The "manipalites"

Today, I was just pondering over (Okay… I agree that I like observing things very keenly and think too much :P) the new and different elements (read “people” ) that I’ve come in contact with, in Manipal. I just felt like posting something bout them. So here I go! :D

1. My physics teacher( fondly called “correcta”)- No prizes for guessing why we call him “correcta”. Each time he says a sentence and end it with “correcta???”, the entire class answers in a chorus- “correcta!!!” :D Also, another prominent quality of this great personality is that he rarely loses his cool. I mean, the amount of rubbish we do in his class is unimaginable. But each time the noise gets intolerable, he turns around, looks at us as if he is gonna lose his cool, big time, but then suddenly changes his mind, turns towards the blackboard and starts teaching again.
2. My second physics teacher- (yes, we have two of them to tolerate) She scurries into the classroom (I hope u can imagine a rat, can u? *hopeful look*) with her laptop in her hand, takes 10 mins to adjust her saree (and keeps doing this throughout the class) and to pin the mike onto it. Also, she keeps throwing in praises for our class, once in every 15 mins of her lecture, because she knows that befriending us and being in our good books is the best way to keep us in limits and allow her to teach peacefully:P She then goes to the next class and bitches about us. *nods her head in disgust*. Today, while calling out the attendance, she called a guy “Rachit” as “Rachita” (do all people in south India, have a fetish for the letter “a”, coz they seem to love to attach it after every word ? :P) and when the whole class sniggered and giggled (yes, the giggling was done by the girls), she spent the next 25 minutes trying to convince us, that in Sanskrit even “Ram” is written as “Rama”. So much for hating to be wrong! :P
3. The famous (or rather infamous) workshop teacher- he luurrves to tell tales about his grandfather, who seems to find place in everything we do in the workshop, from our behavior in there, to our workshop models. According to this “gentleman” (he, btw, uses this word very often), everything we do, right from breathing to sweating it out in the workshop, is somehow connected to engineering.
4. My Maths teacher- Dude! He should seriously try modeling for one of the south Indian versions of Baywatch (if there exists one). The poses that he marofies in class and the classy expressions that he gives, the way he talks and the way he carries himself... *shakes her head in amazement*.
5. My SOM teacher- Now that she has finally got use to “entering into the zoo” and teaching its inmates (:P these are her words, btw) (I wonder what she considers herself to be then??? *looks thoughfully*), she has now actually started making sarcastic remarks on us, whenever she can. ( see, we do have positive influence on people you know ;)) And, I must not forget that its because of her that 14 martyrs of our class, happily sacrificed 3 days of classes. (:P) Ma’am, we would like to request you to be a teeny-weeny bit more considerate about you 'lil' students and not drag the civil HOD and the honorable director of the college, into meager issues like throwing of 200 + paper balls in class.
6. The English-translator of the movies screened at movie dome- (movie dome is one of the two sad movie halls that we have in manipal, where movies are screened through projectors.) Sir, iam sure that iam not as competent in English as you are, but still, I cannot digest the fact that the English translation of “yeh toh Ram- Laxman ki jodi hai” is “both of them were like “Humpty- Dumpty” (: I)
7. The local-bus conductors- The way they say “uduppi…uduppi…uduppi…” and “mandipal…mandipal…mandipal….” Is kinda funnily cute :D
8. The manipal couples- They don’t even need an occasion to get started! Be it in front of 13^thth block, “badnaam gali” (yes, there is such a place in our college) or in front of NLH (our air-conditioned classrooms :D). Hehee! For all of the people who linger outside the 13 block (that’s the most famous girls hostel block in MIT) at night, for innocent reasons (:P), it can become quite “embracing” at times. (:P)
9. This one “filmy” couple (who deserves a special m ention here)- okay, I have been a witness to a number of sad partings that take place outside my block each night, but this one takes the cake. This couple stood hand in hand, facing each other. Then, I think it was time to part (or so it seemed to be) cause they started moving backwards (blog readers, kindly use your imagination and knowledge of bollywood movies to perfectly picturize this scene :P), their arms out stretched till the point that their fingertips could also no longer meet. Then, both of them dramatically turn back, their backs facing each other, and start walking in opposite directions. On the approximate count of three, they again turn to face each other, run towards one another with their arms outstretched, and hug. Lol! Guys, believe me, this is not a made-up story! :P
10. Our block matron- whenever you are dressed for a party (specially on Saturdays ;)) and innocently try to sneak out of the block after signing, she keeps staring suspiciously, over her spectacles, and asks in her high-pitched voice- “kidhar jane ka hai? Sign karne ke baad bahar nahin jane ka. Pata hai na?” hehee! Sorry akka (kannad for sister), kya Karein, control hi nahin hota :P. she is very upset over the fact that I have an official perm till 12 (of which I make most use of) and don’t have to sign the late register :D *devilish grin*
11. I dunno how i forgot to mention this before, but thanks to all my teachers "circuits" have now become "sir- cutes" for me :P
    

There are new additions to this list practically everyday, and Iam sure that by the end of 4 years, I will have loads of new people who will make a place for themselves in this esteem list :D

p.s. 1)- the above post is not meant to harm the sentiments of any teacher or couple (:P), or “akka” or the “translator” and should be taken in good humor.

2)- i just got a scrap on orkut which says " hi how r u friendship". can someone please help me to decipher the message it wants to convey??? (:P)