Incident '10 Round Up

Well, after the fashion show night (which wasn't so great), I was a little busy with the project work in the morning and lots of events and other things during evening. The next night, it was time for some DJ show. We had Dual Drive (from Pune), DJ NYK (from Bombay) and Oliver Moldan (from Germany) to entertain the show. Dual Drive started off; they were just ok-ok, and no one had many expectations from them anyways. They were like the cover for Oliver Moldan. Then came our main man from Germany. I listened to him for sometime, but since I'm not that much into trance and house, I wasn't enjoying much. Just at that time I get a call from Nav, asking me to take this basketball guy who was a little injured to Padmavathi Hospital in Surathkal. So I picked up key from Preet, and me and Pups, along with that guy left. Since it wasn't a big injury, he was just given medication and left. We then dropped them off at the Hostel gate, and me and pups thought that we will go on some long drive. So, we decided on going to Bittu Da Dhaba, which is like 20 kms from the college. The roads were pretty empty, and only trucks were commuting. But, the worst part was these headlights of this car, they were very dim and if any light came from the opposite side, we were not able to see shit. Other than that, it was beautiful driving under a moon-lit sky. We had one starter and two masala papads at Bittu's and then headed back to college. After reaching college, DJ NYK had started playing. DJ NYK is a major bollywood mixer, he played all Hindi and some english mixes. His transition was bad, but his track selection was really nice. But, the best part was when our two professors - Dean of Student Affairs Prof. Lokesh and Dr. Dwarkish went onto stage and did the closing spin. This is one moment the whole college will remember and even the batches to come will cherish. So, this was the story of INCI day 2.

INCI day 3 was a Saturday, so I didn't have to worry about my project. So, we thought of going for adventure sports thingy which was brought to us by Axe Adventures, a company from Bangalore, which specializes in organizing adventure camps. The main events that they had were wall rappeling, river crossing, zip run, commando bridge and Zorbing. Other than wall rappeling, we got to do everything. River Crossing was not actually what it was here; here they had tied rope between two trees, but there was no river down, it was just land. They tried doing this thing in our swimming pool, but they didn't get permission, and so had to resort to this. It was pretty much fun. Then, we did the zip-run; here we had to slide down in rope from a higher level to a lower level. It was just ok-ok. Then, we went for Zorbing. Now, this was real fun. Zorb is an inflated huge ball, in which two guys can fit inside, and then they roll it. The guys inside are tied, with the help of belts. First two rounds, me and Prani were tied to the inner surface of the Zorb, but after that we thought we'll just get out of the ties, and we were rolling inside the Zorb, on top of each other, it was so much of fun. It was boiling hot inside, but the fun part made up for it.







After the adventuere sports, we headed off for lunch and then, went to check this place called Lounge, which had a PS3, an X-Box 360, 2 carrom boards, a TT table and many card games. We just chilled out over there for some time playing FIFA 10 and Mortal Kombat. Then, we headed off to SAC to check the stage being set for Motherjane and Led Zepplica, who were performing that night. It was something to be seen - gigantic speakers installed on temporary scaffolding sort of thing and more than 20 halogen lights, all in sync with the music, with the guy controlling them.












The main event started pretty late at night, at around 10 or so. Simultaneously, basketball matches were also held during this time. Semifinals were going on, NITK lost out to St. Joseph's College of Engg, by just 2 points. After both the semi-finals were over, Motherjane entered, and believe me, theirs was one of the best entries I've seen. It started off with their song 'Chasing the Sun', it was like shehnai's playing from all around. I pretty much enjoyed their performance, since I knew some songs, thanks to Gogo, who is a freak of Indian Rock Bands. He was the one who suggested me some rock and fusion bands, and gave me his collection. I loved their songs - Chasing the sun, Maktub, Mindstreet(my most fav),Before 1 Million(which Motherjane dedicated to Sachin on his double hundred) and some others. The vocalists and other band members took a break in between, when their lead guitarist Baiju decided to take the centrestage, and he put on a stunning show. He played guitar for like 5-10 mins, in between he played a rock sort of version of Saare Jahan Se Acha, which was brilliant. After that, Led Zepplica entered, and stole the show. For those who don't know, Led Zepplica is the official tribute band of Led Zeppelin, and are really famous all around the world. They've performed in IIT-Kharagpur once before. Well, I didn't enjoy much of their performance, probably because I am not much into Led Zeppelin. I just know two songs of theirs - Stairway to heaven and Kashmir. Both these songs were brilliantly performed by Led Zepplica. Apart from that, their drummer was insane. His performance was killer. Also, there was one another incident which took place during their performance, which I don't wanna discuss here.

Then came the last and final day of our Final Inci. I got up late yet again, went to SS directly for lunch, and then chilled out for sometime in Lounge, and then went for Promenade - the solo and group dance competition. There were totally 40 teams, and it would take at least around 5 hours to finish all of them. We were just waiting for our guys performance, but it was delayed so much that, we ended up sitting 2 hours before their actual performance. It would be fine sitting through them if it was for any normal dances, but most of them were all mythological, based on some Hindu Gods and all. So, it kept getting on my nerves later. Of course, there were good free-style ones also in between. But, they were very few. Then, finally came some performances from our college - one another group of final years were doing this bhangra number(who supposedly won 2nd prize), which was pretty good, and the second one was our guys - Dave, Poo, Akshit , Jag, Shwetha, Swati, Aarushi and Avanti. Their performance was pretty good, but could have been better. It ended pretty abruptly. After that, it was time for the last Pro-nite, by KK.

Just when KK was entering, we tried a lot to go backstage and meet him. But it wasn't possible, since there was tight security(that too from the students itself) all over the place. So, we chucked that, and went and sat right in front, where KK was performing. This was as good as meeting him. The crowd was crazy, everyone went mad. This was the first time I saw SAC jam packed. People were actually complaining of suffocation problems. Well, anyways, we were right in front, so we didn't have any issues. He started off with Bas Ek Pal, and then went on to songs like MP3, Alvida, O humdum suniyo re and many more, before he took a short break. In this break, he along with his band members, was felicitated by the college. He did repeat some songs, which he had already sung 2 years back when he came to college. But, they were still good. So, it didn't matter. The thing which I liked a lot about the show was the work by Light and Sound Dept., they put on a superb show. The lights were psychedelic. After the break, he started off with an unplugged version of Tadap tadap, which was beautiful. He sang many more songs, and we were singing all the songs along with him. Looked like the whole crowd was prepared with all his songs. I bet no one would be this prepared even for an end-semester examination. Before he could end, we went on to try our luck again to meet him. But, we were unsuccessful yet again. Even before his band members could finish playing, he left the stage and took an Innova immediately, whereas we thought that he'd still be in the backstage. But, anyways, we had a good time, enjoyed our balls off. Thus, the final Incident comes to an end and some memories which i would cherish all my life. I am pretty sure I won't have these kind of moments anytime in my life again. Before I end this post, I'll leave you with some more photos of KK concert.

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!

Musical Nite - Well, not so musical

Today, there was a Musical Nite, organized by the Music Club of the college. We've something like this every semester, or sometimes every other month. But, as compared to the other ones, this one was not so great. Except for a brilliant instrumental, 'Toss the feathers', by The Corrs, the rest all just seemed pretty average. In that instrumental, the fusion of flute and violin was just brilliant, it sounded as close as the original. Apart from these, there were a couple of good performances. Srilekha sang pretty well in Sakhi Re (the tamil version of Saathiya title song) and in another classical fusion. But otherwise, it was a dull evening. There was one funny incident though. While they were performing Dhan Te Nan, one guy just got up from the crowd and started dancing right in front of the stage. He was doing all this, when there were director and registrar of college sitting among the audience. Then DD, Reddy and Somu had to go and pull him out from there. It was funny to see his face, after he was brought, he was completely freaked out. Guess he didn't know that faculty also comes to watch these kind of events.

Apart from this, there was even a performance by my roomie Basu, who sang Zoobi Doobi, along with this female called Naina. Initially itself he wasn't so happy with the song, because the scale had been reduced to -2 from the original one, as Naina was unable to reach to the original scale, and because of this the whole song seemed like a loree, was not happening at all.

From the placement news, Nokia had come today, Slog got placed in it. So again a booze party in the block tonight. And the placed guys are level now, both in the C and D wing of 2nd floor MH, DASA wings to be precise.

Rest, later.