I Accidentally Poke Jaison! Jaison shouts out, ‘Ooooh’

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22 November 1994

Morning Jogging Resumes for Hostelers

Our School's Lovely Playground

After the brief respite from the rains that were lashing the city left, right and centre - for the past two weeks - today the skies looked all clear for our wardens to resume their routine duties of waking us all up for our regular morning jogging time. 😊

Since our blessed coffee time always followed our jogging time, we used to enthusiastically go out for our jogging, all the way to the playground!

This was followed by our regular newspaper reading time. Then we all went for our respective classes.

I Accidentally Poke Jaison! Jaison shouts out, ‘Ooooh’

Our Zoology Master was very strict! Especially when it comes to lab-time, he always wanted the boys to behave, and cultivate the proverbial pin-drop silence.

Unfortunately, for me, while busy on dissection mode, I accidentally poked Jaison with the dissection needle, and he impulsively gave out a ‘oooh’. All eyes were turned towards the two of us now.

Master immediately asked me to stand up. Then he told the class, ‘Rufus literally dropped an atom bomb in class today. I’ve not heard this huge noise anytime in the lab’, he remarked.

Then he scolded the boys for shouting in class, ‘without manners’.

Zoology Master Narrates an Incident that happened 15 years ago (in the year 1979!)

Our Zoology master was a very conscientious teacher, known for his exhortations, and real-life examples that he gave for us in class.

On this day also, our Zoology Master narrated an incident that happened in our school, some 15 years ago, in the year 1979.

It was about a student of this school, whose father happened to be a chain smoker. Seeing his father smoke regularly, his son also began to cultivate his father’s habit of smoking. 

The father, felt so sad when he came to know about his son’s smoking habit, and so he came up to his teacher and requested him to advise his son not to smoke!

Hence, after his school hours, when the teacher advised the boy not to smoke cigarettes, the boy’s reply made him shell-shocked. 

The son, in a dejected voice, told the teacher, ‘In order to stop my father from smoking, I cant do anything else, but to smoke!’. The teacher realised where the problem was, and soon called for the father. 

Then father and son, gave a declaration that they will quit smoking that very day itself, he said.

Seminar Blues

Our Science Teachers (we used to call them Masters, viz Chemistry Master, Physics Master etc) used to conduct occasional seminars in our classes, to see how well we’ve understood their subjects.

But, you see, Chemistry was a kinda hard nut to crack for many of us in class!

So when master called out the names of students to come forward and present their papers, each of the boys had their unique, quirky ways of responding to this ‘Catch-22’ kinda situation.

Just presenting a few of them, here on this post.

Samuel Rajesh Rushes to the Loo! 😊

Samuel Rajesh went to the bathroom, the moment he heard master call out his name for the Seminar presentation. 😊

Nawaz, who was king of his domain, as far as our hostel was concerned, suddenly developed stage fear it seems, and so he wanted to escape class. But Darshan, our class monitor, persuaded him to read it out from the book. And so he did.

Chemistry Master Snatches the Papers

Darshan, our class rep, was also class topper. So when he went to the front, and started his presentation, reading out from a few papers, Chemistry Master went up to him, and took away the papers that he was quoting from! 

After his presentation, many students asked him questions, especially Nanda and Piramanayagam, the other toppers in class.

When it was Bharani’s turn to present his paper, he successfully managed his presentation, but when the questions were shot at him, he gave out some blatant excuses saying, the question was not defined in the book at all. 

Unfortunately, for him, Piramanayagam gave out the answer, much to his consternation. Vijay Immanuel also presented his paper today.

Debate Topic, ‘Participation of Youth in Politics’

Later, Karuppiah, (who was asked to give a topic for the next day’s debate) suggested that, we could debate on ‘Participation of Youth in Politics’. While we were discussing points related to the topic, our warden, Mr. Parthipan came up and announced that he would be locking the hostel. So we proceeded back school wards.

I Get Four Wickets Today 😊

Today in cricket, I got the maximum wickets. Our cricket pitch was favourable for spinners, and hence I was roped in by our M1 Class cricket team, for the bowling front. Surprisingly, I got four wickets today, much to the delight of our team mates! 

PS: You may want to read yet another valuable exhortation that our Zoology master had given us, in our past post HERE.

Piramanayagam, my classmate is now a leading Gastroenterologist with Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.

Pic courtesy: MCC School Website & 

Apollo Hospitals Website