What does an average demented Indian do when he’s 17 years old?? That’s right, he goes for tuition, slogs and prepares for entrance exams. Now, those people who were enlightened and smart enough not to go for engineering, medicine, mosquito killing, bug bashing et al, please excuse; I was referring to the not-so-fortunate hapless souls. Our gang of demented, undernourished, ill begotten young teenagers thrived in the tuition classes hurling paper rockets and gawking at girls. Learning, studying, cramming and other socially acceptable activities were done during the precious moments snatched in between sleep. Inky pinky ponkying on the OMR sheet and randomly bubbling on it became a mundane affair. And hitting rock bottom marks became as routine as brushing our teeth (yeah we did brush our teeth, seriously!). But all of a sudden, Mundan Pakru started scoring astronomical marks for mock tests. Rumors started spreading that Pakru is burning the midnight oil cramming volumes of information and that Pakru’s mom now feeds him gallons of vitamin tonics and Dabur Chyawanprash. We were amazed at Pakru’s sudden metamorphosis into a brilliant, studious chap and when asked about it he smugly gave some unsolicited advice:
“Practice man practice. Practice makes perfect; perfect like me.”
One day, we went to Pakru’s house to collect some notes; Pakru wasn’t there and as we waited for him to come, we had a casual talk with his mom. Somewhere in the midst of the talk, his ‘too naïve’ mom says, “It’s quite strange. Pakru has been writing alphabets all the time. Always writing ABCD on pieces of paper.”
Writing alphabets?? ABCD??? Pieces of paper??!!!
A little investigation into the case disentangled the mystery behind the sudden rise of Pakru’s marks. Our tuition class had various batches at different timings and all batches got the same question paper for tests. What did that smart-ass of a Pakru do? He simply borrowed the question paper and the keys from the previous batch and Voila!! A brilliant student formed out of thin air. Later we confronted Pakru and quipped,
“So this is what your ‘practicing’ was all about eh? Practicing ABCD??”
only to see the big wide grin of Pakru (showing his big yellow teeth. No, we didn’t believe he brushed his teeth).
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LOL!! He is brilliant nevertheless!
Hahaha...
Although I reckon you did not go for the (in)famous P.C Thomas tuition classes as he would have never allowed the same question paper to be repeated in another test(Rumour has it that he kept switching the answers WHILE you were giving the test!)
And oh btw, if your buddy really took Dabur chyavanprash and bulked up to become the Indian Arnold, you are in BIG trouble!
:)
Everything in life needs pratice .. even copy -paste .. ask any coder in the IT world ;)
fallacy: when asked about it he smugly gave some unsolicited advice :)
Why do I sense deja vu from the post? ;)
LOL, Pakru is too gud, w is he now?
hahaa..ithu ethara kandu irrikunnu!!;-D
Pakru is a genius I would say!! ;-D
@silverine: I guess so. ;)
@nitram: Switching the answers?? LOL!! Hey I thought Dabur Chyawanprash was for improving thinking ability, but who knows it might be used for body building too. We never know. ;)
@deepti: That's a good example! We also used copy paste for writing lab records and for making presentations. ;)
@karthik: You're too discerning, hehe. We didn't ask Pakru for advice, it's the last thing we would want from him; we smelled something fishy and asked him what was he upto, something like that, hence "unsolicited". :) You sense deja vu coz you were among those hapless demented souls who decided to prep for engg, I suppose. ;)
@ajith: He's in US now :)
@mathew: Aah! Someone who can empathize. Pakru is an evil genius, I would say. ;)
You all brushed your teeth everyday but had ur bath only once in a year na?! :D
Reminds me of our coaching classes.. they used to make us exchange the omr sheets n correct it ourselves during the mock tests.. so me n JJ used to exchange d ans sheets b/n ourselves n darken d bubbles when they read out the answers ;D.. missing all those classes now.
JS
pakru rocks...
better than inky pinky ponky anytime;)
ps-brushing ur teeth is a real bad habit
@thoorika: Hehe. Eggjackly. How did you know that? ;)
@JS: Oh, we did something like that for class tests in school. Guess we're all birds of same feathers. ;)
@praveen: Hehe, yeah it's better than inky pinkying. Growing long hair is also a very bad habit. :P
poda cherukkaa:P
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