The last two days at iit kgp

The first day showed the trailer of what was in the store for us for the next two days. The nite on the first day was peaceful only after i packed myself tightly inside the blanket...b4 that just cud not figure out what was happening...the mosquitoes were constantly buzzing in the ears..and now ghus ke dikha do blanket me..finally woke up quite early arnd 8 only to find that still there was no water.sumit and i had already chosen the latter option of vikramshila..2km away...situation in the flat had gone from bad to worse..ab to gaane se bhi kaam nhi hone wala tha...but as i went into the garden i saw people using water pretty abundantly...on investigating found that they were using the water from the neighbour's tap through the big hole in the broken wall..terrific jugad..the neighbours had already locked their flat and went away..they were some locals only...i also followed suit...after getting ready at the flat, sumit and i moved to vikramshila...in an hour there was to be a lecture from Wing Cmdr. (retd.) Rakesh Sharma-first Indian to go to space- at the kalidas audi just nearby.but the line was just too long...i saw such a long line b4 the ration shop of the harkat bania in hindi movies..the audi was full in no time and ppl had to leave dejected..HOUSEFULL...to fill an audi of 50 seats here is a mammoth task...the seniors have to force the fuchhas to sit in the audi or face consequences but there the audi of arnd 300 seats was full in no time...that also without any force...this was all the while we were looking from a distance...we also wanted to be in the audi par abhi to brkfast karna baaki tha..so what if the options were very limited.

After attending the last half hour of the lecture,the whole day was pretty boring...there were not many events to particpate in...but the evenings were all set for some fun..the lecture by Mr.Alyque Padamsee: India's leading advertisement guru was very hilarious..though the students there were very peaceful with only some rare in between hooting...the maximum came when an ad of KS condoms was being shown-the ad was thought of by the guru...and people demanding to be shown once more...He showed the importance of the IDEAS and how do they change the world thru some examples...the lecture was followed by a mesmerising sand animation show by Mr.David Myriam....and followed by the whole nite awakening for the programming finals...we had to sleep hungry that nite or rather the next morning...we slept at 5 and woke at 7 when the acco guys started collecting the mattresses and blankets provided.

We got ready by the time the open software event had to start.our software was one of the 25 entries selected for the final round...we made it to top 5 though we cud not finish in the top 3.i had planned to leave kgp in the afternoon but had to miss 2 trains due to the long line b4 the finance tent for the reimbursement.The kgpians openly smoke sutta in the campus, the missing beer bottles were the only consolation.After standing in the queque for 2 hrs, we finally managed to complete the formalities..prepared to leave for puri via bhubaneshwar.Bus was to be provided for ferrying the participants to the station..but later.. "due to some technical problem the bus facility has been withdrawn, particpants are reqd to make their arrangements on their own" announced the loudspeaker just when the passengers started fuming while waiting for more than half an hour for the bus....adding to the frustation were the rickshaw guys who added the nite charges to the already hefty fare to the station...some students got along with us to bhubaneshwar and then began the trip to bhubaneshwar...in the next post...