Lahanpaniche Kahi Kshan... during, what I believe were, the Chilledhood days!
- 'Suiting' up in nice multicoloured fancy clothes on our 'happy-birthday', distributing toffees; and waiting eagerly for the presents.
- Playing book-cricket in between (and during) classes by strategically selecting your own XI; as if it were your 'savings' at stake.
- Hating and always avoiding playing the ridiculous game called Truth-or-Dare; but pouncing on the chance to playing dumb-charades, Four-Square/Bollywood (whatever it is called - guessing the movie, actor, actress, song) or Hangman.
- Reading lots of Tintin, Asterix and Tinkle comics; mouthing "Blue Blistering Barnacles", "Ten Thousand Thundering Typhoons" as if those were phrases from the Bible! Referring to Shikari Shambu, Suppandi, Tantri the Mantri as if they were your next-door neighbours!
- Linking up people in class (nobody misses this, right?) and then coining a new name (from the combination of the two names) for teasing the 'couple'.
- Preparing a bucketful of water balloons on the morning of Ranga Panchami and later 'firing' them on buddies; summoning every possible ounce of force available for the same.
- Playing ek-tappa-out underarm Cricket; asking one to arch his back and then to guess the number made by the fingers on his back, to decide the order in which all bat.
- Trying to maintain a few Pen-pals through some kids' magazine; show-offing in front of your 'local' friends about the new 'foreign' friend.
- Insisting our dads to increase the RAM of the computer from 8 MB to 16 MB to 32 MB; so that playing Road Rash, Doom or Commando would be possible without the computer giving way.
- Planning for days together, just to have a quick bite at Pastry Corner after school; getting into a sweet-talk with Aai for the money.
- Gobbling down the tiffin in a jiffy; so that the rest of the Recess could be used for playing Dagad-ka-Maati, Roomal-Paani or Lapa-Chapi.
- Borrowing Chip/Digit magazine-free CDs to get demo versions of games and free softwares.
- Watching Swat Cats, Popeye, Shaktimaan day in and day out; daydreaming about their 'powers'.
- Pleading your parents to allow you to cycle to school; you being too 'old' for the rickshaw now!
- Being so happy all the time; most importantly!
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You, reading the post, have been through these Chilledhood Days; so, it'll be great fun if you can add your own to these Lahanpaniche Kahi Kshan...
