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The Last Day of the Exams…
It is finally over. The last day of the exams is here. No more studying; no need to wake up early, and the evenings can be entirely free. These are the ecstatic thoughts that go through my mind as I see my six year old son off to school to write the last exam of Std 1. I refuse to think that there are many more years and many more exams to come. At the moment, I am ecstatic.
The past ten days of exams were maddening. My world seemed to revolve only around question and answers, true or false, match the points, meanings, opposites, additions, subtractions….. the list goes on. There was no time for mundane tasks such as cooking and cleaning? Caught up entirely by the momentum I ended up asking my husband, ‘Cooking during the exams is prohibited- True or False?’ Hubby dear raised his eyebrow as though to ask whose exam I was talking about, mine or our son’s. But the man of wisdom that he is, he merely took the hint and went out to eat.
After a serious round of studying and questioning, which took up most of the evenings, I’d begin the casual rounds. ‘How many colours are there in a rainbow?’ I ask my son while handing him a glass of milk. ‘Seven’, he says and starts drinking. ‘What are they?’ He pauses & begins, ‘Red, yellow... ’ ‘Say them in the right order, remember VIBGYOR,’ I give him the hint. ‘My teacher will put them in the right order’, he said, without batting an eyelid. I was taken aback and asked, ‘Why will she?’ He explained as though I was the six year old & he was the mother, ‘She always writes everything wrong on the board & asks us to put them in order, so now I will write it wrong and it is her turn to put them in the right order.’ I think he must be taking after his father in the matter of such wisdom.
I begin another casual round while giving him a bath, ‘Tell me, what the good habits to be followed at home are?’ When he hesitates, I yell, ‘At this rate, you’ll never stand first in anything.’ He i
s quick to assure me, ‘I’m always first in the class.’ When my motherly pride returns, he sends it hurtling away by saying, ‘I’m always the first boy in the class to give the answer paper back to the teacher.’ Forgetting the revision, I launch into a stream of advice on how he has to write slowly, neatly and correctly, how he has to check his paper for mistakes and how he should never be the first to give his paper back.
When questioned about his performance in each paper, he says assertively, ‘I’ve done everything correctly.’ Clinging to this assurance at least till the results are out, I think, ‘It is finally over. The last day of the exams is here……….
-Kanchana.Rao
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The Battle of Sexes…
1. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
2. Men wake up as good-looking as they were when they went to bed. Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
3. A man will pay Rs. 200 for a Rs. 100 item he wants. A woman will pay Rs.100 for a Rs.200 item that she doesn't want.
4. A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
5. There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman- before and after marriage.
6. A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
7. To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
