Childhood

* Exchanging xmas and newyear cards with classmates every year.

* Collecting erasers which smells good and rulers which has this sparkling effect ,some even had fluid inside.

* Throwing classmates notebook outside through the window and then going out to fetch it forced by the teacher.

* Getting scratched on the face by this friend (whos a doctor now),while threatening to complaint to the teacher about something she did.

* Going to the neighbours homewhen they play cassettes in their VCR.

* Exchanging cassettes with neighbours after proudly owning a VCR.

* Having catfights with sister to attend the phone and eventually freaking out the caller with multiple hellos and squeals from the fight.

* Dialling 161 to make a fool outta others or sometimes just to hear the phone ring.

* Waiting eagerly every sunday night for superhit muqabla,every friday night for the chitrageetham and the hindi movie,wednesday nights for chitrahaar and sunday evenings for the weekend movie. If you have a cable you watch tv on your time,if not you schedule yourself according to their time.

* Bringing 1 rupee from home and treasuring it to buy sip up from the so called canteen

* Running out hearing the sounds of aeroplane.

* Waiting for Balarama every week to know how mayaavi fooled kutoosan and dakini this time and to read about the detectives jampanum thumpanum which was introduced quite later(wonder if they are still there)

* Going to listen to a segment either from Mahabharath or Ramayan everyday before sleep (even after hearing the whole epic a hundred times), from the grandfather whos now no more.