Tit-bits

College Curios No.1

As much as the college authorities try hard to restrict the brining of mobile phones to school, they seem not to succeed. The students are always one step ahead. Some really have to bring it to school, like me for instance – my mother will get a heart attack if I don’t call her up after reaching college. Julia, you know the entire history and mystery about this. Some bring it to show off the latest brand of mobile while others bring it to impress people of the opposite sex (however thick the idea seems to be). Others are phone addicts who cannot pass even one Lunch break without the use of their precious communication device. Whatever, is the reason, there seem to be plenty of mobiles floating around the college campus invisible to the prying eyes of the demonic teachers. Anyway, getting back to yesterday’s incident, there were rumours that our bags will be checked for any unwanted things that were there. So a student collected all the cell phones and kept it in his vehicle for safeguarding. Much to our disappointment, there was no inspection, but it tested the limits of our intelligence!

College Curios No. 2

The two most feared and probably hated teachers in the college are PNK and Major. DMR. The former is an English teacher whose very predictable dialogue goes like – “Is this you bloody grandfather’s property? You think you can do what you like …” followed by whatever sin you have committed. His presence in itself commands respect and fear and makes chattering girls and boys walk silently in a line until out of his sight. Recently, a friend of mine ended up being the guinea pig for his rage. He screamed at her for nothing else other than the horrendous crime of raising the decibel level in the over atmosphere by about 10 db, by slapping her flip-flops on the concrete steps. As we slinked away out of sight to save our skins, we could hear her sobs in the distance. Such is the tragedy of PNK. DMR enters with a very familiar line – “I’ll make your liver shiver.” Major. DMR does end up doing that to you. Thankfully, for me, he takes Bio. which I have not chosen. He picks random people from the class and takes down their names and says something like – Submit your NCC forms (National Cadet Corps) form or elss……… Surely DMR and PNK must be some distant cousins (they even look similar you know, with the beer paunch…)