Last few days, I've experienced a flurry of emotions - joy, happiness, anger, irritation, confusion, betrayal, mistrust, humiliation, trust...
I was 'happy' even though I was still 'confused'!
I was 'angry' because I was 'betrayed'.
I was 'sad' because I was 'mistrusted"
I was 'upset' because I was 'humiliated'
I was 'irritated' because I was 'misunderstood'
I was 'overjoyed' because of the trust and faith someone had reposed in me!
I was 'homesick'! and this needs no reason!
I was 'scared' because I was unprepared!
I was 'confused' because I didn't know where I was going! or whether whether where I was going was where I really wanted to go!
And, I was tired because all of this had me emotionally drained!
And yet... the emotional joyride was fun!! just like any other joyride, it had its share of ups and downs, but it was fun on the whole! :)
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
SYMBI OLYMPICS 2010 – ‘JO JEETA WOHI SIKANDAR” :)
Before I begin writing about Symbi Olympics this year, a bit of trivia that must be known. SIU campus at Hinjewadi is home to 3 premier B-schools in the country – SIIB, SCMHRD and SCIT. And though we belong to the same Symbi family, the sibling rivalry (if it can be so called), cannot be missed! You sense it the moment you set your foot on the campus – the competition and the arch rivalry is all pervasive. Symbi Olympics is an inter college sports fest at SIU where the 3 institutes fight it out for the championship!
Symbi Olympics 2010, like every year, had all the ingredients of a bollywood chak de or Jo Jeeta wahi Sikandar! There was lots of drama, the underdogs, the snooty past champions, the crazy audience, the cheer leaders, the ‘jeer’ leaders, the fights, tears, smiles, victory, defeat, smiles, hugs, the drums, the camera men and the self designated media team!
It was the cricket match that brought out the devils in us to the fore! The on-field drama – “be it HRD’s win”, or “Arjun’s love story ( a concocted one though)” or “IT’s loss”, “Rahul’s luckless over”, “Himanshu’s finger pointing”, “Saurabh’s power play”, “the drum beating supporters”, “the sledging”, “the fight between the warring teams that almost broke out!” – it was all there!
However, IB and IT were determined more than ever to avenge their loss in cricket (which to HRD’s dismay, this year was their sole victory!). SCIT won the volleyball match. The best from the rival team weren’t good enough for the Bhattars and the Rahuls from IT. IB won the basketball match comfortably! Vignesh, Sonal were stars overnight! Football stayed with IB too. And the Baichung Bhutias of SIIB – Rome, Sanjay and Okit were the ones who ensured this! Table Tennis was a clean sweep by IB – be it the singles, the doubles or the mixed doubles!
And of course, the much awaited girls’ throwball match belonged to IB too! The girls match made sure that all the guys on the campus played the Roadside Romeos to the hilt. The referee “Sanjay Sharma” had to be eventually dethroned for not watching the game closely and concentrating elsewhere! I am sure I needn’t explain where! Back to the game now. Nine points down and a single point lost meant game over for IB! But then the girls rose like a phoenix from the ashes and won 10 straight points and brought the cup home.
SIIB are the Symbi Olympics Champs 2010, something that the “others” will have to live with! Well, I couldn’t wind this one up without mentioning the “Key Attractions” @ Symbi Olympics 2010:
Arjun’s “inspirational” love story definitely tops the list!
Viggy’s “I know we’ll win anyway” attitude!
Sonal’s 3 pointers.
Mudit’s on field antics (no one can beat this! )
Pallav’s composed knock
Himanshu’s finger pointing!
Rome and Okit effortlessly demolishing their rivals!
Pallav’s dominance at TT
Sanjay’s heroics (on the field – Football, volleyball and the already mentioned girls throwball match! And off the field – love hua!! He he! Yeah Arjun, his love story deserves a mention too!)
And of course, maximum amount of cheering for the star player “Arjun” irrespective of whether he was on the field or off the field!
And last but not the least, the awesome (as awesome as Barney Stinson who has btw redefined the word awesome! ) SIIB supporters!
SIIB – you truly rocked guys! Coz you just didn’t win the championship, you won our hearts too! Love you guys! Am sure Symbi Olympics would never be the same without you!
Symbi Olympics 2010, like every year, had all the ingredients of a bollywood chak de or Jo Jeeta wahi Sikandar! There was lots of drama, the underdogs, the snooty past champions, the crazy audience, the cheer leaders, the ‘jeer’ leaders, the fights, tears, smiles, victory, defeat, smiles, hugs, the drums, the camera men and the self designated media team!
It was the cricket match that brought out the devils in us to the fore! The on-field drama – “be it HRD’s win”, or “Arjun’s love story ( a concocted one though)” or “IT’s loss”, “Rahul’s luckless over”, “Himanshu’s finger pointing”, “Saurabh’s power play”, “the drum beating supporters”, “the sledging”, “the fight between the warring teams that almost broke out!” – it was all there!
However, IB and IT were determined more than ever to avenge their loss in cricket (which to HRD’s dismay, this year was their sole victory!). SCIT won the volleyball match. The best from the rival team weren’t good enough for the Bhattars and the Rahuls from IT. IB won the basketball match comfortably! Vignesh, Sonal were stars overnight! Football stayed with IB too. And the Baichung Bhutias of SIIB – Rome, Sanjay and Okit were the ones who ensured this! Table Tennis was a clean sweep by IB – be it the singles, the doubles or the mixed doubles!
And of course, the much awaited girls’ throwball match belonged to IB too! The girls match made sure that all the guys on the campus played the Roadside Romeos to the hilt. The referee “Sanjay Sharma” had to be eventually dethroned for not watching the game closely and concentrating elsewhere! I am sure I needn’t explain where! Back to the game now. Nine points down and a single point lost meant game over for IB! But then the girls rose like a phoenix from the ashes and won 10 straight points and brought the cup home.
SIIB are the Symbi Olympics Champs 2010, something that the “others” will have to live with! Well, I couldn’t wind this one up without mentioning the “Key Attractions” @ Symbi Olympics 2010:
Arjun’s “inspirational” love story definitely tops the list!
Viggy’s “I know we’ll win anyway” attitude!
Sonal’s 3 pointers.
Mudit’s on field antics (no one can beat this! )
Pallav’s composed knock
Himanshu’s finger pointing!
Rome and Okit effortlessly demolishing their rivals!
Pallav’s dominance at TT
Sanjay’s heroics (on the field – Football, volleyball and the already mentioned girls throwball match! And off the field – love hua!! He he! Yeah Arjun, his love story deserves a mention too!)
And of course, maximum amount of cheering for the star player “Arjun” irrespective of whether he was on the field or off the field!
And last but not the least, the awesome (as awesome as Barney Stinson who has btw redefined the word awesome! ) SIIB supporters!
SIIB – you truly rocked guys! Coz you just didn’t win the championship, you won our hearts too! Love you guys! Am sure Symbi Olympics would never be the same without you!
Where have I been!!
Well, I’ve been away from the blogging circuit for quite some time! Don’t know whether I was missed!
Well the reason I was away might sound weird and strange to a few.. and yet a few may identify with it too!
College days are coming to an end! And life’s never going to be the same again! Thankfully, most of my friends are placed and hence, we decided that we’d spend every single minute that we possibly can – Together! – doing and bettering things we’ve done in the last one and a half years –
Idle strolls around the college,
Chai at tapri,
Finding out new places to eat out at (be it a new restaurant or the latest tapri to join the already existing clutter),
Finally executing all the trips we had meticulously planned out over the months and for some reason, they never happened…
Then of course, there was Symbi Olympics…
The new year's eve…
Lohri celebrations...
V-Day,
Holi…
And what not…
And when we didn’t have any reason to celebrate, we were looking for reasons to and that took quite sometime too!
And yet, when we still found no reason, that was a reason good enough too – running out of reasons!!
The last few months I’ve seen how the groups have considerably dissolved (down with Groupism!!), how some of us are really eager to get back to the corporate world and yet how a lot of us are dreading that! Most people’s status messages read – “the best days of my life coming to an end!” or “I’ll miss u guys!!” and so on! People are uploading pics on various networking sites about “life @ Symbi” and the likes… Suddenly, no one wants to bunk classes because we aren’t sure when again in life will we experience the joy of sitting in a class – passing messages, kicking someone’s shoes around the class, kicking a friend’s chair while he/she pretends to be attentive, tickling someone, pulling someone’s hair, scribbling love notes (class notes are passé!!), looking at the clock every 5 minutes wondering when the lecture will get over, sleeping with our eyes open (the art we’ve so mastered!) or just stealing glances at our secret crush!
All this and soooo much more is what kept me busy the last few months! Hope, I’m excused for my inexcusable absence!
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