An Eventful Day

To start off the day, we were called by our major project guide Dr Subhash Yaragal to kick start our project which had been pending for like 4 months now. We just selected our topic last sem and we were to start work on that, but then due to some circumstances, we couldn't work on that topic. Hence, our prof decided to give us a topic something closer to what he had given for M.Tech batch working under him. He told us to cast 36 cubes as reference for the next 72 cubes that we would be preparing in the next 3-4 days, with varying compositions, depending on the cement and admixtures added. Since, there was no power in the morning, we had to shift the work to afternoon. After burning our ass for 2 hours, and getting all drenched in sweat and cement, we prepared 36 cubes and kept them in moulds, which were to be removed from there on the next day.

After doing some work, it was time to kick start our college's annual cultural festival INCIDENT '10 - The Golden Jubilee edition this time. It started off with the inauguration, which contained the normal boring speeches by chief guests, director, dean and Inci convenor Venu. This was followed by a performance by a group of mentally disabled children from Lion's Club Surathkal. After, this there a play of Aladin (this was just to keep the theme of this year's Inci - which was Arabian Nights). The play was brilliantly carried out, the casting was almost perfect, with Dave playing Aladin, Ridhi playing Jasmine, Kau playin Jaffar, Swati playin Jaffar's parrot, Taata playing Sultan, Bhowmik playing Genie(he was superb) and many others. There were these first year girls belle dancing, who were all way too hot. There were also many videos played during the inaugration, created by Media Committee convenors Poo and Prani, they've been uploaded in youtube.com/user/incident10. Do check them out, they deserve a special mention.

After the Inaug got over, there was an inaugural basket ball match between NITK A team and KMC Mangalore, which was won by NITK. Then, the eastern musicals Bandish started. There were 6 teams totally, 25 + 5 minutes for each team. The starting teams were bad. But, the competition picked up later. The first prize was won by Christ College and second went to NITK's own team. I had an awesome time, sitting right in front of speakers, and thumping along with them. So, this was the story of Inci Day 0. Got lots more to come, the next 4 days. Its Haute Couture - the Inci Fashion Show, but not so many teams coming this time - just 4 or 5 of them.

Btw, I forgot to mention that I'm in the Corporate Hospitality committee for INCI '10. We look after the corporate guests like Pro-nite performers, workshop guys and some judges.

When we were attending the Inaug, our director was the one who announced that Sachin scored 200 in the match against SA. I was totally surprised and shocked. My ears couldn't believe the news. I mean can a guy actually score a double century in ODI. But, if it had to come, it had to be from the maestro. He has all the records to his name now. Let's just wait and watch - Next is What!