The debate among the student population of Trivandrum about the closeness or uncanny understanding between the two schools (and the students) of Holy Angels ISC and Loyola has been going on for quite a while now. When you take into account that they are two ‘uni-ed’ schools situated some 5-6 km away from each other, the level of bonding that seems to exist between the Angelites and the Loyolites is quite a mind blowing surprise. For my part I have come across many a Loyolite who has sworn that a few of their best friends’ are Angelites. Ok… no problem in that… but what really makes me stare out at the world is when the line of ‘best friend’ is breeched time and again like Pak terrorists poring over the LOC! Every time I call a friend back home or log onto the BOTS community on Orkut I hear rumours of certain new ‘links’ being forged among the battle scarred Loyolites and the uncanny Angelites.
It is quite unlike me to write controversial stuff on anything other than sports. But this page and post is an exception, I guess (I love exceptions). It so happened that I was speaking to an Angelite friend of mine (yes I have them 2) and we were just talking about all those LINES being forged and breeched at the same time (u get what I mean rt). I was expressing my disbelief at all that seems to be happening and using phrases like ‘Didn’t they find ne1 else’ and the like (with no particular person in mind) when my friend (or more precisely ‘sister’ – another funny new trend in relationships!…) remarked – ‘Y what is the problem’. To this I reacted like many a Loyolite (at least b4 falling prey to that dreadful virus called ‘LINE’) would react, by trashing (ok that is a heavy word but still…) the whole Angelite association!… As can be expected my sis got rather pissed but she was keeping unnaturally quiet and so i asked her ‘U are angry at me, aren’t u?’ She replied YES!… I then said that here is 1 fundamental difference among Loyolites and Angelites. If some1 had trashed my school over the phone to me I would have trashed them and their families for generations (Malayalam is a very good language for that), but my sis didn’t. Then I told her, ‘U do know that a lot of what I have said is true rt?’… to which she again replies YES!… I then told her I am going to blog about this whole episode and here I am.
NOW TO BEGIN… 
It is no big secret that at most girls’ only schools, academics come far, far ahead of anything else. A poor, distant second to academics would be ‘cultural activities’. As for sports – they’d be nowhere to be seen.
A lot of people have remarked that they are quite ok with this. Their argument always begins with – Why should girls’ only schools give a damn about sports anyway. When asked why not there argument usually peters out rather lamely to ‘biology’ and ‘unnecessary burden on teenage girls’ and stuff like that. Then as though to save face they’ll start speaking about ‘what is the need anyway’ and ‘it’s not like sports can be a career option for girls anyway’. To all these people all I say is WHY NOT?… Remember that Kerala is the home of champion female athletes like P. T. Usha, K. M. Beenamol and Anju Bobbly George to name just a few. But then that is beside the point. Boys don’t play sports aiming to be world class athletes. We do it for fun, for keeping in shape and fit and in general for body strength. Remember what we were all taught in our young classes – ‘All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’… to dull I would like to add unhealthy and weak as well. It is a wonder that, the very teachers and mothers that teach students this proverb discourage girls from playing sports. One more thing that I would like to add is that sports teaches a lot of values and morals. Team spirit and camaraderie like you find among the members of a sports team, you’ll never find anywhere else. Courage, leadership, vision and imagination are also characters that sportsmen pick up very fast. The very term of sportsman’s spirit itself speaks volumes. It is no wonder that you hardly find boys bitching about classmates to friends and teachers behind their backs while at the same time you can write encyclopaedias of stories of girls doing the same. The few boys who do such stuff will invariably be those who are not interested in sport at all – take my class for example.
Ok… people might be wondering now whether I am not digressing a bit. Well you can say yes and no because to write so much about just sports was not needed and yet this is one thing that appeals most to me when I think of the Angelites (a lifted term I must say.) Stories of “Angelites’ bitching” have become quite legendary nowadays! I just can’t help saying that this has some sort of connection to the way that place is run. When you are being driven on towards academic excellence and nothing else, it is quite natural that you start throwing mud in others’ faces to come out on top. The whole system nowadays is like that. Parents want their kids to come out on top in every subject in any way possible.
It was at this point that I asked my sis whether there isn’t a parallel between HAC and another quite famous girl’s only school - Cotton Hill. Both schools are hell bent on academic excellence in a manner never quite seen elsewhere. Classes in 10th and 12th actually begin in April giving the students just a couple of weeks break in between two academic years.
My sis retaliated by stating that HAC was very strong in cultural activities and so on. Which all cultural activities, I ask her. Well of course there’s LA Fest. Which brings me to another interesting observation. I have heard rumours which I believe are quite true that the Angelites practice for close to 2 months before every LA Fest in a bid to win it. They have been in a way successful of late I must say. But still Christ Nagar, putting in minimal effort when compared to the Angels’ have somehow managed to take the mickey out of them quite consistently. The whole point of LA Fest is to have fun, not to treat it like another board exam or mega competition. Competitive spirit is good…but not beyond a certain limit girls…
Ok………… now…..this whole post is not one intended to rubbish HAC. Nowhere near that. In all honesty the ‘demons’ mentioned in the title of this page refers to us the Loyolites and not to the Angels. In the above few para’s all I have been saying is what I find ridiculous about the way the school is run. It is none of my business, but then aspiring to be a journalist I have made it my business!… All what I have said above are things that I have often heard my seniors and classmates remark. But even at that time the word that used to go around among students from other schools in TVM was that there was a special connection or bond or understanding among the Angels and the Loyolites. I thought it rubbish then. Now that I am in college and hear stories about my friends back home, I am not quite sure.
I dunno why but it seems Loyolites mix and get along with Angelites better than any other groups of girls. This is a very general statement to which there definitely are exceptions but still….this is not just my observation, but that of many others as well. Why this is…I have no clue. For my part I just cant understand how in the world this can happen. Right up to the 12th I have heard my classmates remark stuff like ‘I sure hope HAC doesn’t win LA fest’ and stuff like that (but having said that we have never fixed any results ok!!!). Maybe we used to say that bcoz of the rumours others used to say about Loyolites being partial to the Angelites or something like that. But still…. barely 2-3 months after passing out from school, the very same Loyolites are getting on well and in many cases ‘too well’ with the Angelites if not with no one else. This sudden change just astounds me. I am sure that many of my seniors might have sat down and thought a bit about this as well….but I am not sure whether they found any answers themselves.
Tuition classes definitely have had a big impact on this whole issue. So has LA Fest I guess, in ways my brother and his friends could never have thought of when they came up with the concept in 1996. Orkut nowadays has become another powerful tool esp with unlimited net access spinning a big sticky web of LINES. Mobile phones have definitely played a big part especially in cases of ‘long distance’ – heh…I should knw!!! But then all these things could have applied to students from other schools as well but somehow they don’t…at least in the case of the ANGELS and the DEMONS.
P.S : To any Angel who wants to bitch slap me…..U sure are welcome to try!!!…
Any Loyolite (esp. Among the BOTS) who feels offended by this post – ‘Mone ni okke ethu logathade jeevikunne’!!!…
P.S.S : Any won who wants to sent me hate mail : I am always available at vinnu71989@yahoo.co.in or vinnu71989@hotmail.com or vinnu71989@gmail.com or vinnu71989@rediffmail.com or BiBinhio@zapak.com or there are others…I just don’t remember.
Oh…and yeah… if u want to personally meet me and vent ur feelings – MIT Hostel Block XI, Room No. 214, Manipal – but be careful…its a boys’ hostel!!!
P.S.S.S : Dedicated to all Loyolites who are still sane (i.e. not yet caught in the web) and also in memoriam of those brave Loyolite souls who have perished to the devilry of witchcraft – Brothers we shall forever remember you!!!…
P.S.S.S.S : I am one of those very few who can actually call themselves an Angelite and a Loyolite!!!…
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
- BiBinhio.
March 2, 2008 at 11:24 pm
am still very much sane…..and am sick of it!!!!!!!!!!!
March 3, 2008 at 12:10 am
firsly
its PS
then PPS and then PPPS
as in post script.. post-post script. etc
not ps pss psss blah balh
2ndly
eda maire dash poo mone naari naayinte mone BB
ini itu pole chavaru ezhuti vecha ninne pidichu vechu castrate chaitu oodayil mukki vetti kollumeda naari
avante appopante angels n deamons
u hear stories alleda pulle
njan ivide kore stories eduthu nerathum
carmel loyola stories
enthe ? why not a post abotu that?
atooo njan ezhutano ?
ente oru freind kaalu pidichonda njan ezhutaate.. allel nee oombiyene
vittittu poda naari
ninaku hate mail ayakkan eniku time illa
thalkaaalam itu ivide kedakkate
otta thanthakku perannavan anel itu delete chaiyate ivide ittekum neeye
erappali
March 3, 2008 at 10:15 am
my only compaint is that u provided another avenue for syam to type some more of his usual rubbish…as regards ur post i am least bothered…nee paranja polathe attracttionum koppum onnum njan ethuvae kanditilla..atlst among sane people..pinne as u said tere r exceptions like syam ashik etc hu go ga ga behind all those bengali pannis…enthayalum realised that u r feeling really bored nd that u r quite jobless at the moment to write on such a topic…
March 3, 2008 at 2:51 pm
@ syam:
mone ps pps okke ayirikkum….srry…. enikku athrekku vivaram illa….
and of course njan ithu delete cheyilla!!!… watever u wanna write abt me u can but b4 tat 1 phonecall mt be in order….
@ ganesh….
yeah i am extremely jobless!!!…
and @ cain – u sure ur still sane???… coz all insane ppl say so as well….
March 4, 2008 at 6:03 pm
eda koore
nee ingu vaa. njan lavish ayittu paranjekkam
btw met ur bro today. LOBA meeting
@ganesh
njan oru pattiyudeyum porake poyitilla
that is getting very old..besiodes u know its nonsense… kalanjittu poda pulle
March 4, 2008 at 6:15 pm
@ syam
nee pattiyude purake poyi ennu njan paranjilla..oru pregnant looking panniyude purakil poyi ennanu njan paranjathu….nee avale pattiyumayittu confuse cheyathe…..nd i am sure no one else thnks its nonsense….athu kondu vaayadichiriyeda myre….
March 9, 2008 at 12:21 pm
BB,
an angelite whom i very much doubt if you know. (but a real close pal of ur “sister) , just messaged to say “hey syam , it was very bad of your friend to write angels /or deamons blah blah”
Me also stating the fact that i dont think she is too bright.
cyas
@ganesh
de poyi thoongi chavede. if u can find a rope thick enough that is.
March 10, 2008 at 12:10 pm
@ syam and ganesh…..
ningal e page oru discussion forum akki ennu enikku manasilayi….ennalum ithrakku venda….
and who is this ‘frnd’???…………
if she sed it was not rt and then wen u say that she is not bright then shuld i take it 2 mean tat wat i did is rt???[:D]…sho njan law padikkendathayirunnu….
March 12, 2008 at 6:20 pm
@BB
no idea
March 24, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Attraction between Angelites and us? Since when? LINES?? Numerous? who what when where? Okay, i am no authority on the batches before or after us, but so far as our batch goes, i can say for sure. This post is moot… find better things to blog about man.. this whole thing reads like an imaginary fairy tale…
March 27, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Well Akhil I think u shuld recheck….
I do admit that I had nothing better 2 blog abt…
But u shuld check again abt our batch itself!!!…
March 27, 2008 at 9:51 pm
thnk akhil again was referring to sane people!!!….
P.S.: sane people doesnt include syam
February 17, 2009 at 1:55 pm
So yes, we are uni sex schools, we are all 16-17 yr olds at the time when all this happens, and yes, we invariably end up at the same tuition homes before and after school, everyday, for like two whole years. Obviously we talk. Some of us get enamored with members of the opposite sex. Because of sheer statistics (other 16-17yr olds in St Thomas and Sarvodaya do the same with girls from their school, so hence the statistics), it generally happens to be someone from HAC.
If you think hard about it, they probably share the same uneasiness, or in some cases, over-enthusiasm in interacting with the opposite sex as we do. Then you’ll realize why Loyola and HAC gel so well together and HATE each other at the same time. The very nature of our society prevents this friendship from being overt and hence it descends to various levels of shadiness which might or might not be interpreted to be what is popularly known as a “line” in Trivandrum.
Having been through the same thing like five years before you did, I can tell you numerous and hilarious stories of the thing Loyolites would do to impress or talk to HAC women. And mind you, while its not entirely true that they don’t do it either, you have to admit that its us who are more shameless about the whole thing.
I’ve always been friends with girls from HAC and can tell you that some of them have kept in touch with me much more than my classmates at Loyola have. I’d really look forward to the time when a Loyolite would chuck his customary condescension towards girls in general and HAC in particular because its really hypocritical.
One of the greatest gifts that going to these tution homes gave me was a sense of how to interact with females, because that’s an area where being a Loyolite, say what you may, stunts you. I’d advice kids in +2 today to be open minded, repect girls and interact with them openly, because its an important part of growing up.
And Akhil, you certainly are no authority on batches senior to you.:-) I know of many batches, including my own, where the levels of interaction, and the number of “lines” between Loyola and HAC were strikingly higher than those bteween most other schools. As I said, its just a numbers argument and there’s nothing at all to be ashamed in it.
February 18, 2009 at 11:52 am
i agree completely with jian…
let the numbers speak!!!
December 11, 2011 at 8:23 am
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