May 27, 2007

"Year-end review" Part three

(continued from last post)

Flash 37:

Delhi Railway Station. Waiting room. Shruti. Divya. “Accha tell me! Who are your crushes in BITS?”

Flash 38:

Home sweet home. Talking to mummy. “Mummy… I don’t think I want to sit for IIT entrance again.”

Flash 39:

Rajdhani Express. Vaibhav. Shashank. Shushant! Nikhil!! The fat lady!!!

Flash 40:

5103. “First Blood!” “Hello everybody. Welcome to this quiz…” “Yes, welcome everyone to this general quiz organized totally by us…” “Yes! All first yearites!”

Flash 41:

150 Gandhi. Working with Rwitajit on a movie for Founders Day. “Tell me will this look better… or… lets look at this… hmm… what about this?” “Just increase the time a bit and pull it down… ya that should do….”

Flash 42:

Around 2 o’ clock at night. Gandhi Bhawan. Rwitajit. “What? You didn’t even bring a jacket along with you? How will you go back?” “OK. Take this shawl.”

Flash 43:

Room. SMS. “Dude the computer we were working on got formatted accidently! We have to start most of it from scratch…”

Flash 44:

150 Gandhi. Working on the movie. Reminder Alert. “EPC written test 1500 hrs”. “Hmm… Guss! Will think about it later!” Ramya’s missed calls. “Rajat if you want to go then go for it.”

Flash 45:

FD1. EPC written test. Half and hour late… Coming out. Fifteen minutes before time!

Flash 46:

151 Ram! Saurya’s Room! “DUDE! You are in EPC!”

Flash 47:

Ganga. 2230 hrs… Gandhi. Rishabh. Me. 5 degrees above zero! Hot parathas! Curd! Butter! Mango pickle!

Flash 48:

Vernon’s room. “Hey, this is very well written!” “Thanks” “No! Thanks for the article! It’s going to be there!”

Flash 49:

Outside Ram Bhawan. Saurya. Shuchi. “Hey! I attended a CEL meeting today! It was one of the most interesting things that I have been to recently...! What happened? This guy wants to sort out all my stuff! Please! It’s impossible! Don’t even try. I have to sort out things myself. Are you still angry? Tell me… Bah! Fine! Tell me when you want to.”

Flash 50:

5104. Samay. Stueti Gupta. Others. People, this is going to be one of the biggest conferences that BITS is going to host. We can’t afford to make any mistake!

Flash 51:

5104. Clapping! Inauguration of EMTM2N (International Conference on Emerging Mechanical Technology – Macro to Nano). The BITSIMO enters the room with candles as it is carefully steered inside using remote controls!

Flash 52:

Library. We are the guides today! And the visitors are students, professors and scientists from all over the world! “Sir, this section has a rare collection of history book which date back to many centuries…”

Flash 53:

CRIS Lab. “Jaideep, I used the speech kit and I think I have figured out a way to make the software recognize the voice command and generate a signal. I just want to test if the parallel port thing is working fine.”

Flash 54:

The TBI rooms. Jaideep’s chamber. Testing the Appliance control application on the computer using LEDs. It works! “Rajat… Brilliant! You have made it work! This is our first working model for APOGEE! You know we can do so many things! The entire smart home project… I think we should package it. And with the ideas we have we will be able to sell our package at much cheaper rates. I know a guy in Jaipur who…”

Flash 55:

Auditorium. Sangamam. Day 1. Vocal concert. Recording the concert with Rwitajit.

Flash 56:

Auditorium. Sangamam. Day 2. Jugalbandi. “Wow! The flutist is brilliant!” I am sitting some 10 rows from front. With Chinmay now. Rishabh, Saurya and Shuchi in the lights booth. But I like it over here. I want to enjoy the performance alone!

Flash 57:

Auditorium. Sangamam. Day 3. Dance! The dance tells a story… it is so wonderful. Sap. “Hey! You are sitting alone? None of your girlfriends came with you today?”

(to be continued)