People Called Friendz….

My first friend was my mom. Not that I called or understood her in any role at that time… but yes! She taught me to play with my dolls. She drank with me at the tea parties and she became my daughter when I was barely 2 n Half years old..

Then in Kindergarden, my cousin was a friend, because I had no other option. We were growing up together and were familiar with each other. And as they say, a known devil is better than an unknown devil. Also, I had a very fine knack of bullying him without his knowledge. J

My 1^st standard, I was in Muscat. The definition of friendship was changing. I was uncomfortable in my school uniform. I had to sit in a classroom and that to next to a boy …. Yuk! And this boy- Benson, would steal my chocolates from my tiffin box. He had this unique skill of eating my tiffin box before I could get to it. Almost everyday, I would go home empty stomach, angry and with a resolve that I will convince my parents to complain to the principal and have that THIEF throw out of school J. Yet, he was my only friend for that year.

2^nd std we had moved to Bangalore for a year. It was a mess. I actually missed Benson. This school was too noisy. The kids were to loud and shouting all the time. I got chicken pox. Then I found my chicken pox friend- Rajesh, who stayed near my house. We used to exchange notes and study and his mom always gave me nice juice. After I recoverd, He was a boy… SO Payal became my best friend. We were so close that we made sure that even if one of us didn’t have lies we planted it into each other. That was a truly divine friendship.

3^rd standard,we moved back to Muscat. My parents were unable to tolerate the umpteen number of shampooing . I wanted to pass so that I could sit next to a girl. But what happens when we expect?????

We get the opposite!!!

Terry was a extremely jovial, humerous boy who taught me how we ought to prank with people and why it is cardinal to keep distracting the class all the time with the pranks. I certainly didn’t need any friends when I was having so much fun with Terry!

4^th-5^th std, Radha Pillai was a good girl. I thought she was a little too serious for my tastes. Still we both were learning to dance and that was a good enough reason why she had to be my friend.

6^th std I went into a boarding school. I thought it would be exciting. It was in the beginning, and later it was very strict. I wrote to my parents saying that I was in a prison. Next day my warden called me and blasted me for writing all that. It was time to find a friend again!!!

Ashwini was a super senior. We loved cricket, we were in the same dining table and we loved mischief. So I enjoyed with her till I got to 10^th std and she finished all the education our school could offer. L

Thankfully, by then I had my roommates- Anita and Shilpa. We would study, hide all the smuggled tucks and hide each others slippers during study hour .. that was too much fun.

Then, I had to grow up more. P.U in Bangalore, and for the first time in a Women’s college. Deciding that maybe it is about Girl Power all along, we were a gang of 9- Kavita, Kaushal, Zainab, Bibi, Mariam, Priya,Sowmya and Vaishnavi. We were all of different sizes, backgrounds and languages. And we really loved each other a lot…. So we would bunk together and get blasted together.

Dental was relatively serious. My first year Shiney, Mary, Deepti and Gowri were really knit to me. Having transferred to R.V I made a new set of friends. Kavita was with me again. But there was also Ashwini, Dubey, Vijay, Nazia, Amogh, Afifa , Shruti and practically my whole class…

After that there were friends from work. Imran , Pankaja… and so many many many wonderful people I’ve known in Aol.

It is beautiful feeling to have people in our lives all along. And it is amazing how we are connected to one another at a time we really needed someone. It is beautiful to have friends… and thank God for this Gift called Friendship!

An article By a Dear Student - Dr Heena

THE TOM AND JERRY LESSON By Dr Heena

The other day, a facebook status update of a friend of mine caught my eye. it said: “ some relationships are like TOM AND JERRY, they tease each other, knock down each other, irritate each other, hate each other BUT cant live without each other!”

I believe such a love-hate relationship exists in each person’s life. We all are bound to have that one friend who we love to bitch about to our girlfriends, that one friend whose antics we keep quietly sniggering about , that one friend who we wonder about sometimes, often thinking “why am I friends wit her actually!!”

Human emotions are very complex. Many psychologists have tried to analyse man and his emotions and still remain confused. Each one has his own theory about why we often stay in certain relationships and why we opt out of others. I have my own theory, even though I’m not one of those doctors who nod at u wisely, ask you a hundred questions about your childhood and then give u an explanation which is a lot of psycho babble that probably even the doctor has not fully understood! But its told wit so much conviction that questioning or asking for a layman explanation would only present you as a brainless twit!

Well my simple theory is that no relationship can exist without love. And love is powerful, its the most underestimated human emotion. It can win over hatred, make you forget all those irritating habits, those pressing issues, those times she ditched you or those times she put you down. And love is in the small things. That’s why even though that friend is irritating 80% of the time the rest 10% she probably stood up for you when you were bullied by your seniors, came with you to the doctor when you had that so called private problem or picked you up to the gym everyday in her expensive car (albeit bragging about its cost all the way!), in the end that 10% makes all the difference in your decisions of who u choose to be in your life. Love truly does conquer all and no matter what face you’re making thinking of that friend you know that if something happened to her, your life would never be the same and you’re sure it would be the same for her. Even in the cartoon TOM has no purpose in life if JERRY is not there and vice versa.

So to summon it up, listen to her boring stories about her foreign trips, her monthly shopping bills or her uncanny hysterical laughter over a silly joke, cause in the end its not a love-hate relationship it’s a total love – love relationship.