Cajoling,coaxing & finally prodding,the bull has got up after chewing the cud - so folks here is some food for thought....
The familiar drawl from Mr.Chemmen heavily laced malayalam accent "when I was in Malaysia you see" - I was not in India obviously ! would be in the minds of all of us during the chemistry class but nobody dared to even breathe out loud for sheer fear at this tough task master.The only hour when there was pindrop silence.Once in one of the exams Leeju & myself got very low grades & we were summoned to the Chemistry lab.I had messed up organic chemistry & tried to explain trembling with fear,fumbling for words.I got off with a minor rebuke but Leeju had to bear the brunt of it all as she happened to be the daughter of Mr.Xavier,a doctorate in Chemistry!
He would brag about the daily diet of eggs given to his one & only daughter for her fair complexion(as white as egg) - we would giggle as only we knew the 'charcoal' coloured lovely daughter of his - no apartheid here!
Despite he being easily the best teacher in school,I was the perennial cat on the wall ! Those Benzene rings,anode,cathode,electrons & neutrons are still going around in circles in my dumbo head.
Our Biology madam was a genius of sorts - by the time we caught up with her chlorophyll & stomata the whole blackboard would be erased out & at the end of the day we had to share our notes to fill in the missing sections.However this rapid taking down of the notes stood me in good stead for the Mercantile law classes with umpteen sections during my B.Com days!
The familiar drawl from Mr.Chemmen heavily laced malayalam accent "when I was in Malaysia you see" - I was not in India obviously ! would be in the minds of all of us during the chemistry class but nobody dared to even breathe out loud for sheer fear at this tough task master.The only hour when there was pindrop silence.Once in one of the exams Leeju & myself got very low grades & we were summoned to the Chemistry lab.I had messed up organic chemistry & tried to explain trembling with fear,fumbling for words.I got off with a minor rebuke but Leeju had to bear the brunt of it all as she happened to be the daughter of Mr.Xavier,a doctorate in Chemistry!
He would brag about the daily diet of eggs given to his one & only daughter for her fair complexion(as white as egg) - we would giggle as only we knew the 'charcoal' coloured lovely daughter of his - no apartheid here!
Despite he being easily the best teacher in school,I was the perennial cat on the wall ! Those Benzene rings,anode,cathode,electrons & neutrons are still going around in circles in my dumbo head.
Our Biology madam was a genius of sorts - by the time we caught up with her chlorophyll & stomata the whole blackboard would be erased out & at the end of the day we had to share our notes to fill in the missing sections.However this rapid taking down of the notes stood me in good stead for the Mercantile law classes with umpteen sections during my B.Com days!
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ReplyDeleteLove ur first post. Your writing style is compelling and what power you weave through imagination cum words.
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