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Much water has flown down this blogspot since it started daily postings 6 years ago. I have lost track of whatever I wrote.
...Naturally...this is Post #1700...a whale of an archive.
Many of its early readers quit reading...naturally. Many new readers, known and unknown, have started reading in fits and starts...naturally. They seem to be at a loss what to do about all those thousand-odd earlier posts. Some pick up at random an old and forgotten post...forgotten by me.
The other day Blogger's Stats revealed that a lone reader 'viewed' a post titled: 'The Three Cheers'
I had no clue what that post was all about...clean forgot. So I clicked on that button and re-read it. I found it heartwarming. It was posted 4 years ago and many things happened to me since then.
But yet I found the post worth a re-read. So I thought I should re-post it.
Here it is:
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Much water has flown down this blogspot since it started daily postings 6 years ago. I have lost track of whatever I wrote.
...Naturally...this is Post #1700...a whale of an archive.
Many of its early readers quit reading...naturally. Many new readers, known and unknown, have started reading in fits and starts...naturally. They seem to be at a loss what to do about all those thousand-odd earlier posts. Some pick up at random an old and forgotten post...forgotten by me.
The other day Blogger's Stats revealed that a lone reader 'viewed' a post titled: 'The Three Cheers'
I had no clue what that post was all about...clean forgot. So I clicked on that button and re-read it. I found it heartwarming. It was posted 4 years ago and many things happened to me since then.
But yet I found the post worth a re-read. So I thought I should re-post it.
Here it is:
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
The Three Cheers
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Abdul
Majeed, my erstwhile colleague at IIT KGP (he figures namelessly in one
of my earlier blogs) told me this joke (before explaining to me the
meaning of his name, 'Servant of the Glorious'):
Man and wife go to a Party. The Ladies gather in a group while the Men crowd around a VIP Guest.
Suddenly there is a burst of laughter from the Men's ring.
On their way home wife asks him why he was laughing uproariously. The husband replies:
Man and wife go to a Party. The Ladies gather in a group while the Men crowd around a VIP Guest.
Suddenly there is a burst of laughter from the Men's ring.
On their way home wife asks him why he was laughing uproariously. The husband replies:
"I don't know. Everyone else was laughing at the VIP's
joke. I too joined"
Just while falling asleep, the husband laughs again. Wife looks at him quizzically.
Just while falling asleep, the husband laughs again. Wife looks at him quizzically.
"I just now understood the joke"
Next morning just before getting up he laughs again. Wife is really curious.
Next morning just before getting up he laughs again. Wife is really curious.
"I misunderstood the joke last night. What a fool I was!"
I find there are three such cheers in Family Life too (read: 'sex')
When he waits long years, gets married, has his First Night, Honeymoon and cozy homecomings, he smiles and knows what Family Life is.
3 years later he gets an anxious telegram that his wife gifted him a son. He fights for leave with his boss, travels a 1000 KM, reaches the Leela Bai Maternity Home, his wife smiles and points to the crib, he pokes the newborn in his ribs, gets a knowing wink in return, he smiles again and says to himself:
I find there are three such cheers in Family Life too (read: 'sex')
When he waits long years, gets married, has his First Night, Honeymoon and cozy homecomings, he smiles and knows what Family Life is.
3 years later he gets an anxious telegram that his wife gifted him a son. He fights for leave with his boss, travels a 1000 KM, reaches the Leela Bai Maternity Home, his wife smiles and points to the crib, he pokes the newborn in his ribs, gets a knowing wink in return, he smiles again and says to himself:
"Oh, this is the meaning of Family Life"
He grows into impotence and senility and at 67, he gets a phone call and goes forth to his daughter-in-law's place, the son and his wife drop his grandkid gently into his fragile lap, he plants a wee kiss on his chubby fortnight-old granddaughter, he smiles again for the third time and knows finally THE Meaning of Family Life.
There are three cheers in the life of a teacher too:
When he struggles for long, finds a perfect Ph. D. guide, enjoys working for 5 years, gets glorious comments from a Caltech Professor, he smiles and knows this is what Acads is all about.
When he retires and gets an extra-special At-Home Farewell from his 'Students and Admirers' with a sweet memento etched to that effect, he smiles again and knows the meaning of a lifetime of teaching.
5 years later, when he has forgotten all Physics, takes to mindless blogging to beguile his idle hours and suddenly he gets a Comment like this from an anonymous grandstudent:
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Don Quixote said...
"As a KGP physics passout who never had the fortune of being a fellow woolgatherer with you while you still adorned the KGP campus, can I implore you to kindly expand 'DT', the rest I know"
April 19, 2010 12:49 AM
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he finally smiles again and understands the true fruit of his 40 years Labor of Love!
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He grows into impotence and senility and at 67, he gets a phone call and goes forth to his daughter-in-law's place, the son and his wife drop his grandkid gently into his fragile lap, he plants a wee kiss on his chubby fortnight-old granddaughter, he smiles again for the third time and knows finally THE Meaning of Family Life.
There are three cheers in the life of a teacher too:
When he struggles for long, finds a perfect Ph. D. guide, enjoys working for 5 years, gets glorious comments from a Caltech Professor, he smiles and knows this is what Acads is all about.
When he retires and gets an extra-special At-Home Farewell from his 'Students and Admirers' with a sweet memento etched to that effect, he smiles again and knows the meaning of a lifetime of teaching.
5 years later, when he has forgotten all Physics, takes to mindless blogging to beguile his idle hours and suddenly he gets a Comment like this from an anonymous grandstudent:
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Don Quixote said...
"As a KGP physics passout who never had the fortune of being a fellow woolgatherer with you while you still adorned the KGP campus, can I implore you to kindly expand 'DT', the rest I know"
April 19, 2010 12:49 AM
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he finally smiles again and understands the true fruit of his 40 years Labor of Love!
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...Posted by Ishani
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2 comments:
Prof. GV Subbaramaiah wrote to me long ago that
fly - flew - flown
&
flow - flowed - flowed
and he taught you too !
'And only one for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!'
'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'
'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
...Lewis Carroll
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