The Week That Was: 22nd November ’10 – 27th November ’10 November 29, 2010
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Monday signaled the start of the second term evaluation, which kicked off with a decent Chemistry paper. Hardly anyone stayed back for class after that, using the approaching Physics exam as an excuse.
That Physics exam arrived on Wednesday after the Tuesday holiday and left us with a broader grin, or rather, smaller frown that it did last time around. Considering we mostly had “chapters FIITJEE students are not strong in”, Guru should be pretty pleased with our performance.
We had Math that afternoon. After already having been questioned over last Saturday’s bunking, we decided it was best we attended class.
Friday’s Math exam was probably the best one that week. After all those questions we crammed hours of theory for, it was a relief to get back to NCERT problem solving.
That afternoon’s Math class ended the week as we had a two-day study weekend. We had a little break during Math class when Vanishree came and yelled at us about our incomplete Chemistry records. MP somehow missed seeing her as she walked out, so he was just waiting outside until he realized that there wasn’t a teacher in class.
Well, there’s still Computer Science and English left, so good luck!
The Week That Was: 15th November ’10 – 20th November ’10 November 23, 2010
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Monday was a relatively relaxed day after the hectic AITS on Sunday. CVM just conducted a performance interview where he asked us about how we respond to assignments, tests and other related things. Nothing much happened in Physics either as half the class went to the Computer Science lab to complete their projects (not to mention, some went there just to skip Physics class). CUM gave us a free period too, completing a day we would call ‘extremely productive’.
CUM cancelled the last Computer Science practical session of our school life to take theory. It meant that we were left struggling to survive one and a half hours of SQL commands. MJ though, made up for it with a free period later on.
The school wasn’t working on Wednesday on the account of Bakrid, so we had only FIITJEE classes all day! That’s when we found love letters in some CRP student’s unattended school bag. CVM couldn’t control his laughter on reading the poor fellow’s grammar.
Our Computer Science practical exam was on Thursday. It turned out to be a game of chance as we all hoped and prayed that we didn’t pick up the sheet with the tough programs. Around six of us happened to pick up those sheets, with Girish being the only one happy about it.
We didn’t have the scheduled CV Math class in the afternoon as the teacher failed to turn up. That was when MP saw the class with not one soul ‘enjoying’, so he called Anirudh out and told him to have a look at the juniors and learn from them.
Friday was the last day of school for the 12th graders at Chettinad Vidyashram. Everyone was busy partying the last day of school and for once we were allowed to be ‘normal’ at FIITJEE. We had in all, 15 minutes of class on Friday and spent the rest of the day playing in class, roaming around outside and most importantly, had the CV FIITJEE awards (check out the previous post). The awards ceremony that was wonderfully planned by Pooja and Aishwarya ended with Sailesh’s signature dance, the one he came up with during the excursion.
Barring Rajeshwer and Natesan, the entire class was absent on Saturday. Some were convinced that their last day at Chettinad Vidyashram was going to be their last day at FIITJEE too, while most of us stayed home to study for the term exam that was starting next week.
CV FIITJEE Awards 2010-11 November 20, 2010
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The CV FIITJEE awards were handed out on Friday, the last working day for 12th graders at Chettinad Vidyashram.
It started off with the CV FIITJEE Anniversary Quiz awards, whose winners were as follows:
I Place: Abhishek Dutta (110 points)
II Place: Sailesh Krishna KC (100 points)
The answers to the quiz are given below:
1. In range of 50′s starting from 0, what do you think would be the range of the total number of posts and comments together till date? (for example: 50-100, 100-150 etc.)
The number of posts and comments together at that time was 322. So 300 – 350 is the right answer.
2. Who did CVM famously call ‘Horlicks Boy’?
Sailesh Krishna KC.
3. What do the initials in GVAK Sharma stand for?
Garimella Venkata Aadithya Krishna.
4. Who has/had a teddy bear named Hugsy?
Varuna Venkatesh,
5. Guruskandan is an M.Sc in ______
Nuclear Physics.
6. Which (among the class) is the most supported football club?
Liverpool – supported by Akshay Desai, Karthik Venkatesan, Raghavender Bharadhwaj and Subramaniam Kedarnath.
7. Complete: PSOM, Dutta, MKS, ______
Ankit Shai. They all speak Bengali.
8. Who does Amudha call ‘Rocket fellow’?
Anirudh, who is known for shooting rockets during the science expo last year.
9. Who would you relate Aspartic Acid with?
Abhishek Dutta, cause its one-letter code is ‘D’.
10. Who is fondly called ‘Bhujji’?
Satya Priya.
11. Who does Venkatesh share with what is common between Utkarsh, Pooja and Parul?
Garimella, since they both live in IIT (just as how Pooja, Parul and Utkarsh live in the same apartment).
12. Who does Hari’s ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ song refer to?
Aishwarya Pai.
13. Which teacher is famously known for showing his interest in buying a Toyota Innova?
Jebbadurai.
14. In all, how many teachers have taught us in the last two years?
Eighteen (MJ, CUM, MP, PSOM, CVM, CBS, PMS, MSJ, BUD, CSM, MKS, Guru, Vanishree, Subashree, Ulaganathan, Lakshmi, Padmaja and Vijaylakshmi).
15. Who, related to our class, does CV FIITJEE share its birthday with?
Sweety, Aishwarya Pai’s dog.
Later that day the Mokkai Awards were held. We had the name changed from ‘Mock Awards’ since all the awards weren’t a mock. The categories with the nominees are given below.
Style Statement of the Year
Pragadish – for his yellow slippers.
Hari Prasad – for his ‘Poriki’ shirt.
Chandrashekar – for wearing full sleeves all the time.
Muthupandi’s Pet
Abhishek Dutta – who’s always waiting to pull his legs.
Malar Vizhi – for being asked “Akka, kaas kudu ka”.
Sailesh Krishna KC – for always getting in trouble for not getting his house T-shirt.
Thiruvaluvar of the Year
Abhishek Dutta – for his constant Tamil dialogues.
Siva Samhit – for claiming scholarly Tamil-speaking capabilities.
Song/Artist of the Year
Siva Samhit/Abhishek Dutta – for ‘Enna sum? Babababababa’.
Hari Prasad – for his Bhan songs.
Mr. Gillette
Shivamshu Prabhakar – for his new shaven look.
Hari Prasad – for claiming he shaves in spite of having no facial hair.
Joke of the Year
Siva Samhit – for the ‘Siva Jokes’.
Hari Prasad – for the ‘Bhan Jokes’.
Ankit Shai – for his SMS jokes.
Maitreye Parashar – for her ‘Ross Taylor’ joke.
Everyone’s BFF
Pragadish – since he goes around talking to just about anyone.
Ankit Shai – for texting at 12.01 AM to “Good Morning! I hope I am the first one to wish you.”
Karan Sharma – for poking his nose into any crowd that’s centred around a book.
Tubelight of the Year
Malar Vizhi – for her general ‘slowness’.
Siva Samhit – for saying “What’s wrong? It’s grammatically correct only” when Sarav made fun of something hilarious that Sailesh said.
Maitreye Parashar – for realizing two days later that someone was trying to play a prank on her after it seemed so obvious.
The Person Who ‘Enjoys’ the Most
Siva Samhit
Karthik Venkatesan
Hari Prasad
Maitreye Parashar
Karan Sharma
Grandma/Grandpa of the Year
Parul
Hari Prasad
Pooja Nilangekar
Footballer of the Year
(Voice vote – no nominees)
The Class’ Best Noise
Sailesh Krishna KC – for the loud sound he makes for clearing his throat.
Pooja Nilangekar – for yelling even at people 2 feet away.
Karan Sharma – for repeating everthing he hears and says over and over again.
Maitreye Parashar – for singing songs in class.
Virus of the Year
Asking CUM for a free period.
Playing BINGO.
Playing Pictionary.
Playing Ping Pong.
Rajnikanth Jokes.
Best words from Teachers
CUM – Speshalisheshun (Specialization)
CUM – Poshishun (Position)
MP – Ajume (Assume)
MP – Joo (Zoo)
PSOM – Jink Sulphide (Zinc Sulphide)
Best Nickname
Pragadish – D.
Siva Samhit – Sprayman.
Aishwarya Pai – Popeye
Varuna Venkatesh – Venkatapanda
Satya Priya – Bhujji
Rajeshwer Sekaran – Gausseshwer
Sailesh Krishna KC – Horlicks Boy
Parul Verma – Genius
Karthik Venkatesan – KTG
Best Teacher Quotes
MP – “Did you ‘enjoy’ your holidays baba?”
Safiyulla – “I don’t consider you (Pragadish) being in the boys section.”
CVM – “Lets start by doing drugs.”
MJ – “Hari Prasad is one of my favourite students.”
MJ – “Abhishek darling <3”
MJ – “Sailesh sweetheart”
CUM – “Naanstop naansense!”
CUM – “Giri chalk piss.”
PSOM – “I attended around five English classes in class 12”.
Guru – “Pray before you use the apparatus.”
Muthupandi – “Akka, kaas kudu ka.”
Story of the Year
PSOM – for his diary stories.
CVM – for his story where he featured in the newspaper after drinking copper sulphate.
Abhishek Dutta – for his explanation for how Sally (in the English poem) was actually a dog.
Sailesh Krishna KC – for his story about how he used to strip his barbie dolls.
Reaction of the Year
Abhishek Dutta – jumping up from his bench when he saw a spider.
Pooja Nilangekar – stunned to see Muthupandi sitting in her place waiting for her.
Malar Vizhi – for saying five minutes late that “I think the AC is switched off” when Aishwarya Pai told her the room was hot.
Quote of the Year
Hari Prasad – “My consciousness won’t let me copy.”
Pooja Nilangekar – “Did you watch 2010? It was an awesome movie. Oh, it was 2012.”
Varuna Venkatesh – “Post what? Oh, postulate.”
Ankit Shai – At 12.01 AM, “Good morning! I hope I am the first one to wish you.”
Siva Samhit – “What’s I less than three Bhan mean?”
Maitreye Parashar – “What’s wrong with yellow? Sarav likes yellow.”
The Drama Queen
Pragadish
Hari Prasad
Pooja Nilangekar
Maitreye Parashar
Abhishek Dutta
Couple/Threesome of the Year
Parul Verma & Siva Samhit.
Hari Prasad & Siva Samhit.
Sneha Duggar & Vishal Jain.
Hari Prasad & Sailesh Krishna.
Ramaswamy Vaidyanathan, Vishal Jain & Pragadish.
Maitreye Parashar, Shivamshu Prabhakar & Abhishek Dutta.
Pragadish & Abhishek Dutta.
And the winners are…
Style statement of the Year – Pragadish.
Muthupandi’s Pet – Sailesh Krishna KC.
Thiruvaluvar of the Year – Abhishek Dutta.
Song/Artist of the Year – Siva Samhit/Abhishek Dutta.
Mr. Gillette – Shivamshu Prabhakar.
Joke of the Year – Maitreye Parashar.
Everyone’s BFF – Karan Sharma.
Tubelight of the Year – Siva Samhit.
The Person Who ‘Enjoys’ the Most – Karan Sharma.
Grandma/Grandpa of the Year – Hari Prasad.
Footballer of the Year – Shivamshu Prabhakar.
The Class’ Best Noise – Pooja Nilangekar.
Virus of the Year – Rajnikanth Jokes.
Best words from Teachers – MP (for Zoo).
Best Nickname – Rajeshwer Sekaran.
Best Teacher Quotes – CUM (“Naanstop Naansense”).
Story of the Year – Sailesh Krishna KC.
Reaction of the Year – Abhishek Dutta.
Quote of the Year – shared between Hari Prasad & Siva Samhit.
The Drama Queen – Abhishek Dutta.
Couple/Threesome of the Year – Pragadish & Abhishek Dutta.
The award for the D+D=2D couple finally brought to end the massive list of awards that were given away that afternoon. And the fun it brought was proportionate. This is our last year in school and that may have well been the last big event of our school life. Nothing beats XII – F1!
Quiz Deadline Advanced November 16, 2010
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The deadline for the submission of the quiz answers has been advanced to Thursday, 18 November 2010 from the original date of Sunday, 21st November 2010. This because the current week, being the last week of school is the only one that allows us to give away the prizes for the quiz during the Mock Awards’ ceremony which is most likely to be held on Friday.
Make sure you send in your answers in the next two days.
The Week That Was: 8th November ’10 – 13th November ’10 November 15, 2010
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As expected, Monday dissolved in rain water as cyclone Jal gave us a fifth consecutive holiday after Diwali.
Most of us came to school in our Diwali clothes on Tuesday. Hari looked like a miniature version of Sailesh in the shirt he wore. Ironically, CUM asked him why he dressed up like a ‘poriki’ and came to school.
We had our first Math class since Diwali on Wednesday. That’s when MP asked us how many days of our mini-vacation we spent enjoying. It took us a little while to realize that his idea of enjoying was to spent time studying. He also told us not to bunk school before exams so that we could have fun ‘enjoying’ together!
It was two weeks since our last football game and we returned from the break in style with a strong performance under wet conditions on Thursday. Shivam started things off with an accurate cross to Sailesh who headed the ball past the goalie to open the scoring. Shivam just kept going from there on as he finished twice in quick succession to give us a 3-0 lead. Just as the F2 defence seemed to be coming to terms with the conditions, a handball inside their box won us a penalty. Shivam blasted in the rebound off the penalty save to complete his hat trick. Boris made the scoreline prettier with a shot from outside the box to take the score to 5-0 at halftime. Although a fiercely struck half-line shot from Divye gave them some respite, it wasn’t enough to deny us a well deserved 5-1 win.
We had our first CV-taught Math class later that afternoon. We hardly did like two or three problems during the ‘free period’. We spent the rest of our time controlling ourselves from laughing at his English.
We had a ‘real’ free period (without a teacher) after ages on Friday when Guru didn’t come for the Physics class he was supposed to borrow from Vanishree. We were pretty lucky that MP didn’t see us ‘getting bored’.
Saturday was half-day for us. ONLY US! I guess there’s a first time for everything, even if it is something as unlikely as getting to go home when the mainstream has school. Amudha allowed us to go after FIITJEE requested that we be allowed to go study for AITS after the group photo was taken in the morning.
AITS Part Test 2 was on Sunday. The only good thing I can say about it is that is was better than the last time. Not that it means our marks are gonna look any better or something now, but at least we’ll curse FIITJEE a little less.
CV FIITJEE Anniversary Quiz November 11, 2010
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11th November 2009. That’s when CV FIITJEE posted for the first time. It’s been a whole year since then, within which so much has changed and so much has happened. Not wanting to overlook its first birthday, I compiled a quiz to serve as part of the celebrations.
Rules
This quiz is open to all. Whether you’re a student of XII-F or not doesn’t matter. Although you might find a few questions in favour of certain other participants, you should probably still play just for the fun of it. All you have to do is send a message to my Facebook inbox with the answers to the corresponding question numbers (you can send messages even if you aren’t on my friends list). Remember, don’t post them on my wall or as comments to this blog post as they can be seen by all.
Scoring & Deadline
You score 10 points for a right answer and 5 if it’s partially right. And don’t worry, there isn’t any negative marking, so feel free to guess anything you like. The last day for submission of entries is on Sunday, 21st November 2010, since some can make it online only on weekends without AITS and all that.
Here we go…
1. In range of 50’s starting from 0, what do you think would be the range of the total number of posts and comments together till date? (for example: 50-100, 100-150 etc.)
2. Who did CVM famously call ‘Horlicks Boy’?
3. What do the initials in GVAK Sharma stand for?
4. Who has/had a teddy bear named Hugsy?
5. Guruskandan is an M.Sc in ______
6. Which (among the class) is the most supported football club?
7. Complete: PSOM, Dutta, MKS, ______
8. Who does Amudha call ‘Rocket fellow’?
9. Who would you relate Aspartic Acid with?
10. Who is fondly called ‘Bhujji’?
11. Who does Venkatesh share with what is common between Utkarsh, Pooja and Parul?
12. Who does Hari’s ‘Popeye the Sailor Man’ song refer to?
13. Which teacher is famously known for showing his interest in buying a Toyota Innova?
14. In all, how many teachers have taught us in the last two years?
15. Who, related to our class, does CV FIITJEE share its birthday with?
Hope you have fun with these fifteen questions. They’re probably too easy, but its pretty hard thinking of tougher questions. Good luck with them! 🙂
The Week That Was: 1st November ’10 – 6th November ’10 November 7, 2010
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An NCERT test in Physics and Chemistry started the new week for us. It was part of the Phase 7 subjective tests, which I thought they did away with after Phase 2. Shivam and Dutta submitted their Chemistry papers with their names written in Hindi hoping CVM wouldn’t correct their papers, but unfortunately for them CVM managed to figure out what they were up to.
We went to the Computer Science lab on Tuesday after a half hour delay because of the theory class. That was when one of us was playing Cows and Bulls with the name ‘I ❤ BHAN’. Siva, who saw that a little later asked “Hey, what does ‘I less than three Bhan’ mean?”
Guru came to take Physics class for us after that. Yes, it was part of the school’s new scheme to have school teachers give us tips on how to face the board exam. So we’re gonna have two periods of each subject taught by the CV teachers each week.
Wednesday was the last working day of the week. Unbelievable, but true! With Diwali ’round the corner, they gave us four days off. Incredibly, FIITJEE didn’t have a problem with that and allowed us the luxury. However, it did come with the schedule of tests for next week. But with a cyclone working wonders in the city, we might just get another day or two off :).
The Week That Was: 25th October ’10 – 30th October ’10 October 31, 2010
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We had no room to breathe after AITS on Sunday cause of the Chemistry cycle test on Monday. But having most of its questions from Electrochemistry calmed us down a bit at the start of the week.
PSOM and CVM had their day off exchanged temporarily. CVM now has his weekly off on Tuesday while PSOM has his on Friday. And during our first Physics period on a Tuesday in a while, we had a lady come and teach us how to improve our concentration. I’m still wondering whether it worked or not.
Meanwhile, Hari and Dutta spent the week trying to kill each other. Or at least that’s what they looked like they were doing. They were playing a game where they were to say “Nickals” everytime they stood up and “Kundals” everytime they sat down. And when they didn’t, well, we got to hear some pretty loud sounds coming off their backs.
Computer Science period started on 8.30 on Wednesday morning. That was when Sarav and Sailesh walked in late only to start a sudden game of rock-paper-scissors with Siva. We learnt later that the game was to decide who got to sit in the left corner and who had to sit in the boring right corner.
Sarav’s new bag had a whistle attached to it, which was a cause of attraction in our class. On a dare from Sailesh, Siva actually blew it out loud during Computer Science class. And when CUM asked who it was, the whole class, including Siva, put the blame on Sailesh. Later, when Siva went to apologize and admit that he was the one who blew it ‘accidentally’, she said that it was ok and knew that we were bunch of very good children :).
On Thursday, unfortunately, there wasn’t an F1-F2 game since most of the F2 students were busy writing their PT cycle test (I say ‘most’ cause there were a few who bunked the exam and others who wrote it in like 20 minutes for the sake of writing). But we had that afternoon pretty much to ourselves with MJ taking two Chemistry periods. We didn’t do anything in the third Chemistry period either since CVM didn’t want to teach for just one period.
With the phase test coming up, hardly anyone came to school on Friday. There were in all ten people in class. We asked MJ to let us go home half-day since there wasn’t much happening in school, but Amudha for some crazy reason didn’t let us.
Phase Test 7 was on Saturday. But that wasn’t all. We had the Velammal Talent Search Test too, which meant that we had seven and a half hours of exams that day. And with that, it was the end of all the seven main phases in our FIITJEE course. Not that anything is gonna change, but still…
The Week That Was: 18th October ’10 – 23rd October ’10 October 25, 2010
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The Duke students were back at the start of this week. And the one who made most news was unsurprisingly Hari. He was back with a tan from all that sun-drying, which made him the butt of the some so-called “racist” comments.
It was also the reopening of normal school, so we had more than just FIITJEE periods. It began with the Physics cycle test, which went refreshingly well after that horrible quarterly exam paper.
MP gave us like a million assignment sheets on Tuesday for us to prepare for the upcoming cycle test and AITS. There wasn’t an exam on Tuesday, but we the distribution of our quarterly exam report cards ensured that we weren’t relieved from the exam mood. Shivam topped this time, and was second in all of 12th.
The Math cycle test on Wednesday went on pretty well. What happened later that day though was the main highlight. We were walking back to class from the Chemistry lab when Hari found a pen on the ground and went “Nice pen da. I’m keeping it”. That’s when some junior girl walked up to him and said “Excuse me, that’s my pen. Give it back!”. Hari was speechless for the next five minutes and all you could see the poor lad do was cover his face and say “Insult!”.
After a pretty good Computer Science cycle test on Thursday, we finally had a good day at the football pitch. Shivam seemed to have got us off to a flyer by finding the back of the F2 goalie’s net, but the goal was denied after claims that the ball had earlier crossed the line for a goal kick before being brought back into play. Despite some good play following it, Esaki managed to give F2 the lead. Akshay’s perfectly timed header a couple of minutes later brought us back on terms, but Akhilesh ensured that we were trailing at half time with a goal through near post. We overcame a few tense moments in the second half to finally score the equalizer with Dutta just about managing to not muff up a Karan Sharma cross. At the end of it all, the game finished 2-2, but the scoreline didn’t tell the whole story. We looked like the better team throughout for once and are eagerly awaiting the next game.
We had to go for our health check-up that afternoon, which meant that we got to miss Chemistry class. But since we were done with it sooner than we expected, we got to hear CVM’s story of how his photograph once made to the newspaper. Apparently, owing to some dispute over his school’s land when he was a kid, some people mixed copper sulphate in his school’s water tank. All the students, thinking it was Pepsi, began drinking it, only to find themselves at the hospital a few hours later. This story made it to the newspaper, which also included a photograph in which he featured as one of the victims.
We had a mock AITS on Friday immediately after our English cycle test. It started at 10.00 and went on till 1.00, so for the first time on a normal school day we had a weird lunch hour. And we didn’t have any other FIITJEE periods since CUM took our Physics period on Friday to take us to the AV room and show us how SQL is programmed.
Saturday was a holiday to study for Sunday’s AITS. And as you can expect, it was super tough. Our cycle tests get over next week after which we have our phase test, and then KVPY and then something else. Exams just don’t get over, do they?
The Week That Was: 11th October ’10 – 16th October ’10 October 19, 2010
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We were done with FTSE on Sunday, but surprisingly, we were still greeted to the new week with a bunch of question papers. MP started his class at 8.00 in the morning and it was all FIITJEE until 5.00 in the evening. AITS preparation it seems.
The class was short of a few people from Tuesday onwards cause of their Duke trip to Mysore. So we had a much-needed break from the daily Siva-Hari happenings. Later that afternoon, CVM allowed us to go play football during one of his periods. I guess that’s one of the good things about having an all-FIITJEE day!
Our class was busy being cleaned up on Wednesday, so we had to shift one floor upwards for our classes. We occupied a rather large fifth grade classroom, but we felt nothing like them once the classes started. And at the end of it all, our old classroom didn’t seem any cleaner than it originally was.
Dutta’s absence on Thursday hindered the chances of us getting a PT period on Thursday. His phenomenal ‘convincing skill’ was missed badly, but we sorta made up for it by playing after school for the first time in ages.
Friday was only half-day. It was initially supposed to be full-day, but then we convinced MP to let us go home after writing the Mock AITS so that we could finish studying for Monday’s cycle test before we got busy with the Puja and all that (yeah, right!).
The weekend was off, making it three consecutive Saturday holidays. And there’s another Saturday holiday coming up too – a study holiday for Sunday’s AITS. And oh yeah, there’s the PTM next Satruday too. Good luck!
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