As I sit and ponder as to how to fill this post, I went through the previous ones and found that I have an incomplete post- “Enna ma Gay3?!” part. Yup, the post is going to be on the good ol’ tuition days!
@Gayathri: If you chance upon this post in the future, please do not take me wrong! I’m not defaming your image, that’s a promise. And please do not sue me for not consulting you for posting on your name!
@Kicha: The above applies to you as well!
Sorry, guys!
@All: All characters portrayed in the post are not imaginary or fictitious, and nothing is coincidence!
Tuition and Tuition Masters, without them it would have been difficult to cope-up with what was taught at school!
First let’s us attack CSR! Or shall I take him at last? Hmmm… on second thoughts, will save him for the last!
KND
He was our Math tuition master. The initials expand to K.N.Desikachari. Yup! You guessed right: he’s from the old times, strict, fundu and what not?! The process started (as in everyone’s life) when we entered 10th standard and continued till we completed our entrance exams. But, my relation with him started a long time back. He tutored my mom, uncle, then me and finally my sister. Yes, he was, as the professionals say, in the field for a very long time. Life went great under him. We had good times, apart from the small duration at tuition (compared to the time before and after the drill!).
Gani’s brother (Late) Gangaram, who was living in the parallel street, coming in with reasons for his absence in the previous classes.
Sir: “Yenda pona class varala?”
Gangaram: “Vootanda malai, sir!”
Every one of us was on the floor, hearing it! It was just a drizzle…
Another one involving Sir and Ramki-
Ramki (Had the tendency to shake his legs (Hmmm… how do I explain this? Imagine sitting on a chair in a relaxed posture, and moving your legs this way: Spread your legs and then bring it closer (repetitive)))
Sir (Notices this… and says this epic dialogue!):
“Appadiye aatikitte iruntha na, sombu mathiri aiyudum!”
We fall again! That was the dialogue of the century!
Then comes Shri Hari’s favourite dialogue-
Shri Hari, always, cracks the question in a matter of seconds! And on one such occasion sir noticed that he had missed few steps and had arrived at the answer in an alternate way, and says
“Arusi-a nalla thanni-la vadichalum sadham aagum, sewage water-la pannalum sadham aagum!”
The best times were after/before tuition. We played cricket (Had named it Roof Top Club) on most of the days and on other times it may be… (There other times were so small in magnitude that they can be ignored!) Cricket was where all the fun happened, as in the other post, Jayanth shouts after getting out “Pitch-u da!” Those were jolly good days!
Now on to the next page, Chemistry tuition - P. O. Johnson Pattery
This mallu dude, worked in a famous school in
The best part about this page was his accent, his pronunciations and his way of accepting and dumping the monthly tuition fees into his pocket! Two pockets with flap on them. Well, imagine this: He talks and is unaware of the flap and tries to shove the money into the pocket. Well, the whole act is hilarious!
Rajesh Rathod (Thanks maan for the contributions!) has dedicated a diary to preserve the chap’s dialogues. Here, I present those dialogues from his diary,
Johnny: You write, ‘Properties of acetic acid is dhe dhe dhe…’ yeah, you write…
Johnny: Shri Hari, any problem?
Johnny: Yeah, yeah, very very simple…
Shri Hari forgets his pen or it is not writing…
Johnny: Shri Hari, is the pen writing?
Shri Hari: No, sir!
Johnny takes the whole pen stand and passes it over!
On a Sunday morning class…
Unknown (Yawns)
Johnny: Is water Acid or Base?
Unknown (Sleepy): Acid?!
Johnny: (Mallu accent) Yeah, Morning morning you drink acid?!
Johnny: How much is 1calorie?
Amit Shah: 1000 Kcal, sir…
Class rolls over!
Johnny notices that Jayanth has almost hit dreamland leaning on the wall
Johnny: Jayanth, tell me ozonalysis.
Jayanth blurts out something (Other words I do not remember… LN has the best memory, probably I should ask him to write a blog on the same again!) and class rolls.
The way he drinks his tea…
Finally, CSR
C.S.Ravi Shankar, profession: Tutoring Physics [because he is the best in it! Unbeatable! Any questions?]. The post’s title was after his infamous dialogue “Enna ma Gayathri?!”
How and where do I start?
It all started with Vaday telling me about him. And I spread the info to other guys! Before Vaday could realize what had happened, there were half the science students in his tuition! Let me list them out-
- Vaday
- Myself
- Manu
- Dilip
- Shri Hari
- Kicha
- Gani (Went to Pillai as well!)
- Rathod
- Sooraj
- Karthik
- Jayanth
- LN
- Rajesh alias Kalia
- Golan
- Deeptha
- And Gayathri!
The count is 15 (did I miss anyone?), which is 3/4th of the total science population!
The first thing you’ll think after seeing him “Is he a sir?” Well, not that way (Capable?). For his appearance you are sure to mistake him for a student than for a master (Is this what is so advantageous for him?!)
Next on to the centre stage-
I’m just jotting the moments I remember!
Sir is yet to arrive…
Gani and someone are having a friendly quarrel and Gani says “The video boy” (Hey! Do not ask me what it means. Find it out yourself… All I can hint is: It is a Thamizh ketta vaarthai!) at him! Sir arrives exactly at this point and says “Ganeshram, do not use such languages here. If you need to, please leave!”
The day when Kalia and LN acted as CSR and student and sir happened to come in the middle of their act!
Karthik getting caught while copying a bit! Chases him out of the class asked him to bring his parents… After that Karthik never liked him (Or even before that?!)
The numerous photo copies which he used to issue at the end of class (I collected everything and thought of something useful for it, but gash! It did not fetch any money at all!)
The famous incident-
Gayathri arrives…
Sir: Enna ma Gayathriiii?! Eppadi vantha?
Gayathri: Car.
Sir: Yaaru ottara?
This went on for sometime and there was confusion amongst us, finally LN popping with a question: Driver than Appavaaaaaa? Apppooo?
Another one, but this time it is his favourite topic – Vekters
Near his board, keeps his closed fist on the board in such a way that the thumb points at you, and he is trying to explain the direction of the resultant vekter… Forget it. It is hard to explain this part (I’ve completely forgotten to spell vekter! Calling the experts: Vaday, Manu, Shri Hari or Dilip please help!) and says “Puriyalaya pa? Enna pa neenga! io… Feel pannunga!”
Quotes-
Anga yaaru pa satham pannrathu… Sollikittey irukken apporam asingma thittiduven… Vagabonds-u, street urchins-u nu thittiduven pa! (Romba periya kettavartha, yebba! Gani-ya minjitarey!)
Jayanth correcting sir by saying "Two equal halves?!"
CSR’s dog - Arjun!
The days we used ottify Vaday with Priya? When all of us went to Suraj's place to watch In Vs. Zim...
The days we used travel in cycle to all these places and hit bed rather sit and revise!
English tuition – Dedicated to Kicha and Adi!
Oh yes! We did go when we were in 9th and 10th. It was not exactly tuition, but more fun than that!
There were
Adi
Dilip
Kicha
Myself and
Shri Hari
And the tutor was Shri Hari’s mom!
We had rocking time! After and before class we use to play Cricket on the terrace…
Or there used to be Adi pulling Kicha’s legs (During 9th and 10th, Kicha never had his upper jaw’s front teeth, remember? (Kicha do not curse or plan to take my arse off! We are just making people laugh, yes at your cost!)) by saying “Thoddi”! That was not all that happened between them, they literally fought everyday! One day Kicha or Adi got so pissed off that he showed _|_ to other, Nivi (Shri Hari’s younger bro was watching the whole stuff) was curious to know its meaning, and Shri Hari came in to blast both of them for corrupting Nivi!
Once we wrote a mock exam at her place and the next day at school, the same paper was issued (Actually it was some old question paper given to our senior, and the lazy ma’am never took an effort to change it.). We were all delighted and did well!
As narrated by Adi to us-
Kicha goes to buy some groceries at the famous Ayyanar stores, and the fellow over there returns a torn 100 note, which Kicha happily accepts it (not knowing it is torn), finally he returns again in the evening to return the 100 back. But the dude disagrees to accept it, and what does our Kicha say? Nope, not that! He says “The Video Boy” right on his face and returns home! The bloke at the stores never understood what Kicha said (we all guessed). Otherwise we would have never seen Kicha alive!
Well, that’s about it guys! Have a nice time.
I’m not going to have any, waiting for Kicha and Gayathri to take me down!
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