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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Annual School Concert St. Mary’s High School Mount Abu.

The Annual School Concert St. Mary’s High School Mount Abu. 



The School Annual Concert is an event that all look forward to, the students, the staff, and the parents who have their kids in the boarding. For the ex-Marians, it is an event that transports them back into an era of nostalgia.
The variety of entertainment put up by the students opens up portals in the souls of the audience. They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul. From the onset, the boys had committed themselves to perform to their utmost abilities, given the ‘short time frame’ to achieve what they have set out to do. One can actually see and feel the passion generated by these young boys to each other and to the success of the concert on hand. To reach this stage of adeptness takes a great deal of hard work, hours of rehearsal and commitment for the common goal of pulling off an excellent performance for their parent and visitors who take the time off to be there for them.
Imagine the choir I’m told had only 2 or 3 days to practice before coming on stage, no wonder the boys looked strained. I’m sure all who were there appreciated the work put up by the boys and the staff.
I'm attaching the school programme via a link at the bottom it will take a short while to open, (10 MB file) while you wait to say a short prayer for the boys on the list 'Happy Viewing'






Monday, October 18, 2010

The Annual Concert St. Mary’s High School Mount Abu


The Annual Concert St. Mary’s High School 


Every year, the students of the school take part in the annual school concert. The concert encompasses all the students in the school and there are a variety of fantastic presentations performed on the four nights for the different parents and students.

Congratulations go to all the students, the teaching staff, the brothers and the staff at large, special congrats to all the students for the hours of rehearsal and their outstanding performance at the variety entertainment presented on all days with equal gusto to the school students, local parents, ex-students and the parents of the school borders.

For many years I had not attended the school concert as Operas were out and the school had shifted to entertaining the parents with variety shows. I guess the essence of operas to the audience at large has lost its former glory and the modern audiences prefer short and sweet variety entertainments to keep them amused. At St. Mary’s, the boys are passionate about every piece of work they do, big or small, be it in sports, games, walks, concerts or studies. They excel. The boys of the school always deliver in all fields, making the school proud to have loyal and die-hard students.

There is bonding so strong between the borders and staff of the school that even those who have passed out decades ago seek in their hearts to reunite with ole mates and relive the nostalgia that still exists and nothing in this shrinking world of ours can keep them apart. Look at the reunion of the batch of 73 to see what I mean. Click on the link.





Keep tuned. I will post the shorter clips of the Variety Entertainment performed this year at School. Will make DVDs of the full show if anyone interested drops me a line, please note I'm just an amateur so there are going to be blotches but for those of you who missed the show or could not make it I’m sure you will appreciate the boys of the school.








Thursday, October 14, 2010

An update on Events St. Mary’s School Abu

Sports Week Events St. Mary’s School


"St.Mary's School Mount Abu, snapped from Gaumukh road."
St.Mary's School Mount Abu.

This is the first year in the school's history that there will be no Sports Day to accompany the Annual concert and other events. They held the sports in the year, 1st of April, 2010, for those of you who missed it, click Sports Day.

 The Schedules of events for the coming days in school are:-
1. Day 15th October 2010. Concert for the schoolboys.
2. Day 16th October 2010. Concert for the Sophians /Day scholar Parents/ Ex-students.
3. Day 17th October 2010. Holy Communion Mass (5 Boys will take their 1st communion) followed later in the day with the School fete. I believe a large group of the 1984 batch will also congregate on this day in the school. Some ex-students of the batch 1980 will also be in Abu during this time.
4. Day 18th October 2010. Concert for the parents of the boarders and Ex-students.
5.     Day 19 and Day 20th October 2010. Are holidays.

The not too elusive crocodile Mt.Abu

The elusive crocodile Mount Abu.

I had written about the sudden appearance of a crocodile in Nakki Lake in the month of October 2006, and its subsequence disappearance. I remember vividly how it caused a big stir amongst the authorities and the local populace at large. It affected even the tourists as they were too shy to go for their pleasurable boat ride in the lake. Well, it’s been a repeat this year as once again a crocodile has found its way into the bosom of the lake. The local newspapers are having a ball splashing their photographs all over the front page.
I go daily to see if I can get a snapshot of this not-so-big crock, but so far have been out of luck. I chitchat with the local forest personnel deputed on duty at the lake for the lookout of the crock. He tells me he has not seen the crock from the time they deputed him. When I spoke to some locals living around the lake I got some very conflicting views. One told me that the crock the other day made a meal of a black cat that had gone down to the water’s edge, another told me that a group of young men drunk as lords while on a round of the lake late at night encountered this croc on the road and one of them with some Dutch courage went to catch it by the tail, but apparently, the crock dashed into the bushes at the side of the road, some tale.
The crocks this year have left their haunt in Trevor’s Tank, because of the better-than-average monsoon season for greener pastures. One croc has made a home in a small water body (Santsaravor) opposite the Heritage Palace Hotel. The one in the lake must have also migrated from the sanctuary to the lake. Eventually, it will make its way back to its home in the sanctuary's heart.


Took this snap at Mid-day on the 9th of October 2010