Tree#3: Revaluation or Currency collection??

Monday morning , my dad woke me up, forcing a newspaper into my hands and pointing an article. It was titled, “Revaluation procedures”.  I sighed and went about reading it. Now what exactly does “revaluation” mean?   A students goes about for re totaling or revaluation when he/she is not satisfied with  his/her  marks secured in their board- exams and are sure that they deserve more. In our system of education, we don’t get to see our answer scripts, instead we receive only the marks we scored . So, for applying for the above-mentioned-r’s , there is a procedure.

 And bet you, this is not a simple task as you might think.  The steps proceed this way.

-First and Foremost, you need to get a demand-draft of about Rs.275/- for each subject, which you think you might deserve more.

- After getting the demand draft, you’ve to write in few basic particulars at the back of the DD.

-Next, you’ve to head to the nearest education department and give your DD in exchange of which you get back a form. This is the application form for getting your Xeroxed  copies of  the answer scripts.

-Then, you need to fill in these forms and return as soon as you can.

-You need to wait for 2 to 3 days till you get your fake(Xeroxed) answer-scripts by post.

- You check your paper and see whether any mistakes  are committed  by the examiner either in correction( such as leaving out an answer or giving less marks for a deserving answer) or totaling.

- When you figure out what’s wrong in the correction, you go in for either re totaling or revaluation.

- Revaluation costs about Rs. 505/- For each subject and re totaling about Rs. 205/- again.

-Again, well..you need to fill in forms and wait and stuff.

Whew!! Such complications. Well, expecting about 100 students, I headed to the Directorate of examinations after getting my DD. You would not believe me if I said I met about 1000s of students, all busy, filling in forms, asking doubts, jostling each other in the crowds, waiting untiringly in the hot sun.  I got to see at least 10 people from my school. And we had to wait in a very long queue for getting the form first and then a longer queue for submitting the forms again. I had to submit today itself so as to get my answer scripts soon. Seeing all these, I wondered. 

 About 1000 people were around me. And everyone were applying minimum for 2 subjects.  Just imagine, if everyone payed at least Rs.550/-, how much money would the directorate gain this way. And this is just for getting Xeroxed answer scripts. And the revaluation steps still remain. People don’t  seem to care about money. Money is nothing compared to marks. All that matters is finding a way to gain 1 or 2 or god- knows -how -many -marks. Using  this as an Achilles' heel  in the parents, they take advantage from them. I just cant get it. Why the hell should we pay to get back our scripts? Well, if it is for the  Xeroxing, I don’t think it can go more than Rs.50/-. And Why the hell should we PAY for a *silly* lack-of-concentration done by the examiner while correcting our paper?? Of course, my previous sentence, includes papers which *really* has corrections. AT least, they must do this way. If there is *really* a mistake in the correction, they must pay the money back. We’re not responsible for their mistake. They must in fact get the money from the teacher who corrected it.

Rich parents and middle class families don’t mind spending. But, it really is an unworthy amount for people from poor backgrounds. What are they thinking?? Why are we keeping our mouths zipped about this??

Damn...I'm still wondering!!!!!

Tree#2 : Good ol' clouds!!

As a nature aficionado, I was always fond of those white cottons hanging up in the sky.I always wondered within myself, what clouds were made of, but never queried this to the others around me. Now following are my predictions or assumptions in my childhood, about what these clouds were made of!

At my grade:1: That was the age I quite understood the things around me.

Once it was quite a sunny day, and needless to say, so many clouds were seen in the sky. I was waiting outside my school for my dad to cum and pick me up. While I was waiting, I looked up at the sky and started wondering about it…. I assumed that they were all white foamy beds, made of so many sheets of cotton and If I cud get above that bed, I could sleep and look down upon the people from there.

At Grade:2: My assumptions changed at this age, What do you think? Of course, Ice-creams stuffed in the sky. Those days, I used to dream of flying high in the sky, with wings and licking the clouds…YUCK! Really absurd of me!

At grade:3: Er…I was not quite convinced with my ice-cream perception because, ice-creams come in different colors and all I could see were black and white clouds, scattered here and there .As far as I knew, there wasn’t any Black-colored ice-cream and moreover clouds were quite transparent, unlike creamy ice-creams. Good brains, Na? Lolz! So, this time I resorted to the fact that they were actually foams (maybe formed from soap-liquid) just suspended in the sky.

But then, in the middle of the year, actually I studied about Water-Cycle, and I realized that they were actually made of many droplets of water, I wondered how. But I was satisfied that I was quite close to the answer, and I stuck-up to the fact that they were foams of water and I visualized the clouds as a big foam of water hanging in the sky . My perception was that if I touched them, my hands would get wet.

The following vacations, we set off to a hill-station and “Holly Molly” my parents updated me that I could actually touch the clouds. WOW…That was in fact an electrifying news to me. I was really waiting for that jiffy. I was anticipating that I could enter one side of the cloud, get drenched and come out of the other side, fully wet .But to my dismay, What I saw dumbfounded me….They were actually what I least expected of, just SMOKE or rather MIST. Shit! All those cotton stuff, ice-cream stuff and those squeezed, foamy liquids at once were replaced by just smog. I came out of my reverie and realized that I was actually standing in the middle of a cloud. That was indeed swaying and at last I could lay a hand on the clouds, which I ceaselessly dreamt of. And the next time I saw them, I just saw them as what they are. Just smoke in the sky, but at that instance, I knew, what these smoke would turn into, later, giving lives to many worldly mortals.

Indeed understanding nature is quite elusive and that day I realized that, appearances could be deceptive and you have to look into the temperament of anything/anyone and not get carried away by just what you see.

Ooh….I could come out with a moral as a finishing, Hats off to me, loll! 

My tree#1 :And Today, I caught my Match!!!!

From my childhood days, I used to adore him. He is simply awesome. Even if he is at a very long distance, he can simply just bowl me over. He’s simply out-going, charming and of course, charismatic. He can easily make people turn their heads, by his very much enticing voice. He can sometimes be really annoying, but he is ever-loveable. And an important trait I love in him is very helpful nature. He facilitates people who are in dire need to travel to go around. How can someone be so adorably helpful?? He’s so very popular that I cannot easily reach him. I’ve always loved him from a distance.  Finally, I gave all my hopes up and decided I cant reach him unless I was a bit older. So, I decided to at least catch him in my cam, so that I can see him whenever I wanted to.  This was not an easy task. But I knew only one thing. He pass my house, daily. I knew that I could get a very good snap, if I went to the terrace.

                                       I lied to my mom that I felt really bored and that I wanted to go to the terrace to catch some cool breeze and I set off on my mission. To take a snap of my lover. Even though I lied to my mom about the cool breeze, I really enjoyed in the terrace. I was killing time taking snaps of birds and trees and stuff, until he showed up. He was there as adorable as ever. His voice as heavenly as ever. His body as sleek as ever.  I took my own time. After adoring him for few seconds, I suddenly realized my mission. I took my cam and *click*. I finally caught him. Now I can always see him.

Yes, I finally caught my ever-adorable, people-friendly and always exciting  especially when he takes-off,  the   “aero-plane”

 

P.S: I took a video of his movements too…!!! *Loads of winks*

                     

Wordpress vs Blogger

Hi all....

 It's been a very long time since I posted something decent here. Actually speaking, after i posted my first post here, I worte my other posts in my wordpress account because I am used to writig there and lots of people visit my blog there.  Wordpress is definitely decent, it's infact far better than blogger in many ways. But still, I find blogspot more user-friendly than Wordpress. And so, I'm going to transfer few posts here and going to continue my postings here from now on. My journey in the nature-al trail starts here and I'll be planting as many trees as possible. I'm after all, eco-friendly!?! Lol..!!

Ciao,

The planter!