Thoughts Rained

Why Pen-pencil/ Stackable pencil/ Push pencil is One Among Our Favourite School Memories? It tugged my eyes and heart in one of those rounds in the class ,discussing question answers. I had to stop. What hooked me was no ordinary thing. Possessing this was everyone's dream once. If you had this, you were no less than a King or Queen( I must have exaggerated that part.. but close enough). As far as I remember, it was special- the 'pen-pencil'! One of my students had it on her table. With dropped jaws and open text in one hand, I studied the pen-pencil. It was hard to believe it still exists. It was colorful and translucent. Promising and sharp lead tips waited inside stacked, to see the world. It was crowned with a cap with an adorable tiny eraser with another cap of its ownnnn!! (All this for a pencil). Enough to make any kid fall head over heels for it. Procuring pen-pencil wasn't easy as a child. You had to be in your best behaviours to please your guardians to buy th...

My Precious ❤ Two grade 8 chaps seemed to disagree on something and came up to me in the staffroom for clarification. "Ma'am, does the word Phuket begin with a capital letter?" asked the short one.  "Of course, as it is a proper noun", I explained softly. The tall one, equally cute, gave a "Told you" look of triumph and left. I smiled to myself. After today's English test, both ran to me with the question paper.  "Ma'am, is 'trapped' the antonym of 'free'?" asked the tall one. "Yes it is", I replied. "But the word 'caged' was also in the passage", said the short one in disbelief.  "Both words are correct", I said. The tall one reacted with a heavy heart, "I'd written both but struck one".😧 "Either of the two words is sufficient", I said reassuringly, hoping to brighten the distraught souls. This answer lit his face and they sprinted back for lun...