Monday, May 5, 2014

Memories..

I absolutely have no idea how to begin this post but I just try to jot down some of the best memories of my childhood and teen age.
I really had an awesome childhood. Being the first child in the family I was pampered by everyone. But I consider my teen age as the most beautiful part of my life. The memories of my teen age are most beautiful memories that I cherish.
When I was in twelfth standard, we had human anatomy in detail in biology. We needed practical demonstration for better understanding. But any sort of animal dissection wasn't included in our syllabus. But we decided that we will dissect a frog on our own. Obviously my surgeon dad came to our rescue. Our first challange was to get a frog. My father arranged a frog somehow. I don't know how but my father has a solution to all the problems. After getting the little creature in a tiny box, we decided the place for dissection. It was our terrace. All my friends gathered at my place to participate in the adventure. We bought a dissection box and were thrilled to handle those instruments. But it was my father, who was actually going to dissect the frog. The frog was forced to go in an unconscious state and we started the adventure. My father did his job very skillfully and we were watching the whole procedure very earnestly. We studied the nervous system, digestive system of the amphibians. I still remember holding the flower like tiny pancreas of the frog in my hand. It was a very different experience which taught us many things. The only regret was the tiny creature lost his life in the whole adventure.
Our IIT Mumbai visit during second year of engineering has to be one of the best memories that I cherish. We were quite comfortable with each other and knew each other well by that time. This was my first trip with my friends and the destination itself was one of the best technology institutes in India. Meeting and interacting with  the best innovative minds, experiencing the wonders of technology , exploring some different side of my friends and making some new friends were few of the most cherished and important things about this trip. We got familiar with the brightest minds of this country and got a chance to watch amazing competitions like micromouse and few other robotics events. We also explored the scenic IIT powai campus. My bonds with Amruta, Indu, Pallavi strengthened during this trip.
The Manali trek in the summer vacations after my board exams holds a special place in my heart. This was the longest vacation of my lifetime and this trek was the best part of it. This trek taught me many things. The most important being the group or team spirit. Right from staying in tents to crossing the Biyas river in the chilling cold, each and every memory related to this trek is full of adventure and thrill. It taught me how to mingle with people and stop being the usual shy myself. The train journey from Pune to Delhi was one of the most memorable journies I had till date. We never let the other passengers sleep for two days. I met many different personalities and also learnt how to accommodate in seriously crunch situations. I also got to visit some beautiful places and Manali is one of the places which I admire the most. I am mesmerised by the natural beauty of this place. I loved being very close to nature in these thirteen days.
The next one in the list have to be the nightouts at Maithili's place during our school days. The ARAI tekdi visit with the whole  group, dancing on some random bollywood songs at two in the night or just random talks and laughs with my best buddies, everything is very fresh in my mind as if it happened just few days ago. I still remember eating the apple pudding at twelve in the night and games of badminton at her place.

The rangpachami celebrations at Swapna's place had to be one of the best I ever had.It was super fun.

Our early morning Parvati visits during our summer vacations, those long study sessions with Rati, the only night out with Mugdha at my place, the long swimming sessions at our club followed by some awesome food at some restaurant, watching Bend It Like Beckham at my place with the whole gang are some of the best memories of my teenage. These little things in life make it worth living. I will write a separate post about my college life memories.

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