My Experience with S.E.E.D. part 1 of 2

May Blog: PUT INTRO...

August Blog: Hi my nick is August Blog and my name is MEWS. My author is one crap fellow. I was written on July 21st. But that stupid author purposefully delayed me from being published. My seniors , that is you are the author's pack max thoughts. But I am his experience.

July Blog : How dare you say that ..you are going to be screwed !!! Now say yourself, make it interesting..Entertain us and the poor audience listening to you, due to some compulsion..

August Blog: Er..tats something difficult... :(
June Blog : Ok ok dude ! ...tell watever u can da machchaa...

August Blog begins to blabber.... (yaaaaaawwn)

Date : 19 July, 2008 Time: 4:40 a.m.

Alarm rings..... peeng peeng.....peeng peeng....peeeng peeeng....

Snooze pressed..

Time: 4.45 a.m.

Peeng peeng... peeeng peeng

There wakes up the author from his bed... goes to the end of his lonely wing.. and [Content suppressed].. returns after 15 mins..puts the tooth paste n brush into a bag, and some more stuffs and starts off at 5.30 a.m. Meets the other two people..Althaf and Harigovind.. who are involved in the same Himalayan task. They take a bus from Madhya Kailash to somewhere that is far beyond the city limits. They get down at the terminus and started walking in a highway that reads...
Bangalore 291
Mumbai 1247
and a watch that shows 8.45 a.m. .

With no PTC buses or autos on the way.. vehicles going at speeds that they are almost invisible..they carried out our walk for about a mile ...finally just after the haunted cemetery there was the place where they wanted to reach..where destitute children live and study..

It was a girl's school run by a charity institution called SEED near Sriperumbudur. They went in and you should have seen the gladness in those little children's face. They all came running and shouting Althaf anna...Althaf anna .Our author and the other were going there for the first time. The next time they go you can find them shouting Arun anna ..Arun anna too.

Student 1: Anna, unga per enna ? (Brother, what is your name ?)
Author: Arun...un per enna ? (Arun, what is your name ?)
Student 1: @#$%^
Author : Oh appadiya...enna class padikkara ? (Oh I see, which class you studying in ?)
Student 1: *&^%

Then comes Student 2, Student 3 ...this goes on for n number of times... some students with eyes filled with fear of seeing new person..some with a sense of happiness that new people have come to take care of them...some holding the author's hand afftectionately....some.......

They were taken into a classroom.. the author was asked to teach the 10th standard students there Maths . He gladly took it up and started with Sequences and Series topic.

Author : Oru thodar endraal enna ? (What is meant by a sequence ?)
Students: ( )... ( )

The author explains with example. Then goes to A.P in particular. He writes some arbit stuff on the board and claims himself that he has derived the expression for the nth term of an A.P

Student: Aah...indha annan formula kondu vandhuttardi... (This guy got the formula by himself !!!)

Author (surprised) : Formula ellam vaanathula irundhu kudhikkaradhu illa. (Formulae do not jump from the sky)
Ippadi thaan varudhu (This is how they come)


He then does some simple problems and jumps on to G.P. ; does something that he again claims to be derivation... and again a problem...

.........blah blah blah... Appo r^4 enbadhu 5103/63. (So r^4= 5103/63)
Vaguththu sollunga... (Divide and tell me..)

The author himself being weak in division, leaves the calculation to the poor children and starts taking some rest..Lazy goose..! But he started loosing his patience waiting for an answer. He sees the children doing some drawing on the paper...an inverted L within which 5103 is arrested and poor 63 is not let in and 8 supervising all these things...

Oh my gosh ! They are still doing this simple division...??? Where shall I bang my head.

The cruel author then starts doing a similar division on the blackie board.
Starts explaining like 51 lesser than 63 ; so take 510; 8 times 63 is 504; subtract to get 6 ; bring 3 down; 63 ones are 63 ; so the answer is 81.

Whew !!!


Now he faces a bigger trouble. There lies before him r^4=81. It is obvious for him that r=+-3 considering only the real solutions. But how in this world will he explain to the students whom he had just taught to divide ? So he ends up in doing an injustice to them ; guides them through a brutal force method..the trial and error method.. he begins with 2 and gets 16 (!?) and then like an innocent fellow, tries with 3 and gets the answer. And does some tricks to make them believe that -3 is also an answer and hence r=+-3.

But I should mention that our author is a good fellow, a very sensitive and truthful fellow. (Of course, the blog is still the author's. How else will it be ? ). So he decides to teach Prime factorisation now...a different inverted L now; 81 placed on it; again 3 kept outside and all the burden on the smaller numbers beneath. Finally he manages to arrive that 81=3x3x3x3 and convinces them.

Whew !! again.


Author: Ippo Kanangal paakalam.. (Lets us see SETS now )
.......................... (............................)
DeMorganin vidhigal (DeMorgan's Laws)
Oru Venn padathai varaivom.. (Lets draw a Venn diagram..)
........................................ (......................................)
........................................ (......................................)
........................................ (......................................)

If at all a void set could be seen, then that was what the author found it in the set of eyes of the children there.

Uhumm....idhu velaikkaagaadhu. ( Uhumm...this won't work)

He decides to give them only the pnemonics.

Inga union vandha anga vettu (If you find the union here, intersection there)

Inga vettu vandha anga union obviously(If you find intersection here, union there )

Treeeeeeeeeeeeeng.......Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng....

Lunch bell rings...

Students: Saapttuttu mattu kanakku solli kodunga anna . (Teach us 'mod' problems after lunch ,bro )

That was something that the author was trying to avoid as he felt it would be difficult to explain. Now he was caught.

...Grub follows...

One can witness the children there asking them if they had their food.
Student: Saapteengala anna ? (Did you have your food ?)
Authour: Aaang... (Yup)
Student: Nalla irundhudha ? (Was it nice ?)
Author: Hmm..irundhuchey (Hmm..it was )
Student: Nijammavaa ? Enga saappadu ungalukku pidichi irundhudha ? (Really ? You liked our food ?)

Er..did I just lie ? The fat, hard Ration rice... tasteless Sambar.....strangely smelling Rasam....souring Curd...... how did I say the food was nice ? Was it because I didn't want her get hurt ? Does she know that I'm lying ?

Silence and smile being his only set of tools, he waged a war against her and won finally.

June Blog: Hey I know, its because the food there was as good as..or rather as bad the food they have in their mess !!!

August Blog: He he.... ok so...

He goes into the office room to drink the water. He snoops into a list there and is shocked.
The list goes ....

Poolan Devi... - Prisons(Vellore)

Parameswari...-Prisons(Puzhal)

Are they children of the victims ? Does their parent's guilt punish these children too ? How kind they are here ? How nice it is to be with them ? Did they really have such a cruel parents ? Did their parents really do something wrong or they are in prisons under faulty reasons ?

He comes out with so many unanswered questions.


Little Boy: Catch this ball ..

Author obeys the command and throws it back. Gradually they started playing with each other.
The little boys gets some branch of a tree lying there and says that he will bat and the author should bowl. Hargovind being the fielder and Althaf sitting like an umpire, the game gets going.

Ball-boys are generally seen beyond the boundary. But the game had a ball-boy in the pitch itself. The children there didn't want the great IITians to take the pain of picking up the ball. Finally when it was the author's turn to bat, he did it sitting on some rock. Didn't I tell you he is a Lazy Goose ?

May Blog: Come to the matter da.

August Blog: Ok ok...

So the afternoon session started. He had to teach mod problems. He decided to teach them in typical TamilNadu State Board fashion... the way he was taught till 12th.
He classified the problems worth as 1 mark, 2 marks and 5 marks.. found out the different kinds of question that can be asked and started with the easy ones.

Mod nna muruttengalin vaguththal..aana vidai adhan meedhi...eevu illa
(Mod is nothing but division of intergers except that the reminder is the answer not the quotient.)

Wow...what a definition the author just gave !!!

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Appo vidai minus oda vandhudhunna inga irukkara numbera koottanum
(So if answer is negative add the number here (showing the divisor))

-3+8 =....?

Answers shoot up suddenly..

-11


Duh !

Instead of drawing a number line, the author draws a Number Ladder and tries to explain -3 + 8 is +5. Amir Khan in the film Taare Zameen Par does the same ..only difference is he teaches with steps and the author with a ladder drawn on the board.

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Ippo 3(-1) evlo ?
(Now how much is 3(-1)? )

As expected, answers come up.

-2

?????????????

The author realises that it is because that they did not know the significance of the brackets there. The children simply ignore it and do subtraction. [:(] . The next time the author visits here, he has decided to brush up the fundamentals of arithmetic to them. Volunteers are encouraged. [:P]

They did not know that multiplication is a kind of repetitive addition. 3x4 and 3+3+3+3 were totally unrelated to them.

3m to them was 3m. They were unaware that it is 3 multiplied with m and that if the value of m is known 3m is found by multiplying it with 3. 3m was an independent variable to them. [:(]

Finally at the end of the day, giving a list of important questions (as every typical state board student is accustomed to) , the author and his friends leave to their next destination called......

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