Wednesday, June 30, 2010
സന്ധ്യ
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JUNE
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DARK CORRIDORS
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ട്രീസ സിസ്റ്റര്
Saturday, May 8, 2010
AMMA



Friday, April 30, 2010
PERFORMANCE
SCENE 1 :
March 7, 2006
Ladies Hostel, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady
time : 8.00 pm
The practice sessions of girls group dance for the freshers day has started in Surya's room.
We were the only dance team from Electrical batch . 'The team' consisted of Surya, Bhavya, Sreedevi, Hima, Aswathy and 'myself' . Our star dancer Deepa , tactfully evaded participation, as though she anticipated some danger :) ( she actually wanted 2 go unnoticed dat day, due 2 heavy threats from chetans !) anyway...she was quite lucky !
The songs were decided and compiled to make a fusion song much earlier. The 'choreography' was done aptly the day before, and simple practice sessions were conducted along with it, during the zero hours, in the changing room cum sick room adjoining the ladies toilet. I happily went home and displayed my dancing skills to my mom...( appozhe ammayude mukhatulla pandikedu njan manasilaakendathayirunnu...!)
It was the first dance venture in my life. I was sent to learn dance when I was 5 years old, but did not continue beyond 2 or 3 classes. My teacher bet me with a scale for doing it wrong and my pride was hurt. ( those days u c , I had a misunderstanding dat I’m the perfect student in the world, always first in class and every teacher’s pet! ). Back home, I blamed the teacher for treating students badly and never went back to the dance class in spite of repeated ‘requests’ from my parents and friends. I never knew then, that I would suffer one day for those deeds.
On the day before the D-day, we took permission to stay in the ladies hostel and went out for shopping that evening. Athu oru shopping thanne aayirunnu...! All miscellaneous things were bought except the dandiya sticks [:(] . Now, where to get it from...we enquired about it , in all costume shops in the vicinity . Didn’t get it. Finally, it was Surya's idea to approach the PVC pipe walla.. He wore a confused look as the set of girls barged into the shop enquiring about thin PVC pipes…he selected the thinnest of the lot after much effort and finally asked us… ‘alla endina ithu , conduit wiring cheyyana..?’ . Before I started off with ‘alla…dance…’ my mouth was abruptly shut and somebody answered …‘athe…wiring cheyyana..’. J It was cut in lengths we specified and we happily returned to the hostel.
As Surya’s roomies began the decoration work of our PVC pipes, we began the practice. It was hard time for all of us, specially me. (I simply cannot forget how the principal looked pathetically at me, as though I was a destitute from
We slept in peace dreaming of a splendid performance the next day, in spite of warnings from senior girls about the incessant whistling and howling ( kooval) for the freshers day. Little did I know then that I would loose sleep for the next whole week.
SCENE 2 :
March 8 , 2006
College Auditorium
Time : 10 am
Let me tell you guys that 8 is a terribly unlucky number for me. I never wanted to be superstitious and so I filled myself with optimism thinking that I would rewrite this ‘luck and badluck’ notion of mine with the day’s performance[J].
The programs had begun. Some programs had to face terrible whistling and some went on quite peacefully. Ours was the last program and we had satisfactorily completed the rehearsal in our classroom. We were now seated among the girls and were gleefully watching the tamasha going on.
After a while, the program co-ordinator called us on and enquired about CD… Oops, we had only a cassette with us in which we had very smartly got the ‘cassette guy’ to record our fusion song. First stroke of badluck. Time was limited. Our turn would come in about half an hour. The poor chap ran around for a tape recorder, as we sat in the back stage all tensed up. Finally, when he turned up with one, completely sweating, somebody from the union came and told us that interesting piece of news.
The program was delayed beyond the limit specified and so they wanted to cancel our program! We looked at each other. All were looking relieved, unfortunately except me …!!!
Destiny …wat else! (maybe the 8 magic was working on me ! ) …Or wat would prompt me to motivate my friends and request the union ppl for 5 minutes for our performance?
They had already announced the end of the program, and almost everyone were outside. So, we had almost ended it all up in our minds, and then the announcement came like thunder…’EVERYBODY PLEASE STAY BACK FOR THE LAST PERFORMANCE….GROUP DANCE…BY …REMYA AND PARTY!!!’ ( entamme….ultimate…!! I cursed that unknown person who put my name as the team leader….!! )
No sooner than the announcement was made, the whole college forced into the auditorium as though to celebrate the murder of their laast prey. We were alarmed.
The stage was set.
We took ‘positions’ .
And…the curtain was raised !!!
In my whole life, I am pretty sure I will never face such a situation. We were drowned in the intense howling of our seniors and did not have the good fortune of hearing any bit of the music. Literally the whole college was present there, and believe me, the crowd was much more than what was there for the programs that were staged before. As though some sudden osmosis occurred, all those who were gleefully spending time outside the auditorium, where attracted to it coz it was the last program, and their last chance for the year to howl at the first years.
We suddenly turned into a group of rhinos. Did our bit of dancing according to our intuition. It was then that I realized that all of us forgot the steps (no music ! ) and were doing something which was definitely nt dance. The worst was yet to happen. Heart of hearts, I was worried about the timing of the dandiya. I was so conscious about it that I assumed it began and sprang upon our decorated PVC pipes ( destined to bcum dandiya sticks! ) . I turned to the stage with all smiles and it immediately faded !! my team mates were busy forming a circle and turning this way and that way…!! that moment …omg!! I went upto them shouting (holding the sticks)…”hey dandiya”…somebody shouted back, “ vannu kalikkedo….” . paavam njan…I threw them to one corner and joined the team !!
The auditorium frenzily roared out in excitement. They had all reason to celebrate..!! I wished somebody would put the curtain but it didn’t happen! They were celebrating it !!
And finally it was time for dandiya…and as u can guess, I went in search for the sticks I threw, wen the rest presumed with the dance !! To top it all, one of my team mates accidently pulled down all the lighting done on the stage as she turned round…!!. I could see my ‘ paara’ senior (the one in my bus-stop) howling his life out at a distance. I wondered if he would drop dead on the spot , howling ! The auditorium was a sea earlier, now it turned into a storm !!
At last, it was over…and we didn’t know how to get out of the damn place.
Deepa looked pitifully at me and said ‘ it was quite ok dear’. ‘ ya I know…’, I replied.
The ‘event’ was followed by a mock dance by seniors , imitating ours in which my part was played wonderfully well by Hari sir, which I came to know later.
Yeah…I was the star of the day.[:(] For all wrong reasons. Phew!!
I was caught in the bus. The senior guy warned me…” nee ini melal dance kalichu ennu njan arinjaal…………”
Brief pause………..dhayaneeyamayi njan ellarem noki..
“ vivaramariyum….manasilaayo…”. the whole gang burst into laughter…” ennalum aliya athoru dance thane aarnutto…6 perkum 6 step !! ” someone was laughing his heart out.
My dedicated classmates are allegedly known to have denied dey know us, on enquiry by seniors and some of them rang up at home and howled at me. I had enough. And I learnt a great lesson in life.
Ariyaatha panikku pokaruthu…J
But it did make a memory which taste gud like wine as years rolled out….:)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
WOMAN
1. how do women gain weight?
2. how do women get to have long straight hair that obeys gravity ?? ( phew!! )
You can give it any reason u want; hereditary, or a thyroid complaint...whatever..my hair never grew beyond a certain point and i never gained weight, the logic of which is still mysterious to me.:)
No matter how many tins of milma ghee my mom emptied into all the chappatis and dosas made for me..my body weight is at standstill magic figure of 53 kg. Hiking it by even a half kg is a distant dream for me as of now.:) In these times of 'degenerating decencies' when everyone is after VLCC to reduce weight, I am an exception.
My hair has every quality u can think of(!!!); its frizzy, its short, its damaged with umpteen split ends, and its thin; getting thinner with every bath which gives me a feeling it might just get extinct one day! Then i wudnt even have something to complain about! My! Too much of an injustice to a Keralite woman , the land of women with long hair..:)
95% of my nicknames are based on my hair some of which are unmentionable :)
But my hair did do me some good many a times in life. It helped me most in crowded buses where others attempts to deliberately embrace me from behind could be easily thwarted. U know how... :)
In class 12, teacher was trying to explain DNA double helix structure ( ya i was bio-maths ) , and guess what ! my hair came in handy!! The moment she would mention about schlerenchyma cells ( those found in fibrous plant parts like coir! ) my stupid classmates would all turn back to me!! as though they can get to see it on my head ! To add fuel to fire, Radhika miss would ask, ' hey! y r u all looking at Remya? ' , and the class would burst into laughter.
It also helped me escape ragging in the first year of b-tech. I never came in my seniors screened list of girls to be ragged (thank god!). They might have not wanted to waste time with a skinny girl with curly hair. But i was caught later due to my explicit ability to dance( !!! what a mess i made out of it!! ) on the freshers day , and yeah.. for some more other reasons.
People found it easy to recognize me from a distance even after several years!! thanks to my curls !! Or else, how would Revathy, my kindergarten buddy, recognise me in class 12, and come running to me calling my name? ( I took a few minutes to recognise her though ! )
It became easier many times in life, when i talked to my old teachers( who wud've taught many Remyas ) through the phone, introducing myself as ' Remya, maa'm ..ur curly haired student...!!!'. The response would be quick..' Ya Ya...got it...Remya Ann...yes..tell me Remya...'
There were instances when my tution sir (who was quite impressed with me) wud ask my classmates who joined for the next batch for graphics tution..' O..u are from adi shankara..electrical?? so remya is in ur class? the curly hair girl'?? ( he swings his hand in action near his head!! ) God! those guys made mince meat out of me flashing this news in my class !! But it was all gr8 fun!
I am leaving lot of things i want to write for the simple reason that the article wud become too long.
Whatever it might be...my hair gave me many good memories in my school as well as my college life. My identity is unique and i really love my life :) :)