it was way back in 1997...
it was a pretty normal evening...the sun has enough time to go to the other side of the world...
we were playing cricket...
i was very bad with the bat and now i had the ball in my hands...
final over of the match...3 balls to go...3 runs to win...sekhar is the batsman...he isn’t a good batsman...but 3 runs wouldn’t be so tough for him (coz, I’m the one bowling n d boundary isn’t far)...
my captain feel that we should win every match and a loss would be a great disappointment for him(i never know if he was so disappointed when he failed to clear his class 10 exams)
and here i go...to bowl the fourth ball of the final over of the match...the ball pitches on middle and leg and brushes the batsman’s pants and into keepers hands...
my captain rushes to suggest me(he loves giving suggestions for everyone, every time) to bowl on the offside of the wicket coz the leg side wide would cost us one run...
and then comes the 5th ball of the over...
i bowled it short of length...
and sekhar swung his bat with lots of energy...
and thank god...he missed it...huhh...
i could see my captain staring at me...but dint even think of caring for his looks and went
back to my run up...
last ball of the match...i thought i had done it for my team...
here i go to bowl the final ball of the match...
once again i pitched it short, but this time around in the line of leg stump and once again
sekhar swings the bat and once again missed it...
but...
it was given wide on the leg side...(i had this bad habit of bowling wides)
now its just 2 runs from one ball...my captain rushed to me...giving lots of suggestions and very tensed...(as if he was the captain of an Indian team playing with Pakistan in the finals of a world cup match)
huhh...
and finally the final ball coming up...
i took two more yards for the run up (trying to bowl with lot of pace...which cud never happen...), but that consumed more energy from me and running fast through my run up there i bowled the final ball...
pitched short of length...banggggggg...it took the top edge of the bat and went straight up in the air...
GOD...its my catch...im running towards mid-off to catch the ball...shouting "its-mine"...
i was jus under the ball and it landed straight into my hands...and then within a fraction of a second jumped out of them...shitttttttttttttt...
the two runs were scored...we lost the match...
my captain is coming towards me...i could see the change of colors in his face...
he came to me in a flash...
phattttttttt.......a slap on my face...
"get up chinna...get up...its already 5.30AM...its your first day for tuition" its my mom...
hmmmmmm...getting up so early in the morning is very difficult...i never woke up so early...except during my class 10 exams...it was quite difficult for me to get up so early...and that tooo with such a horrible dream...even while dreaming i couldn’t win a match for my team...very disappointed early in the morning…
i have just joined my intermediate...and knowing my learning abilities my parents opted for joining me with one of the lecturers for tuition...
once again i went inside my blanket...
"sleeping again?? sunitha has already got up and started reading...even Pratap has started
reading...i don’t know when will you start learning from them" my mom again...she always does that...asking me to learn from others...
Sunitha is our neighbor and i never know what she would read even before the college started teaching...whatever...why cant she do that sitting in her room...she just comes out early in the morning up on to their terrace and starts reading very loud...trust me..even the priest in the Temple don't chant that louder...
Pratap is the guy who lives on the other side of our house...he's one year junior to me...these two have started troubling me this way since loooong...but i never learnt anything from them...infact i didnt find anything to learn...
I finally got up cursing these two fellows and started getting ready for my first day at tuition...the tuition starts at 6.30AM
its 6.00AM and I’m all set to go and face the music of learning...
i opened the doors and just then came my friend Ramesh on his bicycle...he is my class mate since school days...he too joined the same tuition...
i took my bike(bicycle) out...i love it...its my first bike and its too good looking...the
HERCULES MTB...i used to call it..."MURTHY'S TERRIFIC BIKE" ;) and its really terrific...
and then we started off...waving hands to my mom...cruising through the cool breeze...on to the road...
i never know that it would be so wonderful to have a ride so early in the morning...
it takes hardly 10mins to reach there...
after the 10min wonderful ride...finally we reached the place...
the place which i would never forget...the place which has changed my way of thinking...the place which saw a new "ME"...the place which injected some new energy in me...the place which gave a new name to me...the place which disturbed me a lot for 2 yrs...the place which made me get up so early in the morning regularly for the next 2 yrs...
it was an old school building...which our sir has opted to teach us our lessons...he rented one of the class rooms in the building to take classes early in the morning for us...
it was not so great to look at...full of dust...a damaged blackboard...pieces of chalk everywhere on the floor...benches piled up with dust...i thought we were so early to just clean all those stuff...we did a bit of cleaning just to accommodate both of us...put our books there and came out...waiting for others to come...
then came one more guy...sekhar...with the thickest of glasses on his eyes...
he stays near our house but i never know that he has joined the same tuition...parked his bicycle and came to us giving a stupid smile...i don’t know the reason, but i don’t like him...
"r u coming to the ground in the evening?" sekhar asked me...
idiot...he asked in such a sarcastic manner...knowing that i don’t play well...
"yes" i replied...
one day i will just bowl into his balls and he would never play cricket again...huhhh
then came the girl who i don't wanna see in our tuition...Sunitha...with a typical girl's
smile...she appears to be so simple and calm going...but its all the other way actually...my
poor mom just go with her looks and behavior towards her, but doesn't really know what
Sunitha is...
"hii...good morning..."
"sir has come??? actually i have a doubt in the third chapter" she said and smiled...
i just wanna slap tightly on her face, so that she would never smile again...
what the hell of a doubt she would have in the third chapter...even before the college has
started and the course content is known...
i still don't understand why girls are so fond of reading college books, when guys have lots n lots of other things to do...
"how many more guys would come?? do u have any idea??" Ramesh asked Sunitha...
"two more girls would come" she replied...
"God...let those species be different from this girl"...i prayed...
"and one of them is our school topper" she said...
"huhh...i guess she's also from the same species" i said to Ramesh n Sekhar...
its 6.25AM...
"hii...this is sujatha..." one of the other two girls has come...
"hiii" we all said at once.
"is she the topper u r talking about?"...i looked at sunitha...
"no, she's the other one"
this girl is looking normal and would not be of 'Sunitha' species...
we were having our introductions to each other and meanwhile our sir has come...
"Good Morning Sir..." we wished all at once...
the TVS-50 is parked and we were all into the classroom...
after all the introductions are done...we were about to start the proceedings about the
subject...it was physics...
"where's the other girl???" sir asked...
"Excuse Me Sir..." a voice answered...a voice that resounded in my ears for some time...so sweet is that voice...(at least i felt so...)
all of us just turned back to see a girl at the door...
"May I come in Sir..."
"yes"
"Good Morning Sir"
"Good Morning"
"u r late on the very first day" sir smiled...
in reply was a cute smile from that girl...
she's dressed in half-saree...the dress i like veryyyyyyyy muchhhhhh...
she's isnt that beautiful...but...my heart had a different view...she looked gorgeous for my eyes...her beautiful pair of eyes had a hint of spark in them...they are just twinkling...the smile is sooooooo cute that even little kids would envy that smile...and the struc...is absolutely amazing...i thought a Ms.India is in making...
"GOD...is this the reason you gave me a good pair of eyes???"
to see such a beauty so early in my life...
then i came to know...guys really go blind...if they like a girl...attraction can make you go blind, dumb and completely mentally handicapped if it is at its extreme heights...
while everyone is feeling the heat of sun...i could feel FULL MOON over me...
cool breeze touching me...she sat in the 2nd bench and me in the 3rd...jus behind her...feeling the breeze that came with her entering the room...
i wanted to see her for once...but what to do? she's facing the blackboard and listening seriously to the lecture...taking down notes...
my thoughts ran fast...my heart pumped faster...my eyes are just seeing her...my ears still
listening "excuse me sir"...
then came a pretty simple idea...might not be a great one...but pretty useful in that instance...
"do u have an extra pen?" i smiled at her...
"NO" she said pretty firmly...not even turning completely towards me...
i waited to listen lot more than that...see her for once...
"atleast a pencil??"
"NO"...the same answer once again...
but this time she turned around to give me the answer...
ahhhh.......that's enough...
i could see her...
she's coool dude...
suddenly she appeared to be the girl who's just born for me...
the girl who's just came for me...
the girl who will be with me through out my life...
i need her...to talk to me...to walk with me...to spend time with...to laugh with...to share my feelings...
i wanted her to be my friend for lifetime...
after all...today's friend would sometime later turn out to be GIRLfriend... ;)
when i am making rounds in my thoughts...
"we are done for today...lets meet tomorrow"...sir has left the room ...the class ended
ohh no...she will leave now...
i wanted to talk to her...know her name...
but...the 3 girls are discussing something...i guess its about subject...
what else the school toppers would discuss about...GOD these are all of the same species...
i thought of interrupting...but its not at all wise to go in between, when a bunch of girls are discussing...
i was waiting with the other guys at the parking...
then came the girls...
she didn’t even look at me, neither she cared if I’m looking at her...
even before i attempted to talk to her...she was off in a flash riding her BSA-SLR(bicycle)...
"what's her name?" i asked Sunitha...
"LAKSHMI"
Wow…the name is pretty familiar one…but it sounded so special for me…
the name everyone would love to spell...the name which every guy would like...the name every girl would be proud to have...coz it sounds sooo good...sooo traditional...soo lovely...sooo comfortable to address a girl...
more importantly...the name which i like most...
i went home...with thoughts all around her...
its 8.00AM
my father went to office and my mom to school...she is a teacher...
im alone at home and thinking just "LAKSHMI"...
the PROBLEM has then BEGUN...
the typical teenage effect started showing upon me...im just in the early days of my 16 and started thinking of a GIRL...i never know where it would take me finally...i never know where i would end up...i never know what i was doing in the college or tuition...
since that day...
i could find some difference in me...
i could find some difference in my thoughts...
i could find some difference in my behavior...
i could find some difference in the way i talk...
i could find some difference in the way i move around with girls...
i could find some difference in ME when I’m alone...
a completely new "ME" was born
i wanted to name that new "ME" and very quickly recollected my nick name at school,
which my English MaaM every often used to address me...
J............A..............M.............E..............S
yes, JAMES is the name...and i was very excited that i could pen down some poems...GOD…can you believe this...
it was very interesting to know that, i have some skill in me...
the poems i wrote seemed to be pretty interesting to me...even though they were very
disgusting to the people around me...
and so the PROBLEM has then BEGUN for my friends as well... ;)
~james
NOTE: Hiii readers,
This is my first attempt in writing something…so, I would like to have your comments so that I would improve my narrating as well as my writing skills in future…I hope I will have comments from the readers…I am not pretty good at ENGLISH and so I would certainly try to improve my language skills, but I need you to comment regarding my presentation skills…
Thank You for spending your valuable time for going through my first attempt… :)
it was a pretty normal evening...the sun has enough time to go to the other side of the world...
we were playing cricket...
i was very bad with the bat and now i had the ball in my hands...
final over of the match...3 balls to go...3 runs to win...sekhar is the batsman...he isn’t a good batsman...but 3 runs wouldn’t be so tough for him (coz, I’m the one bowling n d boundary isn’t far)...
my captain feel that we should win every match and a loss would be a great disappointment for him(i never know if he was so disappointed when he failed to clear his class 10 exams)
and here i go...to bowl the fourth ball of the final over of the match...the ball pitches on middle and leg and brushes the batsman’s pants and into keepers hands...
my captain rushes to suggest me(he loves giving suggestions for everyone, every time) to bowl on the offside of the wicket coz the leg side wide would cost us one run...
and then comes the 5th ball of the over...
i bowled it short of length...
and sekhar swung his bat with lots of energy...
and thank god...he missed it...huhh...
i could see my captain staring at me...but dint even think of caring for his looks and went
back to my run up...
last ball of the match...i thought i had done it for my team...
here i go to bowl the final ball of the match...
once again i pitched it short, but this time around in the line of leg stump and once again
sekhar swings the bat and once again missed it...
but...
it was given wide on the leg side...(i had this bad habit of bowling wides)
now its just 2 runs from one ball...my captain rushed to me...giving lots of suggestions and very tensed...(as if he was the captain of an Indian team playing with Pakistan in the finals of a world cup match)
huhh...
and finally the final ball coming up...
i took two more yards for the run up (trying to bowl with lot of pace...which cud never happen...), but that consumed more energy from me and running fast through my run up there i bowled the final ball...
pitched short of length...banggggggg...it took the top edge of the bat and went straight up in the air...
GOD...its my catch...im running towards mid-off to catch the ball...shouting "its-mine"...
i was jus under the ball and it landed straight into my hands...and then within a fraction of a second jumped out of them...shitttttttttttttt...
the two runs were scored...we lost the match...
my captain is coming towards me...i could see the change of colors in his face...
he came to me in a flash...
phattttttttt.......a slap on my face...
"get up chinna...get up...its already 5.30AM...its your first day for tuition" its my mom...
hmmmmmm...getting up so early in the morning is very difficult...i never woke up so early...except during my class 10 exams...it was quite difficult for me to get up so early...and that tooo with such a horrible dream...even while dreaming i couldn’t win a match for my team...very disappointed early in the morning…
i have just joined my intermediate...and knowing my learning abilities my parents opted for joining me with one of the lecturers for tuition...
once again i went inside my blanket...
"sleeping again?? sunitha has already got up and started reading...even Pratap has started
reading...i don’t know when will you start learning from them" my mom again...she always does that...asking me to learn from others...
Sunitha is our neighbor and i never know what she would read even before the college started teaching...whatever...why cant she do that sitting in her room...she just comes out early in the morning up on to their terrace and starts reading very loud...trust me..even the priest in the Temple don't chant that louder...
Pratap is the guy who lives on the other side of our house...he's one year junior to me...these two have started troubling me this way since loooong...but i never learnt anything from them...infact i didnt find anything to learn...
I finally got up cursing these two fellows and started getting ready for my first day at tuition...the tuition starts at 6.30AM
its 6.00AM and I’m all set to go and face the music of learning...
i opened the doors and just then came my friend Ramesh on his bicycle...he is my class mate since school days...he too joined the same tuition...
i took my bike(bicycle) out...i love it...its my first bike and its too good looking...the
HERCULES MTB...i used to call it..."MURTHY'S TERRIFIC BIKE" ;) and its really terrific...
and then we started off...waving hands to my mom...cruising through the cool breeze...on to the road...
i never know that it would be so wonderful to have a ride so early in the morning...
it takes hardly 10mins to reach there...
after the 10min wonderful ride...finally we reached the place...
the place which i would never forget...the place which has changed my way of thinking...the place which saw a new "ME"...the place which injected some new energy in me...the place which gave a new name to me...the place which disturbed me a lot for 2 yrs...the place which made me get up so early in the morning regularly for the next 2 yrs...
it was an old school building...which our sir has opted to teach us our lessons...he rented one of the class rooms in the building to take classes early in the morning for us...
it was not so great to look at...full of dust...a damaged blackboard...pieces of chalk everywhere on the floor...benches piled up with dust...i thought we were so early to just clean all those stuff...we did a bit of cleaning just to accommodate both of us...put our books there and came out...waiting for others to come...
then came one more guy...sekhar...with the thickest of glasses on his eyes...
he stays near our house but i never know that he has joined the same tuition...parked his bicycle and came to us giving a stupid smile...i don’t know the reason, but i don’t like him...
"r u coming to the ground in the evening?" sekhar asked me...
idiot...he asked in such a sarcastic manner...knowing that i don’t play well...
"yes" i replied...
one day i will just bowl into his balls and he would never play cricket again...huhhh
then came the girl who i don't wanna see in our tuition...Sunitha...with a typical girl's
smile...she appears to be so simple and calm going...but its all the other way actually...my
poor mom just go with her looks and behavior towards her, but doesn't really know what
Sunitha is...
"hii...good morning..."
"sir has come??? actually i have a doubt in the third chapter" she said and smiled...
i just wanna slap tightly on her face, so that she would never smile again...
what the hell of a doubt she would have in the third chapter...even before the college has
started and the course content is known...
i still don't understand why girls are so fond of reading college books, when guys have lots n lots of other things to do...
"how many more guys would come?? do u have any idea??" Ramesh asked Sunitha...
"two more girls would come" she replied...
"God...let those species be different from this girl"...i prayed...
"and one of them is our school topper" she said...
"huhh...i guess she's also from the same species" i said to Ramesh n Sekhar...
its 6.25AM...
"hii...this is sujatha..." one of the other two girls has come...
"hiii" we all said at once.
"is she the topper u r talking about?"...i looked at sunitha...
"no, she's the other one"
this girl is looking normal and would not be of 'Sunitha' species...
we were having our introductions to each other and meanwhile our sir has come...
"Good Morning Sir..." we wished all at once...
the TVS-50 is parked and we were all into the classroom...
after all the introductions are done...we were about to start the proceedings about the
subject...it was physics...
"where's the other girl???" sir asked...
"Excuse Me Sir..." a voice answered...a voice that resounded in my ears for some time...so sweet is that voice...(at least i felt so...)
all of us just turned back to see a girl at the door...
"May I come in Sir..."
"yes"
"Good Morning Sir"
"Good Morning"
"u r late on the very first day" sir smiled...
in reply was a cute smile from that girl...
she's dressed in half-saree...the dress i like veryyyyyyyy muchhhhhh...
she's isnt that beautiful...but...my heart had a different view...she looked gorgeous for my eyes...her beautiful pair of eyes had a hint of spark in them...they are just twinkling...the smile is sooooooo cute that even little kids would envy that smile...and the struc...is absolutely amazing...i thought a Ms.India is in making...
"GOD...is this the reason you gave me a good pair of eyes???"
to see such a beauty so early in my life...
then i came to know...guys really go blind...if they like a girl...attraction can make you go blind, dumb and completely mentally handicapped if it is at its extreme heights...
while everyone is feeling the heat of sun...i could feel FULL MOON over me...
cool breeze touching me...she sat in the 2nd bench and me in the 3rd...jus behind her...feeling the breeze that came with her entering the room...
i wanted to see her for once...but what to do? she's facing the blackboard and listening seriously to the lecture...taking down notes...
my thoughts ran fast...my heart pumped faster...my eyes are just seeing her...my ears still
listening "excuse me sir"...
then came a pretty simple idea...might not be a great one...but pretty useful in that instance...
"do u have an extra pen?" i smiled at her...
"NO" she said pretty firmly...not even turning completely towards me...
i waited to listen lot more than that...see her for once...
"atleast a pencil??"
"NO"...the same answer once again...
but this time she turned around to give me the answer...
ahhhh.......that's enough...
i could see her...
she's coool dude...
suddenly she appeared to be the girl who's just born for me...
the girl who's just came for me...
the girl who will be with me through out my life...
i need her...to talk to me...to walk with me...to spend time with...to laugh with...to share my feelings...
i wanted her to be my friend for lifetime...
after all...today's friend would sometime later turn out to be GIRLfriend... ;)
when i am making rounds in my thoughts...
"we are done for today...lets meet tomorrow"...sir has left the room ...the class ended
ohh no...she will leave now...
i wanted to talk to her...know her name...
but...the 3 girls are discussing something...i guess its about subject...
what else the school toppers would discuss about...GOD these are all of the same species...
i thought of interrupting...but its not at all wise to go in between, when a bunch of girls are discussing...
i was waiting with the other guys at the parking...
then came the girls...
she didn’t even look at me, neither she cared if I’m looking at her...
even before i attempted to talk to her...she was off in a flash riding her BSA-SLR(bicycle)...
"what's her name?" i asked Sunitha...
"LAKSHMI"
Wow…the name is pretty familiar one…but it sounded so special for me…
the name everyone would love to spell...the name which every guy would like...the name every girl would be proud to have...coz it sounds sooo good...sooo traditional...soo lovely...sooo comfortable to address a girl...
more importantly...the name which i like most...
i went home...with thoughts all around her...
its 8.00AM
my father went to office and my mom to school...she is a teacher...
im alone at home and thinking just "LAKSHMI"...
the PROBLEM has then BEGUN...
the typical teenage effect started showing upon me...im just in the early days of my 16 and started thinking of a GIRL...i never know where it would take me finally...i never know where i would end up...i never know what i was doing in the college or tuition...
since that day...
i could find some difference in me...
i could find some difference in my thoughts...
i could find some difference in my behavior...
i could find some difference in the way i talk...
i could find some difference in the way i move around with girls...
i could find some difference in ME when I’m alone...
a completely new "ME" was born
i wanted to name that new "ME" and very quickly recollected my nick name at school,
which my English MaaM every often used to address me...
J............A..............M.............E..............S
yes, JAMES is the name...and i was very excited that i could pen down some poems...GOD…can you believe this...
it was very interesting to know that, i have some skill in me...
the poems i wrote seemed to be pretty interesting to me...even though they were very
disgusting to the people around me...
and so the PROBLEM has then BEGUN for my friends as well... ;)
~james
NOTE: Hiii readers,
This is my first attempt in writing something…so, I would like to have your comments so that I would improve my narrating as well as my writing skills in future…I hope I will have comments from the readers…I am not pretty good at ENGLISH and so I would certainly try to improve my language skills, but I need you to comment regarding my presentation skills…
Thank You for spending your valuable time for going through my first attempt… :)
What happend after that?... Any chemistry between u and Lakshmi in the Physics class?
ReplyDeletewatch out for that in my next blog
ReplyDeleteGood to c u owning a blog..keep posting
ReplyDeletewow! James its so nice to see u writing beautiful, humorous, meaningful, inspiring stuff like this....I have read the "The Problem Has Then Begun"....hope it really happens to you now.....watch out if there is some pretty girl out there near you who steals your heart.....I also liked the 1st comment by Mr shanmukha Rao...do let us know if there is was some chemistry which we guys missed to know......wish your life to fill with suprises, love and happiness......
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