random thoughts...

been so long!

i guess more than a month!
anyway, the reason for my long absence was the absolute lack of stuff to do... add to that the aversion i developed for writing after making innumerable press releases for IRIS...
IRIS was great fun though.. reminded me of malhar. of course, malhar being malhar and xaviers being in mumbai, the scale was much larger (though i never understood why over 20,000 seemingly normal people waited in looooonnnnngggg queues outside xaviers for approximately 3 hours of being pushed and shoved around and ultimately asked to leave by the 'crowd control' dept..... makes no sense at all! - of course, helped malhar rake in tons of revenue!) again, people used to die to participate in the events and the prizes used to be measley crap like a car freshener (yes.. they gave a car freshener once for some event!)
anyway, here the deal is a bit different.. the participants live on campus - and in my room (i was conveniently thrown out of my own room after being made to clean it.... of course i was the one who volunteered :) and the prize money is..... whoa!!...... i mean the flagship event ashwamedh itself comes with a cool Rs. 1 lakh... and even the smaller spot events have cash prizes of around 5-10000 bucks... the events themselves are rather cool.... designed pretty well..
ill stop this now or one might think this is just one more 'plug'

posted by deepti @ 10:46 pm