Holy cow...! 1 month? Has it been that long since my last blog post?? Wow, and that makes it two months since I set foot here in D15R21.......Slot 1 whizzed past, and now I'm praying slot 2 does too! Marketing, FM (not the Mirchi kind....rather Financial Markets) and PS (Probability n Stats) have already begun to eat into our heads. One major relief would be that, by the end of next weekend, we can say good riddance to WAC at least till the start of the next year!
Slot 1 exams were not as bad as I thought, though now the effects of relative grading remain to be seen. I was ecstatic about my PS paper for exactly 43 minutes after it got over, after which I was duly made to realize that I had screwed up. Trust me, you screw exams and quizzes over again and again here, so when you're this close to having finally cracked one, only to find out you've screwed up yet again......makes you feel sick to your stomach! All in all, it was quite evident that slot 1 was just the first look teaser.........leading up to slot 2 which would be the trailer, and slot 3 the feature film! The worst is yet to come......and the tuchchas are smacking their lips in delight with each passing day...!!
The last 1 week was all about one thing and one thing only - T-NITE!! The baap of all inter-section competitions, T-Nite gives one fachcha section bragging rights over the others for the rest of the year. Spread over a period of 4 nights, the competition brings out the best in the fachchas creatively, from dances to musical performances to poster-making and even a daily newsletter where each section rips the others apart! This year, it was the turn of Aatank, Bawaal, Cobras, Dang-e-baaz, EchchadharEEs and....well whatever PGPX called themselves.... to set the stage on fire from 5th to 8th August! 4 nights - Pub Run, Mess Nite, RJM Nite 1, RJM Nite 2 - of amazing fun and sheer awesomeness! Every night, we had to put up something new.....new themes, new costumes, new ideas, new events.....coming up with them sure was a mighty challenge, but we were all up to the task!
We EchchadharEEs had begun to make our presence felt in WIMWI way before talk about T-Nite had even begun. Our tempo shouts a few weeks before T-Nite made everyone on campus - tuchchas, fachchas, and even some bewildered campus staff - sit up and take notice. Enthu was on an unprecedented high, and despite not having any past history or proper section tuchchas, nothing was gonna stop us. A few tuchchas ultimately volunteered to mentor us, and their presence and encouragement only seemed to spur us on! Finally, as T-nite arrived, section E was decked up and ready to fight. As it turned out, history was created on those 4 nights, as event after event, the EchchadharEEs blew everyone away and were by far the most consistent section. Our dancers enthralled the audiences, our fashion show (FashP) was without a shadow of a doubt the highlight of T-Nite on the whole, some of us including me rocked the stage with our music performances, the newsletter and creatives team was on over-drive ensuring the EchchadharEEs looked good.......section E was on a roll.
Going into the final RJM Nite, we were well and truly on top, and the T-Nite trophy was within sniffing distance. Time for the grand finale - and what a way to end too!! The dances, the class act, the random and CR acts, the group songs......we well and truly ended with a bang, to rapturous applause and shouts of "Awesome!" from the crowd. Our adopted section tuchchas were mighty proud, and we were even more! The hard work and efforts had definitely paid off, and the announcement of the winners was turning out to be a mere formality.
The formality was completed 2 days later, as it was made official that Section E had created history. A T-Nite win on debut, and the EchchadharEEs had immersed themselves in WIMWI folklore for generations to come. Batch after batch after batch here at WIMWI will soon hear of the awesome EchchadharEEs of the batch of 2012 who stormed to a T-Nite victory in the year of their inception.
More than the win, T-Nite was memorable for one thing - the way our section bonded together. We all now know each other like never before, and each night has just brought all 86 of us closer together. The amount of fun we had.....trashing our classrooms, taking pics, practicing, performing, shouting, screaming.....it really was quite incredible. And even though I was down with viral fever throughout the T-Nite period, the enthu my class showed made me forget about my fever everytime I stepped into the classroom and was in their company.
Oh well......fun's over now for quite some time now I suppose.....back to the grind.....back to marketing strategies, sampling and hypothesis testing, NPVs, and what not......hope to update this space soon again......anyway, until the next....cheers..!
P.S: Saw "The Expendables" last night......let me sum it up by describing one scene: A wall of fire separates our heroes from a chopper which they need to destroy on the other side, so what do they do? This dude picks up this huge, heavy rocket, launches it into the air towards the chopper.....and our man Stallone fires some bullets at it......said rocket explodes, bye-bye chopper!! If you want more of this, watch the film... :P
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