It's a nightmare being in the board years of your lives. I think most of my partners-in-crime would agree.At one end there are your parents who remind you every single minute that "you have or ICSE/ISC and you are least bothered" and at the other you're struggling for existance. Let me stick to my situation for now. I have ISC in exactly I don't know how many days.( Pardon me!.my memory fails me!)
Yes, it is this "I don't know, or I don't care" attitude that usually make parent-folk blow their top. Ofcourse, I'm a deadly combination of both you see.And parents these days don't need much reason to blow-up, I mean it's either the children or the maid or the driver who did something wrong. According to my mother(and the ISC language paper 1998) "the youth of today is expected to play newer roles and follow more challenging careers."
Newer roles??..challenging careers??....oh! so thats why they decided to keep cut-off's like 95% and above and all sorts of trash reservations. The education system out here (and probably everywhere else too) has a bunch of dinosaurs perched up there who spent all their lives conspiring how to make our lives miserable.
Back to my point. Just because we're a part of generation-next doesn't mean we can conquer the world. I mean we'd love to but hey!, you're not helping!! So what if we listen to comparatively high level decibled music while studying hindi. (It's hindi!!. & I can't listen to breaking benjamin and numb softly!)
From the outside we may look like we haven't showered for ages but from the inside..its all a bed of roses!
What I'm basically trying to say is that, Relax!..Breathe....the world is not coming to an end tommorrow or sometime soon. (I wish!) "BOARDS" are important. Agreed. We know that. Not Agreed. Sleeping till 8:00 a.m. in the morning is no way connected to the percentage we will be getting in the exams. Incase you haven't noticed, during the exams the "groove" sets in thus resulting in the sudden rise of demand for coffee & a tremendous fall in the supply of sleep. Everything is compensated there.
Hurtling all sorts of insults and reasons as to why you think nothings going to happen out of us won't increase the percentage. For all you know it will decrease it. If you think you're making life simpler and clearer for us by making us aware of "things", believe me, YOUR NOT HELPING AT ALL!.
Besides, majority of the time is spent claiming how so& so's kids have done well here and there and everywhere and how we're probably the most useless things that could ever walk the face of this Earth. You know what I say, I say BOO!.....All you people are a bunch of contradictions. Once you say "oh yea! you're gonna kill it", then you say "I'm gonna kill you if this isn't upto the mark". The relativeness of terms have made life very difficult for simpletons like us. "Doing well" can mean a lot these days!. I shudder to think about the consequences.
All in all, I kindly request no one to panic. The "frank ISC papers"are available and they usually come up with lovely last minute suggestions.( no no! not for me!!.) As I sign off with all my love and luck to those appearing for the boards 08' and have parents who are driving them up the wall, I hear my mother shrieking, "again you're online!!..now you wait..i will break that laptop of yours!), I sit back, close my eyes and see the image of buddha.
Clarity. Peace. Serenity. ( concentrate my child!, you have a long way to go!)
Yes, it is this "I don't know, or I don't care" attitude that usually make parent-folk blow their top. Ofcourse, I'm a deadly combination of both you see.And parents these days don't need much reason to blow-up, I mean it's either the children or the maid or the driver who did something wrong. According to my mother(and the ISC language paper 1998) "the youth of today is expected to play newer roles and follow more challenging careers."
Newer roles??..challenging careers??....oh! so thats why they decided to keep cut-off's like 95% and above and all sorts of trash reservations. The education system out here (and probably everywhere else too) has a bunch of dinosaurs perched up there who spent all their lives conspiring how to make our lives miserable.
Back to my point. Just because we're a part of generation-next doesn't mean we can conquer the world. I mean we'd love to but hey!, you're not helping!! So what if we listen to comparatively high level decibled music while studying hindi. (It's hindi!!. & I can't listen to breaking benjamin and numb softly!)
From the outside we may look like we haven't showered for ages but from the inside..its all a bed of roses!
What I'm basically trying to say is that, Relax!..Breathe....the world is not coming to an end tommorrow or sometime soon. (I wish!) "BOARDS" are important. Agreed. We know that. Not Agreed. Sleeping till 8:00 a.m. in the morning is no way connected to the percentage we will be getting in the exams. Incase you haven't noticed, during the exams the "groove" sets in thus resulting in the sudden rise of demand for coffee & a tremendous fall in the supply of sleep. Everything is compensated there.
Hurtling all sorts of insults and reasons as to why you think nothings going to happen out of us won't increase the percentage. For all you know it will decrease it. If you think you're making life simpler and clearer for us by making us aware of "things", believe me, YOUR NOT HELPING AT ALL!.
Besides, majority of the time is spent claiming how so& so's kids have done well here and there and everywhere and how we're probably the most useless things that could ever walk the face of this Earth. You know what I say, I say BOO!.....All you people are a bunch of contradictions. Once you say "oh yea! you're gonna kill it", then you say "I'm gonna kill you if this isn't upto the mark". The relativeness of terms have made life very difficult for simpletons like us. "Doing well" can mean a lot these days!. I shudder to think about the consequences.
All in all, I kindly request no one to panic. The "frank ISC papers"are available and they usually come up with lovely last minute suggestions.( no no! not for me!!.) As I sign off with all my love and luck to those appearing for the boards 08' and have parents who are driving them up the wall, I hear my mother shrieking, "again you're online!!..now you wait..i will break that laptop of yours!), I sit back, close my eyes and see the image of buddha.
Clarity. Peace. Serenity. ( concentrate my child!, you have a long way to go!)
5 comments:
While reading "Boards",I heard an unusual sound coming from deep in my throat. Startled, I looked around me, and there was no one there. So I went back to reading your post and the sound was repeated, even louder! I was laughing! Even now, as I am concentrating on pecking out this comment, my lips are curled upward. My cheeks are starting to cramp. You, my friend, are better than Prozac!
i shudder to think of next year, but then if i read this maybe ill think of u as a kindred spirit. and take hope.
or maybe ill throw a fit. :|
Cult, i say, this is cult artwork!!
If this comes out in newspapers and magazines, you will touted as the next big thing in Indian Writing! This blog might even break the slumber of the Council and force them to bring forth some serious amendments. Those of us who have been through this unspoekn horror, can't thank you enough for this blog.
does that mean i get a standing ovation???
I agree with you completely..... Boards were tormenting!
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