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Thanks to Good Friday, I have got an extended weekend from Friday to Sunday. I decided to make the best use of Friday by hearing to all my favorite songs from the past. I was hearing to Rang de Basanti which brought my fond TCS memories. Suddenly I wish I could rewind three years of my life and get back to January 2006 where I had some of the best days of life. So analytical I have become nowadays that I decided to take this thought a step further and think about 10 things I most miss in my life now. These are the things I cannot have now for various reasons. I have already said about my TCS training life, so here is the rest of the list. They have just been put in random order as it occurred in my mind.
Till my tenth grade, I spend almost all of my days at my maternal grand dad’s place. That home was really awesome with 11-12 tenants, all of them having kids of my age. The terrace was flanked by others’ from all the four sides so it was easy to gather the neighbors and have a gala time, all the time! My school used to get over at 2:15 A.M.; I will come home, eat my lunch hurriedly and then scoot to the terrace to play cricket with almost 10-12 kids. This happened every day, from 6th grade till 10th grade. I was very good at studies (then…he he) so my parents let me have my way. Really miss this now! Plus, how can I afford to go to the terrace nowadays; it has become darn hot!
I miss my school! Almost all of my closest friends have been my buddies since school days. I spent my entire schooling at Gill Adarsh, right from kinder garden till my 12th grade. That’s 14 years of my life! Have many many many fond memories in there. My first “first rank”, the sports meets, the slap from SV (Gill Adarsh folks know whom I am talking about), the lovely teachers who really cared about us, the white and blue uniform, the blue house belt and many more. Gosh, how I wish I could have just one day of my school days back. I wish I could have this one return to innocence.
Madhuri Dixit! What an actress!! What a grace. My first crush from the tinsel town! Given the fact that my second crush was Emma Watson, you can imagine how hard it has been for the sexy ladies to fill in her shoes. The movie industry is yet to find a suitable replacement for her. Miss you Madhuri!!
Backstreet boys! Really, I ain’t joking. Back street boys’ songs were my entry into coolness during my pre-teen school days. I was a style statement just to have “everybodyyyaaaa” on our lips. They were also the first English band/song/group I listened to. My school buddies will tell you that I made them never forget the “I want it that way” from the Millennium. Miss the 90’s pop! the bboys, boy zone, nsync, bryan adams, take that, five, 98 degrees, aqua, britney, 911..so many of them!
The good old cartoon network! This will be my daily dose of cartoons every day before. 6:30 A.M. The perils of Penelope 7:00 A.M: Dexter Laboratory 7:30 A.M Tom and Jerry show 8:00 Power puff girls. I will go to school at 8:30. Our school prayers start at 7:50, so I will be outside the gate till it gets over. Late comers gets spanking with wooden scales from the P.D masters (after 11th grade it became push-up’s as our sweet princi felt it was inappropriate to hit grown up boys) And at 6:00 PM: Jonny Bravo, 6:30: the Sylvester and Tweety mysteries and at 7:00 P.M, the Dexter Lab rerun. The channel has become so sucky now with all nonsensical stuff. There were some kick ass animated series before. The things that immediately come to mind are the batman: the animated series, Johnny Quest, captain planet etc. Ben 10 is ok now, but the quality has stooped to abysmal levels.
The Kick I got from online chat. Like most of the pre-teen people, I too got bitten by the internet bug. It was a style statement to have an e-mail address. The one who had a chat friend was the hero! Every day I used to chat, it cost some cool 50 bucks for one hour then. French tuition fees, physics tuition fees, chemistry tuition fees and whatever money we could gather were pooled so that we can afford to live this “lavish life style.” Balaji and Ashwath were my partners in crime. This mania continued till my second year in college. Most of the relationships were pretty much use and throw types, but some of them have stuck with me till now. After 2 years, I got onto yahoo chat last week, and my latest online “friend” is a “Sania” from Malaysia.
The cycle ride to school :)
The good ol’ video game. I have a 62k laptop now with 2GB RAM, 256MB Nvidia gforce 8600MGT graphics card with direct 10x enabled. But whatever games I play with it, the fun was nothing compared to the enjoyment I had with the Mario game in the console. Spent hours and days and weeks before that darn thing.
Adarsh Vidyalaya. The answer to all-boys Gill Adarsh school. Our arch nemesis. The lady devils. The beauties. The brains. The angels in skirts. Whatever you call them, they made our school days so memorable! The kick is gone now. Thank God for that, coz if it weren’t, it would be really creepy.
I hated my college. I really do. Ever since the first day I landed there, all I was expecting was for the last day to come. But the journey to college was the best thing ever. I used to commute by train. There are some 13-15 colleges in the same route, so all the trains from 6:50 A.M till 8:00 A.M from central station will be packed with college students. Had lotta great ideas, had lotta fights, had lotta burns and well, had a great time!
Wow! You know, when I finished writing this list, I feel really rejuvenated. What a journey it has been! Really awesome!! If you are reading this post, do put the things you miss the most now in the comments section. A word of advice from my experience; cherish your memories, but don’t try to live it again. Move forward with life for there are so many realms to conquer and make new memories, good memories.

Till my next post, Adios! Perhaps I will come up with a list of things that I am glad for going out of my life ;)