Gramatically....

Guys, i'm back. Its been a depressing 72 hours since i visited the blog site. Not that i was having a meeting with bill gates, but i was busy doing some funny stuffs. Anyways, we had this discussion today about updating some exploits of our college days.

The college where i studied my under grad was A.M.Jain college. It was famous in its own respects. The only college where you can get away with ragging at a nominal fee of 2 Rs or buy a plate of "bajji" and tea for the ragger. The most expensive ragging is to buy a full bottle of old monk for 10 seniors and imagine all these idiots got drunk after just smelling it. But, everything said and done, AMJain was like a resort for us. By us, i mean Bharathwaj, Ram and me. Our total attendence put together in the college would be less than 25 hours in 3 years.

So, after our 12th standard exams, we 3 were in different situations. I had 80% and no hopes for engineering and neither for Bsc (you are denied a seat because the arts college folks think you might move into engineering later). Bharath had a total of 49% in 12th, which his mom claims was because of his "thonda ganam , manda ganam and fever" although for bharath it was still his highest total ever achieved till date. Ram had a modest 60+ and was clear he was entitled to become the next ramanujam (mathematician). The common thing between all of us were, we all got a seat in AM Jain not in merit but thru recommendation. Even for that shit, we needed reco and finally after some begging crying and cribbing we got a seat.

There was our first year exams and we hardly ever knew the syllabus. The first if i remember was english. That day, we met, had some tea and cigarettes and set out for writing our first Bsc exams. Bharath looked absolutely studious, with vibhoodhi and a few books. Ram was there in his violet pants (which he thought made him a pitaji setji) and i was on with t-shirt and a trouser (torn in bottom). Lucky it was, it made me pass my exams, but just pass remember.

The bell had hardly rung and i see bharath had a flying start, he was the only guy who borrowed extra sheets when the exam started. He made his point, he dint want to waste time in waiting for extra sheets later. Ram dint even bother to look up at us, he seemed he had a job to do and i was clueless looking at the question paper. It was meant to be for 6th standard students. But, everyone was happy because it was an easy paper. It was hardly 2hours, when bharath me and ram handed over our papers to the prof and came out.

Man, you should have seen the joy in our faces.....bharath had the look as though he had just got thru IIT and ram was joyous. I was confused because i expected a better standard from the paper (my marks dint reflect them however:)) So, i started off saying, "Guys what do you think about the paper....something is terribly wrong"......Ram said "dei, shut your trap, the paper was easy and lets just celebrate" bharath added "machan, this paper cannot cross 6th std...hehehe"......

So, slowly we started discussing the paper and the it came to point when the laugh was unbearable. This was the question that was asked, imagine the state of the university where a panel deicdes on grammar questions for first year undergrad......Even oxford would hang its head in shame, our guys were tough.....

Question

Fill in with OR, ER or AR

"MOT _ _"

Man, i was telling ram, "machan , this question was intolerable. How could they think we were so freaking stupid"........

Ram said "yeah i agree, even for my gill adarsh english it looked funny....BTW, its MOTER right" I was in a state of shock, just the way you are now. I dint know how to react, should i laugh at this joke or should i feel bad for this little man who has grown up almost half his life without knowing the spelling of motor. It was confusing....really confusing....For a moment i thought, god thanks to my mom and dad for getting me educated in a CBSE.....Then i told Rama, this is atrocious, you cant say this....eppadi da MOTER nnu ezhudhina".......

Then came much awaited response from our man. Bharathwaj, who was quietly staring at me all thru this conversation. I bet, anyone near me would have burst into laughter and never recovered. But bharath was serious. He then giggled and said "Machan, i was confused with this question whether it was MOTOR or MOTER, so i took the question in choice" and i looked at the choice question "It was phrases and clauses".......I need not talk more about it, you must be laughing your way now.......

Those were the days when we happily enjoyed our english exams. BTW, i passed with 66%, ram was close with 45% or so, and bharath i dont have to say.....he retook the exams in end september.....:)