A COWgirl's game

Being in India on a vacation and I got the time to write a blog? Well psychosis is not something new you would witness about me! :P

Anyway met with my school friends after close to 5 long years. Hailing from an all girls convent, life was never more fun! We could talk about absolutely anything with no shame, embarrassment, awkwardness or any weird feeling in the world. I got reminded of those best days of my life from kindergarten right up to standard 12. When I mused over standard 12 I thought of another institution - my tuition center. Everyone goes for tuition in his or her 12th standard. It’s the big thing… It’s the boards… It’s life or death. Wait but was it the case for us?

When I say “US”, it means a bunch of my schoolmates and I who went to this tuition center and our featherbrained behavior there. I don’t know after so much monkey business how we managed to do a decent job of the boards. For anonymity sake I’ve changed their names and will also change other objects that could relatively be identified with.

Introducing the powerpuff girls, the dames of destiny, the princesses of the universe… (Ok I’ll cut the crap!)

Me, Annie, Priya, Nandini and Sheela….

Scene 1: At the bus stand outside our school Nandini and I are waiting to take the bus to the tuition center.

Me: First day of tuitions today!
Nandini: Hmm yeh!
Me: 12th ya! Whys it gottu be so much pressure
Nandini: Hmm
Me: Hullo are you listening?
Nandini: Well, check out that guy… ain’t he cute?
Me: What? You in your senses? …hmmm well anyway he’s kinda okay
Nandini: Come on man… don’t you discuss guys… Ok let’s make up a code word
Me: What kinda code word?
Nandini: Something which wont make other people suspect we are discussing guys!
Me: like what?
Nandini: Hmmmm….(thinking deeply, you definitely need to dig your gray cells for this one! ;)) Got it! Guy…. Sounds close to Gaay which means cow in hindi… So let’s refer to guys as cows.
Both of us: Giggles giggles giggles… (Now I understand why convent girls look stupid but I still don’t know why guys like dumb girls)
Nandini: What do u think of that cow… well forget it…you can’t even call it a cow. Gosh man madras has fewer good cows day by day! What am I going to do!

Now people around us if they even heard our conversation must have been wondering why we were soo concerned about the dropping population of cows in Madras!


Scene 2: Part, which introduces the heroes of the story. One of the classrooms in the tuition center, a long one with one column of desks. The girls sat in the front and boys at the back. The first session was attendance.

Maths Master: Deepak
Us: shoulders bent forward and heads turned close to 270 degrees clockwise direction and quickly back to position
Maths Master: George
Us: 135 degrees anti-clockwise direction
Maths Master: James
Us: 135 degrees anti-clockwise direction
Maths Master: Naren
Us: 180 degrees about turn and all heads froze for a fraction of a second
Maths Master: Salman
Us: 135 degrees anti-clockwise direction all heads back to position except Annie’s head.
Maths Master: Sundar
Us: dint quite hear a “yes sir” so we dint know which direction to turn immediately. But somehow found the owner of the name. We the smart babes ;)

Many other names in between and after. Then the girl’s attendance, which is not of much significance ;).

Scene 3: After a few weeks. Conference after tuition class.

Nandini: God gurls! Naren is soo cute! He comes to class in a really cool English color car. (She always looked out for that car when the roads were in her range of vision). Bet he’s rich. My kinda guy. What say?
Annie: Dunno man! I think salman is soooo chweet…cutie cutie types, and he drives a really cool bike… He’s the man!
Me: Huh? He looks like he jumped out of a farex tin. Picturing him on a bike is a disgrace to the biking community. What say sheela?
Sheela: Huh! Hmmm yeh I guess. I think… hmm maybe!
Nandini: Ohh come on Sheela … atleast naren is cute right?
Sheela: Probably…. Hmm perhaps…. Errr… ( From that instant Sheela the dummy! No one cared what she thought!)
Nandini: Ok Whatever! Congrats Annie we got guys! Lemme see…hmm… alright Salman’s my brother and Naren’s your brother what say!
Annie: Done! Yaaay! We are sister in laws!
Priya and me: (look at each other… and think -heights of insanity? Sheela was figuring out if they were actually sister in laws or co sisters)
Nandini: Come on girls pick guys soon…
Priya and Me: What?
Annie: Ok fine I’ll pick (Somehow all my life people around me thought they were better in making MY decisions) how about Sundar… the nerd guy who whisper’s his attendance… I checked out his test notebook…god man he’s scored as if he eats his books for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Me: No way! (Who wants to be the girl of the nerd anyway!) By the way I think he kind of resembles my grandfather! (What a weird reason to think of! That’s all that came to my mind)
Nandini: (Laughs like she’s crazy) Does he look that old? Anyway forget Sundar. I think Deepak is the best match for you. (Deepak happened to be the most unsightly guy of the lot!)
Me: Nandini No fair! You just pick the best-looking guy in the class and you pair me up with Deepak? For no reason at all!
Nandini: There is a reason dear…listen. Deepak is my son… So am your mother in law… Need a better reason to go for him? (smirks and giggles)
Me: Yeah right! Now I know from where he inherited his looks!(irate by her queen of the world attitude I flair up) Ok Ms. Oh so arrogant! I’m in competition with you for Naren. You gottu fight your way through.
Nandini: No you wouldn’t
Me: Try me!
Annie: Peace girls…. We still got priya!
Priya: Why me?
Annie: How about James!
Priya: Why him? I don’t need any!
Nandini: You are asking us why we chose James? Are you blind girl? That guy can’t take his eyes off you. Do him a favour ;) Come on! It’s just for fun.
Priya: Oh really nandini? George’s friends always nudge him when you enter the class…and he’s all pink. What to do George a favor?
Nandini: Nopes… Am settled!
Me: Ms.Kittie…are you sure?
Sheela: (Still wondering how the family relations connect… if Nandini is Annie’s sister in law and Pavithra is Nandini’s daughter in law. Then how is Pavithra related to Annie?)

Scene 4:And many more discussions like the previous scene over the year… quoting all that will increase the length of this already long blog. Well everything was for fun… the small bickers were for fun too nothing serious. We never thought of talking to those guys (that would spoil the fun) and the guys would have wished they were invisible if we even uttered a word to them. It was the last day of class and the owner of the tuition center was giving us a speech about how important the 12th boards are and blah blah….

Owner: !@#%%^%&*(**^$$@@!@ blah…blah…blah… I am very proud of all your performance so far. I wish you all the best in your exams. I am sure you will come out with flying colors. Thank you! Now all the BROTHERS leave first and then the SISTERS can leave.

Us: What??????? Aaahhhhhh Haaaa!!!!!!! Hell! Are the brothers and sisters related? We mean from the same parents?

Disclaimer: Few dialogues might not be the same as it was spoken in the past. I added my own touch here and there to boost the humor. The gist is true though.