Secondary school musings

As a kid going to school, I was always excited to show off the expensive stationery that my uncles gifted me. I would carefully pack them in my school bag and carry them to school. During the third or fourth day the items would get stolen by my classmates.  Not knowing who the culprit was I would go home and complain my dad that these were lost.

One day I visited my friend's house and to my surprise I found all my favourite stationery which were lost. On questioning her - she claimed it was her's . Next to her house resided our social studies teacher RB. RB found me questioning my classmates' parents and asked me to shut up mentioning her parents wouldn't lie.

Since I was surrounded by her parents and my teacher who were supporting my classmate I could do nothing much about it and returned home. On narrating the entire episode, my uncles and  dad asked me to ignore the matter saying that she would get punished by God when the time comes.

As a student this episode left me with many open questions which are unanswered even now.

1. How can my classmate be raised with the stealing habit?

2. Why would her parents support her even though the mistake was on their side?

3. What a bad example of a teacher RB was when she didn't correct my classmate? And on top of that asked me to shut up.

4. Shouldn't my teacher stand by my side to question the wrongdoings of my friend?

5. Why did my dad and uncle ask me to ignore the matter?

6. Were my dad n uncles teaching me to choose the battles wisely?

7. When I was raised with values and virtues of honesty why didn't my dad and uncles stand by my side in pursuing the fight?

8. Did my friend learn that stealing is bad at least now?

9. Did she get the punishment she deserved at least now?

10. What should I teach the next generation on how to deal with such a situation?

11. My classmate is in a WhatsApp group. Can I question her now? 😂😂😂

What made me love Bahubali2?

Is it the introduction in which he shatters the doors to makes way for his mum by pulling the "Ratham" ? Is it the perfect posture of standing on an elephant and releasing the arrow ? Is it the giant powerful man bounded by a mother's affection who takes rest in his mother's lap ? Is it that loving son who takes his mother for a ride on a chariot ? Is it the swordsmanship with which he kills 3 guys with just one thrust of a sword , pulls it out of their body , twists and slashes into other set of soldiers?

Is it the support of "Pancha-Bhoothas" for waging the wars ?
1. Support of fire for waging the Kalakeya war
2. Support of lightning from sky to save Kattappa
3. Support of water to wash away Pindaris like ants in Kunthala
4. Support of Vayu(air) from Palm trees to enter the palace
5. Or breaking the land beneath Bhalla's statue, thereby seeking earth's support ?

Is it that wonderful gentleman who lets his wife walk over his shoulders to enter the boat ? Is it that great man who keeps calm and trust's his partner's capability in archery and teaches her to release 3 arrows in one shot during war? Is it that great husband who chops off the head of a Commander for trying to grope women? Is it that man of "Dharma" who never fails to stay on the side of Dharma even at the cost of opposing his mother?

Or is it the fall of a "head-greedy for throne" ending up shattered along the perennial waterfall, which the deserving character climbs?

When everyone treats a scene as a dot - This man did it differently by viewing it as a collection of 24 Frames. He created an epic by making each Frame speak for itself.

HatsOff to your thoughts and picturization Rajamouli. You have created a page for yourself by creating history.

#Bahubali2 #OutOfWordsToExpressTheGreatnessOfTheFilm.

Respect!

When I first landed in Bangalore, I was stunned by the generosity of the people. They had a such welcoming heart and they were so friendly, that one of my friends considered me as his own sister and started introducing me to his family members as his little sister. It takes a lot to accept some outsider as your family member. He gave me a family in Bangalore that I could visit anytime. The million dollar question here is .. "What did he lose by doing so?".. I'll leave it to others to think of the answer

Next, coming to the attitude of these B'lore guys, I've seen few of my friends addressing the auto drivers , watchman etc by calling them "Sir" .. When I asked them why, their answer wasn't an expected one - "These people( with low cadre jobs as we see in India) would not be respected, they will not be respected by their profession or age. So, we can be kind to them by respecting them." 

This made me ponder on these lines "What on earth will we lose by respecting our fellow human being ? Literally nothing! What is wrong in thanking the auto driver for driving us home ? Of course, he just did his job. But he drove us safely to our destination. Isn't that enough for us to thank him ?"

As days passed, I landed in UK for my first onsite. I had to spend the initial days setting up the application and one of my colleagues helped us extensively in that aspect. I had few doubts regarding the application setup and when I went to his place - I found a note which read - "Don't treat a person as a resource". This came as a slap to me because I  was one who always had the mindset that "Only toppers are eligible friends to me and only top performers are eligible colleagues to me" . The same question again "What will I lose by respecting a person?"

To be continued ...

Airlift review

One of my friends recently tweeted... "Are Air India flights the only ones that get affected by weather? Why are they delayed often ?".... I was on the same lines .. I keep telling my friends - " If it's AirIndia, then a delay is guaranteed ".. Such a sad state of affairs... But for those who are on the same boat as mine, watch Airlift. You'll start to respect AirIndia. Suddenly the patriotism in you is awaken, the love for India surfaces, empathy rises and your whole perspective towards our state of affairs definitely changes.
Good movie. Worth a watch.

Wazir Review

An intricately written plot that transforms an Amateur to Expert by sheer Breakthrough. Well enacted by the cast. "Khel khel mein, khel khel ke, khel khel yeh aa jayega ... haar jeet se, haar jeet ke, jeet haar sikhayega ... khel khel mein". Good movie. Worth the watch.

Khel Kheliyega smile emoticon

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Haunt ends with Hunt!!

There is this funny scary incident that happened today in my room. It starts off like this... At 2:30AM today, my roomy Spurthi (Spoo) starts screaming all of a sudden asking me to turn on the light. Taken away by fear being awakened all of a sudden, at that point of time, I managed to grope for the switches n finally turned it on. 

Here I go flabbergasted finding a tiny-winy rat jumping off my roomy's bed. My roomy asks me "What's making u surprised?". I said "I found rat under the table", deciding not to tell her the truth so as not to scare this girl. Despite me telling this lie, she was so scared, the reason being she felt the rat walking over her blanket when she was asleep.

Now I manage to scare the rat out of the room & I bolted the door. After 30 mins or so I felt something walking over my back too & woke up screaming. Then I felt, it was more of hallucination than reality. So I got back to bed, trying my level best to sleep. After 30 mins again I hear my roomy shouting "I hear some murmurs. Letz turn on d light n sleep". I was like "Don't worry Spoo, probably u r just imagining..Sleep now!!". I wrapped myself in the quilt n managed to try sleeping.

Exactly, half an hour later, Spoo finds the rat jumping off my bed. She gets so frustrated that she decides to kill the rat. She tells me "I'm gonna kill this rat now." She seriously went out of the room n brought a broom-stick with all the grit n determination to kill this stupid rat that was pestering us soo much. N now, I sit shivering on the bed  Finally, my roomy killed the rat abusing it for not letting her sleep peacefully, n the story ends with her throwing the dead rat on the gate of our opposite house. ROFL 

Moral of the story: Silent people may become violent all of a sudden. Nobody is predicatable!

U r no longer "Johny Bravo" Spoo... U r "Spurthy Bravo"    

Same story on FB with funny comments :-D