Monday, October 22, 2007

BSA.. a memorable experience..

as it has come to be now a days, education has been commercialised. well, i ain't going to go critical on that!! hehe.. but that's the way it has been. when i came to my 12th standard, everyone was taking tuitions and my parents were too feeling the pressure. tuitions were something i had never liked as a concept, but i could see the worries wrinkling my parents' faces. so, i finally decided to go for it. i had gone to a place for a test series during my 10th and i liked the way things were carried out at that place... Brilliant Science Academy.. or just BSA as we guys call it!

BSA was not a big big tuition centre with many many branches all over the country. it was rather a comparatively smaller place, run by Narsinghani sir and Radha ma'm, an old sindhi couple. they were the sole teachers there! they had a three storey house and the tuitions were taken on the third floor. i had a good rapport with sir, and i finally got enrolled in for maths, physics and chemistry. chemistry was to be taken by ma'm. and as i had expected, there were quite a few friends that i had made during my 10th who joined in.

i was never an overtly outgoing guy, but nor was i an introvert! i had learnt a lot from sir. i still believe in the theme he taught us on:"others see what we show them!" those words are very true, and i am the living example. he told us to present our answer sheets well, make the examiner believe that you are really good! i followed up with the idea, and he loved my work. and as my friends still say, he did became a hint partial towards me too! he was very strict about the homework, and the ones who didn't do it had to bear his scoldings, well.. calling them just scoldings would not be fair enough!! but the day i didn't do the work, he just used to leave me, and everyone along! he doesn't close it at that, he adds,"just because i wanted to save one of you, you all have been spared!!". well, that makes it too obvious! hehe..

frankly, i never got that to get too much into my head, and i did work as good as ever. actually, i liked the way i was praised for what i was doing. it sort of gave me a feeling of content. hmm, the academics were never too bad at BSA, but the best part were the friends i got there.. anandita, davinder, aravind, neha, vineet, samar, sanjay, smriti, mudit and others. we had a gang sort of a thing, neha wasn't quite in, but she was a favourite to me.. i have always remembered her as my loveliest competitor.

i was the closest to anandita. her home was on the way from my home to BSA. so, when we had to go or come back, we usually walked the whole way. i was never a very talkative person, but she always had topics. and we went along well. actually because of our closeness, people many a times even misunderstood the relationship! there were many fans for this young lady though.. hehe. we two along with aravind and davinder formed a more closely knit gang. though i was always in great terms with vineet and sanjay, but i could never show the energy level that they always had in them!

davinder, or davi as we call him, was the bike rider! he was a great guy, with a great heart. always helpful. a true sardar, with his accent and style! aravind was also among the people who were always ready for fun, i had known him from school, a great basketball player and he has been a good friend since then. vineet was a great looking guy, but a character i haven't really understood yet. sanjay was always the guy who had comments for everything. he made the classes fun to be in, but again he is one person who i could never understand. smriti was more of a tomboy, but a sweetheart, she always had a lot of things happening in her life, and was a lively girl. neha was the studious one in the class, the one i always had a competition with, but none of us ever had hard feelings, it was always fun. mudit was a tough guy, but he had that fun element, i think he is the only guy who can handle a car better than me! hehe..

i never had too many friends near my house, and the only friends circle that i had was at school. and it was great to have another friends circle. we had many great moments at BSA.. for instance, once the place got on fire, nothing all that serious though, but that was the first hand on experience on firefighting. then, the accent with which ma'm and sir conversed in, it was truly funny, sanjay often imitates it out well. then, the time when we had power cuts and we used to howl like crazy, i must say those were the stress busters. we bunked classes, and sat right outside the house!! we even had a cooking session at anandita's house when noone else was there! davi was the cook and i must say he made some awesome bread-omlettes! many times we had those serious discussions, and those were the moments when i really felt that we all were growing up!

hmm.. those were the good old days! then, on the last day we bunked again, the whole class this time and went to a park nearby. the autographs were exchanged, and we were all chatting and playing around. well, something was going to happen. there was this guy among us, a real nice guy but i won't name him for obvious reasons. he was a good friend to me and anandita as well. she had come home once and had told that this guy has been trying to hit on her in a friendly way. i never took that seriously, but then it came up unexpectedly. me and anandita were sitting on a bench at the park and chatting, this guy comes up and asks anandita to say it straight to him, a yes or a no! i was frankly awed at the situation! this girl just looks at me, and the guy spontaneously says,"hey, if there is something going on between you two then i would back out for the sake of friendship!!". there was this minuscule pause, probably i was making myself sure that i had heard it right, and then.. i just broke into peals of laughter. i somehow knew it was coming! hehe.. but anandita was not in a real fun mood it seems, she talked to the guy and told about "just being good friends" and those stuffs that the girls generally say!

well, that was one memorable incident, but even now the guy and her are good friends! good for them, i think! hmm, four years down the lane.. we all have still remained good friends.. and now, vineet, davi, aravind, and me.. we all are engineers.. anandita has done with her fashion designing course from NIFT.. sanjay and neha are in their final year of engineering.. smriti would be getting married soon.. and well, BSA is still there, tutoring the good to be the best.. and still reminding me of those memories.....

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