Apparently our school celebrates it Platinum Jubilee (75 years) this year in December. (Or so says the wikipedia article, atleast) So here is a blog post in memory of the Platinum Jubilee.
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Firstly, the one news that had me laughing smiling in the assembly FOR 10 minutes (see here and here) The news that was announced in the assembly was -
(in my own words)
This time the Platinum Jubilee is a huge celebration and we will be having a number of celebrations uptil 9th of December - the foundation day. Committees are being formed for this, and soon students from Class 11 and 12 shall also be taken into the committees. On the last day of school, ie on 18th May, there will be a joint meeting for all the committees....
The events will be ..... On one of the days, we are looking at the possiblities to have Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam here. We are still talking with his secretary though there is a chance of him becoming President and all, so we can't yet confirm it....
(No wonder I was not listening to what was being said after that - I was too busy smiling - For 10 minutes)
Dr. Kalam is definitely the most only well known scientist of India, and therefore it is natural that a total science freak will literally freak out at the chance of having him in our school. Plus, we happen to be the top science batch of our school, and I happen to be the biggest science freak of them all ;) So no wonder I am hoping for a five minutes special encounter with him of sorts :)
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Next, a dream that I had one of the past few days-
The Platinum Jubilee celebrations were going on, and we had invited Mamata Didi to our school. But it so happened that when she came, there was hardly anyone to welcome her except AP and me (That was said to be explained by the fact that they must have been parking their vehicles!!!)
Since we had to entertain her, we first started talking to her, and them I pulled out a pen and paper, and started by helping her solve some trigonometry questions! Though the questions were quite simple, she did pretty well in all the questions, except one question, where she could not get the "sec x + tan x" that she had to get to get the final answer (Yes, I remember that too!) Though I realised she could have got that one easily if tried from another way.
Anyways, thats how the dream about Mamata Di ended, as I quickly flitted over to another dream
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And now the final post about the celebrations- this time related to the Committees -
It was May the 18th and nobody had yet been selected for being in any committees (except the 10 school office bearers, who were sure to be in one committee or the other). And there was no news either of anyone being in any committee or having any news of the same.
And I was really hoping and wanting to be in some committee or the other.
And then it happened. CR (one of the office bearers, and a good friend of mine) was called out by one of the teachers. We all knew what was that for. In the next 20 or so minutes, boys had been called out of classes by several teachers, and were asked to wait after school for the meeting. It was just like the Pheonix Club from The Social Network - Everyone was receiving their invites from everywhere else.
After the dust had settled down, here was the scores -
Out of the three of us (me, PR and AP- the three "brothers" as I consider us to be) two had received the call. PR was in the magazine committee with me, and it was natural that he was selected for the committee. AP, on the other hand, particularly despised being in the committee, and said "No" straightaway to the teacher who asked him. And I was deemed too 'volatile' for being selected for a committee!
And so it happened.
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Update : No Mr. Kalam is not coming to our school. Soni saaddd :(
Update 2: The science seminar (See here and here) finally DID happen, if only a year late. Me and AP gave it; and it was fun!!! I did stumble in the beginning quite a bit, but by the end, I was too good to be there ;) Every single person who met us after that used the word "awesome" or "great" atleast once!! :D
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