Khalbali

Even our Director agrees : "aap logon ne khalbali macha di!! "
Enter  Rajasthan folk dancing gals of first year (the winning team) with "ara ra ra ra".
 "Sanskari laundez mundez" of final year ask Kasturba Bhavan & Mother Teresa Bhavan inmates to gear up for swayamwar and do special gigs on "Washing Powder Nirma" and "Saundarya Sabun Nirma" .
Audience enjoy SVNIT's very own Pyar Ka Punchnama , while Sallu bhai's fans do "Dhinka Chika".
My personal favorite is "Expressionless 2.0".
Sad there won't be further editions of that one. 
While Mech Dept dedicate yet another dance performance to the "gals of SVNIT" , final year guys(gals) dedicate "athran (18) baras ki kunwari kali thi" to all guys of SVNIT.
Duets are all like an artist's masterpieces, tough to judge.
My friend Shatabdi , along with 2nd year's GG (Garvit) win our hearts and the trophy. 
Many more performances thrill but will require an entire website , but for now signing off .

As it started, you wish there's no end to it...Sparsh2012

Day One(actually night one!) :


We welcome our alumni and main sponsor from Toyota. He relives his college days and happily notes the fact that girl students have increased in numbers. :)
Final year guys and girls enthrall us all with their "Sparsh hai" theme song .
Flute Gurukul present some of our loved bollywood numbers and I love flute!
I love mouth organ, trumpet and flute actually.
(I play none, and credit for my love for flute goes to Silk Route band's "dooba dooba rehta hoon" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWaNo3oVvAQ)
Frankie stall gets maximum crowd as girls and guys savor food with music.

Rishabh Srivastava --

Rishabh Srivastava  comes and entertains us all. He accepts all our song requests...I mean all those he could...:P
I in fact had the pleasure to witness his song rehearsals earlier too.
It is a treat to see all guys doing random dance moves and girls standing on their chairs and grooving to his tunes. 
Even the faculty relive their RD Burman days with "Gulabi aankhen jo teri dekhi" (smirk!).
Last me, Priya and Deepa go ahead to click some of his pictures and he dedicates a song for us "girls who are all so pretty". 
"Pretty Woman".


Ends with my playlist's most played "Summer of '69" and we can only hope for encore.

Under The Sun

Its 10 degrees in Surat and such chilled Saturdays in hostel can mean laze and lethargy. After a bread-butter breakfast and tasteless tea, I made Priya to come and sit with me on the swing in our hostel garden.



She was being pestered by some silly guy in her department and her inbox was getting littered with his pain-in-head messages as we sat on the swing. Newspaper had nothing new to offer as it had same old stories of elections, scams, Maldives and cricket. Of course there was this little snippet about Yuvraj Singh and his recovery .

News scanning was over soon . Then there was this BTS teacher of Priya's sitting on the nearby swing and my ears caught a few phrases of her phone call: "Shaadi k baad--I'm educated enough--Who says so--What is life without job----" . My ears rejected rest of it. My brain didn't want any more of it. Poor head is full of everything else, my day dreams, Vikram Seth's An Equal Music, our college fest, Priya's funky dresses for the Fashion Nite, who my co-anchor would be in the fest, MPI class test and PC quiz. That's more clutter in my head than in my room.

She starts clicking pictures . Her mobile camera is so good. Of course she would like a digi cam or a professional camera, HD and all. Sun has been warming me for an hour now. In-fact I remove my F1 jacket and enjoy the warmth. I join her in photographing our shadows. We laugh and we pose. I'm at peace now. 

surat no locho

After around an year and a half in Surat , finally ate locho. 


Its yellow, like most Gujarati snacks, was sprinkled with sev, again like many delicacies. Add to it raw chopped onions and green papaya chutney.
I really liked it, like all other Gujju dishes(apologies for being redundant , though).
Locho House is located just outside my college gate, though Riddhima (my Surti classmate) says the best locho is served near the Railway Station.  


The best thing about the Locho just outside our college gate is that they serve on paper plates and provide steel spoons. (Reminds me of family picnics on India Gate lawns where mom and aunts would bring casseroles full of yummy food and paper plates and plastic glasses and steel spoons and various service spoons and thermos filled with tea and 2 litre bottles of soft drinks) . Also,they have placed a dustbin nearby to avoid littering. Plus its just fifteen rupees and stomach full!  

this happens only (in india) with me!

...after kal ki dukh bhari daastaan ..... today seems to be like am back on track. Anchoring auditions made me happy. Every one who knows me.. that's a very few people ... knew i am capable of full on bakwaas.... and bad --bad (chatter). Those who don't know me were really impressed....or that's what i would like to believe. Abhinav too was really praises . I love that guy. I mean like he's complete LR (ladies representative) .... a guy who goes to saloon when baaki boys hostel goes to naai. Hahhaa... always makes fun of me.... that's why Priya  approves of him. Shaitaan she is. Mast she was in her yellow top yesterday, by the way. LR is apna shaayar, but aaj wo and CR (class rep) both found my audition like wow! WOW!! : D:D:D

And yeah... my strange title above is coz i'm capable of non-sensical chatter.....so please !

bereft of something

Being bereft of something, since last few days. Started a short story writing, it turned out to be cool . Really! It was satisfying till some point, then it felt like dragged. No, I didn't drag it any further, just that story didn't last long. Priya by the way was generous in comments and never hesitated to laugh. Gearing up for Anchoring auditions tomorrow. Really wanna make a mark. Anchoring is anyday my cup of tea and just don't wanna miss my chance to be on stage all the time. Priya says I will get selected easily. Abhinav didn't think so. Shashikant ke views  toh I just don't wanna know. My sem results aren't out as yet and mid sem exams of new sem are nearing too. Priya says I should try to be indiferent, though she knows its a tough job. Plus everyone else has already scored handsomely. HMC is irritating these days. Getting hungry all the time. Tears downpour more than often. Don't know what's really missing.

Plus Bombay visit is no where in near future though I'm dying to see my family. And yeah, have decided to shop to my heart's content so as to lighten my mood. And wanna score big time in this PC test.