Thought of skipping my post today. But, somehow ended up reading one of my post from 2011 about boys trying to impress girls. Can't just stop laughing about it.
It's so much fun. I wish I could go back and relive those school and college days again.
So, let me write something about my college after 10th. My college Christ college Cuttack. It was one of the oldest and my father was posted at Chandi Chhack branch that time. I got a seat in Sailabala women's college but he was not in favour of all girls college. May be he heard some news about girls college students so he didn't let me go there.
It was a big strength in my class. I don't remember the strength of my class exactly. But, our practical group was divided into 30 students each. We were 4 girls in my practical group. Jolly Alexander, Phebin Thomas, Shubhra Mandal and myself. From my school we had Devendra in our group too. Other boys I don't remember any of their names.
Can't forget cutting that earthworm, frog and all in my Zoology lab. Everytime Devendra had to sit just opposite of me. And he was very friendly to all four of us and would call us Bhehen as if other guys would link him with us if he didn't do that. 😂
Botany department in Christ was the best in Cuttack. And so were our lecturers. They used to share funny incidents by students. One of them that I can never forget is , the lecture said, " once there was a question on rice in Botany exam" and a student wrote, "Monkeys climb on rice tree and throw rice down." 😂 Wow how wonderful was that answer. Then once we had to do some experiment on fig. The lecture asked, "Have you seen fig flower?" None of us had seen it. He said there is a proverb in Odia, " Dimri phoola jiye dekhila seyi Dina siye marila" then he explained the flowers are inside its fruit. Only after coming to South India I saw Anjeer and realised we don't know that we can eat it's fruit and make dry fruits out of it.
There are several memories from physics and chemistry labs too. But, let's now go back to our friendship memories. We used to go to Cambridge school to buy popsicles from its canteen. Sometimes we would go to shops infront of SB women's if we didn't had breakfast. After classes we used to enjoy golas as the gola wala would come inside our campus. Jolly and Phebin lived in Buxi bazar and Shubhra near to Chandni Chowk. I used to come from CDA. In those days I used to be very thin like my mom.
Once, I met with an accident just infront of my collage gate with a fellow classmate. That guy's name I forgot and he rushed towards me in wrong direction in his bicycle and I was in my scooty. That fellow told me you don't know how to ride then why are you bringing scooty. I also told him who is in wrong side of the road, is it you or me? I applied break but you are in high speed what do I do? And then I let it be. Just pulled my scooty and this fellow was doing drama as if he was having hard time pulling up his cycle. He was a handsome guy with lots of attitude and had a very good name something like Aryan. I couldn't believe his nautanki picking up his cycle. 😂😂
Both Jolly and Phebin had invited us to their homes on their birthdays. It was so good to have Malayali food back then. Though now Jolly is in Cuttack she is not in any of the social media. Got to know that she took lost her Dad at the same time as I did from other common friend. Phebin lost her dad much earlier than I did. Phebin and I connect over FB and Shubhra was also there in FB but now doesn't seem to be active. Sometimes I feel so good to see my old friends. To see them reaching full potential in their respective careers. Just like Phebin and Joyce in their career as nurses or Shubhra getting her PHD in marketing.
Just because I went to so many schools, I have friends in many different career paths. Back then our parents didn't had so much exposure to career choices, which comes so easily due to internet and through our spread of network over social media. It's a blessing is not it??
Last year or in 2022, I took my son to Christ college and showed him around. It was afternoon and college was empty. Clicked a few pics near that Gandhi statue. And relieved the memories of galleries and our practical labs.
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