BRB

Hey!! I'll be right back.

The Humble Note Acknowledged

And I'm happy for this.

http://thelostchapter.blogspot.com/2006/03/humble-note.html

Cheers Buddy!!!
Ravi

A day at VNR

At the first place, for all those who are wondering what the hell VNR is, its an abbreviated abbreviation of Vallurupalli Nageswara Rao Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology. In short they call it VNR VJIET and an even slothful head calls it VNR. (How about calling it as only "V"?? Give it a thought and call up on my prized possession).

Anyway... a dim-eyed glance on my college notice board the other day made me gracefully limp towards it. Reason?? Ofcourse yes, a well-designed poster. Printed in bold faced king-like letters on it was CONVERGENCE, the technical symposium of VNR. Searching for something which would be compatible with my senses and interest, I found this sweet little word called "Spidy". As usual, Chaitanya was asking me for the 980936434738923rd time in his life that we should present a paper. Well, I'm not fancied with searching Google again and again, I thought. Now to put it in simple words... Spidy is a web-designing contest. And web-designing is something which I have lost thrice in my college because it was over-professional for the illiterate judges (mind you - this, on a serious note).

My hunt to locate VNR started the day before when I asked Srikanth (a.k.a Zaaffar a.k.a Pulla a.k.a G.Gurram a.k.a Refill a.k.a [many other names which I no longer remember]) as to how to get to that corner of the city. His answer was an eye-opening one. "Go catch the college bus". With a raised eyebrow, all I could say was "Thanks ra". And this bum ditched me saying that he would accompany me the whole day, but unfortunately because of a prior appointment with Mr.Bush (who was visiting Hyd'bad this day), he cannot make it. Finally, he tells me online saying I should board a bus at Rathifile, morning 8:30.

Apprehensively approaching the girl in blue at the bus stop (which was supposedly called one, with a few about-to-blow transformers beside it) near Rathifile , in a shuddering tone, I ask her

"Excuse me..."

"Yes?!?"

"Has the VNR bus left??" "

"Hmmm...no...not yet" and suddenly she roars "Hey hiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Shwethaaaaaaaaaa"
Thanks ma'm. I got what I wanted.

Finally, I handed over two suicide attempted notes to the conductor and within an hour, there I am in VNR VJIET.

Awesome place. The sports complex looked like an indoor football stadium. The facade of the main building resembled Ramada Manohar. The college has its own music club. Good Canteen - Tasty Food - Cheap Prices. Comparatively good looking girls. Pleasant enough to stare for a second :p. The environment was clean and green. Enthusiasm and life all over the place.

After having a luscious breakfast in the canteen, accompanied with a not-so-great coffee, I started to search for the place where I had to give my presentation. After climbing two (or three??) floors, I come across a volunteer who says:

"Spidy?? "

"Yeah... can you please show me where is room no-"

"Have you registered for the event?"

"Am I supposed to?"

"Yeah. 50 bucks" (which actually sounded like '50 bugs')

Back to square one. I had to go and register at the same place where I actually started off from. After registering, climbing two (or three again??) floors was one big PITA process.

The event started off almost an hour and a half beyond the scheduled time. Not much to speak about this part, except for the kind of weird and stupid questions I asked the other participants like "Why is there an empty space at that point in your page??" "Why this colour?" "Why didnt you use frames instead of tables?" "Why not a head to head comparison between Linux and Windows??". Not to boast about, but I should say, I did it pretty well. It was clear, concise, short and sweet from my side. I justified all what I have done, accepted when plagiarised content, gave reasons good enough for alternatives used(or unused).

After we were done with the presentations, all of us MGIT/CBIT participation junta moved on to the canteen. It was 1 by then. Had lunch, went to the library, checked some Digit magazines over there and were back at the entrance of the building, in search of a loo. Eventually we all released the angst left in our pangst's (courtesy-Sid) :p and strolled to the seminar hall for the valedictory function, in a hope of taking something valuable while harking back to our home-sweet home's.

The valedictory function started off somewhere at 3, and we all sat in a row, tensed and commenting on all the unnecessary dump possible. The irony here is that each one knows that the other is tensed and each one behaves as if one is cool. And the saddest part; each one praises the other saying "Your website was the best... undoubtedly you're the winner."

After a half an hour long wait, finally the compere comes to the web-designing category.

"Spidy. First prize goes to... Ravi Shankar of MGIT."

YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I was excited. Not that I won the website designing contest, but I won some "own" money for the first time. We were asked to go and collect the prize amount from some other room. After letting this news out to all my friends and waiting for some time, we all buzzed off to the canteen. That was when the music club of VNR, which calls itself "Crescendo" started playing "Vakrathunda...." from Colonial Cousins' album. Though not an exceptional cover, its O K for a slight evening relaxation. The entire area round the stage was filled with volunteers and students relaxing all over. The scene then would have made a good photograph :p. Not really impressed with the performance, we all started our journey back home. I was too tired to go to Euphoria(at Vasavi), which was on the other side of the city.

2 hours in the journey and I was back home blogging all what you have just read, with a hot cup of coffee beside me ;).