19/08/2014

19/08/2014; 17:57:

17th evening saw a rather grand Janmashtami celebration at the Radha-Krishna Mandir, near the Faculty Quarters, courtesy the PGP Cultural Committee.
There was a Rangoli-Making competition organized the previous evening and the winner got to make the Janmashtami rangoli at the mandir for the big day.
Evening saw a host of games, fun for all being conducted in the garden near the temple. The saree-tying game was rather amusing; here participation was in pairs, preferably with a partner of the opposite gender. The task was simple; the girl had to dress the guy up in a saree, within 90 seconds as a cheering audience looked on! Another game, which involved a blind-folded partner and another seated on the floor with a matki on his head, ended in a lot of wet people. The blind-folded partner had to fill up the matki with water while the audience was in splits.
The much-awaited ‘Matki Phod’ event was the highlight of the evening. Just like last year, the IPM boys’ team successfully smashed their matki on the very first try and then also smashed the PGP matkis, once the PGP guys gave up!
Once the clock struck 12, signifying the birth of baby Krishna, appropriate religious rituals were carried out and everyone left with a bright red tika on their foreheads.

The evening was really well appreciated! It’s lovely how all festivals are celebrated with equal vigour & love, on our IIM-Indore campus!

All of 18th was spent playing & viewing the 'Chunauti '14' matches! 18th was Day 1 of Chunauti. We mostly won Women's' Throwball; however the last set of the game is pending, for the game had to be suspended due to low visibility as the game went on for over an hour & a half.
Chunauti's first round is being played between IPM & PGP-I ; the winners in each game shall then face the senior-most PGP-II in the finals! There's Women's Throwball, Badminton, Table Tennis & Basketball. The guys have Cricket, Football, Table Tennis, Badminton, Volleyball & Basketball.
Playing Throwball was all good; but, somehow, my name had found its way onto the Table Tennis list. Now, this was both disturbing & puzzling. Now, I was bound to lose, but, was okay with playing, for well, the spirit! Luckily, the other members who'd also been equally pleased to find their names on the Women's Table Tennis Team B list all mutually agreed that IPM must be represented by only one team. It was after all a question of putting the best racquet forward and compromises were both unnecessary & uncalled for. Phew! That took care of itself well enough.
Here's looking forward to the yet-to-come, coming-soon day 2, 3 & perhaps more of Chunauti.

All of 18th night was spent gossiping! It was all going great until some nice person realised that it was 5 a.m. Everyone promptly began to be sleepy and the session was disbanded. I trudged myself to my room and sat in front of my laptop, busily pretending to do a whole lot of Fest work. I managed to finally fall asleep at 7:30 a.m., but, my rest was short-lived. I was dutifully woken up at 9:15 a.m. and informed that there was a meeting with Atharv’s (our fest) media partner. Dealing with the media does of course fall within the domain of PR & Marketing and attending the meeting was the right & interesting thing to do!

The time spent waiting for the designated person to show up was considerably longer than the meeting itself. Our largest solace is the fact that we got a final agreement signed & it ended well for everyone! Walking along the busy A.B. road, waiting for our institute bus to turn up was all an activity that I enjoy, especially when I have company. Well, it’s the walking that’s enjoyable, not the waiting.
The worst type of waiting is the one where it doesn’t come with an upper limit! Waiting on a friend, to attend a concert together is a good kind of waiting, for the upper bound exists & a happy evening awaits. Waiting for the signal to turn green is an acceptable kind of waiting, for it isn’t going to be very long & it’s the same to everyone else; the fact that there are a hundred other people who mirror your instantaneous belief somehow makes the waiting better! Waiting for an undefined moment is both the best & the worst, for everyone, even though the reasons are never the same.