Sunday, February 3, 2019

SWEET RASCALS

     It's a real-life story. It had the most beautiful things to ever happen to a set of people. Started as a simple equation that turned to be an identity. It had the love-hatred, friendship-malevolence, laughs-tortures, happiness-pain still young and reckless. This is about a crew, who came together for a cause. The cause was literally nothing. And that became a cause.

     Each member of the crew had their own story. Together, they made a story for the team. It's all about the fun and exciting things they did, which made them feel happy whenever they remember those moments. The story has been passed down like the knowledge, that is passed down by the ancient people. It includes Vodafone, prayer and the Beats.

     It was not a good day, but still a day. We were in the class feeling a bit sleepy after the boring physics period. Suddenly our chemistry sir came in and started to teach. Frank and Nithish had no chemistry books. So, they kept their physics book on the desk pretending it to be the chemistry book. Our chemistry sir kept his book on the first bench and came near Nithish and took his book and started to teach.

     Meanwhile, we couldn't pretend like we were listening and stop laughing as well. He went from alcohols to monochromatic light in few minutes. He explained the formula of alcohol and soon went the part, "when a thin monochromatic light is passed through a prism..., Monisha tell me what happens then..."  Few girls were shell shocked, as others were half asleep. We waited for the time, when he would realise that it's a physics book. Time went on. Before 5 minutes for the break, everyone started to laugh and only then he came to know about it. Then he didn't know how to react and questioned Nithish about the physics book. Soon the bell rang and his glory spread to every students.

     We started to practice for the upcoming basketball tournament. We did this one differently. While most people practice by playing together, we practiced on each other, literally. It was like this movie Space Jam but without Michael Jordan. In the  movie Jordan teaches others to play while others do insane things.

     Day one of the practice went well with normal lay ups and shooting drills with a small game at the end. Day two dint turn really well. We all were around 5 ft and we could barely touch the ring. Still wanted to dunk the basketball.

     So, we came up with an insane idea. Finny bent down on the ground while Arif came running towards him. He set his foot on Finny's back and Finny gave a slight push so that Arif could go up high enough to dunk the basketball in the ring. It went well as Arif dunked the basketball perfectly. Then Finny performed the dunk followed by Frank.

     Finny's dunk attempt was one to remember as it went down so hard. Frank was on the ground bending, while Finny was running towards the ring. At the last moment, Arif called Frank. "De Frank, " "Enada". That's it! Frank turned towards Arif, his shoulder bent down and Finny performed the dunk (somersault). Instead of going towards the ring, he went away from the ring. He went down hard and we couldn't stop laughing and so did he. No more dunks thereafter.

     We played well and there were several memorable moments. Robin's lay up was one of them. He used to go fast and lay the ball in the ring. That's when we learnt the 90° angle. Because, everytime he takes a layup, the ball would go straight up and come down to the place he released it.

     There was this guy, whose name was John. When others did the crazy things he too wanted to be part of it. So he did a 360° layup. It is a layup, where a player comes running to the ring and spins himself to a 360° and then releases the ball to the basket. (Guess this guy watched the Michael Jordan's 360 the previous night). He came fast did the spin, released the ball. But the poor guy focused only on the spin but not the landing. He couldn't control what was happening and went crashing on the basketball post. Everyone saw the birds flying above his head.

     From then, no one had the thought of doing crazy things in basketball. Not even the winning part. Totally insane people.

     One afternoon, after a heavy lunch, we sat down for a physics class. We listened to the dreams/class as our teaches sung the perfect lullaby. Suddenly, Frank shouted "VODAFONE". The whole class woke up. So did our teacher. Except for Frank himself. There was a moment of silence, not untill everyone started to laugh and Frank finally woke up and knew nothing. Even our physics teacher was searching where there was something in the book called Vodafone. From then, the day went only via Vodafone. 

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