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Encore, Roar and Shor!

We were sitting in a boring language class, obviously on the last bench. I was about to sleep, eyes getting heavy, the teachers words sounding like a melodious lullaby of a distant nightingale, when suddenly my friend Kumar blurted, I don't know what triggered his speech, but he like just started saying this thing, totally oblivious of anyone giving him a hearing. I guess he was just thinking it aloud or something. But what he said was curiously thought provoking and so I thought, I should pen it down here. He went about-
"It is true that when a child is taught about various characters of English prose like a full stop, a comma or a question mark, only then is he able to realize the bounds of language.
Is must be only then that he starts to think what statement or what questions are don't you think?
I think a human offspring is quite intelligent from the time that it pops out. Yup...pretty intelligent. It must be this intelligence that our species has inherited or maybe only me that I have typically an inquisitive mind that I have to cope up with. And therefore sometimes I have to come up with these queer introductions before I can convey to the people that, 'dude ok that you want to be friends and all but with me comes a corny character that has these barrage of questions coming up like an avalanche in his head. So the next time you say something and I don't get it, doesn't mean I was'nt listening but it means that the monitor is showing the sand clock icon because some other thread is processing in the background."
(He was totally into Computers etc. and liked to be called a geek etc.! pfff..!)

"I have this way of having examples and analogies by which I recognize this clandestine world. Instead of understanding and remembering various things, I just 'analogise'(mind you doesn't have anything to do with your posterior) them with something and the flipflops in my thinking organ just remember it."

Our other friend Raghu who had been lying his head on the desk, staring at Kumar in dreamy sleepy eyes had fallen asleep.
I had come out of my slumberous phase of pre-sleep and had started thinking. Though this guy was a geek, what he said had a bit of sense. If you want to remember something, do it by associating it with something that you like. And the mind automatically remembers it. Its like keeping references and bookmarks and then leading on to the main page.
Then a thought struck me, Hey! maybe I am becoming a geek...!!
At that moment, with Kumar still mumbling about something totally unaware that he had long lost his audience, Raghu gave out a big roar of a snore. It was so loud that the grumpy old Meenakshi madam looked over the old English book she was reciting from and stared amazed and stupefied in our direction.
I could have predicted doom, but before a wink, the recess bell rang and the class erupted in a heavy din as children scampered outside, finally free from their dreadful misery.
I still remember the look on Mrs.Meenakshi's face that she had on a day...
...when Raghu had roared in the class. We still have a hearty laugh whenever that day comes up in talks.
Last week we all met at a party and the topic came up, we had a big laugh and all.
Kumar, with a grave overdone expression said suddenly (btw he was now a Sr.S/W/ Engg.in a big shot IT MNC) "You see guys, Raghu's snore was the 'reference point' of the theory that I had propounded on that very day, which we still rememeber due to the suposedly funny incident we have associated with it." His verbose sentences always brought out queer expressions on people's faces.
While he was still talking, another chain of thoughts on the validity of his point was about to start in my brain, but I warned myself of getting tagged as a geek in the same ranks. And so I came to terms, looked at Raghu standing besides me and said "Huh, what a geek." In response, to deride Kumar, he made a loud snoring sound and we all laughed again.