Tea time in school...
Tea time in school...
Tea time was after sports. We played hard six days a week for over one hour. And even if was raining or freezing. So food was important [indeed the most important thing I can remember]
To provide us with adequate nourishment, the school provided us at tea time with –
A bun and two biscuits or
Four biscuits or
Upma [a sort of hardish salty porridge]
Poha, beaten rice [quantity was about 22 grams]
Peanuts [I’m not kidding –22 grams of peanuts, nothing else]
And tea with the consistency of hot water with a tinge of sepia [slightly sweet].
We therefore behaved liked wild animals who were permanently starved.
Some of us patient chaps [cause it was coooold and we were in shorts and t shirt at tea time] waited for everyone to leave so that we can have the remains of the tea. Which we literally inhaled. It was hot and… well. It was hot. That was all that mattered.
be happy, be simple, walk lightly, sing sweetly... be who u are... wat else can there be!!!
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random stories of BMS :) the fart~~~
RANDOM STORIES AND INCIDENTS…
BMS had excursions yearly. For one week each year, we would all pack our bags and go to a nice destination, mostly it was a beach [or was it always] kovalam, pondy, goa, mangalore and suchlike.
One year we went to Mangalore – I think it was 1989 or 90. And each group was further divided into boys who were ‘responsible’ and boys who needed to be looked after [girls were divided in much the same way, but without the quotes ]
I was in a group consisting of rahul, pritam and kamlesh and I was by total mistake, accorded the ‘responsible’ tag.
Kamlesh and I were the best of friends and we often went out shopping together. One day after finishing shopping [we were given the princely sum of rupees 20 for the whole week! And we made that last ]
We came back to find ourselves staring at a curious sight.
Pritam was in his white underwear [chaddis as we called them] and sort of spread eagle, and rahul was sniffing what looked like pritams crotch… [HAHAHAHA]…
Unable to guess at just what was going on… we said… ‘Err… maybe we should come later … rahul said, no don’t do that. Why don’t u smell if Pritam has farted!!!
I said, ‘WHAT? ‘ . Rahul said. Pritam has farter and denies it. So I am smelling his bum to prove he farted. Kamlesh said’ there r only two of u in this room, shouldn’t that be easy to guess who farted?’ And we burst out laughing
be happy, be simple, walk lightly, sing sweetly... be who u are... wat else can there be!!!
Labels: the real school of magic
