thodarum

Alma Mater,Stand Brave,Stand True Under the Green and Gold
Mrs Simon with her "Presen-t" and "Absen-t", Mrs.Annapoorna with her Hindi,Mrs.Grace with her"Your 10th board exam Math paper will fly out of the window when its going for correction and they mite not be able to retrieve it", Ms Soans with her"when will u stop reading Sweet Valley?????????" Mrs Shahuna calling us Sack Potatos!!!

I MD,promise to do my best to do my duty to God,my country and my people and to uphold the honour of Sacred Heart School and the Lotus House(or so it goes,i think i skipped a couple of lines)

Working from the 7th std and building a network to give the above said speech at the investiture ceremony and lead the house..

Sitting with chubby baby Manisha and attempting to guide other innocent souls through Sports Day practise along with Mugs and Ketu and Jollu etc.Running 75m,100m,400m and the relays making sure the runners dont faint and ending up fainting myself!!! Praying to heavens that I march well as the first person entering the sports field.Elation when the points were pouring in, joy in getting an ALL THE BEST card from a nameless lil 6th std kid.. The final cheer when Lotus House won and running up to get the winners cup.. Dramatics where Resh decided to do a spoof on Bollywood, and of course the amazing farewell assembly where we went on abt school for abt 1.5 hrs much to everyone else's chargin..

Brench and Bauble March(read French and Bubble) with Band Master, and of course the famous VIP call,feeble attempts at running away from Juliet(yes tat was her name) who called me her Romeo(decided to grow my hair after tat)... Art exhibitions where Resh and I gave the same display for 3 yrs in a row... Failing 9th std Maths Quarterly and feeling desperately low..Miraclously passin 11th std and wondering how the hell did I manage that(yeah times change that fast)..Playing at St.Williams School and Lil Flower School for the Blind and feeling happy with ourselves..Playing for the State Games in front of Kalaignar..

Math tution with AKutty and Ashish and the other boys...Phaneendra sir and his wife and daughter whose range of bad words ended at "cud chewing animal", Physics Chandrasekar who always encouraged me to give my best and the Chemistry Chandrasekar who decided that I was upto no good at all and doubtful of passin 12th..

Mugs,Manjakka,Ketu,Resh,Jollu,Lavanya S&R,bureedi,Polly,DH,Keerthi,Mridula,DS(my sports sec,with whom I shared many a joy and sorrow), Rohini Metharam(best frnd for life),Swanu,Ro,Reeba,Ramya,Vidya(the Oliver Twist gang)Freeda, Ruveetha,Rubha,Trisha(yeah the actress chik),Akhila,Xena or Kichu,Hema,Tijitha(yes tat is her name),Sariga(yeah a name again)Lakshmi Kannan,Malathi Suresh,A Malathy,Nalina,Divya Spandana,Reema,Asha,Aushi,Neha,Bindya,Sangeetha,Kanchu,Ria,Nitya(and her mom),Johnathan,Kunal,Ghouse,Keerthi Prasad,Sunny,Shawn and the rest of the boys from Don Bosco..The amazing parties we used to have..Where I lost any inhibitions I had about dancing and where I learnt to play Truth or Dare and Spin the Bottle..

And then"Yenna da,Peter-a indhu Ponnu,Church Park nindu vanda..." and Bus No 35 and DB attempts at ragging me and flopping miserably..Physics Sirs first class abt the vernier calipers... The several attempts at BITS taking over our very own Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering and thereby it being the south's own BITS-P(Pennalur)... Peters Road-Anna Arivalaiam-Nandanam-Intermediate(!!!!!)-Saidapet-Little Mount-Guindy-Butt Road(with the famous Butt-Inn)-Poonamalee(with the matter theatre and the court side by side)-Porur-Hyundai-and then the famous SVCE,Pennalur..Did the journey almost everyday for 4 yrs and enjoyed it every single time..Neddi Sir and Porur McRennet where we used to stop for pastries jus coz a certain someone(ahem ahem) had a terrible urge to eat Japanese Pastry... The famous Bridge Course and how i missed it due to Chicken Pox(thanks annaya).. the papers for re evaluation, Banglore IV, IT- A vs IT - B fights...Gazillion trips to the canteen..Millions of Puffs, Aloo Bondas,Vadais consumed...Having to get an out pass and steering away from the Nair Kadai..My Families
Dee,Nanta,Suze,Kandameanie,Arch,ADi(yes spelled tat way),Mole,Chat,Arun(who owns Nelson Manikkam High Road) There are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many memories and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many things we did together..I dont know where to start and where to end and therefore am gonna not mention anythin...Pasha,BnB,Kaiyendi(yes we believe in equality and therefore visit road side and 5 star hotels likewise), Besi beach,Dee's house,My house sleepovers,Satyam Cinemas,Zaaras Tapas Bar,Ooty and Banglore trips tat we took together,Amethyst,Anokhi,Arun's and Sharan's beachouse...Buharis near Adis house, sitting around in the sports field and yapping away,playing in the water,pouring sand on each other,Chat falling of the horse singing Laka Laka,Chats adventure trip to Ooty(I have never in my 22 yrs of existance seen anyone so creative and so persistant)I will stop coz otherwise I will bore u out...

Vasudha,Chaitanya,Sriram,Ashmit(those 3 names still come together), Saishyam and Divya(my co office bearers)Jan,Div,Laks,MP,Sow,Chinni,Dog,Pig1 &2, Reva,Sangi, Rattle Raaj,Reddy,Abhi,RJ(the lil bro i never had and my sounding board),Janani Junior and a whole bunch of others..

love u guys lotttttttttttttts thanks for making SVCE the most memorable events in my life..

I thot I wud write abt my Wipro Tech experience but decided to spare u torture..Anyways wat is the pt I am tryin to make u wonder(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) well I am jus recalling my last 22 yrs...Someone was jus tellin me tat its not possible to have several best frnds..But I for one can tell u tat its verrry possible to have several best frnds and love all of them jus the same...

PS Y is the post called Thodarum u ask..Well in line with the mega serials wat has happened is just an episode in my life and I have the new episode starting in my life with MY TTG

PPS Thanks a lot for being a part of my life all of u and for helping me grow as an individual...I have tried to avoid using names wherever possible but otherwise I am sorry :((