holidays during the term time and for classes during the vacations! June..ah!! Wonderous June!!


But now, at twenty (and a month) I'm supposedly 'enjoying' a life-long vacation from school! Uni life is definitely fun - you have a certain independence, a new purpose in life and you're in the process of making a lot of exciting new discoveries that people usually make in young adulthood - but I'm already wishing that my school years could come back! I really miss the belonging - to your section, to your batch, to your school - basically because none of it is actually here! I mean, yeah..NUS is awesome - I love my course and I am here because all these efforts are going to generate certain returns later on in life - but with your class of around 400 students - not all of them taking all the subjects you are - with your lecturers hardly recognizing your face, forget remembering your name! - school life definitely seems something worth much much more than I'd have even realized back then!!



So, those of you still in school, enjoy your years ahead! They're going to be your among your most treasured memories! Those in uni like me, well, I suppose in a few years' time, we'll all again be cribbing about how good uni was and how bad work is :-D So lets make our stay here, memories worth remembering! And, those of you who are already working...well..you definitely have enough money by now to purchase a ticket to a movie - So go ahead and enjoy some exaggerated drama about youth that'll push you to remember and cherish all those crazy little things that made your youth worth it all!! :-P

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12 comments:

Mark IV said...

i would call u an insult to my institution if ur words were any less eloquent... so lemme just settle with "AAAARRRGGGHHH" instead. en ma... enda kaalathile 12th le brown cover pota books with mickey- donald labels otti poninge?!!!

and desk not too far behind- only reason for tht would be because probabilistically its the middle order that goes unnoticed most...
:P

or am i just beyond a generation of goodie- schoolers from psbb? (im not really tht old... yet...)

Archun said...

@ mark iv
hmm...12th la dhan specialla naa brown cover poten - because I knew that it was perhaps one of the last time I'd be doing so. Perhaps it seems a bit 'un-kewl' to you..but I'll never have any regrets that I did so :-) It made me happy then n thinking about it makes me happy now - how I wish I could be that cute, innocent girl all over again!!

Confused Soul said...

Amazing post.. it feels like I've written it.. coz it has exactly my thoughts! :D

Good job! :)

Mark IV said...

cha cha.. not un-kewl n all.. jus really surprised u took the trouble... im guessing u were the really smart teacher's pet gal right in front? in fact i owe my education to your clan- the notes, photocopies and innumerable tutelage that the 'padips' types could pump in...
(sheeks.. yaen na enna sonnalum kalaikara maariye irukku? nejamma... promise a congrats)

Bala said...

Nice Blog ppl.

Thanks for getting the Laptop back quickly. We can read more of your blogs.

Mark IV said...

oh and "i would call u an insult to my institution if ur words were any less eloquent." means since u r eloquent i do not dare call u an insult (consequently meaning u do my alma mater proud!)

naa romba nallavan... again nejamma... promise!

Archun said...

@ CS
what else to say than I'm flattered.. :-D Danku!

@mark iv
hmmm...parva illa!! I've not been kalaied in this matter for a long time..enjoyed it! and anyways..you've credited me with being "the really smart" one who writes 'eloquently'...so how could I take offence :-P

@balakrishnan
Thanks Daddu!! :-D

prithz said...

Hey that was a really cute post! June is one amazing time.. esp the first day.. all new stuff n waiting to discover who our new teachers are!! Damn! miss those days.. canteen la dat rs.5 kuchi icecream... remember v played cricket when both of our sections had games break at the same time! amazing it was!

Archun said...

@Prithz
hehe..yeah! that was so much fun...u were a sooper all-rounder..hehe!

Arthy said...
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Arthy said...

cho chweet! ur thots are soo simple, straight-forward n pleasant to read?! haha! u haven't changed one bit da! cmon ppl!

Archun said...

@Arthy
"What you see in others is a reflection of who you truly are" Need I say more? :-P