Part I ah thu tak leh Shillong ka tun tung a college admission zon dan te ka gelh khin tham ta. Kum 5 bang pai liamsa nung ah hunlui ngaihna leh Shillong mun mahmah ngaihna in hon paisan thei mahmah kei. Lungsim mitkha in sing hing dipdip te leh hawktui siang kelkel luang khe a pal ek-ek lai khong a mu gige. Kongte Zadoh mahmah leng lungsim a mang theilou khat ahi. Bahte allu-muri huai le fire brigade ground kiang a leh PB a Lady Keane lutna bul lak a lim sese kisa a, huai khong mahle tutan i mangngilh theihlouh khat hi den lai mawk hi. Part II ah bel thuchin-thutang hel khak khak hel mai sawm ka hi.
1st year ka sim kum in khatvei Tangnuam teng in ann nek khop ding sawm ung. Nek khopnang, a mun leh a sum, a gan bangkim fel sak ding in ka Zawlpa Lambawi (Zangkholam) sawl ung. Ka zawlpa a hihleh a vanglai taktak a ball pek kha ten a diak a Bungmual lak te’n “My Is” chi a a theih mai uh ahi. Fel mahmah mai, sum a na zong, ui khat ana lei, K-line a sepaih quarter khat ah ann huan di mi ana sawl in ana buai zen uh hi. Kou bel nitaklam a nek hun dek in a mun ka zuan zou pan uh hi. Ann ne di kisa, man sim ta chih leh ka Zawlpa’ lawmpa khat ki inntek sak tak a hong dianglut. Hong phe vengvung, ka zawlpa’n ana iplah a hi peuhmah dia, a lawmpa kiah “nang Tangnuamte ann nekkhopna ah na bang hon zong?” ana chihleh khatpa pawt vengveng. Ka lungsim nuamlou, inn kong ah kava et leh lawmpa taxi sung ah ana kap niainuai mai. Ka va houpih leh ka nek khopna di uh sum ka zawlpa’n ama a ana lakzual, kou kimuhkhawm chia kithoh khawm a dit di chia ana kiba uh ana hi. Huai ziak tak a amah leng ki innteksak tak a hon dianglut, ka zawlpa’n ana chih guap leh khatsia ana himaimah. Kava kikhem nilouh ua, a tawp in lungkim tak in a zu mehdi uisa bangzah hiam toh ka kha khe thou khongkhong uh hi. Kou ann nekhin ka pai zoh un lawmte, amau bel Tangnuamte hilou in ka sulnung uh valap ahi di ua, sa kou gaihlouh teng ne in, Tere Naam film than lai hiven, huai la play in zankhovak in huai inn ah va lam uh chih thu khonung zak ing.
Rayburn ah cl-xii simlai khong a kipau tawm lua chu a hipeuhmah dia, khatvei lawmte Maman te’n ah kava pawt leh classmate te Lulun (Chingngaihlun) ana om. Keile chiamnuih peuh gen a chiak a kava chiak leh Lulun in ka paidek kuan a hon sam keuh. “Lam” hon chi, ken le, “Bang a Lun” ka chih leh aman, “nidang a le hichi himhim mah na hi hia”? hon chi keuh. Pautam chu honna sa lua dan ana hi.
Lawmpa Lialian(Tualkhanlian) toh Lalneu(Ginthianlal) lah tawlkhat Arunachal te khat toh inn hon luah khawm laizang uh. A lawmpa un zingkar khat ann a huan leh kangsak gawp, kang petmah, vom gawp himaithei. Ann a nek tak ua Lialian in lungkham huai salua, a lawmpa uh ki’ah, “Aisa khana khayega to zindagi kharab ho jayaga” chi keuh. Lialian te inn kiangpa bah te khat lah a min ‘Mayborn’ higeet. Lamdangsa sim. Bangchi dan a na min Mayborn hi eita I chihleh aman le “I was born in the month of May, so my parents named me Mayborn chi keuh zel.
Khatvei exam zou inn pai. Inn le tungman lou ka inn khangpa Joseph Naulak in hon na sam. Ka va daklut zual leh lawmpa’n a innsung ah zohmeng khat va lut, ana man in, ana khailum geih. A vun hawksa a kuang sung ah ana koih beibai. Inn ah va kikheng zual in mengsa huan a buai a buai chu hizel mai. Nitak khat lah Joseph heu a ui mat di zong in sai-ip toh Iron bar toh kholak dung teng ah va kizui ung. Vangsiat huai, a ui te a dia vangphat huai chih ding in huai zan ui tuak kha kei ung.
Ui goh gen tak law-law leh lawmpa Kolson te lawi in Ui bangzah a goukhe man di ua aw ka chi mahmah ve. A inn neipa uh Bahte khat thu a thuzoh un, a neknek uh nekpih uh. Thuzoh tak uh a hi dia kumkhat bang a inn neipa uh Lamka ah Chrismas zang dia hon tohpih zou hial uh. Lawmte khat lah U Kam (Kamlian) in a thei dia, Mawpat a ui gou dia kuan. BSF te camp kiang hiven, ui khat hon pai, aman le ngim vengveng a a khet ek leh khenfuh lou, a ui ham vengveng a taikhia. A sak a sepaih duty pa’n, “kyun kuta mara hai?” a cihleh lawmpa’n, “mara hai” chih toh a siik chiang liangpuak in paikhiat san thuah, sepaih pan le gen di theituanlou a paikhe maimah.
Lawmpa Ui khenpa mah leh a innkong ua’h tui kaisek hiven, khatvei tuikai ma a a bel va koih hive aw. A nung sawt lou a ava etleh tui ana kai, ama nung a beel koih mizo te khat in tui ana dawh. Amah le va pai vengveng in huai Mizo nu kiah mizo pau chihdan deuh a, “Ze ti lai ah ka beel ka dah masak a lawm” va chi zeih.
Lawmpa Jeremya Tunglut aka Obamaladen BYF kikhop a necktie ok zetzat kawm a a hang phan-phan dan toh khutdoh te sumdawhna kuang ava palbuak chitchiat zaw gelh sese dahni. Huai dan mah in lawmpa Zoson toh a vengpa khat ki chiamnuih khial a a kisukpuak buk uh le gelh sese ka sawm kei mai .
Kumkhat innlam pai di Happy Valley ah ticket va lakhin ka kiik lam in Maman te inn ah ka bangsuk malam hi. Amahbel anau Suanching toh om hiven, kenle innlam pai dek nailou di? Ticket va book ta leng la chi’n ka va chiamnuih hi. Amaule paipih di ana zon laitak uh ahi, keilah ticket lakhin. Chikchiah va book di hon chi uh, kenle ka paizohni zingchiang Lamka ka tunni di a va book di dan a gen. Hon muang petmah uh hi di hiven, midang in ana zot chiang ua kou tonpih di neita ana chihsan lalat uh. Kei pai hiau. Lamka tungta, Maman in hon phone, bangchi tuni ticket book di non kuan kei maimah a hon chi. Kenle tuni manlouhna phut nei ing a zingchiah kon kuan di chisuk nawn. A zingchia kuanlouh tak a nitak a hon phone nawn. Va khemkhem ngaihna lah om nawn lou, kei Lamka tungta. Zan a tung ka hi chihleh zaw a kipak kei hial uh aka.
IInd Year ka sim kum in ka innluah pihpa khat in hon graduate san hi. A result uh a suah nung nitak teng in hon thuhilh a, sum tampipi seng a hiai a lehkha sim na hi uh chih thei gige unla, SIMPLE khong a pass nemnum hon ching het kei un. Kei bang in 1st Class in non zou ding uh. Ei inn luahkhawm teng lak a Graduate masapen ka hi a, ken ama 1st Class in kapan a, ka nung hon zui un hon chi deuh gige hi. A khonung a a lawmte khat kia ka kan leh lawmpa SIMPLE PASS ana hi maimah! A hang sanna, hon chou ngamna thupi kasa. Lawmpa Zoson in ka migen pa tunitan in 1st Division pa a chiden lai hi’n ka thei
Final year sim kum, ki senior sak sim toh Hons. class loute ka bang pahpah hi. Hihdi poimoh om lah hituan lou. Khonung ngaihtuah chia hai huai lotel ana hi. Huchia honours class lou peuhmah ka bang na lam in a note le bangmah ka nei kei hi. Neilou ka hihlam theipah leng a dan om di, theipah lou. Exam hong hun, Sociology Monday a exam di, kiginni nitak a sim di ka chihleh sim di neilou ana ki hi reng mai. A lungkham huai thou ei. Ngaihtuah vengveng leh lawmnu Momoi (Vunglianmawi Samte) kha Sociology(Hons)a hihlam thei khia. Amah Lady Keane Hostel a om. Phone pah tet-tet mai. Note neilouh bang kigen pah ngam lou. Aman bangbang gingta deuh, bangbang ki prepare deuh hiam chihte dawp kual vel. A gen khit tak a tua na gen, na gin tak tengteng a note kha zingchiang ann nekma in hon petou ou ka chihleh a heh ei. Amah Hostel a om, Monday exam nei chu Sunday pass mulou di hon chi ta. Na lawmte Chiching(Mangkhanching) toh gouching hon sawl in. Ann nekma ngeingei a non piaksak kei leh Lady keane tengteng hon dawmlou di ka hi ka chih phokphok leh, Sunday zing thohma a Chiching toh Gouching hon tungtou pah chenchen uh. Sunday ahih chia dawr kihong lou, xerox nang omlou. Pen toh paper pia, amau note hon petou tegel le ki copy pihsak, gelh chenchen, dak 11 lak a zou. Huai teng sim a ki pass himaimah. Lawmte thuakzohna, thumanna te kha thupi kasa law mahmah lai tutan in. Hon ngaihsak hetkei le uh le ka heh theihmawk louh hi a chih khong ngaihtuah chia lawm hoih neih mahmah manpha sak tuntun in a om.
Shillong pawtsan dek peetmah hita. Lawmpa Davis toh sawtpi theih di zingchiang in Shilloung lu-leh-taw phak zohna chiang chiang khe in i pawt dia, i golh zen lehleng poilou hial. Nidang chia i ngaih mahmah di’n nikhat hun i zang di kichi zen sam. Huchia a tawpna d ahih leh Camera hoih deuh deih huai di chi, kon ki kup uh chia Lawmnu Momoi tungmah tuzel. Phone nawn, zingchia pawt dek ka hi uh, na camera kon manoh suk di ua, PB ah kimu ni chi. A zingchiang a lawmnu i phone chia ki phone khe zou ta lou, kou le pawt thouthou. Polo lam peuh. Golf Course, Wards Lake chihte khe a pai ngatngat a suun nitum hun zang. Nitak a Momoi phone nawn. Chihleh amah baih deuh a camera pe dia hon kuan tou, kinlua a phone tawi khalou ana hi. Huai lampi a kipelh kha chidan ana hi. Heh petmah a hehsan nawn. Hon petou in ka chi kei, kon tawnsuk di ka chi. Na bang kifelsakna na hiam? Peuh ka chih khum zialzial a set voi.
Lawmte’n le khel chu honsa petmah uh ahi dia tunitan ka kimuh uh chiang un ka khel dan, ka heh hat dan leh ka lungtom dan a gen mang moh hial uh hi. Nikum a lawmnu Gouching Delhi a sawtlou hong om inle ka kimu zual ua, huai a hon gen, “Lam tunitan a ka lauh penpen nang kon hehsak khak di ahi”, hon chi lai tel. Kenle Gou, kikhek lotel ta ka hi. Nidang dan a hai sim lai leng le ngaihtuah thei zodeuh ta ka hi ka chih leh a nui ek-ek aka.
Hiai article a khen a din simtaak lou, personal lua ahimai thei. Mihing in i damsung a hunlui mah kingai tou nilouh ding, a nopdan a hun a i theihlouh te le kithei tou panpan ding hita e chih hon phawksak mahmah ziak leh, mihing i sih chiang chauh a kikhen hilou a, i damlai a pat leng kikhen tou pah charchar mai, khualzinna gam taktak ana hi lotel chih te ka phawksuah thakthak ziak a kon luikhiat ahi. Hunlui te kimuh khak ni a gen a ‘Those were the Days’ chih touh nilouh pen i maban hon hizo mawk ana hi lotel chih le ka musuah thakthak hi.
A tawpna pen ah kuahiam selphou utna ziak a min khong ka quote a hikei chih a min ka gelh khak lawmte’n hon theihsak le uh chih ka ngetna ahi.
Khublei Shibun!!
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