Saturday, September 25, 2010

S.M.A. & U.M.A - The two great educational institutions of my life

S.M.A. and U.M.A. - These are the two great  institutions where i did my schooling. Both are the veterans in their fileds and are the best in imparting education in their specialities. I have spent nearly equal amount of years in both the institutions. The former gave me knowledge about cells, tissues,ethanol,newtons and galileos and the later taught me multiplications and divisions of joys and sorrows and thereby mastering the  "ART OF LIVING"

I will take you thru the similarities and dissimilarities of the two and you can decide for yourself where you wanna study.

S.M.A made me a better person and U.M.A made me a bitter person. Every weak moments of my life i remembered the motto of  S.M.A  "Let your light shine" where as U.M.A taught me  "Let us fight till we break our spine".

Both have a mind boggling infrastructure and it will take you a while to move around and understand the structure , the enterance and the exit and if you are not very careful you may get lost and  never find your way out . Heart of S.M.A is very huge and can accomodate many students at a time but U.M.A has many limitations .Though it also has a huge empty ground but it has too many walls and pillars in it so moving around and playing is a bit difficult as you have a good chances of getting hurt.
The two have there own way of teaching. S.M.A's training is theoritical and they conduct exams every year and getting thru these exams is quiet simple whereas U.M.A conducts exam very often and way of judging is very strict and so you have to take many attempts to clear the exam and get good marks.

Getting admission in U.M.A is a very tough task but once you get in you are sure to go on a roller coaster ride.U.M.A believes in giving practical lessons . Their way of teaching is very traumatic which probably everybody cannot take it... .. as they first emotional rape a person and mentally tire him to such an extend that he is completly drained out , that is the time when they vanish from the scene and this where their art lies . They drag you to a vegetable state where you will feel lifeless and then they ask you to get up on your own and  live life . In the process they awake the beast in you and make you behave like one animal and in turn feels vicitimised .This is how you master the lessons of "ART OF LIVING".

Whenever i miss  S.M.A i go back to my hometown and for sure visit my school and I feel very good because it still is in the same state as i left but when ever i miss U.M.A and i try to visit  i fail as it is now in a dilapidated state and the keys to the doors are lost somewhere.

Friday, September 24, 2010

my favourite showpiece broke !!

I had a very beautiful showpiece , which i got ten years back. It was out of the world, surreal ,very expensive and extremely close to my heart and life. The day I saw this showpiece I fell in love with it and wanted to get it into my house by paying any cost and i did it.It was worth paying some extra grands for this lovely art work because very rarely you get to find such creations and who so ever would have got it must have felt the same. So i was the lucky one to get it and was madly attached to it. I use to handle it very carefully because i knew if not handled properly it will break. Morning ,evening , every min. of my life I use to feel good as it was enhanching the beauty of my house and life.

Days passed and after a year or so it started loosing its glitter and a crack came on it .. I was jittery, nervous and scared and went out of the way to fill that crack and polish it beautifully to hide the scar on the beauty and carried that broken and aritifically caumoflauged show piece whereever i went . I travelled places and wherever i went i took some extra care to carry the showpiece but with the time the beauty of it was demeening and the crack was growing deeper and deeper and i was standing there helplessly because i knew if i loose this i will not get a similiar piece ever again in my life  .

Yesterday for my surprise even i was fed up of taking this extra care and extra burden of maintaning the showpiece and unknowingly and unintentionaly i cleaned it half heartedly and it slipped out of my hand and fell with a big thud on the ground , the pieces went into my legs and hands and I was in pain .The showpiece had hurt me , the showpiece whom I gave a special place in my heart and life at the time of going away from my house left with so much of trauma ... i was shocked 

I went blank , i cried , i shouted, i yelled but nobody was there to listen to me . The world turned deaf on me and nobody vouched for help . Suddenly my maid came and cleaned the mess and told me "didi ek sadi se showpiece ke liye kyon ro rahe ho, wo tu kitna ganda ho gaya tha achha hua toot gaya"

I got up and asked her to go in kitchen and make some tea for me as i knew she will never understand what loosing a old friend can be like so what if she was just like a showpiece in my life