sleepless in singapore!

its three one two AM local time and i am not sleepy... not just that i couldnt sleep... i lied in bed for around 2 hours then gave up trying! woke up to put on some music... then thought might as well check my mails and scraps etc etc.... had this orkut mail from one of my favourite school teachers... he had sent a mail saying he has uploaded some school pics in orkut.... sure enough i went to the album to checkthem out.... they were pics from treks and tours (an annual thingi in our school ) and some others from i think founders day andathletic meet and i think one was from childrens day celeb (because it was a teachers tug of war pic and i think we had that only during children's day... or was it teachers day... teacher's day we got to decorate our classes and play the teachers.... should be children's day not sure though) i was just transported back... to those days.... and those teachers.... none of my college professors rank as high as the school teachers in my list of favourites.... there was just something about school teachers.... may be i was just lucky... or may be its just that age.... when you believe your teachers are really up there on the pedestal..... i dont know... may be it was just about the teachers i got...
back to treks and tours.... standard 7 we wanted to go to Rohtang Pass... but Rohtang Pass was open to students of Standard 8 and above.... we didnt have that option.... but then we requested our teachers please sir please maam... and they gave in.... that was a nice trek we had.... one of the best thing about treks was we used to get to see a different side of our teachers... when they werent trying to school us all the time.... when they weren't teaching us .... not directly atleast... i believe we did learn to be wiser... or may be learn somethinga bout life... like in himachal while trekking ask any local where is xyz it is alway bas do kadam chaliye... or 15 minute chaliye... it will take u the full day.... like if u touch some wild plant that gives u itchiness... there will be another rt next to it which will cure u... though u can never find it.... but ask a local passing by and he will spot it rt on....
it was good talking to those shopkeepers... they would know tourists and students at that... talk nice,,... where we are from how we like it.... and then there was that comparing of on our trek we did this on our tour we did that right after the treks and tours.... just proving to your class mates you had better time than they did,... and i remember this particular song i had learnt while on the rohtang trek... surangni surangni.... suraangni ka maadu kanwaa... maadu maadu maadu surangni ka maadu... surangni ka maadu kanwa.... dont ask me what it means... i never knew... but the song we liked.... the nexty lines were english though....if u want to meet me darling done come at one... if u want to meet me darling dont come at one ... my father will be waiting with a double barrel gun.... i almost remeber the whole song as well as i remember (x+y )^2
not that school was all fun;... though i am not talking about the exams , that wasnt anything i dreaded because it was more a part of the routine... but there were other problems very much like today.... i had my fill of freinds and problems with freinds and everything.... when i look back... there are certain things i cant figure out why they happened to me... and whats worse there are certain things i cant figure out why i did..... but this particular thing very interesting i remember.... my last room mate and i were together in school... i think this particualar incident is when we were in standard 9 or 10 i cant remember.... it was the athletic meet time; she(Boks) and i were writing certificates (1. it meant we could sit in shadce and get free neembu paani; 2 we were both NOT good at anything remotely to do with sports or athletics) this +2 guy won in one of the events and we didnt know his name... i remember he was a kashmiri and a hostler... and we knew his first name not the last name... which we needed to know to put on the certificate... so we spot him and run after him and say excuse me.... whats your name.... that guy looks utterly confused and says why? Boks says "Personal Interest!!!!" u should have seen his face..... and his freind standing rt next to him was telling him yaar yeh certificate likhti hai... and that guy couldnt understand what is happening.... they way we laughed at it for days!!! whenever we spotted him!!!!! yeah the days were more fun than trouble.....
on second thoughts life is more fun than trouble... no wonder those days were tooo!!!!
i better sleep now my tummy is grumbling and there is nothing i can eat rt now...... on second thoughts i might go to the airport and get sth to eat ... anyway i have to go thr to recieve a frnd in the morning... but that is still 3 hours away... i think sleeping is a better option......