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    NOSTALGIA - What do you miss most....

    Gone are the days!!!


    When

    The school reopened in June,

    And we settled in our new desks and

    benches!


    When we queued up in book depot,

    And got our new books and notes!


    When we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays,
    Yet managed to line up daily for the morning prayers.

    We learnt writing with slates and pencils, and

    Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips!


    When we began drawing with crayons and evolved to

    Color pencils and finally sketch pens!


    When we started calculating

    first with tables and then with

    Clarke's tables and advanced to

    Calculators and computers!


    When we chased one another in the

    corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms

    Drenched in sweat!


    When we had lunch in classrooms, corridors,

    Playgrounds,

    under the trees and even in cycle sheds!


    When all the colors in the world,

    Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays!


    When a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,

    Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons!


    When cricket was played with writing pads as bats,

    And Neckties and socks rolled into balls!


    When few played

    "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,

    While others simply played

    "book cricket" in the

    Confines of classroom!


    Of fights but no conspiracies,

    Of Competitions but seldom jealousy!


    When we used to

    watch Live Cricket telecast,

    In the opposite house in Intervals and Lunch breaks!


    When few rushed at 3:45 to

    "Conquer" window seats in our School bus!

    While few others had "Big Fun", "peppermint",

    "kulfi", " milk ice !" and "sharbat !" at 4o Clock!

    Gone are the days

    Of Sports Day,

    and the annual School Day ,

    And the one-month long

    preparations for them.


    Gone are the days

    Of the stressful Quarterly,

    Half Yearly and Annual Exams, And the most

    enjoyed holidays after them!


    Gone are the days

    Of tenth and twelfth standards, when

    We Spent almost the whole year writing revision tests!

    We learnt,

    We enjoyed,

    We played,

    We won,

    We lost,

    We laughed,

    We cried,

    We fought,

    We thought.

    With so much fun in them, so many friends,

    So much experience, all this and more!


    Gone are the days

    When we used

    to talk for hours with our friends!

    Now we don't have time to say a 'Hi'!


    Gone are the days

    When we played games on the road!

    Now we

    Code on the road with laptop!


    Gone are the days

    When we saw stars

    Shining at Night!

    Now we see stars when our code doesn't

    Work!


    Gone are the days

    When we sat to chat with Friends on grounds!

    Now we chat in chat rooms.....!


    Gone are the days

    Where we

    studied just to pass!

    Now we study to save our job!

    Gone are the days

    Where we had no money in our pockets and still fun filled on our hearts!!

    Now we have the atm as well as credit card but with an empty heart!!

    Gone are the days

    Where we shouted on the road!

    Now we don't shout even at home

    Gone are the days

    Where we got lectures from all!

    Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....!!

    Gone are the days

    But not the memories, which will be

    Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and

    Ever and ever and ever .....


    Gone are the Days…. But still there are lot more Days to come in our Life!!

    NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE ,

    DONT FORGET TO

    LIVE THE LIFE THAT STILL

    EXISTS….
    Never argue with a fool or he will drag you down to his level and beat you at it through sheer experience!

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    kavidhai... kavidhai...


    u summed it all... and i could related to each and every one of it...

    the best among ur writeups i hav seen....
    Sach is Life..

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    SS- You really think NOV wrote this?
    Your attitude determines your altitude!

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    Quote Originally Posted by scorpio View Post
    SS- You really think NOV wrote this?
    Maami appadi podunga aruvava !
    Om Namaste astu Bhagavan Vishveshvaraya Mahadevaya Triambakaya Tripurantakaya Trikalagni kalaya kalagnirudraya Neelakanthaya Mrutyunjayaya Sarveshvaraya Sadashivaya Shriman Mahadevaya Namah Om Namah Shivaye Om Om Namah Shivaye Om Om Namah Shivaye

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    naan apdi thaan nenachen.
    Sach is Life..

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    Live Cricket telecast-nullAm varudhE appOvE ushAr Agi iruka vENAvA Softie? NOV putbol dhAne pArpAr?

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    adhu mattumalla.... that whole thing is very TN based.....received in mail.

    I too have lots of nostalgia... hmmmmm.... oru naal ezhudhanum
    Never argue with a fool or he will drag you down to his level and beat you at it through sheer experience!

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    sharbat at 4O clock indicates north indies writer NOV - not a TN person

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    oh.... but vadivEl seems to identify with it.

    the following piece is fairly accurate for malaysians......

    First, we survived with mothers who had no maids.
    They cooked/ cleaned while taking care of us at the same time.
    They took aspirin, candy floss, fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrup and diabetes was rare.
    Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever.
    We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
    As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
    Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.
    We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.
    We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us.
    We go into the jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.
    With mere 5 pebbles (stones), it would be an endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best), we boys would run like crazy for hours.
    We catch guppies in drains/canals and when it rains, we swim there.
    We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually worried about being unhygenic.
    We ate salty, very sweet and oily food, candies, bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft drinks, sweet coffee/tea, ice kacang, but we weren't overweight
    because... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
    We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till the streetlights came on.
    No one was able to reach us all day. And we don't have handphones to bug us. And we were O.K. and we were safe.
    We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
    We did not have Playstations, X-boxes, Nintendo's, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet.
    WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
    We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.
    We never had birthday parties till we are 21.
    We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!
    The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
    Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
    The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
    We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
    HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
    And YOU are one of them!
    CONGRATULATIONS!
    You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good.
    And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
    Never argue with a fool or he will drag you down to his level and beat you at it through sheer experience!

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    oh.... but vadivEl seems to identify with it.

    the following piece is fairly accurate for malaysians......

    First, we survived with mothers who had no maids.
    They cooked/ cleaned while taking care of us at the same time.
    They took aspirin, candy floss, fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrup and diabetes was rare.
    Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever.
    We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
    As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
    Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.
    We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.
    We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us.
    We go into the jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.
    With mere 5 pebbles (stones), it would be an endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best), we boys would run like crazy for hours.
    We catch guppies in drains/canals and when it rains, we swim there.
    We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually worried about being unhygenic.
    We ate salty, very sweet and oily food, candies, bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft drinks, sweet coffee/tea, ice kacang, but we weren't overweight
    because... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
    We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till the streetlights came on.
    No one was able to reach us all day. And we don't have handphones to bug us. And we were O.K. and we were safe.
    We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
    We did not have Playstations, X-boxes, Nintendo's, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet.
    WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
    We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.
    We never had birthday parties till we are 21.
    We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!
    The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
    Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
    The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
    We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
    HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
    And YOU are one of them!
    CONGRATULATIONS!
    You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good.
    And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
    Never argue with a fool or he will drag you down to his level and beat you at it through sheer experience!

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