Monday, September 7, 2009

A Faint glimmer of hope

Funda:
The basic funda behind this post is that-i had attended the "aspiring co-ords meet" for Saarang-2010 and a number of depts had called for coordinators there. One such dept was the newsletter dept. In the application form that i had to fill in order to apply for the newsletter coordship, the question was-"Connect in about 300 words--ACM,JJ,Lays,Pluto,Pratibha patil,election,Saras,IITM,chinky chicks,42". Yup, the question was vague indeed and it was the first time that i had tried to write an article of this kind. The article didnt fetch me the coordship-but i didnt want it to be lost in the oblivion because it was the first time that i had attempted something like it. Here is the article-christened forever in cyber space. :D.

Feedbacks strongly welcomed for this article.

Article:

Fine evenings at IITM are hard to comeby, but I did get one on August 12,2009. A calm evening because I had spent the entire afternoon seeing LOTR 3. The movie really exhausted me. Wonder how people managed to retain high concentration levels during that epic. I was munching a packet of Lays(Spanish Tango flavour) and was browsing through the net when I received a post on gtalk from my friend who lives in Saras. He asked me to come there to discuss “our prospects for doing something useful this shaastra”. So, while leaving the hostel I saw an IP saying “ACM* today at 10”. Oh!!! So soon!!!

I rushed to the CLT at 9 30(for obvious reasons), but found a placard saying-“ACM cancelled”. So I returned to my room(not knowing that it was the one stuck for last week) and started listening to the nice melodies from the movie JJ. Ten minutes later one of my neighbours came rushing to my room saying “macha, we have ACM today!!”. So I packed my comp and reached CLT by 9 56 and luckily found a seat in the middle. Just before the show was about to start came a group of semi-hot 2nd year MA girls. Something has to be done to IITs, to improve the quality of girls here. It desperately reminded me of some awesome chinky chicks I saw at Singapore during the summer(ya…agree Bangkok is way better, but Singapore is not bad either).And Pratibha patil’s famous statement of “creating exclusive IITs for girls” came to my mind. I cursed her one more time adding to the infinite number of times I have done that in the past year.

The presentations began at I(nsti)ST. The projector was kinda weird giving a very “red” display of everything(red enhances aggresiveness-not good at AC halls :P). The cul-secs threw some “PJ”s and profoundly refused to apologise for the “red” projector. Starting with publicity and sales a slurry of presentations began to follow, each one claiming to be the “backbone”, “face”, “lungs”, “kidney” etc. of saarang. Thankfully no dept claimed any part of the human body below the backbone :D. It was evident that the cores wanted to take a dig at one another and also frustrate the audience with even more “PJ”s. In one of the presentations was mentioned the number “42”. I was caught napping as I didn’t have a clue to what it referred. My friend later explained the adage from the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy.

Then came the Spons, PR and media team. Strangely two coincidences-Lays and JJ :D. The guys were joined by the only girl in the core team as well(What happened to male chauvenism??-but good in a way :D). I found a “faint glimmer of hope”(that explains the title right??)that I too can become a co-ord as they had asked for writing skills :D. So I had fixed it to be one of my choices. Then came Oops, the hospitality core who profoundly explained his becoming a core after losing insti elections(its an appreciable fact).I must thank this guy really-he has indeed helped me a lot.

Facilities, QMS, Security etc. soon followed and the presentation was culminated by web ops dept which offered a refuge to all the maggus. The population of maggus in any saarang team is like pluto occupying the solar system-non existent.

And so I finished off a fine day with the faint hope of becoming a newsletter co-ord.

*-Aspiring Co-ords Meet

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