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What exactly IS Batik by the way?
I must admit that while I know what “Tie and Dye” means, I have no idea – after years – what “Batik” means.
But anyway, in the spirit of providing you with more memory trips down the lane, or was that the other way around, hehe, here is another one from my “socially useful productive” classes that were anything but. LOL.
(well, I loved computer class. And a certain lovely lissom “Ms Jain”)
(But I wont get into that here, hehe)
(Dude was pretty cool though too! Mukesh, I believe. With a massive mustache at that. Ah, and those on the list know it, those mustaches keep popping up, whether or not they were “manly” you be the judge, LOL).
But anyway, this ramble started in a class we weren’t supposed to be in the first place.
I think the teacher that was supposed to be taking whatever class it was or whatever was sick.
(oh, and spoiler – – my little girl LOVES this one – – you too would be well advised to be careful NOT to spit you rbeer or coffee out, hehe).
So there we were, in Batik class, with a thin, reed like TALL instructor with – you got it.
Another bristling mustache, except this one drooped down at the corners…
But anyway, he had this massive pot belly which stood out even more because he was so slim otherwise…
He was showing off his paintings.
Abhishek Rathi, my partner in crime (well he was ONE of them) piped up.
Always the helpful dude.
“sir, those are so nice!”
They weren’t, of course.
Us grubby seventh graders had other things on our little minds other than “paintings”.
Not to mention the girls legs right next to us, hehe.
But anyway, side and sneaky glances aside (and they knew it, hehe) … he went up to the teacher.
This dude was big and FAT by the way. But a big guy too.
“truly big”
And he kept praising the paintings so much that he fooled even us – some of us were uttering “Pablo Picasso” as he kept praising them.
Now, the teacher left to take a leak or something after pattig him on the head.
“What a good boy!” I remember him saying, and then looking sternly at US.
“YOU lot need to learn something!”
With that, off he went in a huff, belly jiggling.
Rathi, of course took the time to create his own paintings on the “shifu’s”.
Made a royal mess, and was gaggling about it. We all were!
And suddenly the teacher re-appeared!
Us slim and trim “Bertie Wooster’s” made it back to our chairs in the nick of time.
But the SPODE, the 800 lb gorilla unfortunately couldn’t.
(reminds of a time when we were in tenth grade and cutting school at a cinema when a certain teacher we called “The Watchman” showed up, stick in hand too, but I’ll leave that for another story, hehe).
(I can see a book writing itself here!)
And “Spode” got it.
Whack, whack whack!
Left, right, center. Up, down, front!
And he burst into tears.
And the whole thing was so comical, the pot belly shaking up and down with every whack, and “Rathi” crying up a storm after being so macho about it – was …well, we all laughed our little asses off.
Some of us including yours truly still do.
So does my little one. she loves that story, and can’t get enough of it!
LOL.
Anyway, why am I bringing THIS to you NOW?
I dont know, really.
Nothing to promote either …
Well, maybe ONE Thing – the book on Inspirational Fitness Recollections.
If you love emails of this nature, you’ll love that – pick it up now.
And on that note, I’m out. Back soon!
Best
Rahul Mookerjee
PS – What, wait. Yours truly “Mr Sales” forgot to “pimp”. And in true Rahul like fashion here goeth the “pimp” – DO pick up Advanced HIll Training right here, and start turning into a ROARING JAGUAR right NOW.
PPS – Believe it or not, Rathi was the class monitor assigned to keep us “naughty ones” in line. Ah, the fun of it all!
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