unmaad
This weekend was a welcome reprieve from the dull weekends that I've got used to. Went over to IIMB for Unmaad. The highlight was of course the Jethro Tull concert on Friday. Ian Anderson and co really rocked the stage. Surprising how a 57 (or so I think) year-old could be so energetic on stage. The highlight in my opinion were the songs Thick as a brick and Budapest. 600 bucks well spentI'd say (especially since they gave a free collector's edition of Aqualung, supposedly worth Rs 500 absolutely free).
The next day, attended a few lit events. I was pretty sorry to learn that the dramatics competition had taken place the previous morning. Was pretty eager tp see how my juniors would fare there. Learnt that they had absolutely rocked the show with a powerful albeit abridged version of Arthur Miller's 'All My Son's'. Would have loved to see Alfi play George, the role that I had played when we enacted the same play at college. Another surprise in the waiting was seeing PGK. Hadn't expected him to turn up, considering that he's got his hands pretty full with ET et al. But then it was a great reunion for UPS (a name that I wasn't really fond of by the way, sorry Sanat) But then we failed to click, all of us pretty rusty where DumbC was concerned. The junior Balls guys however were having a ball of a time. After a great display at Saarang they were in pretty good form.
The quiz too went pretty bad for us. There were the usual quizzing gods who managed scores like 27/35 when we managed a meagre 15. The final wasn't all that great and for the first time in my life I actually walked out midway through a quiz. That evening they had the Jal and shivamani concert. I hadn't heard either of them before, but since Thakur very kindly procured a free pass for me I had nothing to lose and decided to give it a try. Good decision. Jal weren't all that great, but then then I got to listen to some Hindi rock for the first time. Shivamani on his part was absolutely brilliant on the drums, pads, pans, pots and whatever other equipment he had in his stock. A non-stop 45 minutes of 'percussionnal' prowess was followed by a jamming session with Jal which came out really good.
The next day we were up a little too late for PicC. But then we (Sanat,Bedu and me) qualified for the Tinto finals. The day was mostly spent loafing around, but the best part of this time was spent on the OAT lawn, where Kutty introduced us to the game of Mafia. The fun part was Thakur getting killed every round and Abesh promising to give up fags and allowing anyone the opportunity to kick him 20000 times on the balls (OUCH!)
However, the best part of the day was coming second in a Tinto, which unfortunately was a pretty drab event. The event was a clean sweep by NITT (considering that we took part as an NITT team). Nevertheless that was 1400 bucks in the kitty and a certificate to our names. Well...we were totally pooped out by then and decided to call it a day and return home.
On the whole a very refreshing weekend. It was more like a return to college for those two days.
The next day, attended a few lit events. I was pretty sorry to learn that the dramatics competition had taken place the previous morning. Was pretty eager tp see how my juniors would fare there. Learnt that they had absolutely rocked the show with a powerful albeit abridged version of Arthur Miller's 'All My Son's'. Would have loved to see Alfi play George, the role that I had played when we enacted the same play at college. Another surprise in the waiting was seeing PGK. Hadn't expected him to turn up, considering that he's got his hands pretty full with ET et al. But then it was a great reunion for UPS (a name that I wasn't really fond of by the way, sorry Sanat) But then we failed to click, all of us pretty rusty where DumbC was concerned. The junior Balls guys however were having a ball of a time. After a great display at Saarang they were in pretty good form.
The quiz too went pretty bad for us. There were the usual quizzing gods who managed scores like 27/35 when we managed a meagre 15. The final wasn't all that great and for the first time in my life I actually walked out midway through a quiz. That evening they had the Jal and shivamani concert. I hadn't heard either of them before, but since Thakur very kindly procured a free pass for me I had nothing to lose and decided to give it a try. Good decision. Jal weren't all that great, but then then I got to listen to some Hindi rock for the first time. Shivamani on his part was absolutely brilliant on the drums, pads, pans, pots and whatever other equipment he had in his stock. A non-stop 45 minutes of 'percussionnal' prowess was followed by a jamming session with Jal which came out really good.
The next day we were up a little too late for PicC. But then we (Sanat,Bedu and me) qualified for the Tinto finals. The day was mostly spent loafing around, but the best part of this time was spent on the OAT lawn, where Kutty introduced us to the game of Mafia. The fun part was Thakur getting killed every round and Abesh promising to give up fags and allowing anyone the opportunity to kick him 20000 times on the balls (OUCH!)
However, the best part of the day was coming second in a Tinto, which unfortunately was a pretty drab event. The event was a clean sweep by NITT (considering that we took part as an NITT team). Nevertheless that was 1400 bucks in the kitty and a certificate to our names. Well...we were totally pooped out by then and decided to call it a day and return home.
On the whole a very refreshing weekend. It was more like a return to college for those two days.
posted by Raj at 7:48 AM
1 Comments:
Whaddya mean "a name I wasn't really fond of"?? What would you rather we be called?? :)
Oh, ET work was hardly taxing at that time. It was Evam who was really after my a**. And yeah, I know I should have spent more time with you folks - planning to make another trip to bangy soon, exclusively to meet Abesh, and hopefully spend the night at his place :)
The Wilde One
Post a Comment
<< Home