The week that was (contd)

Here we go again, after a much longer break than I'd anticipated (or heck, maybe I'm just lazy :D)

Day 1 - Probably the most irritating morning of my life. Never thought there could be a hundred different tiny things that could delay a large event's start. Personally, I was asleep till 9 AM.. the other two coords bravely headed out at 7:45 (my excuse being the previously mentioned late night practice :D). With Paintball scheduled to start at 10, I saunter into the arena at 9:30, expecting everything to be in place and ready to go.

And what's happening at the venue? No facilities, no tables, no chairs, no WATER, no electricity, no extension boards... To cut a long, sad story short, we finally got everything up and going at 11:15. And this with people storming the damn desk expecting registrations to start precisely at 10, not to mention our "special" pre-registered people who, at least, expected insti stuff to work according to insti time.

Another thing I forgot to mention.. one of our "special" people was a reporter from Deccan Chronicle, a Mr. Harish Prakash (must be respectful about the Press, now). He was one of the people who ate into my supposed leisure time during Day 0.. but it was worth it. Check out http://www.dc-epaper.com/DC/DCC/2009/01/22/ArticleHtmls/22_01_2009_103_001.shtml , and I SWEAR I NEVER SAID THAT (or beamed it, or whatever. Earth to Spock.).

After a pretty chaotic morning, stuff settled down around 2 PM. We wrapped up registrations for the evening pretty quickly. SpEnt quiz followed at 2:15, in which our team (Vibhu, Aneesh, and I) missed qualifying by a whopping 3 points :(. Light Music group (aka Tarang) was up next, where we played two Rock On songs (Yeh Tumhari Meri Baatein, and Pichhle Saat Dinon Mein), and a third song.

Our lead singer for the first two songs was Aswathy, and MA freshie (mm-hmm, first year..), who was actually pretty incredible. Do check the videos out on my Orkut page/YouTube (search for the cuppers). For the third song, we didn't have a singer. For the simple reason that we were forbidden from "singing" that song. You'd have guessed it by now.. we'd planned to play Sutta on stage.

What did we end up doing? We played and let the crowd sing along (thankfully, it WAS full of our friends.. you ROCKED, guys). The coords had no reason to throw us off stage/cut off our music/shoot us, so we finished our set well. And as Soccer put it, we had ChuChu on drums, Shaggy on bass, Soccer on vocals, and before that, Aswathy on vocals (the "singer" forgot that he was playing rhythm. And he didn't sing a word). All hail Soccer. MAX RESPECT!!

The day wound up with Choreo Nite, which I was too tired to sit through. I did watch NIT Trichy perform though, and their theme based performance was simply brilliant. Kudos to them.. they did win first place.

Day 2 shall follow. Soon. I hope.