Running through the walkway, pushing aside all
people on the way, banging on to one of my teachers and finally leaping forward
and ending up my best buddy’s arms… Hugging each other and jumping around,
creating our own form of dance and I thought.. Damn I could have used this one for
the choreography competition. YES!! we have topped it up with another first
position for the Indian music competition. That took us a step further to end
up in the current leading position for the rolling house trophy this year. Two
more results to go before we can sit back and relax.
Lunch time and we are anxious minds would not let
us swallow more than what is required to fill our tummies. We decided to check
out the stalls and play a game of ring-toss to calm ourselves. Jassim from the
house that finished second walks in and says, Okay girls, now play a
nice game and..let’s say the way we fair in this game would reflect our
respective house’s final positions. We’ll call it a match
At a time when you have exhausted yourselves of
all the competitions that you could possibly take part in, I found it extremely
annoying that he could come up with another one of all the days on Children’s
day. I decided to back out, but the forever high spirited lady that Shalu was, she
convinced me that we could do it at least for our house’s sake :P
Two rounds down and we were almost losing it.
Afraid that this might be the fate of our house as mentioned by his highness,
we started taking the game too seriously. We panicked over every lost throw, I
was back to chewing the very little millimeters of nails that were left after
the month long competitions.
Can I play for the two of
you?? Asked Sree.
No way, that way their
house would win over ours, snapped back Jassim.
Well that okay, look at them,
they look so miserable. They’re my friends and I wouldn’t mind if we lose out
on the house and as he stretched out his hands to
take the rings, he said something which sounded muffled and extremely distant…..
Have you submitted
your timecards yet???
Hello, do you hear
that?? Have you submitted your timecards yet??
And….I see myself staring down at a 17 inch
monitor, fingers over the keyboards, with my manager staring down at me from
the other end. I took me a minute and a half to gather myself and cook up a
story of deep concentration and complex logic and how I was trying hard to find
out the best way to implement it.
It happens Sigma, you
don’t have to make that up, any working day post a long weekend ought to be a
lazy day at work.. I understand.
Yeah you do understand that… but will you be able
to understand if I told you I was thinking about the innocent selfless friendships,
the healthy competitions and the ever wonderful companionship that once existed
in our lives?? The selfless mentors our genuinely concerned teachers who helped
us to be the person that we are today??
I miss them all on this Children’s day as I feel
thankful to my parents for granting me the opportunity to experience with all
these wonderful people in my life!
