10 years ago

10 years ago

1. I was in 6th Standard

2. i sucked at math( i still do )

3. i had a huge crush on one ,,well two girls in my class.

4. I went to Cricket Coaching

5. I wanted to be a Doctor

6. I had seen 2-3 English Movies

7. I Couldnt Ride a Bicycle...Learnt after 3 months

8. I didnt have a Sibling

9. My Vacs would be Spent in Mumbai and Surat ---Its Ulta now, For Vacs i come down to Baroda.

10. I was a Part of an "Invention Group"...

Still Vividly Recall Those Days....Me,Divya,Priyesh, Ishaan, Dwij, Sagar ( Secret Meetings and all stuff, Password, all Inspired from Secret Seven i Guess !!)

11. I had Etched my name on a Tree...Opposite My Class in 5th-c .

That we used to call a "TREE"

12. I used to Write with Ink-Pen ( Provided by School.)

13. I Hated the Number 13( was superstitious)

14.

English teacher/ SS teacher- Bakshi sir ( He had Told Us To Do Two things:

a) Buy Two Story Books on Every birthday . So by 20 years u'll have Your Own Library ..

10 Years Have Passed and I have Hardly Read 10 Books...So Gotta Catch Up

Eventually Poornima Madam Replaced Him- She was a Perfect teacher. Very Devoted to her Job

b) Plant 1 tree every year .Didnt Get a Chance, But Did Plant Two Mango Trees which have grown Big and Yeah bear Fruits also.

Hindi teacher- Mayur sir ---Well, he would Make Us Laugh a Lot.

Science teacher- Shivani madam-- Class teacher.

She Actually Made The Transition Easy from 5th (junior section) to 6th (senior section) --Wonderful Teacher

Maths teacher- Tejashri Madam- I Was Afraid of Her ...ha ha

Computer Teacher- Chaturvedi Sir...Cant Believe used to work on Windows 95 then.

15. I had never been Online....Didnt have an Email id , Didnt have a Cellfone ( though of Internet as a Machine .....ha ha )

16. Used to Play Cricket All Day in Vacs.
3 shifts actually ( Ws good at Batting .Thought Myself As the Next Tendulkar in Waiting)

Early Morning 8-10

After Lunch

and Evenings(Coaching)

17. Played My first Cricket Match on Season ball ( It was 6th -C v/s 6th -B )

Venue: Akota Stadium

The Equation Still Remains in our Favour .We have won 37 and they 32( Correct me if I am wrong)

18. Had Watched Each and Every Match at WC-1999. and loved to see India thrash Pakistan

1999 also reminds me of Anil Kumble's 10 wkt Haul against Pakistan.

19. Took Part in a Inter House Drama- The Sheriff's Kitchen (Based on Robinhood- My role Was That of a Guard--Abhishek Shah was With me In This Drama) I felt i had Done a Great Job....Acting Hmmmm..

So This Is What Happened To Me 10 Years Ago. Let Me See If After Another 10 Years I Can Write Sumthing Once Again.

GONE ARE THE DAYS.....

Gone are the days
when the school reopened in June,
and we settled in our new desks and benches;

Gone are the days
when we wanted two Sundays and no Mondays, yet
managed to line up daily for the morning prayers;

Gone are the days
we learnt writing with slates and pencils, and
Progressed To fountain pens and ball pens and then Micro tips;

Gone are the days
We began drawing with crayons and evolved to Colour pencils and finally sketch pens;

Gone are the days
we started calculating first with tables and then with Clarke's tables and advanced to calculators and computers;

Gone are the days
when we chased one another in the corridors in Intervals, and returned to the classrooms drenched in sweat;

Gone are the days
when we had lunch in dinning hall, and sometimes ran away from the school for those samosas and dabelis;

Gone are the days
when all the colors in the world,
Decorated the campus on the Second Saturdays;

Gone are the days
when a single P.T. period in the week's Time Table,Was awaited more eagerly than the monsoons;

Gone are the days
when cricket was played with writing pads as bats,and Neckties and hanky rolled into balls;

Gone are the days
when few played "kabadi" and "Kho-Kho" in scorching sun,while others simply played "book cricket" in the Confines of classroom;

Gone are the days
of fights but no conspiracies,Of Competitions but seldom jealousy;

Gone are the days
when we used to watch Live Cricket telecast,in the hostel in Intervals and Lunch breaks;

Gone are the days Of Sports Day,
and the annual School Day,
and the one-month long preparations for them;

Gone are the days of the stressful,Quarterly, Half Yearly and Annual Exams, and the most enjoyed holidays after them.

Gone are the days of tenth and twelfth standards, when we spent almost the whole year writing revision tests;

Gone are the days
we learnt, we enjoyed, we played, we won, we lost,
we laughed, we cried, we fought, we thought;

Gone are the days
with so much fun in them, so many friends,
So much experience, all this and more;

Gone are the days when we used to talk for hours with our friends.
Now we don't have time to say a HI;

Gone are the days when we played games on the road.
Now it doesn’t look good ;

Gone are the days when we saw stars shining at night.
Now we see stars when our effort doesn't work;

Gone are the days when we sat to chat with friends on grounds.
Now we chat in chat rooms;

Gone are the days where we studied just to pass.
Now we study to save our job;

Gone are the days where we had no money in our pockets and fun filled on our hearts;

Now we have the ATM as well as credit card but with an empty heart

Gone are the days where we shouted on the road.
Now we don't shout even at home;

Gone are the days where we got lectures from all.
Now we give lectures to all... like the one I'm doing now....;

Gone are the days
But not the memories, which will be
Lingering in our hearts for ever and ever and
Ever and ever and Ever.....

P.S ( I received this over email)

gilbert hill

me ip and gsb on 7th may 2008

thats the look towards jogeshwari

slums around gilbert hill

slumdog millionaire's one scene was shot here

and so was sholay's

earlier when there used to be no buildings around....

might be some 10-15 years ago....

well well guys ...dreams ..dreams n more dreams ..some are fulfilled immediately...some in a few hours..some in a few days ..n some just happen after a long time n then you realise it ...(ahh! i had thought about this so long n its happening with me now)

well 10th november 2000
i visit ma uncles place @ juhu gali andheri west after a very long time ..i was in 7th standard ...n had just been blessed wid a cute sister 2 month ago ...
so i go to his place n after some time v r on d terrace of d building ..well m a adventure freak from within n yeah crazy abt it ...so i see a hill frm dis place ... n d wish widin me arises to go 2 dis palce ..but den u know evry1 is lik wat vl v do goin dere (sounds really boring to me )
so den i go back ..n it fades away ....

29th june 2006
well well ....i have secured an admission in svkms nmims's mpstme in comp. engg
so i have to be in mumbai ....v hav r lecs at dj sanghavi coll
frm d 6th flr of d coll i can see a hill( i didnt even no d name den )

again ma mind races back (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) i have seen dis place b4 ..n yeah i always wanted 2 be dere ....but u see i wasnt able to ...
but again m new to mumbai ..dont know d roads n stuff n how to get dere ....but the wish alwasy remains ....
after d 1st trisem ...i hav a nickname "parashar 'gilbert' pandya"
many of ma frnds no abt dis place now ..but then who wuld want to come wid me ...i try to convince evry1 but dey r lik same ..wat vl v do dere ...so even in d 2nd trisem no one comes....n again in d 3rd trisem ..evry1 sounds the same . no one wants to come again

meanwhile in august or september there is this article in TOI which says abt GILBERT HILL ..so finally i get the name ..its GILBERT HILL ...

mean while 26 th april arriver n its time to go back home @ baroda

so no gilbert hill in the 1st year ..but then i wanted to go there

6th october
finally i decide to hell with everyone m goin to go maself ..(only ghanshyam was d person who was ready to come with me on gilbert hill )
but then i decide let me go ...so i enter juhu gali (which is quite near frm ma new place of residence) ...n after goin from all d crap palces ( slums surround gilbert hill ) they have just disturbed the aura of this hill ...they shud be removed as soon as possible ..n finally after climibing gates of residential societies ..n tresspassing many sociities i reach gilbert hill ...also i must have asked 100s of people the way to gilbert hill ...from policeman to street children to watchmans ..
n den it arrives 200 ft high standing there ...there is a small hut down dere were a family sells coconut n flowers to b offered to god ..yaa there is a temple of gaondevi n durgamata over there ....so i start climbing the steep staircase ....n finally i have reached the summit....wow wat a place it is ...on one side u can have the view of juhu beach ...wonderful ...on the other the towering buildings of andheri n all the way upto goregaon ...n den also the santacruz airport ...its wonderful to see a aeroplane taking off... frm d runway ..i tell u see it to belive it ...n den the majestic hiranandani gardens of powai ....it just felt i should keep o n seeing this place never get down.....wow it was wonderful.
so r u gonna join me the next time???

here is the gilbert hill on wikimapia and here it is on wikipedia..