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For the first rank

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Room-la fan sadhi panni erichala irukkarchey ezhudinadhu.... epdi irukumo therila! :PSwati and Sathya were competitors. For everything. For the first rank in the whole of class two. For being the overall sports champion. For being the one teachers call to work out the math sum’s answer on the board. Being the first to finish eating lunch. Or the first to finish the test. In short, everything.Sathya, short for Sathyakumar, was one jealous boy. Every point Swati scored against him left him fuming. ...

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So what now?!

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A week of so much work, I can’t believe it. Last week was our recess, and it’s really sad when I realise it’s over even before I realised it had begun. And here I am, on the Sunday of what I expect to be a terrifying week, wondering what to do despite the work that has been loaded up, with presentations, mid term exams, et al.What takes my disgust to its peak is the fan in my room…within a week it has seemed to have become miraculously slow! Damn you, you crazy fan….it’s surprising that less than ...

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Success.... AT LAST!

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Yeah, at last....I won the expert round for the first time in my life!!!!!And yeah, laugh all you want - I don't care! ...

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Lab travails

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It was the day of the class X biology board practical exam. The last ever biology-related experiment I had to do was nearing. I was delighted – biology and I never really went together.I had broken innumerable number of cover slips (isn’t that what they’re called? I’m confused!!), test tubes, dropped drops of the pink reagent on my classmates’ white, white kurtas, etc. I was never successful in placing the cover slip on the mounting without air bubbles. Best was the whole hungama with the dissection ...

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Cupid's day out

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Yipppeee..it’s Valentines’ day!!! It’s the best day in the whole year…the most beautiful one, the one specially dedicated for those in love by a saint who actually laid his life for the sake of love…this precious is love!Try as I might, I’m unable to go on with this gibberish. Yeah, it’s Valentines’ day. SO??? My college campus is studded with heart shaped things wherever I go; boy, oh boy, it’s irritating! A simple day being exaggerated beyond limits. Things are hyped as it is here, and now there ...

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Life is beautiful….

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It is, when....**A cool breeze swept over my face and blew my tresses backward**A vanilla cone ice cream was in my hand when the slight drizzle was accompanied by a heavenly, pleasant breeze.**The time for a much-awaited break is just a week away!!!**I feel highly optimistic even when the workload looks just terrible, bogging me down**I stayed awake for 24 ½ hours at a stretch – a feat I never thought I’d be capable of. I survived through some gruelling hours, and I’m delighted!**As I returned ...

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The crisp note

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(Piece of fiction written when I was almost dying in absolute boredom, sort of in stealth, when I was supposed to be doing something else. ;) Talk about defying rules of organizations!)I touched the note. It was new, crisp, and unlike the older ones, soft. The $2 note was a work of art, really. A transparent portion in the corner, so soft and slippery, the crispness by virtue of it being new. I laughed at myself for getting lost in admiration for a $2 note.The new Singaporean $2 note was good, ...

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To get it out

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“You know, I said ‘to go’ and they just stared back at me…I was thinking what the f*** is wrong with these stupid Indian stall guys…then Rags said I should say ‘parcel’..God, things are way different in America, man!” said Sriram, or SR, as he now called himself, with his initials.SR has just come down to India after three years in the USA for a two-week long vacation. He’s my cousin, close one at that. And like almost anyone else who’s been to the USA, he was normal before he left. And now I just ...

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What a week!!

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It’s been a highly eventful week. Starting last Saturday, till yesterday, was filled with fun, work, and some new surprises too.The last weekend had been a long one – four days off from Saturday to Tuesday for Chinese New Year. Therefore, four of us set out on Saturday to China Town here to look at the Chinese New Year decorations there. Two of us were Indians, and the other two Singaporean Chinese. Thanks to these two, who were really patient to answer all my ‘What’s this? Why is it like this’ ...

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War and death

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I doubt if I have transferred all the seriousness, irritation and desperation that I had when writing this post; maybe it’s good if it hasn’t.For the past four weeks, almost ever since school started again, I’ve been reading only these in a particular subject: genocides, terrorism and war. Death, death and more death. It leaves me stunned, stumped for words.We watched gory videos of The Holocaust that happened during WWII. I watched, in utter horror, as Hitler went about killing millions of people, ...

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