UNFORGETABLES

Here is my list of seven unforgettable moments from the last two years of schooling in reverse order of unforgetability

STAR WARS: I don’t know how many of you remember our first class with Hussain; on second thoughts I hope you don’t. He melodramatically drew a cube on the board and filled it to the brim with crap, metaphorically of course, about how we need hard work and imagination to excel in physics. That class is known to most as the ‘drawing class’. The point to all this is that there is no point to it. Meanwhile, one fine day in the seminar room that was our classroom next to the AVH, Hussain on one of his pravachans said something to Munjal, which I don’t know so we should all make our own assumptions. Kudos to Munjal for not taking crap from anyone even if it is an exotic four and a half feet tall Bangladeshi vampire as he told Hussain, in a polite manner, to stuff it. Hussain never taught us again that year, of course this was not the last we heard of him.

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: quite literally. Hussain left us in the able hands of Mr. Manoj Arora and we had a blast picking our ways through the various “okay”s, the fake accent, the coat that doubled up as the duster, the fact that ‘ I section jaise bante ja rahe hain aap” and who can forget the sunglasses (though he only wore them for a couple of days). This is the part where the empire strikes back, the empire is the general body of physics teachers and what they strike back is Munjal. Again I am not sure about the details but there was a duster (a real one and not the coat) and it was hurled without any provocation at Munjal. By this time it should be clear that Munjal sticks to his principles, this then gave rise to an entirely new theory of energy transfer in which energy is provided to organic life forms by beating the hell out of them. As can be imagined research is still on for the peaceful use of this new and groundbreaking technology.

OH CHINKY!!; Remember the classroom which had those four monitors strategically positioned. The ones in which we had the not so ‘smart class’ and usually just caught up on our nights sleep. On one of such classes our beloved Apoorv got slapped square in the face by Rishi Nagpal. Now I am the guy that tells you there are guys you can be hit by and then there are guys you can’t. Now that’s not quiet a guy you can’t be hit by, but it’s almost a guy you can’t be hit by. So I am going to make a fucking ruling on this right now, you don’t fucking get hit by him you understand. ã The Departed (for all those who didn’t get the joke in the heading watch Coupling)

RETURN OF THE SITH: It is a well known fact to every student of our class and to some unfortunate souls who just happen to pass by the classroom at the time, that when our beloved class teacher took a physics class the air suddenly felt heavier, the fans made a lot of noise and we moved close to the speed of light as could be seen by the fact that time seemed to move at an infinitesimally slow pace. To top it all what he usually said to us had little to do with the subject of physics as known to the rest of humanity and instead revolved around some obscure morals and eternally long doses of the CBSE V/S IIT debate. It was during one such ordeal that an unlikely hero emerged amongst us, though a reluctant one this hero with the power of Hercules and the truthfulness of Gandhi told Hussain and I quote “sir, aap lecture kyun de rahe ho?” Hussain being the man that he is said something and walked out, Apoorv being…well, Apoorv ran after him while the class took a few moments of contemplation and then laughed and laughed till they could laugh no more and then laughed some more. For providing the most entertaining physics class for two years all hail king CHINKY.


IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO IT’S A WINDOW: If I have been a little hazy about the incidents that I have mentioned previously, then let me admit I know almost nothing about this one and this line is written just so that the entry does not look really small. What I do know is that a 3 feet by 2 feet window fell of our third floor classroom to the ground and somehow Japjeet was blamed for it, need I say more. You are the best Mike.

RATHI (or Bhatnagar): The apple of our eye, our Greek goddess of everything and our computer teacher as well, though not many people paid any attention to that during her classes. Why should they? She was the hottest thing in the F-block. (My jurisdiction here is restricted to our block as I have been furnished numerous details about genetically modified super hot human beings walking around in the health block though it was my misfortune not to have personally inspected one of them for the betterment of science and humanity). The point here is that nothing that I write will ever be, in my own eyes, a befitting description of her, therefore I am not even going to try. Of course we never got to see her in the jeans and t-shirt we wanted her to wear to the picnic but it is safe to say that all the guys who had the pleasure of being present on karvachauth will take that image with them to their graves.

WWF: Reading this you probably get the feeling that all our classes except the physics one passed quite uneventfully. Well for the most part you would be right, but for one chemistry class when after a minute of teaching our teacher decided to unleash a number of rights and lefts on Rana that would have done Hulk Hogan proud. After some feeble protests, which were answered with more rights and lefts, Rana wisely decided to flee the scene. As this was an unprecedented event in all of human history nobody knew how to react so nobody did.