good old (actually very old) days

Once upon a time (it is suitable to start with this phrase because one it is a long time ago and two it is about the time i believed in the once upon a time stories!!! ) i was in a school...
Today i was reading the school website... i was shocked to see the changes... well not really shocked... that's too strong a word.... lets say reading about the school that is today made my heart skip a beat or two... it was like a link being broken because the school's changed so much!
School starts earlier now.. at 8.20 (5 minutes earlier than 8.25 of our times) the lectures are longer (40 min each as opposed to the 35 min lectures in our time)... the assembly is not the same any more either (though i should be very happy about it... i remember all that feigning fainting in summers to skip the assembly!) it seems they have the normal assembly only 2 days a week... actually looking at the schedule it seems Sat is off now (our time we had full day 8.25 to 4 mon-fri and 8.25 to 1 on alt sat)which would explain the slightly longer hours (8.20 to 4.20) and the smaller assembly....
reading the website took me to those days (obviously!) the days of assembly followed by 3 lectures followed by fruit break (coconut biscuits monday; banana tuesday,thurs and sat; glucose biscuits wed and fri; banana was replaced by orange in winters) followed by 4 lectures followed by lunch at 1:10 (friday kadhi wednesday rajmah one day was sambhar... thurs was most likely chana... though i am forgetting) followed by prep and games....
Every now and then we were lectured in the assembly because the noise levels in the mess were becoming "louder than expected" we would be warned to talk only to the person sitting on your right and left and not those sitting across the table! Followed by this "outburst" from the principal would be a re-arrangement of seats (we used to sit house wise in mess) which would mean boy boy girl boy boy girl boy boy formation... where the 3 (boy boy girl) would be from different classes... i think the noise levels were contained only for a day or two after which it was back to sitting with your class mates or making good enough friends with the person next to u to be able to talk all the while!
Talking in prep was another problem... prep as you might know is meant for "self studies" and despite my school being filled with very very very naughty kids prep time everyone was really silent.... the lecture time was noisier than the prep time... i don't know how the teachers managed it... but they managed to keep us very quiet! it was as close to pin drop silence as "studently" possible... you could actually hear someone walking in the other end of the corridor!
and talking/communicating in this silence without making noise was a feat we would often accomplish!!!
back in school in 9th for sure (dont remember about 8th and 10th) i was responsible for taking attendance... it was kind of a rule that if u miss school you were to get a signed (by parent/ guardian) application the next day if not on the day you are absent... which meant all the students who "forgot" to get it would make me write this application!!! Our class teacher once asked me "you are a guardian to how many of your classmates?!!" it was a conversational tone and not an accusatory or scolding tone!! She is a very nice lady... knew the secrets of almost all her students... some which their best friends didn't know either!
Then their was this Physics prof... not many people liked him... i did though... his fav punishment would be "Frog Jumps in the corridor" it would be fun to watch ;-)
our maths' prof's fav was hitting any student not paying attention with a chalk! (he was the fav teacher of most of the students.. and a very very solid crush of many too!!)
and "Bakra" used to sit in the lab... and his room in the lab used to be called "torture room"... i am yet to meet a student who liked him!!! i remember one of my classmates was called to the room and probably lectured (you couldn't hit students in our school) she came back really sad and all of us said... full sympathies with you... she starts grinning and says i am happy now... i am so rich in sympathies!!!!
seems like this narration is going no where and is fit to be in my diary and not a blog!!
but anyway since i have typed so much and this might remind you of your school days and the first crushes it can be left here!!