Senseless Syndrome

ramanujam April 8th, 2006

Before writing something about today’s endeavors I read this (dejected, dejected!) which I wrote almost a month ago because today was totally opposite to this. It was a fine day for every one of us as we returned home with two first prizes in ad zap in two different symposiums at Hindustan College of engineering today. It was very arduous in the morning as I had to travel for almost two hours to reach the college. With Hindustan being one of the oldest private engineering colleges in the city it looked grandiose and welcoming. There were two symposiums stated for the day and I belong to neither of the two departments but we registered for both.

It never looked like a technical symposium and throughout the day I felt like I was attending some culturals. As we were travelling on the way, my friend messaged “machi come soon, shooting goin on here…Shreya and Dhanush …” As soon as we reached we went to see the shooting and Dhanush was sitting atop a basketball post and Shreya was no where in the scene and so we moved on. We attended almost all the prelims and got selected in all the finals except one. One great problem was that some of the finals clashed but later they sorted it out.

After attending the prelims we came through the basket ball court and this time Shreya was there. She looked awesome and we all took a look at her from less than five feet and started moving as time was very sparse. We took our lunch hastily and started attending the finals. The first one was ad zap finals at one department and they had brought judges from SS music and we performed greatly and we were sure of getting the first place. Then we ran all the way to the quiz finals at the other department and it was conducted in an inspired way and all teams on stage were expert quizzers among the engineering colleges in Chennai. I and Samba teamed up for the quiz as usual. Mean while Raja, Mahesh and Samba got selected for the Dumb-C finals and so Samba left in the middle itself as it was hopeless for us.

It was almost confirmed that we won in the ad zap and the girl called me and told that the SS music people wanted an interview with us. Great!!!! And I explained that we were in the midst of other finals and we will turn up in another ten minutes. She called again and then again and again (4 times) and quizmaster yelled “TEAM-A your turn…put off ur cell ….as I was speaking over the phone…”and I also got off the stage leaving two empty chairs for team-A which stood last at the end of 4 rounds and went there but by that time the SS music crew left somewhere. Fuck the luck!!!!

I went back and joined the others and we got great response in the other finals too and won the first place. The product given to was different and amazing. Fanta underwear…The preparation time was 2 minutes and Mahesh beautifully sketched an underwear over the fanta bottle and it brought great response. Also striking performance from one of my team mates Boopathi and good team spirit brought us the prize. We were first prize probables again despite little protests from one of the teams we were declared winners.

At the end of the day we as a team pocketed 1500 bucks in cash, mostly useless gift vouchers from Natural’s beauty saloon for 2000 rupees, red bull drink for on stage winners to be opened like champagne and some other game tokens. The shooting was going on till the evening and a few other scenes were shot and even a few students got autographs from Shreya on their certificates!!! Ha…Ha… even one of my friends insisted it but we somehow left the college. Hindustan totally rocks and provided great hospitality and I liked the atmosphere very much. Hats off to Hindustan and great cheers to the priceless efforts of all the student coordinators.

As I was walking home one politician was speaking in a road meeting “I will give free bus pass in trains to all the students…..” I laughed to myself about the status of Indian politics and headed home. I am still feeling greatly for missing that SS music interview…It would have brought us good fame!!!

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