I have always longed to play sports, both in school and in college, but the point was that I never used to get selected in any events, most probably I didn't have the caliber to become one and obviously there were loads of 'em better than me and who deserved to be in the team! Now dont get me wrong, I never wanted to be in the field events like athletics, discus throw, javelin or shot put! The sports I meant was something like table tennis, badminton, hockey, basketball, cricket, throw ball etc etc.
Now whatever the game was, we had a warm up session before starting anything! And I used to dread taking 3 rounds in our school quadrangle and that too with that uniform in the heat. I would have the stamina to take the first round! Second round would be at slower pace, stopping in between! The last and final round, I used to curse our P.E teacher for making us do this and she idly watched us run while she observed! But those days were fun, must say! Now back to the games-
Firstly table tennis, I gotta play this when I was at school! I still remember playing table tennis in the primary corridor downstairs in "A" block at Our Own! It was like playing squash or tennis on a table, that tiny orange/white ball always used to go over my opponents head (whenever I served) and hop into a junior classroom!
Secondly badminton! I loved this game, no,no I still love this game! The most saddest part was that, I used to look forward for the P.E period and run down to the room to get the best racquet, But I could only find the half damaged ones there (my classmates were faster than me)! And then we used to play badminton, sometimes we used to spoil the cork completely, sometimes we had just the handle of the racquet in our hand! Once I hit a classmate of mine, with the racquet right on her nose! Accidentally ,ok! Ya, but the fault was in my part!
Third was hockey! We had just 2-3 classes for hockey and I thought it was a light weight stick, but as a 13 year old, I barely had the strength to hold the stick to take the scoop or at least pass the ball! I had to quit it, but it was fascinating to watch real time hockey! If only I learned it well that time, I could have applied for the Chak De India auditions to be one among those 16 girls! 5 benefits, you get to play hockey with Aussies, Britons, Koreans (@ the World Championship), Second, you get to show your presence in a Bollywood film, Third, you get to wear an INDIA jersey (now, that's a proud moment), Fourth, be with SRK for the shoot of the whole movie and Fifth, your name appears in the official Chak De India site with pic as well as in Wikipedia!
Now, just to entertain yourself and if you haven't seen Chak De yet..here's a link to it!! Believe me, It still gives me goosebumps whenever I watch it..especially the last match..the finals....the penalty strokes........
Back to the games I played- Fourth was basketball! Now I must say, our school had the best basketball players, specially in Jupiter and Mars house! And it was fun to watch the inter-house basketball matches on Thursdays! You could see the whole of blue T-Shirt (Jupiter) clad girls on one side and red T-Shirt (Mars,my house) on the other! Now you may say, I had such competitors at school, and why the heck did I try out basketball! Well, when we ere young (specially at my time), we learned something not to be better than others (of course up to a certain limit, its there) but we also found interest in knowing a game, getting trained for it, representing you own house for matches etc! So my kind of nature was to give a try in all the games I could lay my hand on! So when it came to basketball, my P.E ma'am trained us to pass the ball, bounce it and snatch it from the opponents, and the main thing put the ball in the basket! Now I remember one moment, where I threw the ball right into the basket but stared up seeing how the ball neatly passed through the net till it came down and hit my nose with a force!
Fifth was cricket! We played cricket when were in high school, GIRLS preferred Badminton and most of the were too shy to try out Cricket (as if they were playing with boys on the field). So there were few of us say, tomboys, or freaks who took the bats, wickets onto the field and played! Cricket was fun! (I was once the GIRL of the match when playing with my neighborhood friends)! Now in Cricket, we used to get too involved in it, fall down or maybe break something! Mind you, we never got training in Cricket, cos in Indian perspective, no one gives importance when girls play this game! So we didn't have a girls team to go for competitions (just like how boys went for matches)!
Sixthly,it was Throwball! Group of girls throwing ball from one side to another! I used to catch it well, but while serving, it either used to go out of the fieldor get trapped in the net! So my opponent scores there!
The other games we played include kho kho, dodge bone, throwing rings, caroms etc. In short, I learnt something from the classes and I still treasure those memories. Thanks to Our Own, my Alma mater!
Now whatever the game was, we had a warm up session before starting anything! And I used to dread taking 3 rounds in our school quadrangle and that too with that uniform in the heat. I would have the stamina to take the first round! Second round would be at slower pace, stopping in between! The last and final round, I used to curse our P.E teacher for making us do this and she idly watched us run while she observed! But those days were fun, must say! Now back to the games-
Firstly table tennis, I gotta play this when I was at school! I still remember playing table tennis in the primary corridor downstairs in "A" block at Our Own! It was like playing squash or tennis on a table, that tiny orange/white ball always used to go over my opponents head (whenever I served) and hop into a junior classroom!
Secondly badminton! I loved this game, no,no I still love this game! The most saddest part was that, I used to look forward for the P.E period and run down to the room to get the best racquet, But I could only find the half damaged ones there (my classmates were faster than me)! And then we used to play badminton, sometimes we used to spoil the cork completely, sometimes we had just the handle of the racquet in our hand! Once I hit a classmate of mine, with the racquet right on her nose! Accidentally ,ok! Ya, but the fault was in my part!
Third was hockey! We had just 2-3 classes for hockey and I thought it was a light weight stick, but as a 13 year old, I barely had the strength to hold the stick to take the scoop or at least pass the ball! I had to quit it, but it was fascinating to watch real time hockey! If only I learned it well that time, I could have applied for the Chak De India auditions to be one among those 16 girls! 5 benefits, you get to play hockey with Aussies, Britons, Koreans (@ the World Championship), Second, you get to show your presence in a Bollywood film, Third, you get to wear an INDIA jersey (now, that's a proud moment), Fourth, be with SRK for the shoot of the whole movie and Fifth, your name appears in the official Chak De India site with pic as well as in Wikipedia!
Now, just to entertain yourself and if you haven't seen Chak De yet..here's a link to it!! Believe me, It still gives me goosebumps whenever I watch it..especially the last match..the finals....the penalty strokes........
Back to the games I played- Fourth was basketball! Now I must say, our school had the best basketball players, specially in Jupiter and Mars house! And it was fun to watch the inter-house basketball matches on Thursdays! You could see the whole of blue T-Shirt (Jupiter) clad girls on one side and red T-Shirt (Mars,my house) on the other! Now you may say, I had such competitors at school, and why the heck did I try out basketball! Well, when we ere young (specially at my time), we learned something not to be better than others (of course up to a certain limit, its there) but we also found interest in knowing a game, getting trained for it, representing you own house for matches etc! So my kind of nature was to give a try in all the games I could lay my hand on! So when it came to basketball, my P.E ma'am trained us to pass the ball, bounce it and snatch it from the opponents, and the main thing put the ball in the basket! Now I remember one moment, where I threw the ball right into the basket but stared up seeing how the ball neatly passed through the net till it came down and hit my nose with a force!
Fifth was cricket! We played cricket when were in high school, GIRLS preferred Badminton and most of the were too shy to try out Cricket (as if they were playing with boys on the field). So there were few of us say, tomboys, or freaks who took the bats, wickets onto the field and played! Cricket was fun! (I was once the GIRL of the match when playing with my neighborhood friends)! Now in Cricket, we used to get too involved in it, fall down or maybe break something! Mind you, we never got training in Cricket, cos in Indian perspective, no one gives importance when girls play this game! So we didn't have a girls team to go for competitions (just like how boys went for matches)!
Sixthly,it was Throwball! Group of girls throwing ball from one side to another! I used to catch it well, but while serving, it either used to go out of the fieldor get trapped in the net! So my opponent scores there!
The other games we played include kho kho, dodge bone, throwing rings, caroms etc. In short, I learnt something from the classes and I still treasure those memories. Thanks to Our Own, my Alma mater!
