(Visualise while you read it!!!)
Filmed Date : 03rd July 2008
Venue : XII std Class room(2000 batch), My School
Description of the room : Two entrances towards the east, with three columns of benches with five rows facing North.
Video Camera Position : Third column 2nd last row facing the entrance, placed low on the sitting bench.
Situation : Im walking into my XIIth std class room with a denim jean and a white shirt thru the entrance with the sun rays behind me at 9 in the morning where my face is not visible but you could trace out that someone is walking in.
I come closer to the camera and sits right beside it, and now the camera faces me, the entrances and ofcourse the mild sun rays behind me.....All set...So here i start to speak.....
"The last time i have had a view at this unforgettable place was some eight years back. This 200 sq foot place has seen many of us laughing our heart out, it has seen few of us fighting for some easily negotiable issues, this place has seen love, this very place has projected our long lasting friendship....and we havnt disappointed its dream!!!"
They always say that "guys who sits in the last row were always mischevious"guess the person who said was one....cos he has rightly pointed out that.....WE WERE ONE!!! Thats the row..(camera turns towards the direction my hand was pointing)
(camera turns back to my face)What different story which i may probably say which has not happened in many of your XII std life....hmmm...may be i might say!!! or i may not.....but im sure that you will be interested in knowing what happened in our class in those 200 plus days!!...well, whether you are interested or not....im keen on penning it down....cos it takes me back to "Down Memory Lane".
(giggles)Whenever i think of something which happened in this very same class.. i dont forget to laugh or atleast a smile visits my face. For example this incident.. when one of my friend got slapped by our Accounts sir with his strong left hand for asking a stupid question "How many zeroes are there in 1 lakh???"he thought of pulling our sirs leg...but eventually he happened to be at the receiving end...cos the next glimpse which i saw was, my friend havin his right cheek covered with his palm!!!!!and i saw the whole of last bench laughing under the table!!Im One among that!!
How could we forget this incident, Once the whole class was shouting like one share market during our commerce class, and our commerce sir was busily writing something on the board...everyone was talking to everyone... and it was total chaos...Suddenly one of my bench mate stood up and said"Enna da edukaran ivan?? onnum puriya maatengudhu!!!"...unfortunately for my buddy...the time he said that and the silence in the class room fell at the exact moment ..coincidentally!!!.... whole class turned upto him and he was standing with his hands facing towards the board!!!unfortunately for him...even our commerce sir heard it!!! and my friend GOT IT!!!!we tried to restrain ourself from laughing......but couldnt!! :)
How could a higher secondary guy possibly get into the public exams before falling for an infactuation!!! tough aint it!! our class wasnt an exception...infact... i was not an exception!!! even i got caught!!!!....there is a funny saying...hmm i dont know who said that....but im telling you all "Do not believe when others speak for others"....hmmm....i guess u ppl didnt understand...OK...let me tell u my case, I fell in infactuation with one of the girl in my class... when one of my friend came and told me that..."dey why didnt u come yesterday??? she was asking me what happened to you??"isnt that enuf for a guy to fall for a girl?? at that age!!!! took sometime for me to realise that it was just an infactuation!!! hard to realise though...(by nodding the head towards the first row)Thats the place where she use to sit(camera focussing to the first row)
hahaha.....A guy being slapped by a girl ??? hmmmm...not in the literal meaning...but yeah....By some strong words!!!! " I DONT LOVE YOU.... I LOVE HIM "...hahahaha...strong enough???
( I get up from the place where i was sitting and i start to move around the class....but the camera remains seated in the same row...but focusses wherever i go)
This is the blackboard where one of my friend drew a buffalo's face and narrated my name next to it!!! and this is where we write the names of the person who talks during a free period ...haha...kiddish!!! aint it??
Well we keep our lunch bags here....and i still remember the way one of my friend use to have his lunch....well i would say our lunch!!!hope u all get wat i said....a five star menu or a beggars food decoration wil loose fight against his!!!
When i stand here in front of the class.. I can see myself sitting in the last bench from where i use to look at the first row where my crush was sitting and to the girl sitting to my right who considered i was her crush!!!well..it happens U C.... I can still feel the soul of our batch revolving around here.... the noise, the laughter, the fear of exams, the brilliant answers we gave, the stupidest questions that some one could possibly ask, the compass carved benches, those adolescent faces, thoughts, the talks to impress girls, the heroism, the slaps, arguements, the crush, the failures, the fun...the list just goes on and on and on...
You tend to get overwhelmed when you always go back to your "Down Memory Lane"...and i guess thats something which people would like to treasure until they bid adieu...
(Complete Silence in the class room and i jus look around the class with the hands on my hips)
(I Turn towards the first exit door and start walking towards it)with few thoughts in my mind....." I wish.... I Seriously Wish...I Could Go Back To Those Days Again "
(And then i disappear from the class and the camera gets blurred)
