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3 Editor Deepa Pillai
Malayalam Editor Manmadhan Nair
Hindi Editor C. G. Geetha
Student Editors Rahul R. (11 A) Ganesh K. Sarma (11 A) Hari Gopal (11 A) Anton Babu (11 A) Gopikrishnan U. (11 A) OW BEST can The Loyolite reflect the needs and Consultant expectations of our readers? Can we rise to the challenge Ashok R. Chandran H of producing a magazine comparable with the best and thus reach the goal of excellence that Loyola sets for itself? How can we get the students involved in the life of a magazine - from planning, through production, till publication? These were the questions that we pondered over as we started work on this year’s school magazine. The best job includes change and challenge. And this year, both were provided by our very own student Ashok (1991 batch) — an unpretentious, insightful and caring ‘ole boy’ who dared us to question and innovate. We designed practical sessions on writing and journalism to help our students report news, to bring you up-to-date with happenings and the achievements of our enthusiastic students. We have given The Loyolite a makeover, both in content and form. To make it visually attractive and easier to read, the design has been refined and the pages enhanced with better use of colour, space and typefaces. In this creative process — we worked on the layout ourselves . — students applied their photo-editing knowledge and picked up publishing skills. Ashok’s enthusiasm and dedication have been so infectious and his uncompromising standards so exasperating that we at the editorial board also worked with passion. We believe that the writing potential exists in all, but it is the urge to write that a few possess. It has been our constant endeavour to stir this urge by getting children, old boys, parents and teachers, to write about the things that they feel, see and do. We are proud of the small group of students represented here. We hope that this headstart will help them develop into the writers they want to be. At the editorial board, Rahul, Ganesh, Hari, Anton and Gopi endured lunchless sessions and late-night lessons to bring this to you. Fr. Gilbi’s spontaneous offer of help in providing the pictures, has added colour l to the magazine. At the press, we were fortunate to have the wonderful support of Crescence D’Souza and Judith Jiji in our voyage. Fr. Principal’s trust in us gave me the space to experiment. Thanks Father. Digital Typesetting Judith Jiji April 2004 Deepa Pillai Printed at Josarts Offset Process Kollam. Ph: 2742943 Published by Rev. Fr. Varghese Anikuzhy S. J. Principal, Loyola School
i Tha loyoIHa *004 onourable chief guest, Princess Gouri Parvathy Bayi, distinguished guests, P.T.A. H representatives, parents, well wishers, friends,
Prin■i % lilt dears members of the LOBA and my dear colleagues and students. I am immensely happy to welcome each and every one of you to this School Day celebration. Let me present before you a panoramic view of the activities in the academic year 2003-2004. An eloquent collage of the attempts, achievements and aspirations of the school will be depicted and presented. Every activity on the campus is oriented towards the growth and achievement of children. They are motivated, guided and encouraged to stand on their own feet. For certain functions, the centre-stage 2004iSEs organizers and performers are the children themselves with the guidance of a staff animator. Some of the outstanding.personalities who addressed our students this year were: Sri. S. K. Nair, Secretary, BCCI; Sri. Sompal, Member, Planning Commission of India; Sri. K. G. Mohanan Pillai, Deputy Director, Wildlife Education; Sri. Sasanka Sekhar, President, OISCA International; Dr. N. R. Madhava Menon, | Director, Institute of Juridical studies; A Dr. B. S. Warrier, a versatile career guide and | Dr. Bhaskar Balakrishnan, the Indian 3 Ambassador to Cuba. The interest and initiative i of our energetic PTA President Dr. G. C. 1 Gopala Pillai was very evident in bringing these " learned people to Loyola, j In a number of events, Jayendran S. of | Std. 12 kept the Loyola logo up at the State w and National levels. His areas of achievement are Quiz, Debate and Creative Writing. Avinash 1 Thomas of Std. 9 B is privileged to take part I in the Republic Day Parade in Delhi next week. This year Loyola School hosted the All Kerala ICSE/ISC Sports Meet. Mohammed Haneef of Std. 12 secured silver in Discus Throw at the State level and stood first in both Hammer and Discus Throws at the District level. Sreekanth R. R. of Std. 12, Thomas Varghese, Ebi Varghese and Gautham Das of Std. 11 won gold in the 4x100 meters Relay conducted by Sarvodaya School. Alex P. J., Std. 12, stood first in English Elocution and Recitation in the Higher Secondary District level Youth Festival. Naveen John, Std. 10 A, won the first prize in guitar in the Revenue District Youth Festival. Ashvin Vinod Nair of Std. 2 represented Kerala in the National Chess Championship held in Chennai. Jayendran S. and Jus tin Thomas secured the third place in The Hindu Young World Quiz at the National Level. The same team stood third in the TCS Quiz too. In the Intel Teens Quiz, Gautham Das and Justin Thomas won the first prize. In the Frank Anthony Memorial Debate, Jayendran S. The IT Club conducted a few quiz competitions and seminars on various topics on IT to groom the future was a/'“^ICSE/ISCCulmill Mee? vt'u^Murali of quizzers. The Hindi Club organized a few sessions to create - , . " * , flr ;-n English Extempore and Hari Sankar love for Hindi language and to make them proficient in it. I Std” 2x1 first k light Music. In Quiz competition The LOBA comes forward to collaborate in organizing T S j c std 1'9 "and Justin Thomas of Std. 11 school activities. This year they organized a waters club for Jayendran S. ' the budding journalists. The LOBA is moving from secured the first prize. strength to strength through batch gathering and Back to School programmes. Loyola Cricket Academy Our Under-18 team played against Bangladesh, Nowadays many people put too much stress on England and a Delhi team in die Delhi Public School World competitions. Students are treated as mark-scoring machines. Cup Tournament. We won the match against the Delhi In the bargain their human and social qualities remain team. Our Under-13 and Under-18 teams won the Lai dormant. They are trained to be mark and money producers. Bahadur Shastri Cricket Tournament conducted by the They are trained to grade all human beings under these Sports Authority of Goa. Ajith John of Std. 6 lifted the two criteria - High mark producer or High money producer. Best Batsman award in the tournament. Sreekanth R. R. A person’s value, status, respectability etc., are measured Std. 12, Sandeep Prakash and Sanjeev Santhosh of Std. 10 with these units. In the long run certain social qualities may plaved in the School Nationals at Delhi. Anoop Krishnan remain vestigial in them in behavioural evolution. As a result of Std. 12 was selected to the Kerala State Under-17 team, the ones who train them to be selfish, individualistic and while Amit Sidharth of Std. 8 was selected to the Under- asocial will experience the tragedy in all its bitterness and 15 Kerala State team. Ali Asgar and Tomy Alexander, Std. cruelty when they are no more money producers. In short, 7 and Std. 6 respectively got selection to the Under-13 this booby trap will boomerang on the formators Kerala Team. themselves. Let us read the signs of the times now itself The members of the Green Squad had an exposure and train the present generation to be fully human, fully to the Wayanad flora and fauna and to the life rhythms of social; men and women for others. the tribes of that area. They attended a seminar on The success of our school depends on the cooperation. Environmental Education and Career Development. They hard work and the vision of values of the staff member?, organized an exhibition of medicinal plants. A Butterfly students and parents. I thank each and every one of you Club also is functioning with the support of the organization for the continued support and cooperation. Let us go Warblers and Waders led by Mr. Susanth’s team. They train forward to victory and excellence. - some students to become friendly with birds and butterflies. Thank you. Jai Hind. A Well-Nurtiired Club, Naturally Butterflies, wrappers and Wayanad kept the Eco Club active, reports GEORGIE JOE VEYCCAN (8 A). y ^hc Eco Club is the only club in the school that has a “It is because of him that we arc very famous now” says uniform of its own. It is also the club in school that Rahul Nath H. A. (8 A), President of the Eco Club. i has got the most publicity in the media. This year, a new problem was identified - sweet The Eco Club was constituted to create awareness wrappers that are littered around the campus. Since these imong the students about the problems that arc being faced wrappers are plasdc and so non-biodegradablc, they pose by nature. “Soni Madam has been trying her level best to a threat to the environment. Soni Madam organised some organize the club,” says Fr. Gilbi. There are a lot of activi- boys to pick up all the wrappers that they could find, des under the Eco Club - like the Butterfly Club, and the What most members like about the Eco Club is the medicinal plants garden - handled by Fr. Gilbi and . frequent trips organized by Fr. Gilbi. This year, he organized Thomaskutty Sir. trips to Kodaikanal, Wayanad, and Arippa. Anil Kumar Sir The Club organized medicinal plants and Mr. Sushanth also accompanied the exhibition during the Youth Festival, and members on such trips. During the Onam - *he Science and Arts Fair. “Elizabeth holidays, Anil Sir gave up his plans to Madam and Lincy Madam helped us im- attend an NCC Camp and joined the Eco What most members like Snensely during these exhibitions,” says Club on a trip to Kodaikanal. Since Fr. Jl'ishnu Sharma, Secretary of Eco Club. about the Eco Club Gilbi is reportedly going to be transferred In 2002, the environmental to another place the next academic year, is the frequent trips Organization Warblers and Waders helped members fear that activities and trips of P set up the Butterfly Club as a branch organized by Fr. Gilbi. the Eco Club wall decrease. f the Eco Club. It was the first of its In 2003, the members got a green [1 in Kerala and then other schools also T-shirt - with ‘Loyola Green Squad’ and ■ted similar clubs. Loyola’s Butterfly ‘Butterfly Club’ written in blue on the left b continued to be active in 2003 with side, and ‘Warblers and Waders’ under- ular classes by Mr. C. Sushanth who works in the neadi that. The back of the T-shirt carries die name of die riculture Department, and Murukesh cbettan, of the insurance company that sponsored the T-shirts. ml office. They teach the members to identify butterflies This year, most of the achievements ot die Eco Club I many other things related to the conservation of nature, were possible due to the efforts of Fr. Gilbi. “Fr. Gilbi Sushanth leads all the Butterfly Clubs in Trivandrum, showed tremendous interest in the Eco Club,” said Tushar Nair, the Treasurer of the Club. ■ o: Eco Club members at a tree-house in the Tholpetti life Sanctuary (Wayanad), noted for tigers. The Corner of a Loy DIPAK V. CHALAKKAL (7 B) and AVINASH MOHAN (11C) of Loyola Cricket Academy within a short period.
t all began in 2002, when Mr. Shine Colombo to play a series of matches Award; Arun Dutt Pullat (12 B) and an ex-Loyolite Mr. Raj Mohan in December 2002 against various local received the Best All-rounder Award IThampi, approached the Principal teams. The Under-14 and Under-19 and Arun K. (11 C) bagged the Best Fr. Varghese Anikuzhy with a proposal teams won four out of the eight one Bowler Award. to start a summer coaching camp for dayers they played in Sri Lanka. This This year too has been quite cricket in Loyola. Fr. Anikuzhy agreed was the LCA’s first real brush with fruitful for the Academy (see box). and they started the coaching with a international cricket and it did wonders At present, the LCA has fully few boys from outside the school; but for its popularity. Many important fledged outdoor nets with three soon, students from all classes in cricketers, mostly members of the different wickets - mat, concrete and J Loyola joined the coaching centre. Kerala Cricket Association, came to turf. Intensive training is given to the When Mr. Thampi passed away in the Academy to share their views with players daily. Players and officials of 2002, Loyola’s physical instructor Anil the players. the Academy hope to have an indoor Sir (Mr. Anil K R.), who specialises in Soon after the tournament in Sri nets-cum-multi gym where the players cricket, joined Mr. Shine in coaching Lanka, the LCA was invited by the can practise and maintain dieir fitness the students. Later on, to get an YMCA Cricket Academy of levels. opportunity to play in tournaments, Bangalore to play in the Peace Cup The LCA has many future plans they formed the Loyola Cricket 2003, an inter-camp exposure series. that include international trips to Academy (LCA), with Mr. Shine as Although only the juniors could bring England and the Gulf. Loyola School Director and Fr. Anikuzhy as home the Peace Cup, our senior team is also planning to host an inter-school Chairman. players bagged the individual cricket tournament in the month of The LCA also involves boys performance prizes in Bangalore, December. from other schools who are interested Anoop Krishnan (12 B), the Under Fr. Anikuzhy’s keen interest in in cricket. There are two LCA cricket 19 team captain, got the Best Batsman sports has ensured good facilities at the teams - the Under-14 and the Undcr- LCA. His constant support and 19. The summer camp of 2002 led to encouragement and the hard work put a series of cricketing events. The first in by Anil Sir, Mr. Shine and all the i of these saw the Under-14 team in players have made the LCA a Bangalore play a series of matches successful venture within a short against the Sri Lankan Und'er-14 team. period. The LCA team performed well and the Sri Lankan Muttuwella Cricket Left: Arun Kumar, Arun Dutt and Anoop Krishnan who played brilliantly Club invited the Academy teams to in the Peace Cup 2003 at Bangalore. Hindi Shining
The Academy in 2003-04 The Hindi Club is no boring place, discover TUSH AR NAIR (8 B) AND SANJAY GEORGE JACOB (7 B). "¥ "X T Tith syllabus limitations, it is difficult to give training \ \ / to the students inside the classroom,” says Hindi V V teacher Geetha Madam. So, in the middle of July 2003, she met the Principal and suggested the setting up of a Hindi Club. With Fr. Anikuzhy’s encouragement, the Club was in augurated in July 2003. About 50 members and a few teachers attended the inaugural function in the library. It began with a prayer by Rohit Subramoniam (12 C) and Sailesh I<. S. (12 C). Then the Principal inaugurated the Club and gave a short speech. Fr. George, Vice-Principal of Hindi speeches and debate, Loyola College his year, the Loyola Cricket Academy celebrated recitation of poems, singing introduced the chief its first anniversary. Mr. S. K. Nair, Secretary of guest, Aasima Sayeed, Of Hilllli S0ligS, QUIZ OH Hind! the Board of Control for Cricket in India T a research scholar in (BCCI), was the chief guest for the day. A special as literature, and Hindi poetry Aga Khan University sembly was conducted to receive him. Mr. Nair ad of Karachi, who gave UPPfCCiUliOP 3fC S0R16 Of tfl6 dressed the school and gave the assurance that promis a speech in Hindi. ing players of the LCA would be given appropriate activities of the club Staff Secretary Eliza exposure and due reward. He also commended the beth Madam, and Malayalam teachers Anil Kumar Sir and coaches and the Principal for arranging excellent facilities Manmadhan Sir spoke on the occasion. While Joshua for the budding cricketers. Fie attended the net practice George (8 B) presented a poem, Rohit and Sailesh sang a ot both the senior and junior teams. After the net song. Hindi teacher Sathy Madam, recited a patriotic poem. practice, Mr. Nair took part in an interactive session The Club celebrated Hindi Day on 14th September, where he gave the young players some tips on the game. the day on which Hindi was made the national official This year in Trivandrum, LCA played friendly language. During the Hindi Week and Fortnight celebration, matches with good teams like the Air Force and the a number of events like recitation, patriotic songs, speeches Law College. In December 2003, LCA was among and quizzes - all in Hindi — took place. A number of the eight Indian schools that participated in the Schools Loyolites took part in an all-Kerala competition conducted World Cup hosted by Delhi Public School at New by the Hindi Prachar Sabha and won a few prizes. Delhi. The Academy was the only Kerala team to be invited. The Hindi Club led by its President Abey Nicholas Jacob (12 C) and Secretary Lin to Mathew (11 Q organizes Following its registration with the Kerala Cricket various activities. Hindi speeches and debate, recitation of Association, the LCA team received permission to Hindi poems, singing of Hindi songs, quiz based on Hindi participate in the District League matches. Many LCA literature, introduction of books of famous authors and players got direct selection into the Kerala Cricket Hindi poetry appreciation are some of the activities. The Association’s Under-14 and Under-19 teams. In the Hindi Club encourages children to speak in Hindi and tries recent Kerala Under-15 team selection, Amit Siddharth to make students aware of communicative and (8 B) was the only boy to be selected from Trivandrum conversational Hindi. The Club promotes writing articles district. His performance in the District and Zonal in Hindi and bringing out a magazine in Hindi. matches had been splendid. We bet you find the Hindi Club not as boring as you When Fr. Anikuzhy was asked of his opinion on thought it was. the Academy, he said: “They are doing quite well as of now and I am also quite happy with the interest and enthusiasm shown by the coaches and students of the Academy.”
II 111 The organizers had kept the best for the last. The tug-of-war between the Old Boys and Loyolites was nothing short of exciting. The Old Boys, showing their experience and maturity, won the ‘battle’. But clearly what everyone wanted to see was the musical chair for the teachers. Eventually, it was narrowed to a show down between Susha Madam and Mary Madam (Ms. MaryM. Dominic), with the latter ultimately winning. After the march past at the closing m ceremony, there was the prize distribution ceremony. The Gemini Giants bagged the overall trophy with Sporting Giants 132 points, while AP was runner-up On Sports Day, it was a narrow win for GG House, (130 points). SS stood third (98 points) recalls ARCHITH MOHAN (7 C). and JJ was last. AP was adjudged the Best House in the march past. n 7 November 2003, when started by the 100-metre dash for the Individual champion trophies in the classes had finished, the seniors. This was followed by various different categories were bagged by students boarded the buses thrilling relays and other events such as O Deepak S. Anand (6 C), Leo Francis excitedly discussing what would the 200m and 400m races. (7 A), Sanjeev J. Santhosh (10 A) and happen the next day - Sports Day. On Then began the events for die tiny Danny John Selvan (10 A), and the morning of the 8th, the excitement tots. Everyone's eyes turned to see the Sreekanth R. R. (12 C). This year, the in the air was palpable. A significant children in action. They had events Santhosh Solomon Memorial Trophy number of parents were present to ranging from the old fashioned three- donated by Loyola Old Boys’ Asso watch the events and cheer their legged race and the potato sack race ciation went to Mohammed Haneef children. Students lined the stands, to the Howrah Bridge race. It was great (12 C). Sreekanth R. R. bagged the ready to cheer their house representa to see the audience encouraging the Mathews Malieckal memorial trophy tives on. participants of the Treasure Hunt race At 9 O’ clock sharp, the Sports who were frantically digging through for the Best Outgoing Athlete. The Sports Day came to a close Day celebration began with a colourful the flour using their mouths to find with the National Anthem. The march past. Students of various classes the hidden toffee. In between the •; winners were ecstadc and everyone marched in their House uniforms, events, certificates were awarded to the was pleased that everything went behind the respective captains who winners by the chief guest. smoothly. But surely the AP House were bearing their House flags. Mrs. Beautiful P. T. displays by various members must have been dis Usha Nair, Reader at the Laxmibai classes followed the athletic events. appointed on losing the overall trophy National College of Physical There was the calm and peaceful yoga, which they had been winning for quite Education, was the chief guest. a colourful sari dance with its beautiful The athletic events were kick- formations, and a hoop relay. a while.
Below (L-R): Picking lemons; Sari dance; Teachers playing musical chair J
4 I m i : ■ f H * i a 2*' AjftVC* u. 1 ' * ? f :/V £ Spectacular Daw On School Day, the quadrangle brimmed over with parents who were treated to an evening of song, dance and drama, report JOHN F. XAVIER (11 A) and G PIKRISHNAN U. (11 A).
pectacular is the word that best campus. The students were struck by describes this year’s School Day her simplicity and warmth. She stayed S celebrauon held on 17 January dll 7.30 p.m. to watch the tiny tots 2004. The school quadrangle brimmed perform. over with parents who turned up in The kindergarten children bowled large numbers to appreciate the everyone over with their performance creativity of the Loyolites. The talented as circus artistes in their event ‘Loyola youngsters had worked hard for this Circus’. Junior school students clay, on which their parents were enthralled the crowd with their dances, treated to three hours of song, dance songs and skits. Students of Class Five and drama. put up an impressive show on the Her Highness Princess Gouri theme ‘Make the World a Better Place’. Parvathy Bayi of the erstwhile royal when the stage came alive with trees, lamiiy of Travancore made the birds, beasts and men. Other highlights occasion a very special one with her of the day included the colourful Ranga presence as the Chief Guest. She Pooja, the impressive composition of endeared herself to the students sitting the young musicians in the orchestra, on the stands by recounting vividly - dances by students of Std. 8 & Std. 9 in impeccable English - her experiences and the runaway successes - fusion Clockwise from left top: A section of as a school-girl and later as a teacher. dance by students of Std. 11 C, and the School Day crowd; Dignitaries on She remarked that she was happy to the play ‘One Small Step1 by students ‘he daisl TraPeze artistf,s °*,ha W3 . /.. . Circus ; Action song - Vande Mataram; see such cheerful children who ofStdllA- Ranga Pooja. combined academic work with many The parents enjoyed the evening other activities. She noted in particular, and were heard wondering where the Below (L-R): English Play ‘One Small ixiyolas attempt at nurturing a green cute ‘girls’ on stage came from. ■ Step’; Group Instrumental; Ball Dance. I Raja Wrests the Crown ANTON BABU (11 A) writes about the most exciting sporting event in the school calendar. asketball is not the most popular sport in India, but in Loyola it still is. In recent times, cricket and football have been keen contenders, but die B passion that basketball generates among Loyolites has not been substituted. This year’s tournament produced some magnificent basketball. The 29th Loyola Basketball tournament saw eight teams participating, all teams setting high standards for themselves. In the semi-finals, titans G.V. Raja clashed with St.Joseph’s while Loyola put up a magnificent show against StThomas. ■ For the grand finale on 17 October, Mr. John Mathew, Managing Director, Air Travel Enterprises was the guest of honour. The gallery was overflowing with cheering boys and strong emotions as the Rajas were welcomed with formal applause and informal catcalls. When the home team stepped on the court, slogans of all sorts were fired from one end of the court to the other. With senior students taking cheering to new levels, the crowd kept the Loyola team motivated, helping it to establish an early lead. The Cup had been eluding us for four years and it seemed as though we would bring it back. Yet, slowly and steadily the Rajas inched their way ahead. No amount of noise from the stands could prevent the Rajas from ‘converting’ their free throws. As the Rajas won, sportsmanship prevailed - the crowd cheered the winners. Loyola captain Thomas John was awarded the best player of the tournament trophy. And as for the crowd, it sang Hum honge kaaniyab ek din. A Runaway Success For the first time, Loyola played host to the All-Kerala ICSE-ISC Sports Meet. Everything went smoothly, says GURUDAS S. (8 B).
oyola played host to the 21st Inter-School Athletic Meet on 25-26 September 2003 at the University Stadium. Fr.Varghese Anikuzhy, teachers Land senior students braced up for the occasion leaving no stone unturned to ensure that all arrangements were perfect and everything moved smoothly. The 25th morning saw 42 schools from Kerala marching to the tune played by the students of Holy Angels. The chief guest Mr. M. K. Joseph, former - Director-General of Police, took the salute. Ms. Rita Wilson, Deputy Secretary, Council for the Secondary School Certificate Examination was the special guest of honour. There was fierce competition among schools in the various track events, high, broad and triple jumps, and discus and javelin throws. StThomas Residential School, Trivandrum, bagged the overall championship in the Boys’ section and Pallikoodam, Kottayam, won the championship in the Girls’ section. Loyola won die quiz competition that was held alongside. The meet provided a good exposure for Loyolites to talent in other schools. Senior boys and teachers had worked round the clock to look after the food and lodging facilities for athletes. Loyola Principal Fr. Anikuzhy felt righdy proud of his youthful P. T. instructor Mr. Anil K. R., teachers and senior boys for the successful conduct of the Meet. Exhibiting Creativity It was a fountain of creativity in the Science Arts Fair this year. SRIRAM P. (8 B) reports.
As Principal comes visiting, are Eco Club members caught with their plants down? at and displaying exhibits, which included electronic items, still models, and various chemical experiments and tests. The indoor games room, venue of the History and Geography department, was decorated with a variety of exhibits like wind vanes, globes, maps, reports, and models of palaces, temples and other historical monuments. “The response was much better than last year. Students got more involved and 1 feel it was a fine success”, said Soni Madam one of the teachers in charge of the History and Geogra phy department. In the Mathematics and Biology department, a majority of the exhibits were still-models, which included undreds of students and parents gathered in the geometrical figures and models of human organ systems. school on die 10th and 1 ldi of October to watch The Loyola Green Squad (Eco Club) organised a the Science and Arts Fair 2003. On the lOdi (a H Medicinal Plants Exhibition in the special class room. It working day), students and teachers from various classes consisted of a wide range of medicinal plants grown in came to watch the boys perform experiments, and proudly the school. “The students did much better than last year, display their creativity in the form of models and pictures. when they needed the help of Warblers and Waders. But The next day, the Open House for the teachers and students this time they managed everything on their own”, said was held, and simultaneously, the Fair was conducted. Fr. Gilbi, associated with the Loyola Green Squad. In the Berchman’s Hall, the Physics and Chemistry department had a large number of students, both looking
Marching to the Top Loyola's NCC Cadets won laurels this year too, ; writes ARAVIN DA. MENON (9 B).
t was an action packed year for the N.C.C. cadets. Like in previous years, regular parades were held on all ISaturdays. The Loyola troop had 89 cadets and an Associate NCC Officer (ANO). Through the year, special training camps were organised, where cadets were trained in various forms of drill. In addition, special theory classes were arranged to make cadets aware of the latest defence news. Thirty-five cadets got the opportunity to attend an Annual Training Camp at G. V. Raja Sports School during the Onam holidays. Experts from the armed forces trained Day Camp 2004. He was one of the two cadets from the the participants. Cadets also had an opportunity to get first Air Wing of the N.C.C. hand experience in firing. Even though the Best Troop Readers will be happy to learn that our former Fit. Award evaded us, Cdt. Fit. Sgt. Aravind Menon was Sgt. Arun John and Fit. Sgt. Krishnachandran have joined adjudged the Best Cadet of the camp. the National Defence Academy. Cdt. Achudev S. secured Cdt. Fit. Sgt. Avinash Antony Thomas (9 B) repre admission to the Rashtriya Indian Military College at sented Kerala and Lakshadweep directorates in the Republic Dehradun. A Ronaldo from Loyola?
Football coaching began in Loyola this year. LINTO MATHEW (11C) reports on the impact. oyola has been known for its in Christ Nagar school in November achievements in basketball, and 2003. In the first match, Loyola led by Lof late, in cricket. But this year, Aswin J. (12 A), had to take on the school performed well in football defending champions Leo XIII. too, thanks to the newly-launched Accepting the challenge, Loyola forced coaching in diis sport. a penalty' shootout and won the match The physical instructor of Loyola, 4-2, with goal-keeper Joseph Ijin Davis Anil Sir (Mr. Anil K. R.) took the (11 C) saving some goals. The next initiative to organise a football camp match was against lyyankali Memorial during the summer vacation of 2003. School, and the Loyola footballers Encouraged by the response, the won 2-0 to enter the semi-final, school decided to make it a regular In die semi-final, playing against coaching to continue the training. G. V. Raja, Loyola lost 1-5, the only Coaching is usually held on Friday goal for Loyola coming from Ebi (11 evenings and Saturday mornings. When A). G. V. Raja went on to win the event, necessary, it is also held on Sundays. Loyola is planning to play more Mi. M. G. Jayakumar, physical matches in the coming year. One instructor in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan hopes that football coaching will attract school, serves as the coach. talented students who wilfbnng fame The impact of football coaching to the school, was visible in the Sports Festival held LA Fest This year’s LA Fest was on July 7, 2003. The inter-school youth festival organised f I by +2 students of Loyola was inaugurated by film star Suresh Gopi. Festivities got underway as Loyolites crooned “L for Life and A for Art, there is Life in every Art.” The crowd-pulling event was Dance-o-mania. In the end, Holy Angels, Nanthencode bagged the champion’s trophy. The co-ordinators of LA Fest this year were Bimal Rajasekhar, Rakesh V., Arjun Ramakrishnan (all 12 A), Rosh Mathew John (12 B) and Varun Murali (12 A). k
Citius, sum academics In the Physics and Chemistry Olympiads this year, George Kurian (12 A) was among the 50 students selected from India for training at the Homi Babha Centre for Scientific Research in Mumbai. The top five in Physics will compete at the International Olympiad in South Korea, while the top four in Chemistry will head for Germany. Binu S. (12 A) and Anish Nazimudeen (12 A) figured among the top five from Kerala in the Regional Maths Olympiad. Anish is also among the top 50 students selected to appear for the National Biology Olympiad’s training at Homi Babha Centre, from where the top four will go to Australlia for the International Olympiad.
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(Clockwise from Left): Abin Abraham (2003 ISC) was first among Loyolites in the ISC exami nation of 2003. Jishnu Shyaman topped the SSLC exam from Loyola with 556 marks. Kripaharan G. and Robin Paul Prakash shared the Fr. Kuncheria Memorial Gold Medal for topping the ICSE exam with 557 marks. While Abin is pursuing his engineering studies at BITS, Pilani, Jishnu, Kripaharan and Robin are in +2 at Loyola. Ram V. Nampoothiri (11 A) emerged successful in the prestigious National Talent Search Examination (NTSE). Quiz God Winner of prestigious quiz competitions at national and regional levels, Jayendran Sreenivasan (12 A) has been a towering personality on the school quizzing circuit. Sree can On School Day 2004, Sreekanth R. R. (12 C) was awarded Loyola honoured him the school’s Best Outgoing Sports with a special award person of the Year. A Kerala State in recognition of his Schools player in cricket, Sreekanth also outstanding perfor came second in javelin throw at the mance in various District Sports Meet. quizzes and debates throughout his career.This year, he stood third in the TCS Quiz and took Loyola to the regional finals of the Young World Quiz at Hyderabad. Jayendran was also adjudged the Best Debater in the region at the Frank Anthony Memorial Inter-School Debate Competition held in Bangalore.
Open Sesame Kerala State Schools Under-17 opening batsman Sandeep Prakash (10 A) was top-scorer against Daman & Diu in the 49th National School Games 2003-04 at Delhi. Earlier, playing for Loyola Cricket Academy against Sri Lankan clubs in Colombo, Sandeep had scored two half-centuries. This left-arm fast bowler is also an Under-17 District player. He’d rather be a hammer Mohammad Haneef (12 C) was awar ded the Best Outgoing Athlete of the Year. He had won the silver medal in Discus Throw Under-22 at the State Athletic Meet. Earlier at the District Meet, he had stood first in Hammer and Discus Throws. Undoubtedly Thomas Thomas John (12 B) was Loyola’s leading basket bailer this year. Captain of the team, Thomas was k adjudged the Player of the Final in the Loyola BB Tournament. He also played in the State basketball championship. Figure of speech To those not familiar with Alex P. J. (12 Rai of magic C), he appears to be a man of few words. But give him a topic and a microphone, Rising magic superstar, ne'H dive into his vocabulary and Loyolite Bimal Raj (11 C) Knowledge to give a speech prim and won the All-Kerala Magic Ex propah.At the State Youth Festival at aminations conducted by the Kottayam Alex secured the third prize in Academy of Magical Sciences. Trained under Gopinath Muthukad for six years, Tjre final of English Elocution. The topic he has performed on more than 100 stages. Bimal is first rank holder in the /,as 'Co-operation, not Conflict is the Under-19 category of magicians in Trivandrum, and was a delegate to the f,’eed of the Hour’. Earlier he had won International Magic Convention. Few know that he is also an avid roller-skater, ■ rs* prizes in English Elocution and coming second in an Under-18 roller-skating competition at the District level. English Recitation at the District Festival.
- Thm loyoitti! zooa 17 0! Captain! Loyola Cricket Academy captain and State Under-17 cricketer Anoop Krishnan (12 B) represented Kerala in the Pattabhiraman Trophy at Visakhapatnam. A top-order batsman, Anoop’s performance this year included
Simply the Best an unbeaten half-century in the World It looked like the ocean dividing in front of God. Exuding cool confidence Varun Cup at Delhi, 98 against MCC Club in Murali (12 A) ran through the applauding crowd on School Day 2004 to receive the Colombo, and 85 against Alappuzha in Fr. Mathew Pulickal Memorial Award for the Best Loyolite. No stranger to winning the Inter-District tournament. He was prizes, Varun’s haul this year included the first prize in English Extempore and also awarded Best Batsman at the i second prize in English Essay Writing at the All-Kerala ISC Schools Cultural Meet. Peace Cup in Bangalore. A District He was also one of the co-ordinators of LA Fest in 2003-04. Three years ago, Varun Under-19 player, Anoop also plays for ; etched his name in the quizzing annals by teaming up with Jayendran to keep the the Karamana Recreation Club (KRC) Loyola flag high at the ESPN National Quiz. in the A division league in the city. i I The Lord of the NCC ; - i.L. Cdt. Fit. Sergeant Avinash Antony Thomas (9 B) attended the Republic Day IlSii, Parade at New Delhi in 2004. He was one of the two Air Wing cadets from «S?’3 Kerala and had the privilege of meeting India’s Defence Minister. Avinash is also one of Loyola’s leading athletes. I
Sunny Days : Loyola cricketers - Tomy Alexander (6 B), Amith Siddharth (8 B) and Ali Asgar (7 B) - had a good run this year. In the Inter-District tournament at Thodupuzha Amith Siddharth was the top run-getter. His unbeaten 101 against Idukki catapulted him to the State Under-15 cricket team, the only player from Thiruvananthapuram. A middle- I order batsman, he played in the P. Krishnamurthy Inter-State Cricket tour Winning moves nament at Hyderabad. As members of On the chess board of Kerala, the Kerala Under-13 team, Tomy young Ashvin Vinod Nair (2 A) has I Alexander and Ali Asgar played in the already made the right moves. At the 5 Coca-Cola Inter-State tournament in Under-7 State championship at " Bangalore. Tomy, wicket-keeper and Kozhikode, he stood first. Two hours opening batsman, hit half-centruies every week, he picks up tricks from . against Karnataka and Goa. Top-order National ‘A’ player K. Haridas. On f batsman and leg-break bowler Ali weekends, when not playing Fritz-8 |j scored 54 against Goa. He was and Chessmaster 9000 on the Thiruvananthapuram’s top-scorer in the computer, Ashvin joins friends at the State tournament at Alappuzha. Ali also Russian Cultural Centre’s chess scored half-centuries in the Peace Cup club. 2003, and in the Inter-District Under-15 Tournament at Thodupuzha.
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•"V.-:.v mmTk AP House Captain Sanjeev J. Santhosh (10 A) played for the Under-17 Kerala Schools team in the National School Games at Delhi. His noteworthy knocks for Loyola Cricket Academy this year included a 54 against YMCA Bangalore in Peace Cup, and 51 off 28 balls against Trivandrum District Under-15 team. As House Captain, he led Apollo Pioneers to win the Youth Festival. Sanjeev was also the Under-15 Athletic j School Leader Rakesh V. (12 A) led from the front this year. * Champion on Sports Day. His managerial skills were evident in LA Fest and other j events. Resourceful and energetic, Rakesh’s can-do attitude will be missed in Loyola. Rakesh was also a LA Fest co ordinator this year. His leisure interests include football.
General Captain General Captain Faasil S. (11 C) is a member of the Loyola football team. He was Best Athlete last year. James George (10 A) led Gemini Giants to championship on Sports Day. He came second in high jump.
Junior School Leader Teachers are all praise for Arjun Shajan (5 B), the responsible and brilliant leader Asst. School Leader of the Junior School. A true leader, Arjun Assistant School Leader Paul Joseph takes the initiative and gets the job done, ;10 A) is one of Loyola’s debaters. He they say Siddharth A. (10 B) was JJ House ■>ad attended NCC Republic Day camp Captain this year. A member of the ast year. school football team, he was also the Best Actor in Malayalam in the school youth festival. Asst. School Leader Asst. Leader- Assistant School Leader Vineeth
fb* 2004 11 Making the Net Work for Alumni OBA's biggest achievement this year - the lobaglobal website - is part of its strategy to reach out and build a positive image. n 2003-04, with a young team from post-1990 batches I at the helm for the first time, LOB A shifted its focus I from conducting events in school to delivering goodies to alumni. “Many alumni were not aware of how vibrant the OB A was, and we decided to make the organization more visible”, says President Ashok R. Chandran (1991). “Our plan was to offer services, build a positive image around OBA, and generate goodwill which will help the organisation in die long run”, he explains. Delivering copies of the school magazine to those who subscribed, was one such service re-started this year. Old boys love to hear about what is happening in school and among their friends. ‘AVe attached priority to : communicating with alumni”, says Secretary Dr.Vivek i Krishnan (1997 ISC). tomucSMooSinn Dmratoad (Mlattend l. 03aa«> «CJ. nSmt. ChtmM »«• t» HU IMttl, rule • cil e-newsletters, and other offerings, the website has helped L •r.iaMiiwfawnie. • * > tnwi Sn« iietetHi I«/|"me.« H'eat k**n« nt hoCwk*. n tjrni e^ pgriut ef the most in promoting the OBA brand. - oil O'**) Ted.?. «•*!> rM nntmi«lw td| M lOGAKtanfctta w -'** SWj, (VI a . ieji>! foment.. wwc *««d •■itnan tt the V.il mw'ttu. “The response has been wonderful. Through the • ri‘ I'm website, old boys correspond with OBA every week”, says Abishek. Jacob Mathew (1988) and Prakash U. Karthaj (1993 ttnmdttWKiHtqlmfljeitittn I ISC) roped in alumni from their batches and funded the : website this year. “We hope we can offer the online directory before July. Joint Secretary Vishnu Dattan (2001 ISC) is working on updating the records”, informs Abishek. The turnout of alumni at the Annual General Body meeting in July was less than expected, but the first-time presence of legendary Principal Fr. C. P. Varkey made it an event of significance. Entertainment programmes organised with aplomb by “young wives of Old Boys” put Loyolites to shame. Old Boys plotted their revenge with variety fare at the next event - Back to School on October 2. But rain played spoilsport that day and the entertainment show was can celled. With 230+ alumni, teachers and their families attending the Back to School event, mock Assembly in the Sutter Hall took Loyolites on a nostalgic trip. Throughout the year, in various US cities, alumni gathered when former Rector Fr. John Manipadam visited their area. In December, Boys of Seventy-Seven (BOSS) in riio LaVoVHe 2004 had their reunion at Loyola, thanks to the efforts of Rajiv Varghese and Somasundaram. The OBA regional meet at Kottayam in February was among the best in recent times, as Old Bovs had fun at the Backwater Ripples Resort in Kumarakom. Fr. Edasserv responded to queries from alumni regarding the school. Despite the shift in focus, OBA continued to maintain its presence in Loyola. Office-bearers regularly visited die campus and interacted with & C* 0 students and teachers. LOBA helped the school organise the inter-school quiz at the ICSE-ISC Sports Meet. In Novcmber-December, OBA arranged writing workshops for Lovolites and later, alumni collaborated in publishing the school magazine. OBA's publications - news letters, e-newsletters and the website - won appreciation from alumni. “We could not have done it without the funds raised by Unnikrishnan M. L. 1975 ISC), our Treasurer”, says Ashok. “Seniors in the Executive Committee too gave us considerable freedom to be creative”, he adds. Can the good work done this year be sustained? Seniors feel that if young entrants in OBA offer their talent, skills and time, the alumni From top: At Back to School, Ms.Ranjini Pereira and Ms. Grace Kuriakose, teach movement will remain vibrant. ers completing 25 years of service, were presented mementos by OBA founder Jimmy Antony (1969). As Mahadevan G. (1987) and Ajith Sojan (1993 ISC) began 'More youngsters got involved in their Assembly speeches with the customary "Rev. Fr. Principal, respected teachers, • >BA activities this year. We hope this and my dear friends," the crowd cheered. Former teacher Mr. B. 0. Sebastian (who will continue”, says Vivek. had come for the event from Thrissur) recalled in his speech that "this was the stage where we [students and teachers] sang, danced and acted together." On Sports Day, Team OBA pulled hard and walked away with the traditional prize - a bunch of bananas. On School Day, OBA presented a carnatic recital by Damodar Narayanan (2003 ISC), Kumar S. and Parag Kumar Jana (both 2000 ISC). newsmakers In January, when the Mars Exploration Rover 1 his year, foreign newspapers and landed on the Red Planet, it was celebration time for Indian television channels chased Loyola Rcnjith Kumar (1977). As President of AMA Inc., Old Boy Prathap Suthan (1977) for he and his team of engineers had been involved in interviews. Reason? Me was the one who ihc dynamics and simulation for the entry, descent, coined the slogan ‘India Shining’ - hotly anil landing of the Rover. Since his Ph.D in 1989, debated in a-cent times. In January 2004, Prathap took Renjith has been working with various research over as National Creative Director of leading ad agenev Grey centres of NASA. (India). , Visitors to School i? 5j-- _• Clockwise from above Bhaskar Balakrishnan (Indian Ambas- I sador to Cuba) joined in Onam celebrations. Legal education luminary N. R. Madhava Menon enthralled the audience with a career talk on law. From showbiz, there was actor Suresh Gopi to inaugurate LA Fest, violinist and pop star Bala Bhaskar to give away prizes, and alumnus actor Mithun Ramesh at the Youth Festival. On Sports Day, Usha Sujith Nair (LNCPE) was chief guest, and on School Day it was Gouri Parvathy Bayl of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore. Infotech CEO Sunil Gupta (IVL) was our guest at Christmas cel ebrations. As M. K. Joseph (former Director-General of Police) inaugurated the Inter-School Sports Meet, Rita Wilson (Deputy Secretary, ICSE) was also present. K. G. Mohanan Pillai (Deputy Director, Wildlife Education) spoke at the inauguration of the medici nal plants garden. Other visitors to the school included Som Pal (Member, Planning Commission) who delivered a lecture on Indian politics, and career consultant B. S. Warrier who gave a com prehensive talk on careers to parents and students. ______In memory still green, in joy still felt The Loyola campus, over time, has been touched by change. Years ago, "the jungle" made way for the big ground that is now home to the celebrated Cricket Academy. When fences tiptoed in to protect our children, and buildings emerged to offer facilities, the flow of nature ebbed and dribbled its way through seventeen acres. And, even today, as you enter, the rich palette of colours splashes across the environs. 8 O O o una> rip"'iJ. tuj. e>e>ic . • ~y ,•--- ANAND PRASAD T. S. (12 -'VW jmsJ. 7ru REJIN S. J. : £»' i J Ski ABHILASH B. S. (5 C) . ’ ^ ■ I* / 'j y : O&TST fe* •• •: £ kJk»‘*V«lH**004 37 Spiderman DevMadhav(1 B) Adarsh S. R. (1 B) o you know how a man grew into Spiderman? One day, piderman is super. He has a web. D while a man was sleeping, a He is powerful. He has a good spider bit him. It was a magic spider. It mask. He helps people. He jumps was sent down by God. Within two = overs houses. He has many friends. minutes, he grew into Spiderman. God Promise! When I Become a Big The Crying Man Boy Avinash Raman (1 B) Sachin R. (1 B) ne day I got up early. I brushed hen I become big I will my teeth. I took a bath. I went become an engineer. I want o to school with my bag and to study at I.I.T. I will get a lunch box. On the way I saw a man. He wlot of money. But I don’t want to go to was ill. He was crying. He was begging III any other country. I love my India. for food. I felt very bad. I prayed for him. ij | The Lion and the Deer The Lion Akkshay G. (1 A) Sreyas M. Nair (1 C) here lived a big lion in a forest. he lion is known as the King of One day he saw a small deer the jungle. It is very strong and playing. He pounced upon the Thas sharp claws. It is found in the i T deer and roared, “I will eat you.” The jungle and also in the circus. It can run deer was frightened. He said “Please very fast like a deer. I wish I could be a don’t eat me”, and so the lion let the deer lion. g°- r . I Like... I Love... '■ 4 Amal Tom (1 A) Harishankar M. S. (1 A) Abhishek Thomas (UKG A) like my class teacher. She TT like all my friends. We play many || games together. We are naughty and teaches many good Ithings. I am happiest in JLdo mischief. We share our lunch. I my games class. love to come to school. I can meet my friends in school. nn I rko tiivnlHt 2004 I am a Good Boy The Day I Saw Stars Sidharth Sunil (1 C) Somnath Kishore (2 A) y name is Sidharth Sunil. I am ne day when I was fast asleep, a very good boy. I am strong. I I woke up in the middle of the Mlike to drink Coke. I help all O night and started crying. My boys. I obey rules. parents got up and asked me what was wrong. My right ear was aching. I couldn’t stand the pain. I was screaming. Then my father took a syringe and Naughty Me poured some warm water into my ear. I Roshan Rollands (1 C) felt a little relieved of the pain. I fell asleep once again. The next day my am very naughty. My mummy says father took me to the E.N.T. specialist. so. My teacher says so. I love to fight I was taken to the operation theatre. He iand play. I like to go by school bus. looked into my ear with an otoscope. I like to be a spiderman. He knew what was in. It was a beetle. He felt afraid to think that I had slept, with it in my ear. He took it out with an instrument. He showed it to me. An ugly My Dream black six-legged beetle. Even after this Anirudh Sriram (2 C) incident, whenever I go to sleep at night, ndia had won the cricket match I check my bed for beetles and only then against Australia and I was very toss into it. i happy! That night I had a dream... 1 was in the Indian team and I was playing with Sachin Tendulkar. I was batting first. I scored many runs, many sixes and fours. Then we were to bowl. My Balloon .. ij KarthikM. (2 A) 1 took many wickets. Once when the ball L went high up, I ran to catch it... I caught i the ball and fell down. Everyone came I have a big balloon, N* -> " f ...... -f...... ■i and patted me. Suddenly I opened my It is very soft to touch, ■ —4 eyes. My little sister was patting me and It is red and yellow in colbur,.. ^ my mother was shouting, “Wake up, With white and black spotsy------Wake up, you’ll miss the school bus.” I And a long tail, was on the floor and I had fallen down from the bed to catch the ball. That shivers in the air, It will never fly away, It is in my house to stay. A very funny balloon 1 say. 29 2004 A Tale of a Big and a Nine Little Chicks Arun J. M. (2 B) Small Pencil John T. P. (2 B) nee there lived a hen and a I had a big pencil, and I wrote with it... cock, and their nine little naughty chicks. Once, the cock When I wrote with it, o It became blunt. and the hen went out to search for food When I sharpened the pencil, and when they came back, they counted The pencil became small. one-two-three...eight! One chick was ! When the pencil became small, missing! I couldn't hold the pencil. “What has happened?'' asked the When I couldn't hold the pencil, hen. “A big bad wolf came and ate him”, I couldn't write with it at all! said the chicks. From then on, everyday, one chick went missing, and the hen and I. the cock made a plan. The next day, they made a pit and filled it with honeybees near their home. My Little Kite T. Harigovind (2 C) The wolf came as usual but this time, he fell into the pit when he tried to Once I was in Malampuzha, snatch one of the chicks. The bees got At my Grandma's house. angry and stung the wolf. He then ran I went to the top of the dam, away, never to come back. And the hen With my pretty little kite. and the cock lived happily ever after. At the top, the wind was cool and strong, I was afraid to look down into the water. People in the garden moved like ants, But at the top, it was thrilling. My kite flew up and up, While I released the thread slowly. It looked like a fairy bird in the high sky, There I played long, with my pretty little kite. £ Then it came, a cruel strong wind, It hit my kite, and took it away to f Where I couldn't see her. My kite, my kite, where are you now? Either in the deep water far away, Or still in the sky together with the wind. Tha layoIHa 2004- Nightingales Karthik P. (2 B) n the beginning, when God created the birds, they were all white. No one could distinguish one from the other, so God invited all the birds to choose their colours. iThe crow chose black, the parrot green, and the peacock almost all the colours. When everyone had gone, the nightingale came, and the painters told it that there was only a drop of paint left. So God touched its tongue with the tip of a brush, and blessed it with a soft voice that no other bird had, and when the nightingale sang, the forest echoed with its sweet voice. People I Want to Be Ashvin Vinod Nair (2 A) Somnath Kishore (2 A) Some people are good want to be an astronomer. I read Some are bad the book Space. I read about the sun, moon, stars and the planets. It Some are rich I was very interesting. I thought it would Some are poor be great to go to Saturn. It must be the Some are zealous most beautiful planet in our solar Some are jealous system. I imagine very often boys like Some are white me playing with friends on the Saturn. My friend Ashvin laughs at me when I Some are brown say this. I know that the climate is very But I like them all cold there. It is one of the gas giants. The way they are One day when I become an astronomer For we are all God’s creations. I will surely go there. My Naughty Little Sister Anirudh Sriram (2 C) y naughty little sister, Anagha, is three years old. She pulls my hair and wakes me up in the morning. She loves to play cricket with me. She Malways wants to bowl, though she throws the ball in the opposite ^ ® # A direction. One day, when we were in the car, she put her hand out of ^ the car. My mother scolded her but she wouldn’t listen. So my mother j y / told her that the traffic policeman would take her away. Still, she was flk w Qr ® ^ not afraid. She was ready to get down from the car and go and stand f near the policeman. At this, all of us started laughing. . My little sister is very cute and funny and I love her very much. ^ 1004 31 This is What I Would Like to Do would like to buy a nice little puppy want to be like Jesus. I want to be a and go with it on a picnic. We could good Christian. I don’t want to be a go to Goa or Munnar. My puppy and ii naughty boy. Bad boys say bad I could play on the green slopes of the words. I never do such things. tea gardens. I will teach him to swim and together we could swim when we go to Kiran Varghese Mathew (3 A) the beaches in Goa. Ashwin Anil (3 A) love watching television. I watch would like to play all day. I want to cartoon channels. Tom and Jerry are go for coaching in cricket and Imy favourite cartoon characters. i football. I want to be in the school They make me laugh with their funny cricket team. I will join the Loyola tricks. I also like to read comic books. Cricket Academy when I go to high My favourites are Tinkle comics and school. I will also learn to play chess and Kalikkudukka. carrom. There should be only games in school. Nikhil Aravind (3 A) Darius Benzy (3 A) here are many things I love to do. feel happy when I travel by an air Most of all, I love to play with plane. I feel happy when I invent Tmy brother. I like to watch the I something new. I feel happy when I birds that come and sit on the trees in visit a new place or another country. my school. They make me laugh when they do their silly tricks. Rijo K. Alex (3 A) It is very interesting to sit and watch the clouds moving about. I often sit and dream about floating in the sky with the clouds. ■y love doing many things. But a few I make me very happy. My teachers-. - David Alexander (3 A) JLin school, my friends and the games I play make me very happy. Games like W l°ve to dance. It is my favourite cricket and football make you run abou1— I hobby. I often sing as I dance. My and give you energy. Studying makes you. -L teacher says that I sing well. I love learn many new things. Our teachers hel^ to play and have fun. us to learn and become good students. But I have to study also. So I do my homework. Siddarth S. Rajiv (3 fm Kailas S. (3 A) 17 The loyoIHe TOO— ;ssa*sss My Squirrels My Pet Kiran K. Sudhir (3 B) Savio Victor (4 B) ne day, the man who came to y pet is a German Shepherd pluck the coconuts in my house dog named Blacky. He came O found two baby squirrels on Mto me when he was two top of a tree. I took them and kept them months old, and had dark brown eyes in the parrot cage along with their nest. like two tiny buttons, and a soft, wet They were shivering out of fear. As soon nose. He had a beautiful tail and he as I put the nest in, they hid behind it. would wag it with delight each time he My grandfather and I took them out of saw me. I brush his coat everyday, when their cage and gave them milk with a I come back from school. dropper everyday. After a week they He likes rice and meat. He loves to became friends with me. Whenever I play, and we play every evening. His took them out they sat on my shoulders. favourite game is ‘fetch’. We usually go But they died after a few days. I was very out for a walk in the mornings, and in sad to see this. I still remember my the night my father sets him free so that squirrels and I still love them. he can guard the house. Blacky is a nice dog, and I love him very very much. Oh Fire, Oh Fire Nithin Joseph (3 C) Oh fire! Oh fire! Till This Day So nice to see you. Vivek M. (3 C) But Oh! So harmful, Yet so useful. Grandpa said There’re different colours of fire, We should brush. There’s green and there’s yellow, Grandma said - And it makes men’s hearts mellow. We should brush. We brushed and brushed, If I Were ■ ■ ■ Vimal P. Thomas (4 A) And brushed and, Brushed. If I were a beautiful fish, But till this day, = I could swim in the sea - I could see the whale, Have not seen, ■ Thc king of the sea, Grandpa brush, _ And the ships go away, Grandma brush. 3 Right over me. I I could see all the beauty, I Hidden in the sea, ■ S°mething I could not do 1 WCre not a fish in the sea. “Lj^1 fOAA Wonderful Nature Ashil Varghese (3 B) Beautiful lakes, rivers and streams, Flowing through the countryside. Birds and butterflies — in the sky, Animals and plants — on the earth, People roaming — around the world, All God’s wonderful creations, To make Nature better and better. My Wishes Below an Old Bridge Kevin Francis (3 B) Kurian Kuriakose (3 B) I have to get up early in the morning, Below an old bridge, I wish I could sleep a little more. I see a stream— I have to get ready quickly, It’s like a dream. I have to go to school, One day, I went on that bridge I wish I’d more time to eat my breakfast. Where I saw a man carrying a fridge. He asked me to look after it for I have to carry a heavy bag, sometime, I wish it were lighter. I stood with it for a long time. I kept the fridge on the bridge, I have to study back at home, And went down to check for him. I wish I had more time to play. The bridge was old and the fridge was heavy, When I hear stories of old times, It broke. n My parents tell me, And that was the end of the fridge! I wish I were born then... : 1d ThtLoyofH* *004 ; A Houseboat Trip Nihal Ranjit (3 C) y family and I went to a resort spent our time fishing in the lake. We called Backwater Ripples at caught some fish, which the cook later MKumarakom, and from there fried for us. Since it was the tourist sea we went on a houseboat through the son, we saw other houseboats. We also backwaters. It was a beautiful double- saw the “Vaikundam” houseboat in storeyed boat with a drawing room, two which our Prime Minister Mr. A. B. bedrooms with attached bathrooms, a Vajpayee travelled when he came to kitchen and even a balcony. There were Kumarakom. By evening, we reached four people — a boatman, two helpers and Alleppey. We anchored in the lagoon at a cook, who prepared delicious meals for night. It was calm and cool and we all US. slept soundly and by 10 O’ clock we came We sat on the upper deck and back to the resort. It was a wonderful trip enjoyed the view around us. We also and the best part of my Christmas vacation. 'teloyoittttoo* 35 What Happened Up There in 2003? I Adishesh Premkumar (4 A) O pace is a field, which had fascinated, fascinates, and will fascinate human beings. OHere are some events, which happened in 2003 in outer space. February 1 - The space shuttle Columbia exploded over the state of Texas, killing all seven astronauts, including the Indian American, Kalpana Chawla. August 27 - A rare phenomenon was made when Mars had its closest encounter (55.7 million km) with Earth. The previous one was 60,000 years ago. ! October 15 - China became the first Asian country to launch a spacecraft carrying humans. The spacecraft, named Shen Zhou carried the first Chinese astronaut, Yang Livea and made 14 revolutions around the earth. October 29 - The fourth most powerful geomagnetic storm ever recorded thrashed on the Earth. This particle storm was 13 times larger than the Earth. It caused some disturbances to communication and electrical systems. December 17 - The Wright brothers successfully flew the aeroplane for the first time, 100 years ago on this day. They flew for 12 seconds for a distance of 120 feet in their aeroplane named Flier at the Kitty Hawk Island, United States. December - January (2004) The spacecraft Spirit landed on Mars and started sending photographs to the Earth. I Wish I Were a When it Rains .•5 Butterfly Cherian T. Kunnumpuram (4 B) Joshua Antony Sebastian (4 B) Trees swinging right to left, I wish I were a butterfly, The wind blowing east to west, Hatched out from a caterpillar. NitinS.Nair Drops of water from the sky, (UKG A) I could suck nectar from the flowers, Makes the earth happy and shy. And flutter all around. Everywhere around we see, I could bring happiness and joy, Children playing in the water with glc To every girl and boy. The roads get wet and muddy. Thm LovoVH* *Oi t : '■*1 A Dream I Had Sandeep 0. Thomas (5 A) omerimes we have some very realistic dreams, rather accidentally. Well, I had O one. One particularly uneventful evening I had my supper (a very heavy one), and went to bed. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, I found myself in a three-stage rocket about to ignite. Then, I heard someone say “Five, four, three, two, one” and “Igni tion!” I heard a sound like “krrrrr krrrrr.. .krrrrrrrrr.” I thought it was the ignition starting, but actually it was my father snoring. Then there was a big blast off. I felt a slight pressure on my face. Actually it was my pillow. I had turned over my face accidentally. I had soon broken out of Earth’s atmosphere and was heading for nowhere at the speed of 17 kilometres per second. Suddenly, I heard my engines choking. Oh boy! What a time to have an engine failure. I began falling back to Earth at a velocity of 150 kilometres per second. A few minutes later, I heard a big thud. Guess what I saw? It was neither the Atlantic (for I am no Titanic) nor America, (for I am no Columbus). What I saw was my own bed and my own pillow (which was over my face). Now I hope you have at least a small idea of realistic dreams. The Revelation Sandeep V. George (5 C) ast night I was walking along the road with my friend Mr. Knowall. He knew I every single language in the world. Suddenly, a red light came descending -1—Jupon us, and when I looked up we were inside some sort of dome. I assumed that aliens had caught us. And true to it, when we woke up, we were surrounded by . diens. To me they were speaking in English, but Mr. Knowall couldn’t make head 1 cr tail of it. I spoke to them, and strangely they could understand what I was saying. But Mr. Knowall was looking at me strangely. The aliens asked me how we live, I I ~hat we eat, etc. I answered all their questions. Now they were asking questions to ; ;; I Mr. Knowall, and he was bewildered and asked, “What are you saying?” Now it was I the aliens’ turn to be bewildered. They thought Mr. Knowall was mad. They set us [ free and waved with their jelly-like tentacles. So did Mr. Knowall and I wave (with o-r hands, of course). After they left, Mr. Knowall was telling me that I was speaking in a totally 1 different language. ‘Which language?” I asked. He told me, “the language of the # ttens”. “But wasn’t that English?” I asked. “No,” he answered, “it was something ooglioogtottisortiss.” V;* suddenly realized that I was an alien too! = l ^Uyontg 2004 37 :) . Nifty Nicknames Appu Ajith (5 C) 1. Frog In A Blender - That’s how the English press refers to South African cricketer Paul Adams’ bowling acdon. 2. Mad Max - Aravinda de Silva alias Madmax for his batting style. 3. Frog - Bruce French 4. Guy The Gorilla - Ian Botham 5. Bull - Harry Alexander 6. Muscles - Venkatapathy Raju (India) because he can’t boast of any. 7. Jackie - Roger Binny because his posterior is shaped like a jackfruit. / 3 8. The Smiling Assassin - Courtney Walsh (West Indies) for his deadly bowling. \: \ .A 9. Litde Master - Sachin Tendulkar (India) 10. Sunny - Sunil Gavaskar (India) 11. Jammy - Rahul Dravid (India) Zachariah Mathews 12. Kapil’s Devils - Name given to the Indian team that won the World Cup in 19S3. (5 A) 13. Bengal Tiger - Saurav Ganguly (India) 14. Bhajji - Harbhajan Singh (India) 15. Zulu - Lance Klusencr (South Africa) 16. Master Blaster - Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) 17. Litde Napoleon - Sunil Gavaskar (India) 18. Lord of Offside - Sourav Ganguly (India) 19. Drone - Javagal Srinath (India) 20. Mr. Cool - Steve Waugh (Australia) The loyolfte ZOO* ( ah A ^ UKG A Sitting (L-R): Aditya Reji, Nikhil S. Harid, Joel Joseph Reji, Livian Rufus, Nithu Kunjumon, Nadim S., Radhika Somasundaram (Class Teacher), Ashwin Rajesh, Anand B. N., Tom P. Jojo, Abhishek Sam Alexander, Roy Mathew, Vipul B. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Amal Saju Kalarickal, Sonu Francis, Tony Daniel, Melvin Raphy, Hiran A. J., Athul Prem, Sanjo Santhosh, Keshav A. Nair, Akh:I H., Nikhil Jose, Joseph Reni, Rithwij Pradeep, Rahul Sharma. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): K. Murali, Jacob James, Suraj S., Nevin J. Paul, Marcel Mark Lopes, Achuth S. Kumar, Joel G. Reji, Harish S. Moni, Abhishek Thomas, Mikheal Koshi, Rejin S. J., Nithin S. Nair, Joseph Fernandez. Absentees: Aditya Sudheer, Pranav Muley. umsj UKG B : Tng (L-R): Gautham Krishnan J. P., Bharathkrishnan S., Narayana Sarma, Akshay S., Tanish Zachariah Mathew, Vishakh S. B., ■'•2/ath Nair S.B., Mary Magline Dominic (Class Teacher), Amrith Raj S., Ashique Lai S., Ajay Gopan G., Devanand V., Tony Jojan, Suraj R. Row Standing (L-R): Gaurishankar S., P. Punnoose Cherian, Mark H. Godfree, Adarsh Vijayakumar, Amal Krishnaa P., Abishek Jayan, ^rinarayanan S., Govardhan R., Ganesh D., Siddharth S., Haroon Khader, Aravind Nair, Rino Joseph Jayan, Shihas B.Mohamed. iRov/ Standing (L-R): Emaya E., Rohit R., Saheen Ahmed Feroz, Rakesh Ramesh, Vignesh Krishnan, Rohit Nair A. V., Akshar Narayanan, •- • J Benny, Rahul Bose, Arun George Alex, Prahlad Karun Vijay. I ! Std IA Sitting (L-R): Anand K. B., Rohan R., Rohit P. Jacob, Amrith Santhosh, Ramesh S. Nair, Deen Faby Figrez, Krishnakant S., Mini Aravindakshan (Class Teacher), Sriram S., Gandhilal J. K., Sabari Vijay, Aravind Venugopal, Varun Sujit Nair, Nakul Sanjeev Menon, Badari Anand. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Arjun Padma A. S., Rahul Krishna R. R. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Amal Tom, Kristo Glison, Anandan M. S., Sachin Suresh, Joseph Kurian, Prabhul Pradeep Kumar, Sachin Santhosh, Gokul Menon, Jithu G. S., Sushant Sam Varghese, Aravind Krishnan, Aravind S. Nair, Athul Krishna A., Nikhil S. Sivakumar. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Sivadev S., Ejas Khan A. S., Aanand Gangadher M. S., Abhijith R., Benedict Varghese Josh, Deepak lype Koshy, Abraham Raju, Akkshay G., Shyam C., Ajay A. Kumar, Rahul Prakash R., Mathews George, Aadithya Krishnan Thampi G. Absentees: Aditya Sudheer, Pranav Muley. Std IB Sitting (L-R): Akshay Kishore, Sachin R., Vishnuprasad S. R., Emil Fernandez, Adarsh Raghunath, Suhail S., Ajay Ravi, Bhanumathy (Class Teacher), Ganesh G. S., Namith Anil, Dev Madhav S. D., Roshan C., Beddyson, Rohan C. Beddyson, Rohit R., Mahadev A. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Siddharth Mohan, Sriram S. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Alan A. Calist, Anand Philip Jose, Jose P. Mathew, Cherian S. Thelly, Abhay R. Ajith, Jacob John Kannitta, Aravii Senan, Rajeev Nath S„ Harikrishnan K. P„ Naveen P. S„ Cyriac T. Kunnumpuram, Rohit David Joseph, Ashish V, Hegde, Aravind A„ Phi Augustine Naijan, Gautam S. M. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Saurav B. Nair, Anoop Krishanan P. G„ Vaishnav J„ Avinash Raman M. A., Nithin Thomas Alex, Keshav U. Krishns III Ifiithilr A hrnh Ahraham Akhil P. Nair. Ariun a. Nair Adarsh«?. r 5td 1 c S izing (L-R): Jaivardhan A. Menon, Ronny Mammen Jacob, Arun Govind T., Anirudh Pratap, Rishikesh A. J., Hankrishnan A., Anurenj S. Kumar, Sn'ou Varghese (Class Teacher), Alexander Reni, Aleesh Ahammed N., Akhil Anoop, Sreyas M. Nair, Karan S. S., Siddharth Sunil, Sandeep ?arvan. 1st /Row Standing (L-R): Harishankar R., Midhun Krishna A. J. end /Row Standing (L-R): Aravind R., Achyuth M. Nair, Geoge K. Ninan, Vinayak S., Manu S. Joseph, Daniel Mathews John, Romald Lazarus, ’• | Vs* II A ~-~'9 (L-R): James Jacob, Anand P. J., Sourabh A. Nair, Adersh M., Jose Mathew, Amal Raj R., Merl Murray (Class Teacher), Karthik M.. | Kishore, Jacob Renny Abraham. Anand V. Krishna, Gautham Vishnu M., Sreedev PR. 1 ' Row Standing (L-R): Ashik Ahamed M., Akshay J. Kumar, Karthik A. G., Aditya Joseph Mathew, Nithin P. Sebastian. Jeremy Varghese - | "v*ayalhl1. Abhay Chandran B. J., George E. George, Nikhil Varghese, Daryl Marc Rodricks. I J^GV/ Standing (L-R): Akarsh Vijay, Neeraj S., Madan M. Mahadevan, Aby Kuruvilla, Abhijith Mohan R.. Jithin Gopal, Abhishek J. Prakash, * S. R., Arjun S. J., Gautham Ravindran, Mohammed Shiraz S., Atly Yesudas. = 1 '" '/'Standin9 (L-Ft): Aadithya Umesh, Ashvin Vinod Nair, Madhukar Krishna, Rohan R., Nivin Vinod. Aditya V. N., Anand S.. Tijo Mathews. 1 Af«onyM \ Std IIC Sitting (L-R): Gokul S. Nair, Vivek Krishnan H., Amal Shaji, Anandhu Krishnanand, Madhav Tampi M., Beena Kutty (Class Teacher). Vishnuraj B. R.f Vinayak R„ Vijay Kamnani, John Mathew. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Allen Roy Joseph, Kevin A. Benedict, Akshay Shaji, Navin Jude Christian, Govind S. Syam, Gokul Santhosh. Aditya Mohan, Anirudh Sriram, Arun R., Sanjoe Sajan. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Rahul Suresh, Aswin R., Arun Krishnan, Rohit Narayanan, Jude Thomas, Zac Newbegin, Nandagopal, Ashwin Jacob Thomas, Govind Bhadran, Harikrishnan S. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Shaun John V., Bharath Gopal V., Keith Ashley Percy, Ambadi Venuqopal, Govind Krishnakumar Nair, Rohit Haridas, Aaromal B. Maanas. Yohan Philip, Paul Regin Joseph. Absentees: Anupam Narayan A. G., Harigovind T., Renoy George Varghese, Rohit P. Jeothi, Roshan Thomas, Sai Shivankar K. 5td III A y tiing (L-R): Kailas S., Sanjeev Jothi, Sidharth S., Akshay R. Shenoy, John B. Dominic, Ashwin Anil, Maitri Rath (Class Teacher), Chinmai 'ayamohan, David Alexander, Nikhil Aravind C. A., Aabid Firdausi M. S., Jaison Jude. rst Row Standing (L-R): Anirudha Subramonian,Gokul Suresh, Aravind Lalji, Kiran Varghese Mathew, Allen G. Chacko, Rijo K. Alex, Padmanabhan Tiampy, Sachin L. Lumen, Rohit A. Krishna, Ramdas K., Nidhish Lenin. ?r.d Row Standing (L-R): John James, Neeraj A. S., Varun Ramdas, Taariqe N. M., Sachin K. Rajendran, Abhishek Krishnan R., Darius Benzy, fivek S., Harigopal A., Charudath Narayan, Reuben Philip Abraham, Ird Row Standing (L-R): Sooraj Lai R. S., Sarang Dev A., Siddarth S. Rajiv, Sajin S. Sam, Rahul Raghavan, Arjun Deepak Lai, Gokul S., .’ana'ukrishnan A., Aakash Ajayakumar, Ashwin R. S., Anand N. R. ltd III B :-ng (L-R): Kevin Antony Francis, Anand Jyothi, Aravind Raj,^hPMlip John,r Ashil h I HarikumarVarghese Alexander,Rahul R. T., Grace ThomasSree kumar,(Class Teacher),Anandhu > 7-n A„ Amen David, Dane Sabu Jacob, John P. George, Hemanm r v p^ Anand B Padmakumar, Aravina o -t Row Standing (L-R): Naren R. Rajagopal, «u'S Pr?sad' T°m Y’ , . . Kurian Kuriakose, Nand Kishor i Panicker, Krishnanunni P. S., Aswin A., Siddarth G. S. Emmanual Jose, Ivan Jose Nazhichenl. '"d Row Standing (L-R): Kumaresh N.. Akhilesh P., p^een Jaya . Krishnan v Thomas ."'a. Anirudh A., Sreejith G.S., Aswin Rajendran, Vishnu S. Sudhiri Govmd G. Nair. m * Row Standing (L-R): Sachin Lai D., Vishwanath A. S., Yohaan Kosh., Prince S. M.. Verge, Gokul Reji, Amal S. Absentees: Balagopal U., Suryakanth Roy. i ! Std NIC Sitting (L-R): Arvind M., Sharan Samson, Tony Johnson, Arjun R., Visakh S., Jaisree Balraj (Class Teacher), Nithin Joseph, Sreejith Sreenivas. Reuben Jegesh Jacob, Siva Sankar S., Abhishek G. L. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Richie George, Avinash S. Nair, Akshay Jose, Aravind Vasudevaru A., Adithya Premjith, Vivek M., Rijil R. Sugathan, Jijo Francis, Vishnu Suresh, Rohan Pillay A. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Vinay George Abraham, Arjun Shaji, Benoy Stephen Devanesan, Binson Babu, Abdul Basith, Ajay Sarma N., Akhil R., Atul Abdul Khader, Niranjan U. V., Austino Paul, Danush Binoy. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Steffan Clarence, Prithvi Pradeep Kumar, Nithin M.f Nihal Ranjit, Sooraj O. S., Vivek M. Mohan, Nithin Varghese, Vishnu V. Gopal, Bharath Kumar G., Nakul Sridhar. Absentees: Amal Hashim, Anarkh Mammen Kailath, Akbar Shah, Nandu Chandran. Std IV A Sitting (L-R): Naveen Joseph Roy. Sankar Prasad A., Suraj H., Jacob M. Antony, Govind K., Vimal P. Thomas, Elaine Jobe (Class Teacher). Sreejith Ashok, Manu Mohan P., Terence Rufus, Jithin G. Carmel, Aravind Krishnan R., Paul G. Wilson. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Soorya V. Anand, Antony Paul P., Roshan L., Sam John Abraham, Gokul J. R.. Daniel Elias Varghese. Shankar.H, Adishesh Premkumar, Drupadh Saheer, Viswajith S., Rohan T. Jayesh. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Vignesh Dharshan, Nived S., Vaishak B., Lino Jose, Nikhil Danny Babu, Vishal J. Nair, Prathyush S. S., Jacob K. Nman. Thomas J. Parayil, Bharath Ajith Sreenivasan, Amal James. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Karthik Sudhir, Sachin John Jude, Adithya Jyothi, Ajay P., Rajiv Varghese P., Nithin Sunny, Siddharth S., Alok Raj.v. DeepakS.V. Nair, Thomas J.Thelly. Absentee: Noel M. Rajive. Std IV B S rtfng (L-R): Kenny John Jacob. Nandagopal R., James Jacob George, Johnnykutty J. S., Rahul Haridas, Arjun Kishore, Ranjini Raju (Class Teacher), Gautam K. M., Joshua Antony Sebastian, Ajoy Joseph, Cherian T. Kunnumpuram, Athul T. Narayanan. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Salman Anwar, Nimish Ravi, Allen E. Baiju, Savio Victor, Nakul V. Kumar, Aaditya R., Ralph Alex Arakal, Mikhail James Ko'puram, Naveen Fernando, Sidharth M. Nair. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Sachin Sahuji, Anand Sreekumar, Deepak Sirone J., Karthik M. Nandan, Siddharth M. Babu, Varghese M. Samuel, Aravind S. J., Arun V. S., Abhijit A., Jijo Daniel Winston, Ajithesh S. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Pranoy S. Varma, Joji S. Pramod, Allen Jacob Chandy, Bharath Krishnan B., Shanin N. S., Sachu Suresh, Srilekshman 3. L-, Sansal Khan A., Aditya Narasimha S. Absentees: Sujith Jacob Oommen, Jesseel Mughdar, Achuth Mohan. d V A ------mm------——------" 1 ‘ ;; ng (L-R): Santhosh Oommen George, Mohammed Shiyas, Jacob Antony M., Sanjay J., Anand Zachariah, Tony Joe Veyccan. Eunice Harnet G (Class Teacher), Arjun Shaji, Jerry Mathew, Akhil Raj R., Srikanth Sureshkumar, Jithin K. Mathew, Vivek V. Nair. . : rov/ Standing (L-R): Abin Francis. Nandagopal S., Praveen J. Leen, Anoop S., Aaron Josep Nettar, Vignesh V.. Hansankar H. S.. Fanq jshad. Sabarinath M. S., Ashik S. d Standing (L-R): Ashwin Prasobh, Rahul Babu, Keshavadev J. S.. Aditya Nair S. B., Shubham Sharma. Arjun M. E.. Sandeep Oommen ^oel Johns, Akhil R., Vijaya Madhav R. S., Neehar Ravi. mm- hniac Tnm ; BOW Standing (L-R): Stefan Simon Tobias. Zachariah Mathews. Aravind M.. Bharath Shaji. Swathi M.. Ananthaknshnan u.. N.cnoias 10m, , i^ankar V., Rizwjn Rasheed Absentees: Karan P. Kataria, Cyriac Thomas. StdVB Sitting (L-R): Saran Babu, Abraham Joseph Kodickal, Renjith Babu, Jose Thomas Cheeramkuzhy, Tony Philip John, Vinu Thomas, Elizabeth George Koshy (Class Teacher), Ansal Mohammed A., Steve C. Benny, Madhusudhan P., Kiran R., Arjun S. Nair 1st Row Standing (L-R): Ajay Joseph, Karthik Krishna Prasad, Naveen Kamnani, Surya Narayanan A., Anand V., Arun Chandran, Arjun R. Krishnan, Unnikrishnan K., Anandu S., Asif A. S., Renji Justin. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Vivek George, Ambareesh S. J., Praveen N., Ananth L., Sanjay V., Advaith Radhakrishnan, Vinayak Vijayan. Jayadev S., Firoz Berly, Arjun Shajan, Gokul G. B. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Nitin K. Chidambaram, Cyril Thomas, Rahul Krishnan, Ronnie George, Yadu Vinayak, Job J., Vipin Chandran, Jeevan Sumaraj, Hariharan H„ Abhijeeth S., Sam Augustine Kattikkanal. ' > if- se U.' i \./ \ / ■'{Z. w%. -: f.7» •V. M v- u m fife V" n T-i 01 rv A* UKjk^ \ ■ 4 i*! i i r p ri: a StdVC DanSitting Lopez, (L-R): Kiran Aswin S., Narayan, George Kurian,Prajith Johns,Anjith’ j.Saiil Nair. Jaha Vishnu Vijayakumar, Nithin Dominic A., AntonyThomas0 Jarnh S?hu C‘ A" Akhil p- syama Prakash M. S., Sandesh George Oommen. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Joel James Joseph. JlSjltT APP“ Ajith* Kumar, Achuth Jayakumar, Vipin William, Harikrishnan P. ’ 3r°n Ant0ny’ V,shal D- Anand, Jim Xavier, Ismail Faizi, Arun Varghese, Veekshit J. anknshnanStanding V., Aravind (L-R): R. PurandaranAbsentees: S., A]ma\ Vijin T., A MuhammpdVff V io 0?’ AfUn Alexander- Nevin Francis, David Clement, Nitish Vijayanand. mea M., Vaisakh B. R. 5td VI A Srttfng (L-R): Madhu Manas P., Kiran B. R., Manoj G. S., Sarath Nair, Deepak Sreedhar, Elizabeth Mathew (Class teacher), Gokul K., r'aa'u A. Menon, Jojith R., Abhijith Sivasankar, Renny J. ?sr Row Standing (L-R): John Mathai, Arshi Asraff, Niketh S. J., Basil Baby, Nikhil S., Aravind L., Varun N., Anand K., Akshay Jayan, Ashok, Niyas Mohammed end Row Standing (L-R): Akhil SL, Harikrishnan R, Sankarankutty R, Aravind Rajenesh, Jojin KB, Vishnu S, Tony Babu, Naveen S., Amal Joy, >ooraj S. G. ■-d Row Standing (L-R): Vinu J., Vishnu D., Ashwin Biji John, Sachin Francis, Mohammad Ziad, Krishnan Unni, Yadu Manoj, Sharath Mathew V., Raphael T. Absentees: Aswin K. M., Keshav H., Kiran S., Vishnu M. 3 VI B "V Std VIIA Sitting (L-R): Kiran K., George Vincent, Sreehari A AHth' o ' "llu,w •' ■■■ ,,, . .... „— 5SS“SiY S,ephyeanSaSidharan' Sa"deep 3 Ku™' Kumar R. (Cass Teacher), Roshan Babu P.. Rw!Stand S'.’ Le° Francis> Ravi'shanka^R3"^ Ramesh' Sreeram s- Anoop Mohan, Anand M., Tharian Tom, Vishnuprasad 3r^ow^^^ ^0yndM,m.PradefP' Anandlithtpayak B ‘ Ambrose Jude- PhiHp T. Abraham, Akshay D., Vivek Krishna M. S.. Swaroop Jacob FranciSj Reny M. John. ' ^iddharth V. Anand, Justus Antony, Dennis P. Jacob, Abraham George, Syam B. S-. d VII B ~n9 (L-R): Sharath R. Nair, Renny Jopol Johnson, Sabarigireesh SM Arun Gopinath, Adithya Job, Jithin R., Aju J. Thomas, Sindhu N. Sarma =ss Teacher), Kiran Plakunnel, Ananthu Sivan, Anand G. L., Anand Raj, Alok T. P., Padmanabhan R. A. Row Standing (L-R): Achuth Vasudevan, Vivek C. S., Abhilash Richard, Kevin Scaria, Kiren George Koshy, Seby Jacob, Rakesh S., n '-"ohn Morias, Syam Thomas, Abin Andrews Prem, Muralikrishnan S., Deepak O. Nair, Dipak Viju Chalakkal, Aravind S. J. 7 Row Standing (L-R): Krishnakumar R., Anjan K. R, Tony Philip, Aravind Ashok, Ambadi M. R., Nitheesh V. Johns, Aseem N., Vishnu Prasad A., SasJ James, Anadi Gupta, Arjun A., Vishu, B. Shankar, Aswin P. R., Syam Kosh. Absentees: All Asgar, Sanjay George Jacob, Tobie Mathew •• 7 Q fj 9 f f ||f f a - M a « ]© pi J dVHC -*9 (L~R): Vivek R, Arun V. Roy, Kiran D., Arun J., Archith Mohan, Susha Annie Thomas (Class Teacher), Job Thomas, Krisen James, Ben anas. Akhil V. Prince, Nikhil Anton r Row Standing (L-R): Sidharth Mohan, Jubin George, Suganth R„ Hareesh Madhu, Bharath J., Pradyoth Nandak, Amal Dethan, Sabarinath V., r.J G. Ravi, Anand G. K., Josepk K. J. c Rcrw Standing (L-R): Sajad S. Santhosh, Umashankar G., Jaser M. Arif, Reynu R Gomex, Arun Sudarsan, Sidharth S„ Krishnadath D„ rrzi Gupta, Gautam Ramdas. j Row Standing (L-R): Sreekiran K. R, Ganesh R„ Ashok Mathew, George Joseph Kodickal, Prem Jacob, Sampath V. Thomas. Hemanth Anil, George, Rakesh R. Ahs/intoas' Hivir niomont r5nvinH Nair P Aravind Kriahnan A .Infl Pfllll; m.itim PH K- 1 «•** £1 '< ' K/ 0 t # I4#rff ■■ > ■) 1. \ I I r I / I / V 1 »f? l r % F'\! J V- Ai Dili . <] !.' J 1 fed• J 3-:. . ■ /' \ 0 ■ ; 8 ® (r '-’£r -iO -J.", m StdVIllA S/ff/np (L-R): Ajay Valiathan, Ram Rathiesh, David Lopez, Rahul P. S., Ananthu Sekhar, Albenia (Class Teacher), Yedu Manmadhan, Sekhar. Govind B. S., Deepu Ravindran, Aswin Antony. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Arjun Rajagopal, Vishanth S., Sharat Thomas, Mrinal Raja, Monish Jayan, Akshay Shaji, Thomas K. Mathew, Krishna Prasad, Danny P. Thomas, Arjun S. Ashok. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): George J. Veyccan, Vishnu P., Anantha Padmanabhan, Jonas Easow, Abhinash G. L., Aravind, Jishnu R., Nithin Santhosh, Arjun R. K., Vivek V., Savan Unni. 3rd Row Standing (L-R): Ashwin R., Manu Vivek, Christy Vineeth, Tony J. Fernandez, Achuth Anil, Antony John, Arjun Ashok, Nivin Bennet. Arjun C. Mohan, Robin Philroy, John Thomas, Rahul Nath, Philips Jacob. 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Joseph, Kiron Noronha, John Mathew, Syam Nath, S. v ' ' q66 Krishnan, Gopi Krishnan, Ganesh Sangeeth. ? VvTamd'n9 Rakesh s- La|. Vimal M., Vineeth Krishnan, Subin Koshy, Reghuram S., Rojan Mathew, Chris Wilson. Vineeth C. S., _ * enon’ Robin Sanjeev, Manuel Sebastian, Mathews George, Kiron G. '-STr Narayan Mohan, Henry Kurien, Madhav S. Kumar, Sarath V., Suraj Eugin, Mithun R., George P. Jojo, Vishnu Ambareesh, o ands, Akhil Cyriac Andrews, Jijo K. Mathew. Absentees: Ashik S. Kalam, Avinash Thomas. , 5 Std X A Sitting (L-R): Charu Dethan D., Ananth J. J., Kailas G., Arun P., F. X. Prakasam (Class Teacher), Dhruva G. Aithal, Sreeju B. Nair, Ayansu M., Sanjeev J. Santosh. 1st Row Standing (L-R): Arjun Suresh, Roshan S., Anish Mathew, Rohan Jacob, Paul Joseph Fernandez, Deepak Mohan, Deepak A., Binny K. Thomas, Akhil Roshan Abraham. 2nd Row Standing (L-R): Harikrishnan H. S, Neeraj Matew Joseph, Gokul S. G., Sankaranarayanan S.. Ajith P. George, Naveen John. 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I had a lot of fun -Lrthere and I miss it a lot. Germany is a beautiful place with many interesting places to visit. One of my favourite tourist ! spots was The Black Forest which is called Schwartyvald in German. There are many interesting things to do and see Qermartv there. You can do winter sports in winter when everything is so shiny white with snow. You can go Adwaidh S. (6 B) skiing, ice-skating and sledging. I used to play my favourite game snowball fight, with my friends. All • ✓ you do is take some snow, make it into a ball and fling it at each other. •: ! We also made snowmen and walked down the snow covered roads. Spring is a cool and relaxing \ season. In summer we did activities like rock climbing, mountain biking and canoeing. In autumn it was great to see the yellow leaves falling. I knew a bit of German. Guten Tag! Wie GebtEs Thren? (Good Day! How do you do?) Gut, Danke (Fine, Thank you). Aujmedersehen! (Goodbye). i ; i . .i- i ! : V *'•*> 2004 fe Hide Your Laughter Nabeel Nazeer, Arshad N., Gautham A. N., S. Thoufeek, Gautham K. Joseph, Ganesh G. (all 6 C) t happened on 30 January Gandhiji and write up a project. 2004. The boys of 6 C had a We borrowed books from the ireally bad time... It was our library, downloaded information regular Geography period. Soni from the Net and the five of us Madam was teaching, when wrote fifteen pages each. Though suddenly the bell rang. It was for we were angry and grumbled at the boys to stand up for one minute first, we found the work - in silence, as a mark of respect for interesting. The prisoners who had Gandhiji on Martyrs Day. finished, submitted their work first. li All of us stood up. We were Deepa Madam was surprised to see all silent for a tense half-minute, the project. She didn’t expect us when the boys in the corner, ahem! to do such wonderful work. She whose names we shall not mention now wanted to reward us, so on started giggling. three days she took special classes The infectious laughter for the culprits, spread very quickly and before long In these special classes we the whole class was giggling like narrated the stories that we had girls. Soni madam had noticed and read, described the sacrifices that was glaring at many of the laughing Gandhiji had made and discussed citizens. But before the bell rang why we should remember him on at the end of the minute, a BIG a day like Martyrs day. At the end, cackle came from the back. This she told us to write about our made us laugh loudly and soon the experience and promised that she whole class was guffawing. would publish it in our school The bell rang, and all of us sat magazine. We had thought that we down. Many of the ‘laughing gas would be punished and made guys’ were caught and sent to martyrs but to our great surprise it Deepa Madam. Four of us were was a reward. captured and sent to the staff room Gandhiji was a simple boy like to face the verdict. We held out us who became so great. We learnt through the torture as we answered that we should at least learn to several questions. At the end we respect great men. were asked to read a book about ■ 74 Tht UyoW* : Through the Corridor Sriram P. (8 B) walk through a corridor of Loyola can be really inter A esting, especially if it is in he senior school block. One meets ruys from all walks of life. Let’s ee... You enter the long corridor on he first storey, between 8 A and A. You slowly walk forward ajoying the silence when you are jdely shaken by the sound of the ell and even more by the uproar reared by the boys when they hear L Then you bump into someone ho stares at you, mumbles ^mething and walks away. Before :>u can find your feet, you are sud- h :nly knocked down by a ferocious PHOTO: VIJAY SHANKAR & VISHNU DATTAN / lobaglobat onster (holding a ball), who then :outs something in its own lan- now reached the 7 C - 6 A border. lage and bolts away. Don’t panic! bulbs Hght UP! ^ are the fa™ed Conversation here is of the mixed s just our good old footballer, and WWE freaks. Lets leave t em variety (70% about WWE and Jiink he must have been late for alone (as is the safest thing to o) 30% about Pokemon). Then at last and move on. 5 daily match. you reach the dead end. Suddenly You see something in a boys You have scarcely time to get the huge noise in the corridor dies hand that excites your gaming i * . Jr beabngs, when you catch sight down as unexpectedly as it had a black cricket a k°y looking daggers at some spirit. But wait... for cover, whis- -chief-maker. Yet another one, ball? Oh! It’s only an over-baked come. Boys run pering “Principal...Principal” and nts at both his shoulders and bun from Abdul Uncle’s canteen. looking back you spot the tall i {-ams Rob and Scram*. The interval is about to be over... white form of Fr Principal on his * ^ ? e°ple with ‘technical knowl- the hell rings. You can see boys daily ‘rounds’. C’mon man, run! know it to be ‘Rob Van with their mouths full of gum (the ! You don't wanna sit in the parlour : - ^*nn (Oops! Sorry - it’s ‘Dam’), chewable variety) talking about all i all day, do you? rcstlers name. Ah! Now your things under the sun. You have I m m - ! 75 < - 2004 My Life a Coca-Cola I: Coroll lliffiiP'icte ll I >-*,• ■ I Kishor Govind Nair (8 B) was bom several decades back establishment in even the most think of - from painters to film when two chemists searching remote places like the Thar desert stars. But don’t let this impress you ; ifor a medicine ended up has encouraged people to invest in because I have run into problems accidentally, with a beverage, the Thar. these days. which everyone liked. Since then I also was an educational Many scandals were cooked up there was no looking back... asset. All my catchy quotes were about the Coca-Cola company. All I became an instant hit. I left now household names. New born I know is that I am honest. The a profound impact on the cola babes brought up on a rich diet of scandals had a very deep impact industry. Various advertisement T.V. fondly said “Coca-Cola” on me. People now looked disdain architects made me beautiful and instead of Amma, fully and suspi- more enhanced Mamma. Some of / ciously at me. They vocabulary and I also shouted slogans at became a favourite me. They maligned my at catchy quotes character by making (Jo, chahe bo jaye, £; slogans, which Coca-Cola en- fe rhymed with my joy...). But my quotes. They threw immigration to dung at me and some India was very even burned me. I recent; just a few years back. my Hindi quotes also made those plead with you dear heartless In India too I was a big hit. who were hopeless in Hindi, fluent friends — “Please understand, I am And those who have gone to speakers. I was also a chief source just an advertisement and not die Mumbai would have surely seen of employment. I’m told, people Coca-Cola company. So please me on hoardings on the tallest of waited in queues to be interviewed leave me alone and just let me live buildings. In Calcutta I was even just to work on me. My business peacefully.” pasted at metro railway stations. My has every professional you can n.s loVoWt *004 1 S In Conversationi ; Beckham . C. Sabarish (9 A) 11 was set for the great interview. I was tense. Beckham would arrive any moment. My chief worry was not about meeting the Agreat man, but about being able to ask the right questions. The cameraman suddenly sprang into action. The great man had arrived and I found myself sitting on a chair opposite the big B himself. Yes, this was the greatest moment of my life. I Words just refused to come out. My mind was in a sort of a daze. Mumbling something I started, “I’m sorry, I haven’t seen you before.” A cold scornful stare was directed towards me. Ignoring it I continued, “I mean we haven’t met before, have we?” I could’ve kicked myself. Why was I speaking foolish today. Undeterred and ignoring his cold stare I started with his football exploits, “How do you strike the ball so powerfully? Sorry sir, I mean is it the power of your boots?” “No,” he replied and continued, “but I sure know how to use my boot for differ ent purposes.” I was always bad with words. So ignoring that special use of the word boot, I stammered on very appreciative, or so I thought, of his skills. “How do you Sir, manage to hit the ball correcdy to your fielders? Is it the power of your bat?” Sizing me as if I were an idiot, he exclaimed, “Bat?!” Before Beckham himself could snap back, I jumped in with my excuse, “Sorry, I mean to your own team mates.” I was busy agonizing about my next question to even listen to his answer. At least this time f I should get it right I thought, as I aimed my next googly, “And Sir, have you tried your hand at wicket-keeping? Oops! Sorry I actually mean goal-keeping.” Red in the face he snorted an explosive “No.” Not bad, I thought as I frantically jotted down notes. Clearing my throat and looking him squarely on the face I blurted, “Was it a big blow to your ego to be defeated by Australia by a big margin of 204 runs?” Beckham had had enough of me, and boy didn’t he aim the best kick of his i lifetime as he kicked me through the goal-posts. Well, that’s what comes i j from forcing a Sachin and cricket crazy guy like me to do interviews with footballers. i 2004 77 Something l Thought rd ncsvsif say Akhil Andrews (9 B) "tt felt exhausted as I walked home. Exhausted, but happy. Happy 1 that it was Friday and that I had the whole weekend for rest and JL relaxation. But as I opened the door to my house, my idea of heaven quickly evaporated and was replaced by my worst nightmare. This entire incident resulted in my saying something I never thought Td say. As soon as I opened the door, my ears were assaulted by an ear splitting, vociferous “HI CHETTAl” I was horrified to see my four- and five-year old cousins bouncing up and down on the sofa. My parents silenced my question of The Big. cats of Loyola Anand A. (10 B) ~ou are in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. With band of brave Y-JL explorers you have ventured into the jungle, searching for the elusive creatures of the Selvas. Their group is composed of about fifty individuals and they are thought to be a new sub- species. Many brave men and women have ventured into their midst in an effort to tame them, but have returned with nervous breakdowns. You are leading yet another expedition and have recently got information on the exact location of the herd. As you creep closer, fear and anticipation tingle through your body. They are just around the corner. You move into the open, expecting the entire herd to pounce on you; but wait, there’s no creature in sight. Oh well, the I.C.S.E. exams are near, and they are probably at home studying. Life is hell for these denizens of 10 B. It is the time of the year when they have to go totally against their nature and ‘stud/. It is amazing though to see how a few exams I fggXptt can instill fear into the hearts of this intrepid mmk bunch. For over a year, these fifty morons have The Little Birdie been given intense training to compete in the Civic Clement (7 G) ‘ultimate’ test. Therefore it is strange to see them falter when the day actually comes. ’ Citing various reasons, many of the fifty h ave The birdie with his broken wing been sent for special tuition and extra coaching m classes, in addition to what is taught in school. Is Upon a tree stump sat awkwardly. that necessary? They are getting enough sleep A heartless man had cut down his home already; why force them to sleep extra hours at Without a thought of the bird or nest. the tuition centre, and keep them awake throughout the night (watching T.V.). Although rWltli broken wings and broken heart the benefits of tuition are unknown, some still consider it as a necessary evil during the process 'Melodious tunes he poured out. i of ‘learning’. Whatever said and done, high hopes Unmindful of his painful heart , have been pinned on this exclusive group, and the general feeling is that they will live up to the 1T0 make the world a happy place. J expectations of the parents. ^ l«VoIH* £004 79 Kidspeak and Adultspeak Quote: This is a very powerful concept, so listen Rahul R. (11 A) carefully. Translation: Good night and sweet dreams. note: Let's do something creative today. Quote: Today's class is a very important class. Q Translation: Come to my place and we'll play Translation: Other classes won t be as boring as this, on the computer rill the monitor melts. Quote: This coaching is an integrated programme . Quote: Aw, let's do something else. Translation: You pay the whole fee at once. Translation: The monitor has just melted. Quote: Dad, I'm going to study today. Translation: 1 missed the bus today. Quote: I feel something drilling into my heart. Translation: I think I ate too much chicken. i Quote: This is my favorite subject. Translation: #$@* A&#$!@%#A *@&#? Boy Up a Pavilion . Peter Gautam (8 A) Quote: Nothing special happened at school today. Translation: I got all my answer papers today. ne fine day, I was playing football with my Quote: Observe how the light bulb itself symbolizes a friends during the Games period, and we single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a were all quite tired. One of my friends netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out towards ‘cleared’ the ball and it flew up and landed on the a cosmos of nothingness. pavilion and so we had to stop the game for a while. Translation: Turn on the light! Though we tried to find Joseph Uncle who would fetch us a ladder, we were not successful in this Quote: I'm going to die today, this is D-Day. respect. So we had to find an alternative. I got a Translation: Just another day. brainwave! One of us could climb the tree leaning on the Advice Quote: Don’t worry, everything will turn out pavilion and hence climb on top of it. A number of just fine. '/C my friends tried but in vain. So they decided that Translation: After things have gone from bad to worse, since it was my idea, I do it. So gathering all my the cycle will repeat itself. strength, I somehow made it to the top. I gave the ball to my friends. Now I faced a slight problem — Quote: You can't have any more money. how would I get down? The tree looked too risky to Translation: You can't have any more money. me. I went to the edge, closest to the ground. I thought of hanging to the edge and then letting go. I Coaching Speak abandoned the idea as the roof was too slippery. Quote: You are bound to this institution, we are like Desperate, I jumped down and in the process caught family. hold of a nearby branch. My friends helped me down Translation: Your tuition fee is not refundable. from there. Later, I found out that I could have used the tree to get down as well. Quote: Give me time and I will give you IIT. Translation: Be prepared to repeat for three or four years. Our Experiments with Theatre Asif S. K., Ganesh K. Sarma, Anton Babu (11 A) hat sure is a very presu would put in our best and not be mptuous title for the overly concerned if things didn’t Tunpretentious efforts of our work jn our favour, gang of Class Eleven who had With this resolve our hunt for worked hard to gain the acceptance a theme began. All English classes and approval of our parents by were rechristened drama classes staging a play on School Day. As and the flrst burst of enthusiasm we look back at our first fumbling was seen in the brainstorming steps we discover some order in the sessions when wild ideas were flung chaos that was our life from January around. The teacher, imagining 7 to January 17. Theatre and our tbat her students were little class were poles apart. We could patriots, declared that it should be boast of only one hero who had a patriotic theme. After great de- proved himself in the past. And yet liberations it was decided that we’d we had this mammoth respon- enact incidents from the life of sibility or rather opportunity to three leaders Mahatma Gandhi, stage a drama. The teacher briefed Martin Luther King and Nelson us on some ‘unalterables’ - it was a Mandela and unify these with the team effort and every student was theme of non-violence and peace, expected to be involved; we had What followed was hectic to make do with the limited activity in the computer lab — resources we had and, all of us downloading information on the ^**Y0Rt* *004 big three, presenting it in class, arguing about it, not to mention the composition assignments imposed by die teacher to help us zero down and find focus. We were reaching nowhere and drama discussions became just English-class-eaters. Each passing day was earing away at the already low enthusiasm, and even die die hard optimists among us expected nothing more than a flop, when suddenly out of the blue, we had found our theme. The cynics in the class were whiplashing the = ; Mahatma when the teacher’s “There’s always a first rime. After still an enigma for us. The boys of ^ : passionate criticism of today’s all we aren’t great artistes and ev- our class now had impressive titles youth did it. The theme would be eryone knows it.” There we were, to their names — Floor Managers, the selfish, disconnected youth of devising steps for the dance and Sound-in-charge, Lighting Speci today: Youth as the torchbearers petti (Arjun R.) was the self-pro alist, Multimedia big-wig, Costume h of the winds of change? claimed star dancer. Designers. Father Principal looked Saturday morning found the Finally we had a skeleton of a proudly on as, the whole day and whole class on the football ground, storyline - we’d showcase students late into the night, we practised and warming up for the practice from privileged homes through the rehearsed the shadow-play under I' session. Many were still asking character of Anurag, an I.I.M. the able guidance of Thomas questions like “Where’s Gandhi?” graduate who is insulated from the Varghese (11 A). The rave reviews ; and “Who is going to be MLK?” harsh realities of ordinary life; we’d we got of the very realistically por Meanwhile, our novice script- show him the glaring contrasts in trayed scenes with fire burning on writers fed on Bollywood plots our country and finally make him stage, are a testimony to the hard were already brainstorming and take a dramatic decision, work we put in. putting their stormed brains to We didn’t know until D-day To cut this already long story i paper. Each one conjured up a dif- what that decision would be. short, we’d like to wind up by ferent set of dialogues only to be Madam wanted all the possible saying that it was indeed an torn to pieces by the teacher. It was techniques, which she thought excitement of an unknown adven- plagiarism at its height. We read, would make up for all our inad- ture for all of us. Our play was lifted, rewrote, polished, innovated equacies. So we experimented with christened ‘One Small Step’ by — there was no dearth of strategies, mime, tableau, shadow-play, Hari Gopal (11 A). Looking back There was no limit to the risks dance, etc. You need to go through we feel ‘One Brave Step’ would we were taking. As the theme it yourselves to understand what have been more appropriate. The centered on youngsters, we decided an enormous project we had em joy of being an important part or that there would surely be a scene barked on with nothing on our side that ONE SMALL STEP is inde- in a disco (a smart strategy, we but our enthusiasm. scribable; even greater is the cn- thought, to make the audience sit Those of you who have seen joyment of working together as and watch). Dance became a nec- the drama or at least heard about part of a team. We still feel that it~ essary evil in our drama. With just it will wonder what we are talking was the process that was greater- one Sanjo who could gyrate, there about. How our drama leapt fr om fun than the final staging on the= was little we could do. But then the above stated storyline to School Day. again there was the teacher, something dramatically different is nn involH* £004 Simplify Gopikrishnan U., John F. Xavier (11 A) enry David Thoreau tuition classes, most are getting nation and bring glory to the school once said, “Simplify, ready to go deeper into the knot and their parents. Most boys were H simplify.” It was a by enrolling in crash courses before trying to live up to the expectations composition class in session one the entrance exams. “Simplify”, the of those who love and care for warm Friday afternoon and the teacher had advised, but there were them, even when they were sure teacher was trying desperately to no takers for it. “We can't take the that it was not the right thing to whip up some passion on the do. In the process, many topic. After the initial grum appeared quite confused about bling and resistance, the class what they were doing and also warmed up to the theme and Students about what they were going to . soon notes were being ex do. The entrance exams were changed on how complicated are responsible the safest options and many felt life was for them at moment. We that they couldn't afford to take planned to take the project a for making life a risk with other subjects. It was little further and spoke with the obvious that these were all ideas plus one students to find exactly tough that they had picked up from the how complicated their lives conversations of seniors around were. As we got busy with the for them. After all they have little interviewing, we began to themselves. time to really sort out their notice deep furrows of anxiety thoughts for themselves. on young foreheads, or so we Even as boys try to fulfill imagined. The Chambers 20th risk”, “We have to flow? with the„ everyone else's dreams, they find Century Dictionary defines the current, or else we 11 lose out , themselves in a fix finding it diffi word complicated as confused, en- “Life ain’t all that difficult____ „ now. Biology.cult to Butchoose concerned between as Maths they are and tangled, complex. We believe these Worse times are ye abouftheir future, unlike students words very well describe the con- some of the comments. We got the zbouttoax ’ daren>t dition of the boys as they come to feeling that students were respon- ^ Instead they justify terms with this sudden leap into a sible for ma g g “Complication brings out '“richer, we .poke with rhe bel. in ore”.'"Some .moon, of slwo student. sympathetic and complexity is important to push us Almost all boys expressed were great concern and worry at their concerned about the students. All doingfar”, and it, why “If caneverybody’t I?”. Quite around right, is ability to successfully handle the the teachers agreed that Me for do g 7 43 heavy work-load. It seemed as if today’s youngsters was far more We wer challenging and complicated. But would make it even if their lives *nl?” * i—* »■ rrCZZ~a —d L4 « ^ UvaIH* »aaa 83 ocated in the middle of nowhere, the Eliot Mansion L was uninhabited, and had been so for a number of years. The The EliotvT * previous inhabitants, the Eliot family, had disappeared without any trace. Strange happenings had been reported by travellers who passed by. All of them heard the Mansion same thing - a blood curdling screech. The nearest town, Ganesh K. Sarma (11 A) Charleston, was a good thirty miles away. Three teenagers — Mark, John, and Tim - were reported happened on this very night, sev the sound of bricks falling. The missing from Charleston. It was enteen years ago. It was dark and room was filled with a weird glow. sheer coincidence that they stormy. The windows were “The remains of a human disappeared on the morning of the banging against the walls of the body, rotten flesh still dangling day that the Eliots disappeared sev- house like battering rams. Bob from its bones, staggered through enteen years ago. Or was it? Eliot asked his son to close the the opening. The family tried to The once magnificent mansion windows, which he did grumbling. open the front door but their effort had been reduced to a rotting pile was in vain. It drew closer and of wood, barely standing up, like a closer. Young Tom looked into its person who has had too much The smell of eyes and died on the spot. The drink. Moss and ivy covered the others suffered a similar fate, all walls, and it was impossible to tell rotting flesh except Bob, who didn’t look at it. what its original colour was. There He was dragged into the hole in was something strangely discon permeated the wall, along with the others, certing about the place. Whether where he eventually died.” it was the ivy, the high walls, or the room. “You expect us to believe the barred windows, it was that? Huh! What a stupid story.5 impossible to tell. They sat down to dinner; then the “Yeah, if this happened on this Evening had come and three ^ghts went out. Mrs. Eliot went very night, why isn’t it happening figures were making their way to into the kitchen and came with a now?” the front door. They were the three candle. Just then, the door bangec teenagers, carrying backpacks, and “It was strange that with not shut, and they heard the unmistafc: talking in loud voices — voices a stir of a breeze around the house, able click of a lock. The room sucE which betrayed a tinge of fear. The the candle had blown out. Bob denly became cold. An evil laug^ door opened with a deafening opened the door and went to the broke the silence. They froze, ^ creak, and thudded against the barnt0 fetch a lamp. He came with expression of utmost fear on the wall. Clouds of dust erupted into an °H kerosene lamp, and was tak- faces. The fire suddenly blew ot_ the air. The boys emerged from it *ng off his shoes when the door “Oh geez”, someone called o\— coughing and sneezing. banged shut behind him. An eerie They felt the overpowering fum— They were now sitting in front Hugh shattered the prevailing of rotten flesh. There was a w= of a warm fire, munching on silence. The smell of rotten flesh followed by others. The bedrock something they had brought with permeated the room. The laugh door opened. Only, this time, i-— them. After dinner, one of them turned into an inhuman screech, one but five figures came out started to tell a ghost story, the "Hi6 d°or t0 the bedroom opened, it. They closed their eyes story of the fate of the Eliots. This Thc smell grew worse. There was waited for the end. The Glaring Contrasts Jayendran Sreenivasan (12 A) . ing top colleges, but deride him for ncredible India!” screams the his mishandling of Kashmir. Every advertisement that I see on my conceivable street that had a i email service portal. As the British name in this country has psychedelic colours whiz past my been renamed an M. G. Road, but screen, I am set thinking — India, ‘sentiment’ forces us to call the incredible? Victoria Memorial by the dead It happens in literature too. Yes, ironical, even more. queen’s name. India’s divorced V. S. Naipaul after Any way you look at it, India Ah! Sentiment. It is something acyjc comments on the state is a kaleidoscope. There is no one that flows freely in India. And it Qf affairs in the country, but answer to the hundreds and hun- has its own ironies. (How could it unashamedly laid claim to his dreds of questions that arise at the not, being so totally Indian?). It is ethnicity, after winning the Nobel, thought of India. a brotherly sentiment that drives It is unbelievable that a There are many, one billion at many politicians to ^parties, but country free only half a century the very least. For every Indian, w^ere was this when so many of ago, left impoverished and reduced from the Jat in his sugarcane fields their brothers were being torched tQ beggary and no conceivable and the Pav-Bhajiwallah in in Godhra? future, should today rank among Mumbai’s chawls, to the Marwadi Sentiment about seeing the ^ tQp gve economies in terms of businessman and the Tamil ,u economy so well leads to a t^e revenues it generates. That a ■Brahmin who sips his morning complaint about the huge defence country where till recendy, a gov- : coffee in Triplicane, everyone has bucjgetj but vanishes on hearing of ernment job was considered a pre got a completely different opinion ^ br’very of a regiment in the requisite for marriage, should chum !.on everything in this country — snQwy wastes of Kashmir. out Harvard graduates by the Whether Sonia Gandhi should dozen. That a currency that ■uand for Prime Ministership or was so weak, that it could not • whether Sehwag should continue even compete with the ■*o open the match. Afghani should today value It comes as no surprise then 40 to the dollar. It’s against -ihat this country is a walking the laws of credulity. It seems : paradox. Every year we hear of almost like the dream flicks - surplus crops, yet news of starva- churned out by Bollywood. = Son deaths is on the rise. The gov- Yes indeed, the glaring v.rnment encourages the free contrasts in my country are -Market and higher education, yet for anyone to see. '-omplains of brain drain and at the 'ther extreme, illiteracy. We praise ''thru for his foresight in establish- 85 *004 Goodbye Loyola The scene is set and the curtains are drawn; no barriers obstruct thoughts, feelings and emotions. The time has come for students of Std. 12 to bid adieu to their alma mater and take that bold step in the big world out there. At the solemn candle-lighting ceremony organized by their loving teachers, Albenia Madam took the children through the different stages of their school life illustrated with appropriate reading of poems, passages and singing of songs by teachers. Though we are all aware that no Loyolite really bids farewell and that he just grows to be an old boy, there was no holding back the strong surge of emotions at the send-off as students expressed themselves spontaneously. The words that follow very well express the feelings of the teachers and also describe the process of children growing up in the school. From Us with Love What motivates a teacher? If we have sometimes said “No” it is only to help children become strong and independent... Most of all we have loved you enough to say no when you hated us for it, and that was the hardest part of all. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you are both breathless...they crash...they hit the rooftop...you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that some day they'll fly. Finally they are airborne: they need more string, and you keep letting it out. But with each twist of the ball of twine, there is a sadness that goes with joy. The kite becomes more distant and you know it won't be long before that beautiful creature will snap the life-line that binds you together and will soar, as it is meant to soar, free* and alone. Only then do you know you did your job. I }■• Lit •i'i Zt was a fkone call on a warm August !l evening that brought me to L-.oyola. X was > struck by the ambience - the lush green I corn'pus, ike sense of sfoce and ike easy Ljttle did X know two years hack as going atmosfkere oil around me. Yes, / oyola. X gingerly steffed into tke class II classroom tkat Zd grow to love L~.oyo\a so . gave me ike space to you by accefting j me for what X am. muck Zodoy as X see my cJassmates for f\II my teackers have taught me with whom tke sekool kas keen a virtual kome. a great sense of commitment and Z'm not wondering surfrised at tke strong i dedication The Uncles have been won- sentiments expressed. Zt's not all about derfuI feojJe, always very keifful and loving academic.s only. Zd like to thank Father Frincifal for kis There's something in tke air kere, which timely advice, guidance and even fjrvdtnent, *v\ak challenges ahead in life, ffd, how con X cJassmates and teackers. Zve done lots feel good, dlost ever forget tke smiling face of Father of things that made me of all X was accefted so easily and Bdassery who has gjided me gently throu^ made to feel wanted. Thank you L-oyola. those two rougd years. Tapan Narayan (12C) Asheeb A. (12 A) f 'Ore day X shall grow as tall as a tree Mgr skail stare at me... Ore ebay X skail break free and grow /fs tall as a -tree." \ That was a hurst of poetry when at gun point X uas threatened to write for the school wall-paper by my Lnglish teacher. A/ow as X lock at my strafes with expression, X marvel at the journey that has been my life at L—oyola. /Ay junior schoolteachers have left an indelible mark on me. fjll that X do and say today is definitely because of them. They have helped me grow into the tall tree of my verse above. /Ay teachers in middle and kjgh school have led me from the knotJn to the unknown very gently. X have grown up with a great deal of -personal attention, care, understanding and love and this has nourished the same qualities in me. X : learnt to believe in myself and in others. X discovered reserves of talent in myself. The final year was the best of them all. X discovered capabilities X had never known that X had : before. f\s X stand here today X cant hold back my tears, whch X shed unashamedly. i i Tear teachers, thank you for all that you have done for me. X promise to five back selflessly jJ in the same way. (Goodbye. : Vishnu Menon (12 A) f\s we leave the -portals of this esteemed instituiton X look back with -pride and gratefulness. X feel fraud to be a Loyola has been my home for the -past thirteen years Thirteen sounds like a fart of the L_oyola family and also one \ of the ID members of the Commerce loooong number but today as X lock back, batch of ZDDH. \Ale have had some lovely thirteen short years just sfed by. Two years back X shed almost all my tears I times together, lovely times doing different : things. \}Je have some wonderful memories when X thought X would have to leave to treasure - memories of our desperate school after IDth standard But God was ! attemfts to mak L*** feyontft 2004 87 I Short-cut to Success Loyola Children Rakesh V. (12 A) V. P. Prabhu Life is worth living and fighting for, Each lovely flower blooming here The One who is ready has much in store, Has grown from just a seed It’s easy to give up and accept defeat, They trust the ones who made them all But the brave one will always willingly repeat. To give them what they need. There’s many a time you would’ve stopped The raindrops fill their tiny cups Just keep moving on head held aloft. So, they can have a drink; Don’t worry or falter but try again, Teachers come to warm their hearts— Courage and strength you must retain. Till their minds turn pink. Grit and dedication are steps to the top, If God can bring these flowers up— The climb is hard but you cannot stop, With so much love and care, So many give up without a thought, We know he watches over all When success was theirs if they had fought. Our children everywhere. Why long for something with a wistful sigh Mr. V. P. Prabhu teaches Chemistry at Loyola School. And watch precious moments drifting by? Arise, awake and try again, There is much in life you will attain. ! Cricket is Fun You i Jonas Easow Daniel (8 A) Hari Gopal (11 A) ! Cricket is fun I open my eyes, When Yuvraj and Kaif complete a run Everyday, just to feel When Logie is ready to throw The same old light upon my face. When Azhar hits three centuries in a row I look out through the window, ■■ When Zaheer dismisses Trescothick for zero . Everyday, just to see And Dravid is made a hero When Warne is in a fix The same old things again. And Sachin lifts him for a six I walk out of the door, When Ganguly hits a four Everyday, just to tread And the Paks fail to post a good score On trodden path once again. When Kapil wins the World Cup in cricket McGrath wonders how to take a wicket But then I remember, For us cricket is fun Everyday, that you are there mom When India has won. To make everything new again. Ml. Till© Hfert Mentis! Bimal Rajashekhar (12 A) he lone timber-wolf howled, as if thirsting for No sooner had I entered the room, whose light source company. If it was, it must instantly have been was a bright oil chandelier, than the door shut behind Tsatisfied, for in reply to its call, a thousand me of its own accord. howls reverberated through the woods. It would have Frantically, I looked around me. My behaviour. chilled anyone’s blood. And my blood chilled faster during the next 5 minutes was not unlike that of a than it would have done in the latest fast-cooling freshly imprisoned guinea pig, ferreting out every refrigerator. In the distance it loomed; a dark shape in corner of the large circular cage for any sign of an the curtain of black surrounding it. The staunchest escape route and failing miserably. Then, I ,forced , critic of the supernatural would have to concede that myself to calm down, took a ew eep reat s an the castle, with its ominous towers and a lone light, started to take in my surroundings Though I was halt evoked a sense of better-left-alone memories. My first expecdng an unpleasant scene, was ^ev impulse was to turn and run, but the wolves howled astonished to find, lining the r^orTh out *te e e once more end strengthened my resolve “1 ■ , f & in them and torture racks. It was as it .o look for greener pastures. “nwpmiflht I’d been plucked ont of the retd world I now cursed the moment I had (1(1611119111, ind t„4oned into .Frankenstein'. yielded to the urge to go parachuting over . mp 0nly the mad scientist the Canadian forests. It was only typical | (JtludlllC anci j had hardly expelledwas a missing,sigh of of me to lose my way. I had managed to If rtf rtf pi relief when a raspy voice breathed out, lose myself in a mall where I had been J] ||did 1C “Welcome stranger, I see you’ve been hanging out for years; how then could I S||||” fiddling around. I hope you find it fas- aave hoped to navigate the vast expanse SullwdUUII cinating. Well, no matter...At least I of the forest alone? Although with an haye COmpany, for now.” :nwilling heart, I recognized that my only ^ around_ t0 locate the source of this •.hances of survival lay in front of me. Light meant . But’even before I had seen the speaker, >eople, and people meant safety. So, I trod on... coniured up an image...the image of the friendly The castle was what one who is fairly conversan _hbourhood mad scientist. Bespectacled, hair tith Frankenstein and Dracula would give a wid g hump, an old white coat... erth. For me, that berth would have extended to die stan tig ^ ^ ^ ^ mad sdentist had ther side of the world, had I not been in this pickle, y , iut, the moat was not raised, so I ventured on_mto arrive ' ^ j ^ cocksure I must be dreaming. I he dark hallway. I didn’t expect a crowd, but I did y > parachute. Expecting 'bink ,ha, a spooky buds, would be .hem ,o rnee.ve f ^d£..Hey, I was soil -=• No...it seemed as if the butler-thingy was reserve to ^ere must be a mistake. One more worthier people. I did some mental calculadons ere^ ’ Qh Oh! I’m in deep trouble bout where to turn to reach the lighted room. Merci- pmch...And still there. U , % for the first time in my life, my navigation skills now. id not let me down and after fifteen minutes o The, scientist, ’evess eyes 0 fseemed an eagle to whichglitter throughhas spotted the : liking through dark corridors and expecting at ev«y closer I was sure of one thing: billisecond, a vampire to jump out from behind the its prey. But a n a f ht Numerable pillars! I at last reached my destination. I wasn t about to be SUryoiH* fOOA 89 Well, a short fight it mustVe been, because the teleport you back to your house. Yes, I know where next thing I knew was the psycho leering over me as I you live - I can read minds too. If the experiment lay on die hard wooden floor. Looking at him, I knew is...er...unsuccessful, you’ll have done your part for that he was a twister compared with whom corkscrews humanity. Now, you won’t feel a thing.” are straight and a spiral staircase is the shortest I was about to say to his face that I didn’t care if distance between two points. He said, rather he humanity perished as a whole as long as I was alive, cackled out these words which seemed to me to be but I lost consciousness, the judge’s final verdict, “I’m really sorry dear, but I Overnight, I’ve become a karate sensation, just have to perform the last stage of this experiment splitdng wide even hundreds of bricks with one blow on a human. You see, I’m trying to replace bones with and not even sustaining a scratch to my skeleton. And the metal Wolfantium. If it works, I’ll release you and my explanadon is: I drink a lot of milk, dude. When Water Becomes a Luxury j Arun Mohan S. (11 A) Now I would give a thousand furlongs of sea, for an acre of land. The Tempest i ondering what a quotation from The Matiorama showed a mother and her naked child Tempest is doing out here? Let’s turn digging in the sand for something. I expected the : j to a small but beautiful-state in die scene to be Bihar or Rajasthan and I got a real southwestern corner of India called Kerala. The shock when the descripdon read “Kerala”. The state has earned the sobriquet “God’s Own sandy area I mistook as a desert turned out to be I Country”. The state of affairs in Kerala would the Bbarata-pu^ba. One wonders who to point die make God think otherwise. finger at. Sand mining in the longest river of Kerala Now let’s go back to the reference from The has resulted in its (hopefully temporary) death. The | Tempest. The people of Palakkad would find this Meteorological Department predicted rain on reference funny because they crave for a watery March 15. So I waited. I have never been so in death, Sounds ridiculous? As per Hindu rituals it’s volved in a problem. Read the articles in The Week customary to wash the dead body before and Malayala Manorama about the topic and you cremation. But this was not to be in the case of a will be up-to-date. 60-year-old man (the scene is still Palakkad). His Well, the Ides of March came. The night of \ family could neither find water to wash his body 15 March 2004 came, but no rain. I was singing : nor wash themselves before performing the rituals. Ghanana ghanana, the number from Lagaan and I : i Distressingly funny? Ironic? Call it what you like, had reached the line Kali megha, Kali megha, pani to but the situation cannot be taken lightly. harsao when I heard a loud clap of thunder. This I The Bharatapuzha has been reduced to a is no exaggeration and is in fact the major reason : i puddle. Paraba, where pilgrims used to take a holy I am writing this article. But there was no bijih ki :; : abludon is now dry. People coming to Sabarimala talrnr to follow though. I opened the window and !: j turn back as there is no water to bathe in the the famed smell (of which I had read only in i ).; Parnba- All the 44 rain-fed rivers of the state are books) of wet soil greeted me. It was divine. Even i shrivelling up. If all these don’t ring a bell in you, though there had been no water scarcity in my M there s more. The situation is so bad that the house,! felt happy (for some reason). As the rain I ; Government has decided not to take any harsh moves north, it will be hard to imagine die happi- ; legal actions on farmers who have gone bankrupt, ness and pure joy that the farmers of Palakkad A week ago,, a front-page picture in the Malayala and Alappuzha are going to experience. ...... ■'-> —IUa God's Pl»s are Perfect Lily Brito Muthunayagam I am deeply touched to find that Loyo/ltes still remember trie, though I retired 23 years ago. I hope this article will be to your satisfaction for publication in this year's magazine... Kindly give my love to the few of my colleagues who are still on the teaching staff - (Mrs. Elaine, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Grace and Mrs. Bhanumathy)... Hope Fr. Varghese’s health has improved - he has really to be admiredfor his perseverance to manage as Principal God bless Loyolites with success. Yours with Love, L. B. Muthunayagam. ever be afraid to trust an unknown future of my elder son, who was in a diabetic coma for five to a known God” will be my advice to those days with all life support system in a well known with whom, I share the most traumatic ex- hospital in Madras. The loss of two sons was more N than what my physical and mental state could take. I jerience of my life. It was July 1988.1 was returning from Bangalore o my home in Trivandrum by the Island Express. In December 1981,1 had lost my husband who had given ne a home and companionship for 40 years and now ife seemed so insecure and lonely. What a traumatic experience it was, when I found nyself trapped in the coupe of a first class ompartment all alone (since my travelling companion tad got down at Quilon) and ten bogies ahead of line had plunged into the Ashtamudi Lake just as he train was crossing the Perumon bridge, which I elieve had given way. It was a miraculous escape :om a watery grave and no doubt because of God s pecial care and protection that I am numbered mong a very small number of survivors. In 1990, a -iby girl brought joy and light to my son and wife fier 10 years of long waiting. Back in Bangalore in *y son’s home with a baby to be loved and cared for, fe once again became meaningful. But traged) struc 1C young family when my son passed away after a --assive heart attack, leaving my daughter-in-law and dnee-and-a-half-year-old child to face an insecure •id challenging future. What a blow it was for me nly to be followed in seven months time by the loss levo!H« 2004 was in bed and in and out of hospital for nearly six children (Two of my four great-grand-children are Disorder!' I was pot on steroids and btonchodilators. d.oghter-in-l.w whoon the reaching staff of Edora, Tha, was the bejnning of my presen, stare of heal*, College in Madras vrs.ts me rwtce or thr.ee a,ear AX & ° are some of the many blessings which I being steroid-dependent and on daily medication and These bronchodilators. For the past four years I am on oxygen attribute to God’s merciful love. Thank God, He has at home, to facilitate my breathing, when it becomes not allowed me to wallow in self pity but has given difficult and uncomfortable. It was because of the me His special grace to share the burden of my steadfast love and marvellous care of God, who tern- widowed daughter-in-law by being a chaperone and a pers the mind to the shorn lamb, that I have been helping hand in bringing up her daughter, able to survive all these years in spite of my failing Looking back, I can see how God planned that I health, which has not prevented me from leading a should miraculously survive the train accident to be fairly normal life at 78 though home-bound. Using of service to my late son’s wife and child with whom oxygen and bronchodilators at regular intervals of 4 I have made my ho me. to 5 hours, I am able to go for Sunday Mass in a con To conclude my sharing, with Mary the Mother veyance and visit my daughter for an hour or two once of God I say “The Lord has done great things for me. in a week when I feel fit to play with my great-grand- Holy be his name.” Ms. Lily Brito Muthunayagam taught at Loyola School in the 1970s and 1980s. In the World Tushar Nair (8 B) Thou art ready, not yet for this world Stay with me and hone thy skills Sharpen thy mind like a warrior his blade And discover thy hidden strength within. Into this world of uncertainty wilt thou go When I deem thee ready for it Into the world where no one waits ; Where thou shalt have to strive to win. I will guide thee as far as I can, But in this world where all must die I also will be gone one day. Thus thou must now learn thy strengths And work upon thy weakness When thou art ready, I will let thee go To fly, fly away from me Into the world of reality. .....itte 1004 Ii Have Learnt to Believe Sreelatha Venu Gopal As the mother of two teenagers, I don’t have the courage to form perceptions about them or expect anything of them. I dare only to hope... Over the years, watching my children grow up, I have learnt a few things. I have learnt to believe in their fantasies and smile at their foibles. I have learnt to feel confident in their abilities. I have learnt to feel indulgence in their pride in being Loyolites. I have learnt to adapt my expectations to suit the inclinations of my children. Most of all I have learnt to hope... I hoped that my child might become a sensitive and concerned individual who can find a secure niche in the world where he won’t be buffeted by the cold winds of hatred and uncertainty. , , , Now, when I think of the small, shy, diffident child who oo e ac me at the door of the kindergarten and see the confident boy who comes out o gates, I feel that the school has fulfilled a lot of my expectations. When I see him eonvetse easily, write eonfidendy and behave poh.ely I feel that this was what I had wanted all along. f , I believe that his time in Loyola has equipped them with the ab ties ”dVbTl!eveT«”dwheteve, he goes and whatever he does in the fiatme, he wffl be helped by the sensitivity, security and care given to him by e teac ers, a the school. Ms. Sreelatha Venu Gopal, mother of Hari Gopal (11 A) and Vishnu GoPal (2002 ISC), teaches English at NSS College, Nilantel 1004 93 ; A Child iv■i very child is an individual. During the early school years he or she is exposed to a new E environment wherein the child learns to make friendships, to share, and most of all to communicate School properly. The school atmosphere may be a total contrast to his home. But it is here that he widens his Lt. Commander N. Prem Kumar horizons of knowledge and changes his oudook. Here he tries to come out of the “I am not okay” syndrome. Children should not only gather knowledge from the development programmes so that they understand books of their syllabi but should be aware of their their duties and responsibilities to society. Last but responsibilities towards themselves to society as well not the least, a word about the curriculum. There are as their country. no short cuts to achieve success and glory. In view of Iris true that parents play an important role in the fast-emerging, fierce competition you see around, the development of a child but the impact of teachers each child has to put in his best and the institution on him is also a vital factor for his overall should also provide all the assistance. This can be in development. A child may have many problems which the form of special classes, interactive sessions, may be family-related, school-related or personal. A multimedia presentation, etc. I appreciate the teacher, especially the class teacher, should be able discussion between the parents and teachers during to understand each and every child and give a patient open house and PTA meetings which provide a corn- listening to all problems and try to help the child solve plete picture of the child for both the parties. This it. This will not only boost his confidence but create helps all the three, a strong bond. I still have friends who choose to see Finally a word on computers. Parents have been their masters before their parents, when they come complaining about the inadequate hands on training on vacation. Between ages five and ten, a child is like given to children. I feel that a lot of importance is clay. He can be moulded in any shape and form. given to the subject Computers by students, parents During this period, teachers should be able to help and the school. It minght be due to the fast growth of the child understand his responsibilities, leart some the IT industry and increasing job opportunities. There basic dos and don’ts in life, and start some extra is no harm in that. But at this point of time for a curricular activities like reading, sports, hobbies, etc. student in a school, I strongly feel that the Computer This may help him to keep a healthy body along with should only be used as a training aid apart from the a healthy mind and also give him a reprieve from the syllabus they are supposed to learn. Students should hectic academic load. Subjects like Moral Science, be made aware of other professions and opportunities Music and also Coaching Camps for different sports besides Computer Engineering. Career counselling can and games helps the children in this regard. I also feel be started in a small way at the school level itself. If that personal abilities and special talents of children we don’t do that now, at some point of time we may should also be nurtured in such a manner as to inspire regret for the missed opportunities. This is entirely other children, and not to create a feeling of jealousy my personal view. amongst them. Every student should be given an The most important fact is that only if a school equal opportunity to express his talents and get inspires children to fulfill their ambition will it have appreciated. Regular programmes (class-wise) can be successful children. The teachers, parents and ot conducted for developing such talents. I also feel that course the children will have to work towards this_ the children should participate in some community the role of each one is important. Li. Commander N. Prem Kumar is father of Adishesh Prem Kumar (4 A). _9Al Let Us Work Together Thomaskutty M. T. , At Vinme his guardians remind him of his anjay wakes up at five O’clock in the morning, k for’the classes. They follow up the goes through the motions of getting ready for there meet teachers and closely school, grabs his school bag, jumps into a wait- w°r ^ ess Sa’njay js relieved that he is in a mgs car and is driven off to a Special Coaching Home, m g do homework. Sanjay The car screeches to a stop as a relieved Sanjay muses, school where he tods tun “’Oh, I’m on time” as he gets out to join a host of is woken up by the announcement aspirants moving in the same direction- There he is loudspeaker. “There will be a seminar in a crowd of students, confronted with problems, for senior dasses in the afternoon at 1.30 information, definitions, assignments and the rest, He ^ ^ assembly hall.” gets many handouts of notes and homework. It is half- Pm ^ irnpressed] while many others are not. past seven now. He looks at his watch. “Gotta go to ° tQ attencp The speakers may be eminent school now” he thinks. but cb they speak Maths, Physics and Biology? No, Sanjay is at school now, a bit late, but that do , of time yy] irrelevant especially when not matter much. The same old friends, the same old it s a you’re busy preparing for the entrance. uniform and the same old forgiving Back to the classroom with yet an teachers. He deliberately slackens his other teacher at the same old struggle. unhurried pace as he saunters into his It is Sanjay looks on pityingly. Why bother classroom. It is boring to learn in a boring to loam the poor man? He can clear his doubts school. It is not spicy enough. Besides, elsewhere. After all, these chaps work it lacks colour. But he needs to relax in a school. for a pittance, whereas my tutors make somewhere. The tense Sanjay of the a whopping amount. It is the Games early morning is a cool relaxed person It is not period now. Another waste of time for now in school. . some. “Do not go for games, tell your Classes have begun and the teacher §pjCy 000090. teacher that you are not well.” Sanjay waxes eloquent. Sanjay is also busy, he remembers the warnings meted out at concentrates on his homework as the £able at home. “It’s all games there,” Sanjay’s teacher unravels the mystery of the gene. The unsus- ^ had said ... “Look at the other school. There peering teacher finds him busy wnang. Foo s , playground, no games and it is all study, study thinks are his teachers, and he has manage y0ur Principal understands outsmart them. He has finished his homework for hts and morestudy. tuition teacher in class. This is his passport to e School is over for the day. Sanjay comes to life oext day. At his tuition centre, the He again as he moves to his evening destination, another and demanding. So he needs to do s ' coaching centre. He’s back home at seven. He is tired, deserves that kind of treatment to succeed m school coaching ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ your 0r at least that’s what he is told. 95 Uyolttft 1004 homework”, reminds his guardian. “I have an English life, we paint life, we mimic life there” he argues in exam in school tomorrow, I have to revise my vain. Sanjay misses many lessons of life. “You are English”, says Sanjay. “What about your Physics test not going to school at all, the next week. I’ll get you a at your tuition place tomorrow?” Sanjay’s mother medical certificate to excuse your absence” shouts cautions. “Forget about your school exams and the guardian. A wrong signal again.. .whose fault? concentrate on your tuition tests. Aim high my son! The routine continues for Sanjay. Sanjay You should do Entrance-oriented work. Concentrate practically attends two schools. Two sets of teachers, on your tuitions.” A wrong signal. two sets of topics to handle, two places to go to, two “Next week, it’s youth festival in school,” says different sets of exams to take and most importantly Sanjay. “I am planning an active participation.” two different loyalties, He feels cornered, unlike his fcWhat?” howls the guardian. “No, you are not going friend Danny. Danny manages all this very well. In to school next week. You will go only for the morn- fact, Danny can do as well without these extra classes, ing and afternoon tuitions. The rest of the time, you’ll but does so because everyone does. Danny simply sit at home and study.” “No, I want to go” insists follows the crowd. And Danny manages to survive. Sanjay. Teachers are parents as well. A teacher Comes the retort “What do you do there? You combines the aspirations of a parent and responsi- sing Physics? You play Maths? You mimic Biology? bilities of a teacher. Strengthen the hands of the Or paint atoms and molecules? No, it's a definite no teachers and let us work together. Together, we can from me.” make better teachers, better parents, better schools, Sanjay is relentless. Mr. Thomaskutty teaches Biology at hoyola School. Can we believe it ? Arun Sudarsan (7 C) ne day I saw the Malaya- another solution. I asked my of the Taj Mahal was given as 213 lam movie - One Man classmate Mohan, to search for the feet and the Qutab Minar was o Show. In one scene the answer while browsing the Net. He 239.25 feet. This was very bad hero said that the tallest monument came the next day and said that indeed! Different media give in India was actually the Taj Mahal. both were equal, 73 metres. different answers to the same I believed it and made a bet with Happy and satisfied that I was question even in the 21st century. my friends. My friend Arun and I right, I asked Titus Sir, and Albenia The famous encyclopaedia World went to the library and checked the Madam the same question. They Book says Qutab Minar is the encyclopaedia. To our surprise we both said it was the Qutab Minar. I tallest, Encarta says both are equal. read there, that the height of the asked our Malayalam teacher, Anil The film says that the Taj Mahal is Taj Mahal was 65 metres and the Sir. He said it was the Taj Mahal the tallest. The Internet says it’s the Qutab Minar was 73 metres. I was (he had also seen the film). So after Qutab Minar. The majority vote shocked and confused. I felt I many repeated queries, I finally was for the Qutab Minar, but Can would lose my money and then how decided to search on the Internet We Believe It? could I be sure. I then found myself. I found out that the height ng Tha loy«nt* too* fter 12 years of seeing students pass out with flying colours in History, the larger than life Mr. Titus bids farewell to Loyola School. It has been a long journey from Africa to Kerala and after a stint of twelve years in Loyola he starts on the second leg of his journey. “I was planning to retire earlier, but I waited for this year so that when I retire, I’d have company - Joseph. So nobody will make a big fuss”, says the enigmatic Mr. Titus. Many of us can recall the hours we spent in his History class, where he’d joke about some long lost king, and his thirty something wives That loud baritone “You!” still resonates in our ears, after all these years. One must admire his perseverance. He taught Economics to a batch of just one very interested but lonely student. Few teachers would take classes for just one student. His History classes were the most sought after because here you learnt without actually realising that you were doing so. He allowed us 15 minutes after every class, in which time we would complete our homework, saving us many a visit to the Principal. When students fumbled with answers to his question, he provided the answers himself and reassured the diffident soul. Since he is publicity shy, I could manage only a few words out of him. The secret of your youth? Teaching helps me be young. The rest is in genetics. Your favourite class? All 8 B classes. Because students there are inquisitive and interested. Motto in life? W] Everyone’s an actor in this world, and I just do my part well. Your best teaching moment? I was teaching globalisation to Sreedhar’s batch and was dis cussing the role of MNCs and he (a boy of 10 B) spoke strongly against it. It made me very happy to see that my students were thinking independently. Your worst teaching moment? I was assigned to teach Scripture the year I came, and one boy asked me a question, which stumped me. I was embarrassed and this made me study the Bible. How would you like to be remembered? Futur As one who is a friend of the students. ^ahul R. (11 a) Favourite dish? (Laughs) I might look like a glutton. But that again is genetics! That doesn’t mean I starve either! Message to Loyolites? There is no message. Loyolites already know better. ! H* *004 97 Unforgettable Memories HariGopal (11 A) couple of days ago, my pals and I were playing I’ve seen many shots of Joseph Uncle around the a quick, ‘friendly’ game of basketball, and all school campus, but these few are definitely the most of a sudden, things turned a bit unfriendly striking. Two of them show him standing at exactly for me. Before I knew it, I was on the ground, and I the same position in the School Assembly, where we sported a bad cut on my forearm. “What should I do?” are used to seeing him. He still stands there and it was the first thing that popped into my mind. “Of seems that it has been his position for God-knows- I ! course!” came the answer, and I was sitting in a chair when! in the office, and my arm was being tended to very tenderly by none other than our gentle, loving and caring Joseph Uncle. I suppose we can all recall people from our child hood who made a great impression on us. For many of us in Loyola, Joseph Uncle occupies that pride of place. Perhaps the most enduring picture of Uncle is that of a dependable person who had everything in control as he presided over almost every little detail in the school, details that we take for granted so easily. His knowledge of the past and present of the school is encyclopaedic, and he never ever disappoints children, no matter what their queries, whatever their demands. Uncle and I are firm friends and I have never During Assembly, Joseph Uncle has been standing behind seen him irritated or impatient with anything or the Principal and the Chief Guest since the 1970s. anyone. I wish we could all maintain such equanimity in the face of so much to do. Not a day passes by ; ■ * when I don’t see Joseph Uncle somewhere in the r- campus, and I get a weird but definitely nice sort of 0 A feeling of security. ... w*, — , ... And I can’t even imagine the day when he won’t ^ ‘ be here among us. For, my friends, Joseph Uncle is f MfL^ |F_W| retiring this year. He has been working for 38 years JflhA now, 38 long years. And when we consider the fact ' W -A that our school is 43 years old, the time he has spent in our school is truly immense. And I feel sorry for my juniors who have not yet had the chance to see how wonderful a person he is. One of the shots even show him acting in one that, a couple of my classmates, including the burly of the school dramas. He has been everywhere, and Anuraj, the lean mean fighting machine who is been involved in everything, for as long as the school Thomas Varghese, and poor old me (not to mention has stnnH lot of others who had high self-esteem about their St0°a* trying in vain to force the A word about the good old paratha and beef physical condition) were curry. He founded that great institution in 1987. From last stubborn flag-pole in the list of a lot of others then on there was no looking back, not mentioning a into a hole ^ Qn ^ road COmplam- two-year gap in its mouth-watering service He had Gods , us ^ been a veteran in the canteen business for a long time ing ^ ^ q£ who_knows.where, and before that, starting with homemade ‘crush , and cake. J P^ thrust upon the powers of He even ran a hotel at Sreekanyam junction. 4 flagpole that was stubborn I would like to relate to you, an incident that grey skull, place ^ a spoon occurred one day before LA-Fest, which showed me Thc 3Ur^rising thing was that it then the macho side of Joseph Uncle. What happened was ^ ^ ^ somebody had coated quickfix all over Top Left: Joseph Uncle (third from left) in a play on it before sending it in. It didn’t move one inch Children’s Day. afterwards. Top Right: Joseph Uncle speaks at the farewell in Joseph Uncle is everywhere in our school, always, February 2004. and as I’ve said before, I cannot imagine how it would Below: Staff in Tug-of-War on Sports Day. be without him. Who do we ------turn to when we need to get things done? Joseph Uncle. Who do we approach in case one of our stray balls decides to go through a window-pane? Joseph Uncle (Maybe he’ll slip -• iv. r’ i in a few words to calm the wrath of Father Principal!). Who do we approach for... j well...anything? Ask any j Loyolite. I am sure that the answer will be one and the : same. J^Uyom* *004 99 Experience is Th lest Teacher Peter Gautham, Antony John (8 A) hen Albenia Madam strolled into class one their lives. We thought we were unfair when we l day and asked the students of Std 8 A, if complain every morning when we don’t get crisp dosas. they were interested in visiting villages in What surprised us most was that they too had _ wThumba and Fatimapuram, the whole class welcomed desires like us. “We want our children to go to schools the opportunity with a thunderous applause. Always like yours” said a fisherman. “He should lead a better on the look out for fun, the boys thought they were life than mine.” They want to live in the city in big the privileged ones to go on a second excursion. All houses, they want to own cars and television sets. preparation and excitement that generally precedes One of our boys remarked that when they didn’t have excursions followed. On 8 November 2003, we enough to eat they had no right to dream of cars. We boarded the bus which took forty-odd screaming realized that like us they too had great dreams, f children to what was not a picnic spot but a settlement of fisherfolk in Thumba village. Father Principal would have been shocked to see how silent the group became without a teacher’s shouts or appeals. “We want Father Gilbi and Albenia Madam had planned this village exposure programme as a part of the social our children to service activities of the school. We were informed about the objectives of the visit and in a brief session go to schools like yours” with our teachers we expressed our ideas about the life of fishermen. Little did we know that we’d be said a fisherman. proved wrong when we actually went into their huts and listened to their experience. Each group came back with new findings. It was indeed a voyage of discovery for our boys. People Father Gilbi and Madam told us that we coul« actually lived in houses 3 metres long, 2 metres wide do our little bit to help them. So we decided to rais and 1.5 metres high. Their homes were crammed with some money through a food fair that we’d organize as many as nine members. Life was tough for all of and help at least a few people in our own humb them. Almost every person we met, told us about how way. It was a picnic with a difference. We are s children went to bed without dinner everyday; about that there has been a change in our attitude. At lea— how all their earnings was spent on medicines; about every time we act arrogantly, we remind ourselves th— how they were perpetually in debt. Seeing is really it’s not the right thing to do. We thank our teach believing. We had only read about or heard about the wh0 opened the doors of a little-known world to suffering of the poor. We now actually saw pain in indeed it is true that experience is the best teache Lasting Impressions Joshua George, Gejo G. Cedric (8 B) A ■^he innovative teacher that she is, Albenia Madam decided to take our History class out -1L. of the classroom. Imagine a History class in a palace! Students of 8 B learnt a lesson on Kerala history in the hoary precincts of Koyikkal Palace. Koyikkal Palace is located in the heart of Nedumangad in Trivandrum district. Built by Queen Umayamma, it was the royal headquarters of the Perakam dynasty which existed along with the Travancore kingdom. We were struck by the simplicity of the architecture of the palace. We were told that it was also used as a refuge by the royal family Our I.C.S.E. syllabus doesn’t include Kerala palace to the padmanabhapuram Palace history. So this was our first exper.ence studying about ^ ^ used during war.rimes. the Travancore Kings. Madam told us interesting tac s a feel Qf hfe jn those times when we saw about the lives of the Travancore Kings. We were ^ $wo*ds> weapons, carriages, coins, clothes, very interested in the sensadonal tales of intrigue an and Qther articles used by the people. The murder that are linked with the palace. We came to ^ houses the only numismatic and folklore know about an underground tunnel which connects P museum in Kerala. History is not only about dates and kings. It is about people and their lives. History also tells us about the distance we have travelled, said our teacher Albenia Madam. We enjoyed ourselves a lot. But most of all, for students, History was also an interesting subject, especially when Albenia Madam teaches all our lessons outdoors. We recorded our obser-vations and impressions of the experience before we left for home and we are proud to say that they are lasting impressions. *004 101 Service, Sacrifice Santhosh Rollands am an alumnus of this very school and have loved it then and love it even more now. School education, ilike most other things, is a miracle that never ceases to amaze me. In twelve years, the tiny tot clinging to his parents with tear soaked face, is transformed into a young = man full of knowledge and confidence, ready to take on the world. What happens is phenomenal. A complete ' picture has been painted on an empty canvas and the school has a major role in the quality of the picture that forms on the canvas. Of the many invaluable things that I have got from the school, the one that I consider special is a secular outlook-to think like a human being and not as a member of a particular caste, community or religion. As we enter into an age of knowledge-based wisdom, the secular mind is a prerequisite of harmony and well being. Most wars and man-made catastrophes are being perpetrated by a misplaced sense of righteousness based on a deviation from the cardinal principles of all religions, usually warped by political aims and ambitions. The ugly head of communalism has found a place even in our country the very sanctuary of secular thought. Knowledge without wisdom is a very dangerous weapon. The focus of school education must be to instil a_ spirit of service and sacrifice that will make them leaders of men and torch bearers of secularism in society. There is a dearth in our times of people with high standard o= education and secular values, instilled with a spirit o— service and sacrifice, to lead our society forward on xhm road to harmony and progress with a reverence for th— glorious and a disregard for the trivial. It is my firm belie= that Loyola will instill all these qualities and values in a— students who pass through the portals of this gres institution. Dr. Santhosh Hollands (1974) is the father of Rakesh 'Rollands (9 B). THm loyolH* IOI I i i i Feedback i Dear Reader, I I Through the questionnaire below, we wish to hear from you what you think about the magazine. Your feedback will help us in improving the presentation, readability and quality of what we print. We look forward to your response. Please feel free to use additional sheets for detailed comments. If more than one person in your family wishes to give feedback, please use photocopies of the questionnaire. You are a □ Parent/Guardian □ Staff member □ Student □ Old boy □ Other (please specify) On a scale of 0 to 10, how would you rate The Loyolite 2004? 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