Orkut Says...

Today's fortune:
Your mentality is alert, practical and analytical

Sometimes... you've got to believe them. After all, good fortune is always true .

And we fared well... At least on the pretty good friday!!!

Friday - 14th April, 2006
Sixth Element

Hands with Roses. Dancing Couples. Sparkling Saris. Flashing Cameras. Blinking Lights. Booming Boxes. Scrunching Beats. Unlimited Drinks. Colourful Dresses. Spiky Heads. Banging Fists. Fagging Cornerheads. Bopping Groups. Whirling DJ...

It sure is a party scene, but definitely had another message for all us fourth years... 'Hey idiots... you're all doing this together for the last time in your life!!!'

Oh! Ooooo…

I am not a party animal, neither do I want to be one now, but time has just now taught us that it’s the end of MGIT’s share of fun in life!! So before I get over the hangover…Here’s the sneak peek…

Expectedly unexpected (??) was the SMS I received from Nirupa on this 11th saying that we have our farewell on 14th at Sixth Element. And the following 2 days were filled with a marathon of messages and calls between the juniors and seniors about this completely unexpected and supposedly “to-be-celebrated” occasion.

The day started at 9.30 A.M (= 11.30 A.M IST). Soon after the regular Hi’s and Welcome’s, we, the seniors, were asked to give a short introduction with a couple of words on our life in engineering too. And soon the placement officers and lecturers in us woke up giving golden advices to the juniors. I don’t know why but we felt as if we were the oldest species of human beings alive on this planet enlightening our juniors.

‘Make sure you get placed before it gets too late…’

‘Don’t mess up with your attendance…’

‘Study well… Have fun at the same time too…’ (And that person did neither anytime in his life)

‘You are the next ones to be kicked-out of the college…’ (!!??!!)

‘Do what you like to do. Never do what you don’t like. Always do what you like to do. No matter what happens, do what you like to do…’ (Finally, do it 4 times)

Some have taken life-time decisions…‘I am no more Chaitanya, I’m Krish …’ (Changing names eh?? And by the way “Krish rocks”!! :p)

One confessed his crush too… (Thank you thank you :”> and by the way, Musings and MetallicA Rock!!!)

To top it all, the DJ adds special effects to our already messed up speeches (a.k.a golden words).

A round of paperdance followed the intro round and sadly, the championship legacy still continued. Deepthi still remains the paperdance ace champion of our class and I’m still the (ace) runner-up. I wonder as to how she could still maintain her frame so well!! And now I understand its purpose :p. (For the record, we were at the same positions for our fresher’s too… just that our partners changed. Venu Madhav (Sr.) to Rakesh (Jr.) for her and Deepika (Sr.) to Hari Priya (Jr.) for me)

The DJ kept reminding us of the running-out time and “soon” (=1 ½ hour) the lunch started. And then it was a round of disco a little while later. The DJ did a commendable job too…

Ok now… nothing special here… The same old songs, the same old steps, the same old dancing groups, the same old drinks, the same old lights and the same old fagheads. Just that we took the video better than ever. And to enlighten you about our expertise in this field, we have taken it in two angles (a.k.a two cameras – and sometimes even we are spotted in the video.).

And now it was the juniors’ turn to evaluate and treat the seniors. We had certain titles like “Mr./Ms. Intro”, “Mr./Ms. Paperdance” and “Mr./ Ms. Outing”. A Nirvana (Our college fest, not the rock band. Please.) T-shirt autographed by all the seniors was auctioned and finally Chaitanya bought it for a whopping 3 grand. Man!! He is getting richer these days!!

Time passed and it was a marathon of hugs and pecks all over. People started moving all around and almost everyone, no matter how close or not they are to the other person, embraced each other and a wave of good-bye’s swept us.

We spent the rest of the evening outside the building chatting until the guard threw us out of the building. Slowly the junta started leaving and it was only the 6-7 of us classmates. We refreshed our senses and selves at a nearby eatery and BAM!!! We are back home…

Offline, I’m sure it must have been day that had the highest number of messages and phone calls exchanged between the seniors and the juniors. It was definitely a good alchemy that existed among all of us these 3 years and it at the end, it got a deserving felicitation too.

Speak about the fun you’ve had in a day or the dejection of parting forever, you can’t have a farewell better than this. Thanks guys. Love you and miss you all…

P.S : Hehe.... End of the day, to my utter amazement my 'dear' juniors honoured me with an on-the-spot "On Popular Demand" award... :p. Sounds good eh?? "Ravi Shankar - On Popular Demand !!"

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Hold It All '06 - Part 1

Musings 2006

It's 20 days and my blog is still not updated. It's 20 days since I've even had lunch in my house. It's been almost the same time that I could peacefully work on my project. 20 days and I still haven't cleaned my computer desk. 20 days since I even chatted late night till 4. Its been the same time that i even freaked out with my friends. The same number of days and I couldn't play those "a few tunes" on my guitar (with the horrible tuning ever discovered). These days have squeezed us (read I + some others) from every little part of (something called) "fun" that we ever had in our lives.

Enough of this boring introduction. I'm trying to be, but I can never be a great writer (Give anti-comments to the poor soul to make him a happy one).


Musings 2006. Finally. Has. Been. Released. With the same old importance in the college. But with an enthusiasm bundled a zillion times more in us. Reason you ask?? The first one being, It's getting better everytime and so is it this year too. Second - the overall Perfection Coefficient (as we call it) increasing drastically (The more you correct the printer about the inter-word spacing, comma's and full-stops (and the more he bawls you) the higher this coefficient is). Third - Just for the heck of it. Otherwise the para sounds incomplete. Fourth - We worked hard than ever. Many realised what I was doing can best be termed as 'over action' but some later must have (must have) seen that it was actually necessary. Fifth - This was the best graphic theme that I could bring out for the magazine in my service for the mag. Sixth - No ads on the back side of the coverpage!!

As I posted in one of those previous posts in the Musings' Blog, we did have everal "First Times" in Musings this year. A video being compiled, a central theme for the graphics all over, a different layout for the messages from the BoD's etc.,

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BREAK (I continued composing this post after a break of 10 days... so make all those 20's into 30's) (And i even forgot how I was about to continue)
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(To know more about Musings-is-great, please see the magazine directly. I have no patience to describe that it is 36-24-36. Time is 1:09 AM)


Musings this year was somehow more interesting than ever. It's not about the magazine that I'm speaking. It's among the editors and the board that the chemistry was fine-tuned. Of course, we did have our share of brickbats thrown over each other and this part of the program was sponsored to you by the second years. Siddhrath balling Chetan - Chetan balling Sid in front of Shiva - Shiva revealing all this to me - I shutting my mouth as theres no use trying to pacify these guys - Well, some things never change. Somehow, the cribbing part of M'06 has taken it to a new level of understanding between the team members. About their abilities, I mean.

Pain - Nightouts have worked wonders this year. We had fun, we experienced the pain in sleepyheadedness (if that word ever exists). While some experienced the pain in missing their dearest moments of life, some experienced the pain in missing classes and attendance while some in missing their favourite food too. The whole thing of working together with your 100% in it, I could say, could be one of the reasons as to why M'06 is The celebrated issue so far. When it comes to getting it all together, you see the real pain. The names for the art pieces get mismatched and sometimes, we lose them too. Some highly-recommended-articles-by-staff from the students make their way directly into the magazine, without a coma being removed from the original article. But when the editors tried escorting them into the mag, they turned out to be entirely different ones. Sometimes, we felt the titles themselves be better changed. Getting it all done in a way we wished was one of the things that left us happy this year. Absolutely no issues from the staff and management. Hey... and dont forget to check out "Hit Parade".


End of it all, I thought when I was with only myself and when it flashed in my mind that I can never work for the magazine again... it felt 'Oh...Yes. Thats true. Never Again'. No more nightouts. No more class-bunks. No more printing press. No more late night chatting. No more photo sessions. No cribbing and no more confusion of selecting and rejecting articles. I'll miss it all. More than anything, I will miss my team. As Sid penned it down, M'06 is An Ode to Penmanship. But for me it could actually be An Ode to Friendship or An Ode to Companionship. That's an inner catchline for a few of us too - if you can call it so.

With all this and without any hesitation, I say Musings 2006 is the best issue till date. In our view, it's also the best a group of 6-7 can get in a period as short as 3 months!!

A bow to all the M'06 Team Members, Raji Reddy Sir, Vikhyat, Abhishek, Nayeem, Balraju and Kumar @ Karshak Printers and all those who were directly or indirectly involved in getting this thing out.

A special mention of Kalpana, Siddharth and Triveni is inevitable. Hey Sid, don't you think we've set that new "bar" which you were craving for ?

Thanks guys - We've finally done it!!


P.S: My sincere apology to Keerthi for mismatching her name in one of the art pieces. The second colour artwork under the name "Vishal - Third Year MMT" has actually been made by Keerthi. She's the same person who sketeched the 8th B/W art piece.