SAARANG...

So yet another uneventful Saarang passes by - the usual suspects thulping maajarly , some new talented freshies being discovered, the Peter gumbal from the freshies ready with the informals vol- informals coord- spons/PR coord- PR core, and lazybums like me who have resigned themselves to "Saarang is not for me". Overheard some guy "Macha these quizzes and word games are a pain in the a** da. Anyway we can't win here, let us go to other college fests and crack puts". Totally agree with this. If you haven't understood it yet all this is a euphemism for "I am way below Saarang standards". There is a slight tinge of regret on not being able to participate in other ways like managing something or becoming coords, but by and large I don't even have the enthu to do something like that now (also I am over aged you see) , so in all probability I will be going home next year, if I get placed by then.

Saw the artists for the pro-show and I could think of only one thing, the two golden words of IITM lingo - Pack daa. Thanks to the herd mentality found myself attending Sukhwinder Singh's "unprofessional show". It was horrible,surely the worst in my 4 years. Junta came up with many wisecracks - Suckwinder singh, Dukhwinder singh ( dukh = sad), Thookwinder singh (thook = spit ) and the best Fu**winder singh. Kambakht Ishq was the best of the lot, Ramta jogi, O saki saki rey,Omkara, Bunty aur Babli were ok types. Some memorable quotes -

1) Put the light on the backside please. I want to see the audience.

2) Where you want me to come ( steps down and is with the crowd now). Please give me side.

3) Calls a female onto the stage . She breaks into an impromptu dance with our hero. Our hero insists " We are only acting. We are brother-sister. We are friend"

4) This takes the cake. For the last song of the night, which obviously had to be Chayya Chayya our guy says " Now I want small childs to dance with me".

Some other things which enlivened my drooping spirits were the awesome babes and the cricket match. Total eye-candy only, and unlike my previous post I do have good adjectives ;) . The experience at Chepauk was very good. We painted our faces , bought a couple of pee pees (It makes that sound) , bought a flag , band and drowned ourselves in saffron , bearing a striking similarity to RSS/VHP activists. Sachin was practicing near our stand before the start of the match and I just couldn't think of a better start. Saw three of the all time greats - Lara, Sachin and Dravid smash 50's and also saw Sachin in flesh and bones near our stand (Royal Sundaram B stand) and I couldn't ask for more. Lara simply rocked and the field placements sucked. I always maintain that and continue to do so - Dravid's field placing has never been good.There was a huge roar when Sachin was near us and the poor guy was pained because India was losing and the junta there were fully cheering Sachin. An Indian win would have been the icing on the cake. Nevertheless a very gratifying experience.

There are a couple of weddings in Chennai, my Dad and most of my close relatives from Hyd are here. Thanks to a severe bout of cold, cough, sore throat and what not, I haven't been able to attend the Monday one and don't think I will be attending today's either. I was looking forward to attending these , but luck decided otherwise. Surely missed out on a 2nd innings of eye-candy and good food. It's back to classes and the usual routine after a 6 day layoff.