It was one of those days that children most eagerly wait for, a week before we were about to shift from Navy Nagar, Mumbai to North of India to Noida. The name Noida was so fascinating that for the past few weeks I had been thinking, of how that place might be, which all friends would be there and which all new friends I would be making. How my new School, Naval Public School treat me. How would be the teachers and what about all these lads I am leaving behind. Alongwith the beach here in Command Mess, oh the beach. I had been so many time going in the mornings and evenings with my Father there, to see the high and low tides and throwing pebbles in the sea and imagining its vastness till the far-sight I could see. Many time had been there with my friends like Shibu, Meeu, Nalin, Andre and Gauri. Trying to catch some fish or making sand castles or making Doll houses or playing He-Man and Castle GreySkull. Lastly, walking towards the Billiards Room with my Father and being always afraid to walk the stairs, as there was a Tiger, a Panther and Deers Faces fixed on the wall, giving me a shriek that these animals my jump out the wall and gobble me in a moments notice, I never used to leave my fathers hand or stick to leg like a magnet.
It was the beginning of holidays that we have between the time, when students finish the final papers and are going to be promoted to the next class, I had finished my papers for 1st Standard and I was taken by my mother from my school R.K Academy. This was rather strange, as daily I used to travel from my house B-15 in Navy Nagar to school in an Army Truck and dropped back to house in the same truck.
My mother took me on a stroll of the school, to the school canteen where we used have our tiffin, for my last meal in that canteen and then to the stage, where I happen to fracture my arm on playing football with a cold drinks crown cap and tip towing from high pavement, that was one day I had the most agonizing pain to give an X-Ray to the doctor at the Ashvini Hospital. Ashvini Hospital always gave me jitters while entering, reason was simple, I had gone there for the worst treatments for a child, like a frecture to the arm, stitches on my chin and lastly my tonsils operation.
It was the beginning of holidays that we have between the time, when students finish the final papers and are going to be promoted to the next class, I had finished my papers for 1st Standard and I was taken by my mother from my school R.K Academy. This was rather strange, as daily I used to travel from my house B-15 in Navy Nagar to school in an Army Truck and dropped back to house in the same truck.
My mother took me on a stroll of the school, to the school canteen where we used have our tiffin, for my last meal in that canteen and then to the stage, where I happen to fracture my arm on playing football with a cold drinks crown cap and tip towing from high pavement, that was one day I had the most agonizing pain to give an X-Ray to the doctor at the Ashvini Hospital. Ashvini Hospital always gave me jitters while entering, reason was simple, I had gone there for the worst treatments for a child, like a frecture to the arm, stitches on my chin and lastly my tonsils operation.
Well my mother got me home, all was so empty, nothing was there, house felt so strange suddenly, i started to feel this ticklish feeling in stomach, that the time had come to part with Bombay and all its glory. Somehow, I felt ther was still much to cover and see, more of chaupatti, nariman point, Command mess, eat at Sher-e-punjab. I was missing the local butta wala. Gosh, I was going to miss Andre, Nalin, Meu, Mansi, Shibu, and Gauri, all my friends in crime. My Comc book store and the Pan Wala.
But then I guess this day comes for all officers and their children. I got into the Naval Car (Ambassedore), that was sent for us, and we reached the station. There the mighty Rajdhani was standing to take us from Bombay to New Delhi. My father and mother were greeted and I was handed over some chocolates and Bonjour Bombay. I was having some many things in my heart and fond memories, of all the incidents that had taken place.
