CV FIITJEE

The Week That Was: 27th September ’10 – 2nd October ’10 October 3, 2010

The week started off with us getting our Chemistry practical exam papers. Most of us managed to do decently. Little did we know, however, that it would eventually be our most pleasing mark. Barring the English and Computer Science marks, which didn’t spring up many surprises, the other subjects all were evaluated rather strictly. The CV teachers were correcting our papers for the first time and they all managed to give us as low scores as possible, reducing a whole lotta marks for minor mistakes. The Physics papers we were dreading the most came on Friday, and seemed horribly evaluated, as agreed on by PSOM himself. I guess that’s why he wasn’t all that disappointed at our barely decent returns.

And with all this going on, MP wanted us to perform well in FTSE, which is supposed to happen on the 10th of October. So we’re having preparatory classes/tests, which requires us to stay back at school till 5.00 in the evening!

Vanishree came to class on Tuesday to discuss the Chemistry paper with us. She told us how to answer board questions and all that and gave us a polite explanation for the harsh evaluation.

PGS, well-known in our class for his AC antics, walked into class after school on Wednesday to conduct a surprise Physics test. On seeing who the invigilator was, most of the class decided to make up excuses to leave, but MKS messed it all up by forcing us to stay.

‘The Thursday’ was back after so many Thursdays that failed to see F1 take on F2 due to various reasons. This Thursday seemed threatened too, with F2 getting their PT papers, but thankfully that got over quick enough for war to break out. The game remained goalless for quite a while before a Sarav corner saw Sailesh ‘fake’ a back heel, allowing Dutta a clear route to the bottom corner to make it one nil in favour of F1. Just as the game seemed to be heading for a 1 – 0 win, Esaki levelled the score by beating Girish to the ball. And as the kids who intruded during break caused havoc for the defenders, Esaki added another goal to his name, after which Shreyansh joined the party to seal a 3 – 1 win for F2.

The good bit was, however, that we didn’t have to brood over the loss for too long since the school was working only half-day. Predicting violence over the Ayodhya verdict which was due later that day, the school played safe by making us go home early.

Friday was ‘Towel Collecting Day’. Ok, it wasn’t, but the school came collected towels from everyone in class to donate to the orphanages and old-age homes, performing one of their rare good deeds. After we were done with that, it was time to go get our doubts over the Physics papers clarified from Guru. While we were waiting for him outside his class, one of the teachers asked Hari to call some girl who was walking back to her class. He called out to her, but not surprisingly, she ignored him. So he then had to go tap her shoulder and point in the direction of the teacher. Embarrassed at what happened, he came and buried his face in the crowd. Meanwhile, that teacher turned away just at that moment – what timing! So the girl saw no one calling her, and after she saw Hari’s expression, she thought it was a prank and took off with an angry “Chi!”. Hari’s efforts to explain were shortened with the sound of the teacher’s voice – “Where is she, ma? Call her!”.

That brought to end the week since Saturday was a holiday for Gandhi Jayanthi. Let’s hope we have a few more with the festival season coming up ahead.

The Week That Was: 23rd August ’10 – 27th August ’10 August 29, 2010

It was another all-FIITJEE day as the week started amidst holidays for the other CV students. If that wasn’t enough, we had to write a three-hour NCERT test in the afternoon. And as you’d expect, Raghav ran off home before MP came!

One of the most surprising things happened on Tuesday when MP didn’t take class in the morning. For once, he actually left us free when he saw quite a few us desperate to complete our Computer Science observations, which was due in the first period.

Meanwhile, Muthupandi was using his own surprise tactics. If varying the day of his weekly check wasn’t enough, he brought Safiyulla with him on Wednesday for the check. The two of them had contradicting rules on the girls’ hair and had an arguement on that, but eventually walked away with heavy pockets.

It was time for the weekly F1-F2 battle on Thursday as we took to the ground during PT period. After a delayed start cause of the extension of Computer Science period (where everyone were hustling to complete their observations which were two days overdue), neither team could take the lead for quite some time. Some brilliant team play on the counter-attack finally enabled Karan Sharma to give F1 the lead late in the first half. Esaki failed to bring scores back level as his penalty was kept out by the goalie in the second half. Karan then doubled the lead with a pinpoint header with around five minutes to go. Just as the match seemed to have been decided, Venkatesh pulled one back for F2 with minutes left for close. But Sarav put the game beyond doubt by finding  the top corner with one of the last kicks of the game. The game ended 3 – 1 in the favour of F1, but the highlight of the match were the three injuries to Aakarsh, Garimella and Dutta. Hopefully they’ll be back in action before next Thursday.

The class spent their lunch break on Friday trying to teach Dutta to speak Tamil. He needed to learn Tamil for one of its most important applications – arguing with auto drivers. During the course of it, we were left wondering who was worse – Dutta or Siva? 😉

One good thing about this Saturday was that the rest of the school was working – which meant we had lesser FIITJEE periods. To make things better, CUM and MJ didn’t take class, so we spent the last two periods playing what was supposed to be Truth or Dare. Only, you didn’t have the option of ‘Truth’, you had to do only dares. Dutta, who had to have Sailesh on a reverse cowgirl position was one of the classic ones!

We’ve got our Computer Science project previews on Monday morning, so good luck to everyone on it :).

The Week That Was (XII F1):19th April ’10 – 24th April ’10 April 25, 2010

This week wasn’t too different from last week. CUM was again busy with board corrections, so we got one or two periods everyday to do what we wanted.

Tuesday was one such day. The first two periods were supposed to be Computer Science lab sessions, which we utilized to play basketball. And that after we bluffed to everyone that we had Amudha’s permission for it. It was around 20 minutes before Chemistry class that Pooja tripped and bruised her knee. Some of the guys crowding around her were like “Oh”, while the girls went “Oooh god!”. Then came Pragadesh. In a voice almost as loud as Pooja’s, he yelled “OH MY GOD POOJA! ARE YOU OK?”. Lol his reaction got everyone around jeering at him and we convinced him that the bruise would hurt a little lesser if he’d avoid opening his mouth. Five minutes later, we saw Safiyullah heading our way. Not wanting to get into trouble with him, we decided to head back to class. Unfortunately, it was a little too late. He rounded up all of us like a policeman and started yelling at us. The fact that we’re all from FIITJEE pissed him off even more. And his problem was not that we were out of class playing, but that we were playing “his sport”. He said that its very annoying to see us play the way we do (though he never saw us play), more so that he “gives his life for basketball”. He was determined to get us into trouble with Amudha and took us all around the school to look for her. While we were waiting for her to return from the third floor (which took ages), Safi felt that he had to pass his time picking on us. He started saying things like only professionals should play sports, we people don’t even know the spelling of basketball and all that crap. And the government is talking about encouraging sports in schools!

The theme of the day continued through to the evening when CNP (the PDT Chemistry teacher), got really angry about the low attendence during Chemisrty class. He told us to tell the missing ones (one of who was Raghav) that they would not be allowed to attend Chemistry class anymore and may as well stay at home. And later on towards the end of the class, he learnt that nobody had done the homework that was given during the previous class and nearly gave up on us (at least he said he did).

Thursday was probably the last day of privacy we had in our corridor. ‘Cause when we stepped out of class at 3.30 on Thursday, we saw a camera starting right at us. That’s right – “security” cameras had been set up all around school. So we spent the evening making faces at the cameras, wondering if people were actually going to monitor them all day long.

Oh yeah, remember the Thursday-Friday switch ups for PT? Well, it seems to have caused confusion amongst the teachers, the result of which is that we end up getting PT on both days! Though this is going to stop now that we’re going to have only FIITJEE classes from the coming week onwards, we’re hoping that the confusion remains even when “normal school” reopens in June.

The last Chemistry class of the week saw CVM upset, thanks to our chemistry test marks. And so he got really pissed at us talking during class. He wrote down “PHENOLS” on the board, hoping that at least writing on the board would make us pay attention to him. When we did pay attention to what what was on the board, he wrote down “KEEP QUITE” next to it. Well, it made matters worse! ‘Cause everyone started laughing at the spelling of what was meant to be “QUIET”. And then he was like, “Oh sorry, I wrote down ‘quit’ by mistake”. Lol you can imagine the atmosphere after that!

When CVM was asking us why we make so much noise when he’s explaining doubts, Shivam joked about it being due to the “change in entropy” of the class. Well, Karan Sharma took that a little too seriously and actually wrote it down in his notebook! And when CVM told the class about it, everyone started laughing at him, which made Karan really upset. CVM felt bad for him and scolded us for laughing. I don’t know, but the way he told us about him writing it seemed like it was meant to make us laugh!

And then we played basketball again after school. Just as luck would have it, Pooja collided with Vishal and got injured again… in the same area! Ouch! And Varuna’s headline for the incident was “Vishal just banged Pooja” ;).

The coming week may not have as many free periods, so we’ll have to keep our fingers crossed. And good luck for success with all the tests and assignments.

The Week That Was (XII F1): 5th April ’10 – 10th April ’10 April 11, 2010

It was finally time for ‘proper school’. We’d been starved of English, Computer Science and other non-FIITJEE classes for quite some time. Not that they’re things that we’re dying for, but at least it helps us keep away from FIITJEE for a while.

The first day of the week saw a few new people in our class (read ‘The Tale of Two Classes’ for more). And there was a clean-shaven Hari Prasad walking into the class. His new moustache became an instant hit in class, especially with CVM.

And then came Computer Science. CUM (I guess that’s what Uma Maheshwari’s code would be if she were a FIITJEE teacher… lol) started teaching us ‘Boolean Algebra’, where we learnt things like “1+1=1” and theorems like “If x=0, then x≠1”. Raghav as usual pissed her off by making fun of it!

“Moodswing Mahesh” seemed to have changed enough to be deservingly called “One-Mood Mahesh”, as he seemed to have drastically improved his bad temper. You can almost never see him angry these days. I remember him talking about his baby sometime last week. And although ‘baby’ can mean a lot of things, I have a feeling his wife gave birth to a baby recently and it could probably be reflecting in his mood.

MJ tried teaching us how to write ‘Classified Ads’, but could unfortunately only end up teaching us how to write humour. ‘Cause that’s what we made of the ads, especially the matrimonial ones! Later in the week, we managed to rob one of her periods to get an extra PT period, where the new fad of playing cricket continued.

The week ended with us learning the ‘Balz-Schiemann’ reaction from CVM, the one we prefer calling the ‘Balls She-Man’ reaction. Chemistry isn’t too boring after all! And when Dutta started making fun of it, CVM was like “Abhishek Dutta, you’re only 14 years old and you’re like this”. Lol this guy turns 18 in a few months!

The coming week seems to filled with so many tests. And FIITJEE are making things worse by not giving us the holidays that the rest of the school are getting. I guess we just need to wait for CVM to make our day again ;).

The Week That Was: 25th Jan ’10 – 30th Jan ’10 February 2, 2010

The week got off to a rather weird start with CVM all of a sudden telling us to bring every single Chemistry package than had ever been printed to torture us… with the grid sheets stuck to them! And the declaration of the PDT marks made things worse. The entire class got pretty ordinary marks, especially Karan Sharma, who got… well, let’s just say that his marks were of the form -|x| ;).

Karan Sharma is also making the news for the highlighting of typical Karan moments – one was when Dutta was standing up to answer a question that MP had asked him. That was one of the rare questions to which Dutta didn’t know the answer. Karan, being his usual self was delightfully smiling at what was happening. So MP goes “Ah Karan Sharma is smiling yaar. I think so he knows.” The result? He didn’t know the answer either. His broad smile was only a part of his daily routine! Another was at the Chemistry lab of Friday. Some reaction was supposed to give a smell resembling that of rotten eggs. Though we all couldn’t get the smell one person sure did! And we rubbed it in by cueing the teacher with everything about “Sniffer Sharma” ;).

The faculty meeting on Saturday (where they devise new means of torture) gave us half the day off. And that was when we managed to beat XI-F2. The 8 – 1 scoreline was particularly sweet after two controversial goals on Thursday that handed them a 4 – 2 win against us. Yeah, it was the same match after which we had to spend our Math period outside class for turning up late. But that was better than what XI-F1 did on Saturday. They were working till 3.30, which meant that they had to be back to class by 1.10 after lunch. Unsurprisingly, then went late to class and weren’t allowed in. While we would have waited outside until we were pardoned, they decided not to waste time and came back out and continued playing and went back even later!

Lol not more than 15 people turned up that NCERT test at KRMM on Sunday. The “compulsory” test was the least priority for everyone who were probably watching the Australian Open Final. It was a forgettable test anyway, so its a good thing that they missed it in the end!

The coming week’s timetable is loaded with Math periods. Saturday, fortunately is a holiday – to study for the AIITS test. Another Sunday goes down the drain…