Hay and Sunshine
Friday, July 16, 2010
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Make hay while the sun shines. Extract the spirit of this saying and one can come up with one's own flavors of it. For instance - 'Cheat in the quiz while the professor is not looking your way'. Though these days you can do better than just make hay in sun and use sunshine to produce what is called clean energy. Last week we performed the rites and rituals which are preconditions for entering a new term.
We had a term-2 kick-off bash. You must be wondering what term kick-off bash has got to do with hay and sun shine. If you are looking for a direct relation, there is none. If you are looking for an indirect relation, there are all the chances of there never being any chances. However, now that I have used it I have to somehow justify it.... let's see... how about -'Celebrate the start of new term while the marks of previous term are not out yet'. There seems to be some disconnect but I think I would leave the pain of living with it to my readers than to take it upon myself to make it more connected.
The bash was inaugurated with treasure hunt. The hunters went around rummaging through water tank to shrubs around the hostel in search of the treasure. This was followed by karaoke and Ad Mad. Thinking this was the moment they had been born for, the besuras like Dushyant (alias topper), Santosh (alias Jordan), Mehul (alias Professor) and many more jumped at the opportunity of karaoke. Ankur also didn't let the chance go by without showing off his tun-tuna (guitar) and singing skills.Ad Mad saw Vamsi, Sanjeev, Preeti, Sandeep, Parul and Abhishek selling basic commodities/services such as air, railway platform and taxi service from Noida to Delhi via USA. It's not for nothing that one popular expansion of MBA is 'Maal Bechke Aa'. People did get creative and almost sold air and railway platform to us.
Everybody here is an MBA student but some of us have got more of what it takes to be an MBA. For the first time in the history of history and the geography of geography, a quiz competition was conducted to choose ‘The One’. Kaun Banega MBA. To give you a feel of formidability of the challenge, here is a sample question for you-
What is a balance sheet?
a) Something that is always in a state of imbalance
b) Something that throws your mind off balance
c) Something that you can’t balance even with both hands
d) All of the above
Notwithstanding the toughness of quiz, it was made even more strenuous by the serious prize money involved in the game. A sum total of Rs 10 for first correct answer, Rs 50 for second correct answer and grand sum of full 100 Rs for third correct answer is big enough to make anybody lose his poise. Santosh and Neha played well but failed to win any amount. The event reached its culmination with Sachin being the lucky winner who took home a 10 rupee note.
That’s all for this post. Will be back soon with another inside story from IPMX batch. Till then… ciao.
-Manish K
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