Annual day!

“The colors the thrill the loud sound!
The dancing and merry go round
The playing and teaching side by side
Annual day is a matter of pride!”

Annual day!

The other day I was attending the annual day function of my son and it was a nostalgic experience!

read on!

Now when we used to have annual day, it was for the whole school and all the sections! There was no division though of course sometimes the primary and secondary used to have separate annual days.

Since most kids were small in primary, the chief annual day was the annual day of the school!

By default it was in the evening and by default it was usually in the school stage! The days culminating into the annual day used to be so cool! Those who were participating used to get special permission to skip classes and ‘practice’!

Only a select few used to participate and there was a selection process! There was a pre annual day in which the good ones were selected while others were politely told not to participate!

The thrill of getting on the stage in front of your parents is there for some kids while some kids do not bother much!

Since I was part of the orchestra team playing the banjo or the triple drums, I was on the stage for the lower grades! But then in the higher grades I stopped playing and the orchestra was performed by professionals (read better talented people!); the only way you could get into the stage was when you get an award which was usually first for competitions like debates or poem recitation!

My luck was complex! When I had such awards the situation was such that my parents could not attend while when they did attend, I got nothing! It was so sad to see my classmates performing so well while I sat in the civil dress with my parents looking at me with a neutral expression! Later on when I tool couple of buses to reach the Annual day function which was held in a hall in a corner of the city to collect a prize for Poem recitation; I had no one to cheer for me save for a few friends!

Which is why when my parents saw me on the stage during my convocation as the secretary of the House Surgeon’s Association, it was a proud feeling for me!

In my son’s school though they have annual day for each class! Everyone is allowed or coerced to participate! The Principal made an amazing speech on how in this school they not only concentrate on the academics but also other activities which are equally important! The show was simply out of the world and so coordinated!

As far as performance on stage in concerned, I guess for kids nowadays, it just comes naturally! They are made for full media glare and they know how to act! The confidence and the zest by which they perform is refreshing to say the least!

Talking about performance brings me to mind the mind blowing performance of Vijay Sethupathi in Maharaja…

Now to the daily routine and sleep!
Shubh ratri!