I MISS IT ALL :(

the lunch bags...the sitting in circles on the court and eating each others dabbas.

the giggling throughout periods reading stuff in the chit ur friend passed from the back bench

the playing ....the whole school pakda-pakdis..the red letters..the pole-poles....the lotangans

the running after the school bus...the 122 bus stops...the non-stop banter.. the JD lassis

the french classes...the homeworks...the sanjanas...the water glasses..the giggling

the cricket matches...the 85s and 86s....the pillow fights...the plays...the boy-cuts....

the slam book writing .. the snack hogging sessions just wen the teacher turns her back to the class

the green prayer books...the queues...the prayers...the prize distributions

the picnics... the puri-batata dabbas... the coke cans...the peppermints...the plastic bags...the volvos...the "aaja meri gaadi main baith jaas"

the kho-kho matches...the fights...the kabootars...the blisters....the cheering...the houses

the leaders...the panchayats...the charts..

the kaladalans....the elementaries and the intermediates...the Katkes.....the Shingres and the Potdars

the fun-fairs...the stalls...the cleaning sessions...the camps...the moms

the punishments...the badges.. the belts...

the Vande Matarams and the Janaganamanas.....the white canvas shoes...

the vada paavs n the red chutneys...

the teachers...the 'cooker chi shitties'.... the Ms. Bhasins, Bhatias, Pereiras,Pathaks, Pauls.......

the darjeelings...the empty-walkman listening sessions....the blasting sessions....the kajus and the fbds

the birthdays...the chocolates....the chocolate-packet carrying helpers

the elections...the prefect-plays....the practices

the lawns .. the attics...the trees...the mali-dadas...

and

SHANGRILA

Just another evening at 1726 C

Disclaimer : The following blog entry is expected to be taken in a very casual manner.. Hard feelings towards any person living or dead are highly intentional.

Characters ( in Alphabetical order )
Akshay Anantharaman
Abhishek Krishnan
Aditya BG
Bhavani Prasad Hegde
Geetha Janardhana
Sandeep Koratagere
Shruti Parkhe

( the following characters are not in the same physical space but they have a lot to do with the story.. so I consider them to be really important )
Sangeetha Ramaswamy
Sharanya Krishnan

P.S : if anyone thinks Sharanya and Abhishek are siblings.. you are wrong.. it's just that their dad's happen to have the same name


Scene 1 :
1726 C hall..
Sandeep facing the AC room wall working on his lap top...
BP sitting next to him facing the AC room with his new hi-tech headphones .. again "working" on his lap top ( working synonymous to gulti movies )
Geetha sitting down resting her back on the kitchen wall
Krishnan sitting on a chair facing Geetha with his lap top on an $8 table from wallmart
BG : sleeping in his room.. really tired after his day at COTY
AA sitting on the couch with his totally screwed up headphones trying to adjust the headphone wire so that he can hear something...

Shruti enters

Shruti : Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii everyone !!!!!!!!!! ( with a loud voice .. loud enough to disturb Johnny who is at his best on the floor above)

Everyone : Hi...( like they have 40 kg weights tied on their tongues)

Shruti: Ssup ppl!!! ( again loud enough but not enough to disturb Johnny (as "everyone's hi has pulled her mood down) )

Shruti puts her bag down and sits on the couch next to AA

Shruti : Wachooodoing akshu!!

Akshay : Nothing .. Just reading about the mating habits of African wild Asses, Hirolas , golden Moles and Elephant shrews in Somalia (says it sso casually, sso casually ...sso casually that he says it very casually )
(courtesy NC state punter-log and items)

Shruti : OKAY ( starts her laptop )

Everyone : (still in the exact same positions as described at the start of the scene )

Shruti : AA let's play text twist ( in her patent enthu style )

AA : chalo ( in a sing-a-song manner.. just like the bald principal in the movie khiladi .. here's the link : http://www.bharatmovies.com/hindi/video/Khiladi.htm )

Shruti and Akshay : (playing text-twist with full josh )

Everyone : ( still in the exact same position)

Akshay : Ok break time ( this is where my physically absent characters come into the picture) (AA chatting with Charles and Sangeetha )

Shruti : baaaaah !!!! my one and only 'sahara' for fun and "ping" there he goes. "( with no offense to Sangeetha and Sharanya .. I expect them to take this in the right sense which is "STOP CHATTING WITH AKSHAY WHEN I AM AT HIS PLACE " )

Shruti : (Starting to grumble in her usual way ) ey Waaaaad-isss-dizzzz...yuuuuuuuuu guys are sooooooooo boring yaaa.... let's do something fun noooo.... come let's watch a movie

Everyone : hmm ok.. which one ( this time they have 70 kg weights tied to their tongues )

Shruti : Anything man.. anything .. Akshu look for something online ... and start streaming

Akshay : ( in the same bald Khiladi principal style ) OK hain.. hindi ya english

Shruti : anything man .. just anything

Everyone : (back to being in the exact same positions as described earlier )

Dinner time !!!

Krishnan : (gets a call.. not in the house anymore )
Everyone (including me ) : (eating some really good food.. has to be sambhar rice and chips )

Geetha: I am so full now .. I think I am off to bed

BG: (barely managing to open his eyes after the power nap) done with food now ... chumma go in.. sit in front of the lap top .. watch MB and go off to sleep .. goodnight everyone

Everyone : Nite ( by now the tongues have broken bcoz of the heavy weights attached to them all this while .. and eating food has made it worse )

1 hour later....
Krishnan returns.. eats his dinner like a baby.. which includes being absolutely silent , chewing every single morsel 32 times and dreaming about god knows whom.

Shruti : (totally frustrated...almost on the verge of pulling her hair out .. thoughts of pulling out akshay's hair cross her mind but looking at his receding hairline she lets go ... pulling out geetha's hair is another thought that crosses her mind as she is the first person to go off to bed .. but the length of her hair intimidates shru's thoughts.)

Shruti : Bye everyone

Everyone : Going huh... OK ( in a voice that I can just about hear...I think it happens with age that people start losing their hearing ability .. or it's just that "Everyone" needs voice modulation and public speaking classes )

Shruti : Bye everyone ( with a sad tone .. hoping at least one person will ask her to stay back and say let's do something fun ... going towards the door taking backward steps)

Everyone : BYE