31/08/2014

31/08/2014; 05:54:
30th August, Saturday- the day of the Flash Mob had arrived. I slept through the morning and most of the afternoon, since I slept only in the wee hours of the morning & I had some catching up to do. At 3:30, we put together a team, to man the desk at T.I. The team was to reach T.I. by 5, but, due to paucity of space on the 4 p.m. bus, the desk was all up & running only an hour later than our fixed time i.e. by 6 p.m. instead of the usual 5 p.m. By 7:30, all the Flash Mob participants had arrived, the sound system had been checked & everyone, including TI’s Logistics & Security team was ready. 4 guys opened the performance, swaying to the tunes of the catchy ‘Baby Doll’. There were quickly joined by others in succession and they danced to 5 songs and an enthralled audience, who dropped everything they were doing to watch the splendid scene. I even saw two guys angling themselves, in order to get a selfie with the flash mob in the background. The flash mob closed with flashing the Atharv banner, high & proud, as the crowd applauded.

All the participants of the flash mob had been in Atharv T-shirts and its success made a lot of the audience decided to get themselves T-shirts too; this was brilliant for our Merchandise / Sunburn passes Desk.
By 8:00 p.m., a news article detailing the Flash Mob and announcing that ‘Adani Wilmar & IPM, IIM-Indore present Atharv is happening soon, on the 5th, 6th & 7th of September’ was ready. Add in the photographs (courtesy the events coverage team), and we have a perfect piece. The video (and photographs) of the flash mob shall be on Atharv’s FaceBook page, soon enough.

A successful event later, almost everyone sat at McDonald’s , eating. Since it is right next to the entrance at T.I., I’ve been there, each time, since we began this Passes/Merchandise selling business and, all the staff there recognizes me. And, it is a good feeling. Heck, their desert counter even remembers my order- one medium McFlurry- Choco Crunch!

Transport to & fro campus had been arranged & we were all glad to be seated & back to campus. Another meeting, discussions, clicking countdown photographs, gossiping, night mess food, booking flight tickets for all our guest speakers & panellists, Kurkure, drinking hot water and jokes later, I’m here, writing. All’s well that begins well, runs well & ends well. And, we ought to let it end well & not drag … well, END!