THE NIT ANECDOTE

This is a three part tale of the Trip to Trichy from the Lone Ranger ( you will understand why I call myself so, in the story itself!). Happy reading!

Part I- A Storm is Coming!

How does one describe a whirlwind, the very essence of it, in lucid diction? This very question arose in my mind when I sat down to “MSWord” down the trip to Trichy. Hence, realising the frailty of such a task, I would merely give a chronological account of the events, both official and covert! As for the “essence”, I leave it to the reader to interpret from my narrative.

The start of it all could have been much more auspicious for me. In fact, disastrous is not very far from being apt a word for the situation I found myself in. What happened was, the six member strong contingent from my fine arts club, which was supposed to have caused havoc in all the arts events, didn’t turn up. This was due to various misfortunes which befell them, ranging from lab exams, reviews, the wrath of stringent deans to even amnesia! Anyways, I found myself all alone aboard the bus to NIT-T, picking up the pieces of my already doomed campaign.

But before I brood about myself I must introduce the “others”. There was the Dramatics team, members of whom I knew quite well, and who were quite sympathetic to my situation. Then there were ELA, DebSoc; a few new faces there (but significant characters in the proceedings later!), The Dance Club- I knew them too; at least the guys, and finally the all conquering HLA (a weird group that one is!).

So here goes!

The journey to Trichy was a ball. A game of “Taboo” was followed by the following!

- Dancing

- Smoking at the back, with deo to suppress the smell!

- More dancing- this time Omkar leading the pack!

- More smoking and deo

- Wingston is found reading a book on Google! An unanimous decision is taken to tease him about this throughout the trip!

- Girls find, a sudden change in “orientation”, intriguing!( Oneesha,Afreen and Shilpa were especially keen!) Us guys don’t know what to say!

- A catfight! Oneesha and Abhyaa have a go at it with Tommy up for grabs!

- More smoking. The brand new SetWet is half empty by now!

- Dinner

- Joint rolling!!!!

- Dancing with a full stomach – I almost puke this time!

- Winston makes a last ditch effort and finally gives up on Google!

- Photo session- we all looked demented in them!

- Dancing carries on- The girls make me dance to Pappu! The idiots Shantanu, Dugar and Omkar just look on!

- I hoist the white flag and succumb in my seat- the rest party on!

I get woken up by Shantanu ( I think) informing that we have reached NIT-T. I look outside and find streams of coloured bulbs adorning the Adm. Bldg. and a few sleepy co-ords. of NIT greeting us in through the main gate. The time, I believe is 1:30 in the morning.

Well……Let the Games Begin!

-End of part 1-