FIGHT TO THE FINISH.........BOARDS ARE ON THE HEAD (to put it in a very lame Mumbai way) & all my students are going crazy. The only person who is calm......is of course me......I do not have to give the exam after all....he-he-he-he.....Oh I love to see the tortured looks on their faces, it brings back such fond memories of the time I was giving the 10th standard board exam.......I wanted the ground to open up & me to be sucked into it !!!........especially on the day we had (can't bear to even type it).....Maths (YUCK !!!!) Maths was always Greek to me & during the exam time, it almost became a mix of Greek & Tamil languages I am not familiar with......everyone seemed to be carefree that year (2005) except me, I wanted to sink into the Arabian sea (our school was bang opposite the alleged sea)......if not the Bay Of Bengal, although water is water you know & yet if you have taught Geography (they way they teach it in Mumbai) you know that the water is not the same water that you used to think was water !!! That December was a horrible one, we celebrated Christmas as if it was Good Friday.....we did not even get a Christmas tree as Younger Uncle that year lost the old Christmas tree in a Colaba cab somewhere near Mulund......we had to make do with the chocolate fudge & some stale cheese cake which smelt a lot like the Bandra gutters. That time none of the cats I knew were even born....I had only a single male cat back then whose name was Kevin & I was adopted by a cock which I named Plato. Exams....exams.....exams......but one thing is for sure, this too shall pass......unless.....that 21st of December ??? Well I don't mind, I will die a graduate with a professional degree.....! (Yeah I was born nuts)