Reminiscence of Academic Days

I realize this is a favorite topic for many of the readers, going through my blogs. So, after spending ample time in recollecting the episodes, Im compiling the same. I was always captivated by the moustaches of Rajnikant, and many other favorite heroes and these incidents took place in my late Higher secondary days and my early college days. When we were at school, it was a great topic for us to discuss and debate about and lot of people of our class had big moustaches. Certain eccentric people had made unique styles with moustache and I was one among a few people, who hardly had traces of it. So during these conversations, I stood embarrassed and thinking how to grow a moustache.

I was pondering over the discussions and I wanted to grow a moustache as soon as possible. I had a few friends who contributed their free recommendations for growing one, and I tried all possible pranks to grow one. One hot day we were discussing a lot on growing a moustache. One of my closest pals, who happened to be in the same boat, suggested that we should shave frequently and he gave unique ideas of applying hair oil in that area and letting it grow. We had tried several times to grow one and we found failure every time.. That time it was really difficult to manage a razor and a blade to accomplish that task of shaving and trying to grow a big moush.

Another very good friend of mine suggested that we can use metal soap boxes whose edges used to be sharp to accomplish this task and that seemed to be a good idea. It was a embarrassing thing for me to say that I had started shaving and I couldn’t find any other way to get a razor. Fortunately so, we had such a soap box at home and it was quite sharp at the edges and I tried the act… Since it was an experiment I applied some soap and tried to do that.. But I found nothing happened.. Another attempt.. Another attempt.. Ouch.. I hurt the upper lip and it was a line and still there is a scar on my face.. Then I stopped to play such pranks…

But this scenario continued in my initial college days also because it was an issue of admiration during that age. I found another guru who gave that brilliant idea, though identity gets revealed this time, I would like to mention the name of the person who gave such a good advise… It’s a guy called Kannan @ our college… We were in the middle of a heated discussion regarding this topic, the guy suggested that he’s got a unique way of growing a moush in a short span of time… He described that by peeling off the skin of small onions (chinna vengayam) and rubbing on that area during the night and then go to bed.. Being an innocent chap, I tried that too… To my surprise, it came…

Not the moushtache, “TYPHOID”

I was bedridden for almost 15 days and slowly recovered from that…