So much said and fought about generation gap and wavelength mismatches with parents and grandparents, it is quite a revelation to know that I am already a generation behind! Most of my cousins are school/college goers and I keep myself updated by discussing current affairs with them!
Listing a few things that you might have to be enlightened about, to stay updated:
1. Just when I thought that I've finally mugged up all the "Evolve forms" of Pokemon, it is outdated..My cousins don't discuss Pokemon, Pikachu, combat characteristics any more!
2. I am usually the silent observer of their discussions and this time, I heard about 'babe laid' and was aghast! What a nasty world!! K-I-D-S..talking about the excitement of 'babe laid'!!! Finally, killing all my ego, asked them, "Err...What is babe laid?" Lo! Chotu, the smallest one of all, shows me the new gameing gear - Beyblade! It is a top like thingy which again has different forms I guess.
3. School management conducts raids in all classes - Starting 3rd to 12th. The articles seized vary in all these classes
3rd, 4th, 5th - Cheetos stickers, tattoos, pokemon cards, dolls, beyblades, etc.
6th, 7th - The above ones + occasionally CDs, film posters, Vijay masks, etc.
8th, 9th - Game CDs, movie CDs and some undisclosed CDs, occasionally credit cards(mostly the outdated ones)
10th,11th,12th- CDs, Credit Cards(parent's expired ones and new), Cell phones and sometimes drugs!
They use the word 'Trading' for exchanging all these! Well, we used to trade books, CDs, etc. but never did it got to the extent of bothering the management!
4. SMS trend.. Well, "You are more than a loved one" in a forwarded SMS, just is another forwarded SMS and does not convey any emotional feelings. You are respected by the number of forwards you get/send and not the content of it!
5. Maya teacher for Physics in a famous school in Chennai...just fits the name! She looks so much like Kaaka Kaaka, Jo, that her students exclaim 'Avanga solli kodukaradhu puriyaati ennada? avangalai paathute irukalam!'
6. Kids, (should I use this word?), start teasing friends with classmates of the opposite sex as early as 6th or 7th std.!
7. Teachers do use words like 'boy-friend', 'dance-floor' in class. I studied in a convent and teachers/sisters were saintly those days!
Am not saying, we were naive, but it just looks like the kids are atleast 5 to 6 years ahead.
God save the innocence!
9 comments:
andha kaalathula naanga ellam padikkum bodhu....seems like deja vu
Hurray to all the time spent in picking POKEMON dolls :-)
Yadhvi,
I feel thats the way country is developing - children losing their innocence too early in their life.Either they can learn from their mistakes much early or they could be probably ruined at an early age.Depends on how much a parent takes time to care for their kids.
conventla padicha ungalukku vena 'Maya teacher' pudhusa irukalam..:-)
True Kids loose their innocence early these day but then again if they dont they are left behind in the rat race ... But the question here is .. Can we do something about it..
BTW: Maya teacher incident has happend in my school too :) so it isnt very new
balaji,
andha kaalathule naanga ellam padikumbodhu...onnum theriama, velyate gadhi nu mutti kaal ellam punna irundhadhoda seri...
krishis,
They don't play with those dolls anymore :-(
srivat & vidya,
Maya teacher pudhusu illai...aana, Maya teacher in 6th or 7th dhan konjam pudhusu ;-)
and i agree totally with you vidya...if they don't know certain things, they really are mocked at and lose their confidence!
the year after i passed out of school, i heard a guy from my junior batch was caught drinking from a bottle of rum during class hours, and we nearly fainted.
one batch from class XI, when they had gone for 3 day trip, had drugged the lemon juice they gave the teachers who accompanied them in the bus, so that the "kids" could watch an adult movie in the video coach bus without adult interruption...:-P
from these, "Maya teacher" episodes would hardly sound as a surprise, right, yadhvi???
Hi michelle,
Welcome to my post! and yeah you are right! There are schools with students who fill water bottles with beer! But those were just the 'hep' schools. Now its getting common across all institutions!
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