In the morning, we reached Dadar, where buses were waiting for us and we returned to the campus. We made plans to see “The Day the Earth Stood Still” and fo for lunch but sab ditch ho gaya. :( Around 1:30 we went to Mocha’s for lunch : The final event of Inter IIT.. :(
THIS MARKS THE END OF ONE OF THE MOST ENJOYABLE, MOST MEMORABLE & MOST PRECIOUS TIME OF MY LIFE. INTER IIT IS NOT JUST ABOUT BADMINTON OR WINNING THE GOLD OR GETTING THE GC, ITS SO MUCH MORE ABOUT SPENDING INFI TIME TOGETHER WITH BADDY TEAM MATES AND HAVING THE TIME OF OUR LIVES!!!!
From Getting Studd wali Tshirts printed to having MP 99 to play with,
From Sharada’s RATINGS to Mittal’s Raunapa!
From Studd’s infi Laziness to Chhuunn’s infi Hunger!
From Bizza’s stories about Girls to RANDOM CRAP from Coach
(Not to mention unravelling Sukhada’s BIG SECRET :P)!! (@Coach, Sukhada : sorry abt tht :P)
Inter IIT was everything it promised to be…
IT SIMPLY ROCKS!!
18/12/2008
I got up at 3:30. I was running very late. I had not even started packing and the whole room was a complete mess. Somehow managed to get everything done within an hour and got in the bus. Everyone looked gloomy in the bus, complete contrast to the expressions when we were coing. That time seeed sooo far away: The time when we reached Dadar; the time we were leaving from Bombay. It was soo sad going back. Kunal kept repeating “Ab to Inter IIT khatam ho gaya. Oh Fuck! Inter IIT khatam ho gaya”!
Anyways, the bus left around 5:30 AM and we reached the station by 6:15. We wee getting all our luggage in. While trying to get all our seats together, there was a cricket team member sitting in the compartment we were trying to occupy. I thought he was a freshie. So I told him as commandingly as I could “Tu udhar chale ja”. He obviously didn’t move and mera giveup ho gaya. Later Kunal came and said “aap cricket team ke saath udhar chale jaenge na” and that’s when I found out that he was actually a THIRDIE! I didn’t dare to look at him again. We got all the 5 seats together and Kunal promptly went on the top berth and slept off. After a while, train started and Coach & Sukhada also went off to sleep. Sharada was wide awakeand I wasn’t feeling very sleepy either. She had her “Oliver Twist” out and I was readin “Rich Dad Poor Dad”. We talked for a while in between and it was fun. Then I started writing about what had happened on the earler days. We clicked a few pics, sunflower fields were back again. The morning time in the train was amazing, not too hot nor too noisy, just calm and greenery outside, while I was sitting at the window seat. Finally coach and Sukhada got up and we had something to eat. Kunal didn’t get up until it was lunchtime and said his customary “Bhook lag raha hai yaar!” He ate and went back to sleep. I dozed off for a while and then Coach called TT freshies for some TP. Swarna also joined us and we played DumbC for a while, Mafia and then teen patti. I discovered a list of movies Coach hadn’t seen and I was shocked! She hadn’t seen INDEPENDENCE DAY! nor SPEED! I was too stunned to say anything. In the evening, I got down to get idlis and as I returned, Kunal got up again with “Bhook lag raha hai yaar” and we ate. Mittal called and was trying to tease me (and was doing a very good job of it too!) Kunal once again said “Ab to Inter IIT Khatam ho gaya” and after some generaaal discussions we went off to sleep.
Anyways, the bus left around 5:30 AM and we reached the station by 6:15. We wee getting all our luggage in. While trying to get all our seats together, there was a cricket team member sitting in the compartment we were trying to occupy. I thought he was a freshie. So I told him as commandingly as I could “Tu udhar chale ja”. He obviously didn’t move and mera giveup ho gaya. Later Kunal came and said “aap cricket team ke saath udhar chale jaenge na” and that’s when I found out that he was actually a THIRDIE! I didn’t dare to look at him again. We got all the 5 seats together and Kunal promptly went on the top berth and slept off. After a while, train started and Coach & Sukhada also went off to sleep. Sharada was wide awakeand I wasn’t feeling very sleepy either. She had her “Oliver Twist” out and I was readin “Rich Dad Poor Dad”. We talked for a while in between and it was fun. Then I started writing about what had happened on the earler days. We clicked a few pics, sunflower fields were back again. The morning time in the train was amazing, not too hot nor too noisy, just calm and greenery outside, while I was sitting at the window seat. Finally coach and Sukhada got up and we had something to eat. Kunal didn’t get up until it was lunchtime and said his customary “Bhook lag raha hai yaar!” He ate and went back to sleep. I dozed off for a while and then Coach called TT freshies for some TP. Swarna also joined us and we played DumbC for a while, Mafia and then teen patti. I discovered a list of movies Coach hadn’t seen and I was shocked! She hadn’t seen INDEPENDENCE DAY! nor SPEED! I was too stunned to say anything. In the evening, I got down to get idlis and as I returned, Kunal got up again with “Bhook lag raha hai yaar” and we ate. Mittal called and was trying to tease me (and was doing a very good job of it too!) Kunal once again said “Ab to Inter IIT Khatam ho gaya” and after some generaaal discussions we went off to sleep.
17/12/2008
For the first time in soo many days, I woke up on my own without an alarm at 6 o clock!!! Inter IIT was leaving its marks. Never during the camp or the matches (When I actually should have got up at 6) did this happen. Went to make Anish up and he bluntly told me that he is not going to get up. So I got his laptop out and did some timepass. Coach Sharada and Sukhada had finished their breakfast and reached Godavri around 8:30. They were sitting in the lawns in front of the Godavari Hostel. Sharada was cribbing all the time that she wanted to go out somewhere, mainly to the beach. We all were trying to figure out what to do while Stud and Chuunn slept peacefully. Meanwhile, we were also having a mini-sleepy photo-session there. We also got out souvenir T-shirts and bags. All the while, the sun was playing tricks. It would get cloudy for sometime, and Sharada would get all excited saying its perfect weather to go to the beach and then there would be full sunshine. Sukhada was indifferent all the while and Coach didn’t seem too interested in going to the beach but was getting bored. I knew nothing was going to happen unless Anish and Kunal got up. Finally at around 10 o clock, they got ready and came down. Meanwhile, it had been decided that we would be going to the nearby beach. Sharada and I went to the canteen to get some refreshments. After sometime, Kunal, Anish and others joined us and they had decided that “Beach to NAHI ja rahe hain“. And we were back to SQUARE ONE. We sat down trying to decide what to do, while Chuunn was busy in filling up his stomach. Finally, I’d had enough of the useless talking and we just got into one of the buses that would get us to the main gate. On the way, I called up Swpanil and he said we could go quite easily to the City Centre by taking the train. So after getting down at the main gate, we walked to the station which was just 2 blocks away. We got the tickets to the Lighthouse station and went up. The station looked really nice and clean and the best part of it was that it was not crowded at all. The trains were quite similar to the locals, though much less crowded. After reaching the stop, we went to the City Centre. City Centre was awesome, first we went into one of the bookshops there and Sharada, Coach, Sukhada and me promptly picked up a book each and started reading. Just when I had started enjoying there, Anish and Kunal said that they were bored and we had to get going. I got a book for myself and a Rubik’s cube for Kuku(which in the end turned out to be useless as he already had one). Then we went to INOX and hung around for sometime but couldn’t decide on any particular movie. Anyways, we had to get back to the insti by 4 for the presentation ceremony and we certainly were not going to miss that! So we went to the food court and I finally got to eat Idlies there :). I also had garlic bread there which was simply AWESOME. We decided to leave from City Centre. As we walked out, we heard that there was some beach nearby and so we started walking towards the direction we assumed the beach was. And when we reached there, it turned out that we had actually reached MARINA BEACH!!!! It was sooo amazing!!! We had just started out with no particular aim or directions and yet had managed to reach City Centre and Marina Beach!!! I was feeling sooo triumphant that I actually called up Papa to tell him about this! Marina Beach was really calm when we reached…no crowd, just the 6 of us and sea in front of us, waves crashing and everything. We sat in the sand for like an hour, clicked photos, got up from time to time to get a feel of the water. I felt like getting completely wet but none of the others seemed interested. Kunal had gone off the sleep and Anish was obviously too lazy to get up JUST to get wet. Coach, Sharada and Sukhada complained that if they got wet, going back would be a pain. Anyways, I got wet and Sharada and Sukhada also joined in to some extent. I tried to get Anish into water but was unsuccessful. Kunal got up then. Chuunn was clicking a pic of all of us when suddenly a wave came from behind at the same time Chuunn clicked the pic. That was THE BEST PIC EVER! Everyone’s expressions came soo naturally that it was too good to be true. Me and Sharada tried to drag Coach into water but she seemed to start getting irritated and senti about it. So we ditched. Finally, it was 3:15 and it was time for us to move on. We took train back reached Himalaya complex at around 4:15. The presentation ceremony started then and it suddenly started sinking into me that this was it. The last day of the Inter IIT. And I would have to wait one whole year for this time to come again. The last day of Inter IIT 2008 was drawing to the close. Meanwhile IITB’s DOSA had come and was saying something…Our name was called out soon enough and I got too busy enjoying the photo session that followed to worry too much about “The Last Day”. As usual, my certificate had some typo, I tried to get it corrected but it spoiled the certificate further. All too soon it was 7 o clock and Anish was going to leave. Felt really sad then…With Anish gone it had started happening….the beginning of the end. He had managed to get the videos of our games from the Kanpur team before leaving. After he left, I went and bade goodbye to Rohan. He was leaving for Nagpur by Tamil Nadu Express ( and I myself might have, had I not decided to attend MI). Then, TT team and all of us decided to go back to the City Centre to watch a movie. But Coach wasn’t very enthu for it. We managed to force her to come along but on the way to the main gate, we found that all the tickets had been sold. (basky team had already reached there). So we decided to go to Rainforest (Another of Coach’s Masterstroke!! ), a theme restaurant near the Adyar terminal. We walked all the way there. While we were sitting in the waiting area, we found that one of the TT freshies, Pritish, knew some palm reading. When he read my palm, the first thing he said was “Ohh Shit!!” and told me that I MIGHT BE GAY! I was Shocked.! He then proceeded on to tell me other grim things of my life. All in all a forgetful experience which I am surely not going to forget very soon. The ambience inside was very nice, and so was the food. Pritish also told someone ( dun remember exactly, mostly Coach) that she would have 2 marriages!! So the dinner passed with everyone making jokes about each others’ futures as predicted by Pritish. On the way back, Pritish was trying to console me which was really funny because I was acting as if I was really concerned about what he said. He told me lines “Lines change ho jaati hain with tie and some other crap… “ When we reached back at the Main Gate it was already 11 PM and the last bus for the hostels left at 10 PM. Sabka GIVEUP ho gaya. There was still a 3 km walk ahead of us and we were dead tired. We started trudging along, when a couple of tucks passed us. Vrinda arbitly flagged a truck for a lift and the truck actually STOPPED!! All of us got in the truck and once again the triumphant feeling returned. We for a life from a TRUCK!!!! It was unbelievable!! The driver dropped us off at Gajendra Circle and we decided to meet up around 1 AM at the Himalaya Complex. But when I reached the room, I was tooo tried. Sleepily I msgd Coach tht I wont be coming at 1 and slept and didn’t wake up till 3:30AM. We were scheduled to leave from Himalaya Complex by 5.
That was the last official day at IIT MADRAS campus of Inter IIT 2008. It was AMAZING!!
That was the last official day at IIT MADRAS campus of Inter IIT 2008. It was AMAZING!!
16/12/2008
COACH SAVES THE DAY!!!
We went to drop Mittal early in the morning at 4. Watched FRIENDS all night and on the way to the airport too. After dropping him off, did some timepass at the airport. Mittal msgd that the Chinki from Delhi team was also at the airport and they had a conversation!! We were searching for rikshaw to drop us back at the campus and one of them actually asked for 500 Rs.! Chuunn went nuts hearing this and was telling everyone about this for the next 2 days to come.! “Wo sala 500 maang raha tha! “ On the way back, the rickshaw ran out of fuel and Anish, Chuun and me were left sitting in the middle of nowhere for 20 minutes. Just when we decided it was enough and started getting out of the rickshaw, the driver came running and the rest of the trip passed without any more adventures. Slept around 5:30. It was creepy sleeping in the huge room alone.
Got up at 11 AM with Anish shouting madly. Plan to go to Mahabalipuram. We finished our lunch by 1 and left for the maingate. We were also joined by the TT team. We took an auto upto the Adyar Terminal and were waiting for the bus. Coach and Chuunn were trying to manage everything. Anish and I found out about “Soc Secy“ here (:P). There was a really nice looking food shop right over the wall near the terminal and I went and got some chocolates. Chuunn was making his stupid remarks and as we were “standing” and waiting for the bus, he discovered why the bus stand was called a “Stand” !!! Really makes me wonder how ppl can come up with such stupid jokes! Finally the bus arrived and we got on. On the way to Mahabalipuram, we stopped at crocodile’s park. Saw the laziest of crocodiles in the park. It is the largest croc park in Asia. One of the crocodiles was infinitely huge, there was another one with his upper jaw cut off, then there were gharials, and I don’t remember much more. There were some snakes too and turtles. We actually got to touch a live snake and crocodile and their skin was soo icky.! Coach freaked out!! :P We then left from the Croc Park and replenished our refreshments and got on another bus to proceed to Mahabalipuram. The scenery on the way was really amazing. I personally couldn’t believe that such a scenic drive existed in India. One side sea and the other side greenery. We reached Shore Temple and it was really beautiful there. There were green plains all around and in the middle stood the small Shore Temple. We clicked loads of photos around it. Chuunn suggested various poses as he was bored with the normal standing poses. The temple itself didn’t have much to see. There were some sculptures, and some arbit work. From there, we went to the beach. We sat there for like half an hour and clicked a few photos. It was getting dark and photos bhi utne achche nai aa rahe the. Then we had ice-creams and left. On the way back, we crossed loads of shops and Coach tried her best to irritate us by trying to buy a souvenir. She didn’t have a clue about what she was buying and after looking at the shops for around half an hour finally gave up. Every shop she would go and ask for the price of one particular item, try to bargain without much success and then walk off. Chuunn was particularly in a lot of hurry as he did not want to miss the GALA DINNER at the campus at any costs. On return, we got a really cool AC bus which dropped us right at the gates of the IIT. After delta freshening up, we went to OAT for the gala dinner. It looked to be a very gloomy affair. There was some arbit prize distribution ceremony going on in the background which no one was very interested in. The food was also not very good and the chocolate ice cream was supposedly hopeless. ( I differ on this one). I was wanted to have some fun there so went out seeking S.N.Goyal to get some of his expert comments and went around the OAT following him. I was unsuccessful, but then Chuunn and I went up to him in guise of saying GoodBye and managed to talk to him. Then we tried making plans for the next day. All of us were very happy with Coach for the wonderful we had bcz of her and so we left everything to her for finalizing the next day. She talked to a few Maddu ppl and all the plans ended in “how do we gat to the main gate at 6 in the morning” or “its too far we wont be able to make it back for the presentation” or “BEACH KYU JANA HAI YAAR?????????” While going back to the hostels, we finally decided that we would be going to the Marina Beach at 6. There was a subtle smile on Studd’s face as this was being decided and as soon as we reached room, he declared that he wasn’t going to get up early in any case and THAT was THAT!
We went to drop Mittal early in the morning at 4. Watched FRIENDS all night and on the way to the airport too. After dropping him off, did some timepass at the airport. Mittal msgd that the Chinki from Delhi team was also at the airport and they had a conversation!! We were searching for rikshaw to drop us back at the campus and one of them actually asked for 500 Rs.! Chuunn went nuts hearing this and was telling everyone about this for the next 2 days to come.! “Wo sala 500 maang raha tha! “ On the way back, the rickshaw ran out of fuel and Anish, Chuun and me were left sitting in the middle of nowhere for 20 minutes. Just when we decided it was enough and started getting out of the rickshaw, the driver came running and the rest of the trip passed without any more adventures. Slept around 5:30. It was creepy sleeping in the huge room alone.
Got up at 11 AM with Anish shouting madly. Plan to go to Mahabalipuram. We finished our lunch by 1 and left for the maingate. We were also joined by the TT team. We took an auto upto the Adyar Terminal and were waiting for the bus. Coach and Chuunn were trying to manage everything. Anish and I found out about “Soc Secy“ here (:P). There was a really nice looking food shop right over the wall near the terminal and I went and got some chocolates. Chuunn was making his stupid remarks and as we were “standing” and waiting for the bus, he discovered why the bus stand was called a “Stand” !!! Really makes me wonder how ppl can come up with such stupid jokes! Finally the bus arrived and we got on. On the way to Mahabalipuram, we stopped at crocodile’s park. Saw the laziest of crocodiles in the park. It is the largest croc park in Asia. One of the crocodiles was infinitely huge, there was another one with his upper jaw cut off, then there were gharials, and I don’t remember much more. There were some snakes too and turtles. We actually got to touch a live snake and crocodile and their skin was soo icky.! Coach freaked out!! :P We then left from the Croc Park and replenished our refreshments and got on another bus to proceed to Mahabalipuram. The scenery on the way was really amazing. I personally couldn’t believe that such a scenic drive existed in India. One side sea and the other side greenery. We reached Shore Temple and it was really beautiful there. There were green plains all around and in the middle stood the small Shore Temple. We clicked loads of photos around it. Chuunn suggested various poses as he was bored with the normal standing poses. The temple itself didn’t have much to see. There were some sculptures, and some arbit work. From there, we went to the beach. We sat there for like half an hour and clicked a few photos. It was getting dark and photos bhi utne achche nai aa rahe the. Then we had ice-creams and left. On the way back, we crossed loads of shops and Coach tried her best to irritate us by trying to buy a souvenir. She didn’t have a clue about what she was buying and after looking at the shops for around half an hour finally gave up. Every shop she would go and ask for the price of one particular item, try to bargain without much success and then walk off. Chuunn was particularly in a lot of hurry as he did not want to miss the GALA DINNER at the campus at any costs. On return, we got a really cool AC bus which dropped us right at the gates of the IIT. After delta freshening up, we went to OAT for the gala dinner. It looked to be a very gloomy affair. There was some arbit prize distribution ceremony going on in the background which no one was very interested in. The food was also not very good and the chocolate ice cream was supposedly hopeless. ( I differ on this one). I was wanted to have some fun there so went out seeking S.N.Goyal to get some of his expert comments and went around the OAT following him. I was unsuccessful, but then Chuunn and I went up to him in guise of saying GoodBye and managed to talk to him. Then we tried making plans for the next day. All of us were very happy with Coach for the wonderful we had bcz of her and so we left everything to her for finalizing the next day. She talked to a few Maddu ppl and all the plans ended in “how do we gat to the main gate at 6 in the morning” or “its too far we wont be able to make it back for the presentation” or “BEACH KYU JANA HAI YAAR?????????” While going back to the hostels, we finally decided that we would be going to the Marina Beach at 6. There was a subtle smile on Studd’s face as this was being decided and as soon as we reached room, he declared that he wasn’t going to get up early in any case and THAT was THAT!
15/12/2008
INTER IIT CHAMPS YET AGAIN!! HIP HIP HURRAYYYY !!!!!!!
The day had arrived! In the morning, girls played their match against Delhi. I forgot to add in the last post about Chhuunn and Delhi. So, on 14th night, when we were sitting in front of the Himalaya Complex, this was what the tp was. Chuunn was saying that he hoped Aditi from IITD didnt lose against us. Now this was bound to raise a few eyebrows!! And so we started pestering him with what he exacty meant by it. He tried to be diplomatic by saying that he did want IITB to win, but he hoped Aditi wouldnt have to lose against Sharada. Hearing this, Mittal straightaway called up Kanchana and started telling him about Aditi and Kunal. Kunal did get an earful from Kanchana :) but managed to control the situation...
Eventually, Aditi didn't have to lose her singles b'coz she was probably too fattu to play against our first singles, and Sharada won the first singles easily. (though with a lot of effort to get atleast one high servince in the court! Don't remember whether she managed to! She had to resort to STUDD service). The doubles was won with equal ease, and for the first time in the history of IITB, Girls had won the Badminton Gold!!
Now it was up to us! We had a huge discussion going on whether who would play where. Mittal wanted to play against Angam as he was playing the among the KGP players. Anish wanted to play against Abhijeet and have his revenge, that left me with Debashish. It did turn out to be that way. Anish played the first singles against Abhijeet. There's something about Inter IIT and Anish. Everytime, you feel this is going to be a tough one and he just pulls out something amazing! He wont he first gae 21-18, lost the second game 23-25 and then easily won the third set 21-9. What was surprising to see was that Abhijeet was all drained out after the first 2 sets and Anish(who had the poorest of stamina at one time) was peacefully walking around the court! Mittal played against Angam then and won his first set quite easily. Part of me started getting sad that I would not get to play in the finals. :( Everything looked set in the second game for Mittal before he started giving infi negatives and ended up losing 21-14. Angam was all pumped up for the third set and Mittal tired. Somehow he managed to win the third set 21-19! I was up and down all the time. ( part of me happy that I might actually get to play, but greater part scared...of repeating my last years Raunapa) When Angam hit that last shot in the net, I was relieved! The doubles was won with ease. After all, it was Mittal and Anish. Kisi ki aukaad nai hai inko harane ki!! :) And we had won once again!!!!!!!!!! The worst part of the win was that there was not a single member of any other team from IITB to cheer us...It was all silent...so in a way giveup ho raha tha! ("KGP KA TEMPO HAI HAI" ) As soon as the match was over, Mittal was calling everyone up himself to inform them of the "huggamaxx"! We talked with Ranjan sir, Kohlimann, Nandini Didi and Dude, all of them surprised with Mittal! Angam was grinning from ear to ear all the while! He had been undefeated in Inter IIT till now. Mittal also lost his first set in Inter IIT.
Anyways, we packed off and went to see the basky finals. It was a very close match and IITB was trailing right upto the fourth quarter. Eventually, they did win and the celebrations that ensued were a complete contrast to the scene at the baddy court. Sea of players in Black IITB tracksuit running from one end to the other of the basky court hugging each other and shouting at the top of their voices!!
We then decided to go to Ascendas for Dinner. We reached the Main gate to find rickshaws charging exorbitant prices. Then a local told us that it was much more easier to reach there on foot from the Taramani Gate. So we got into their Tum Tum again and reached Ascendas. On the way, "Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe Hain" and "Doorie" were on at full volume. Sharada and Sukhada were looking away trying to distance themselves as much as possible from hamare jaise besure gayak!! Had some arbit stuff at Ascendas. Thoda ghoomein and then returned back to Himalaya. Mittal was going to leave soon...he showed us some magic tricks with cards... Then we went back to the hostel, changed our gtalk and orkut status msg straightaway and watched FRIENDS for a while, before it was time for Mittal to leave.
The day had arrived! In the morning, girls played their match against Delhi. I forgot to add in the last post about Chhuunn and Delhi. So, on 14th night, when we were sitting in front of the Himalaya Complex, this was what the tp was. Chuunn was saying that he hoped Aditi from IITD didnt lose against us. Now this was bound to raise a few eyebrows!! And so we started pestering him with what he exacty meant by it. He tried to be diplomatic by saying that he did want IITB to win, but he hoped Aditi wouldnt have to lose against Sharada. Hearing this, Mittal straightaway called up Kanchana and started telling him about Aditi and Kunal. Kunal did get an earful from Kanchana :) but managed to control the situation...
Eventually, Aditi didn't have to lose her singles b'coz she was probably too fattu to play against our first singles, and Sharada won the first singles easily. (though with a lot of effort to get atleast one high servince in the court! Don't remember whether she managed to! She had to resort to STUDD service). The doubles was won with equal ease, and for the first time in the history of IITB, Girls had won the Badminton Gold!!
Now it was up to us! We had a huge discussion going on whether who would play where. Mittal wanted to play against Angam as he was playing the among the KGP players. Anish wanted to play against Abhijeet and have his revenge, that left me with Debashish. It did turn out to be that way. Anish played the first singles against Abhijeet. There's something about Inter IIT and Anish. Everytime, you feel this is going to be a tough one and he just pulls out something amazing! He wont he first gae 21-18, lost the second game 23-25 and then easily won the third set 21-9. What was surprising to see was that Abhijeet was all drained out after the first 2 sets and Anish(who had the poorest of stamina at one time) was peacefully walking around the court! Mittal played against Angam then and won his first set quite easily. Part of me started getting sad that I would not get to play in the finals. :( Everything looked set in the second game for Mittal before he started giving infi negatives and ended up losing 21-14. Angam was all pumped up for the third set and Mittal tired. Somehow he managed to win the third set 21-19! I was up and down all the time. ( part of me happy that I might actually get to play, but greater part scared...of repeating my last years Raunapa) When Angam hit that last shot in the net, I was relieved! The doubles was won with ease. After all, it was Mittal and Anish. Kisi ki aukaad nai hai inko harane ki!! :) And we had won once again!!!!!!!!!! The worst part of the win was that there was not a single member of any other team from IITB to cheer us...It was all silent...so in a way giveup ho raha tha! ("KGP KA TEMPO HAI HAI" ) As soon as the match was over, Mittal was calling everyone up himself to inform them of the "huggamaxx"! We talked with Ranjan sir, Kohlimann, Nandini Didi and Dude, all of them surprised with Mittal! Angam was grinning from ear to ear all the while! He had been undefeated in Inter IIT till now. Mittal also lost his first set in Inter IIT.
Anyways, we packed off and went to see the basky finals. It was a very close match and IITB was trailing right upto the fourth quarter. Eventually, they did win and the celebrations that ensued were a complete contrast to the scene at the baddy court. Sea of players in Black IITB tracksuit running from one end to the other of the basky court hugging each other and shouting at the top of their voices!!
We then decided to go to Ascendas for Dinner. We reached the Main gate to find rickshaws charging exorbitant prices. Then a local told us that it was much more easier to reach there on foot from the Taramani Gate. So we got into their Tum Tum again and reached Ascendas. On the way, "Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe Hain" and "Doorie" were on at full volume. Sharada and Sukhada were looking away trying to distance themselves as much as possible from hamare jaise besure gayak!! Had some arbit stuff at Ascendas. Thoda ghoomein and then returned back to Himalaya. Mittal was going to leave soon...he showed us some magic tricks with cards... Then we went back to the hostel, changed our gtalk and orkut status msg straightaway and watched FRIENDS for a while, before it was time for Mittal to leave.
14/12/2008
MITTAL ARRIVES!!!!!!
Mittal reached at 7:30 in the morning and was getting restless to go to the court. I was going to pick him up at the airport. I went in search for some transport till the Gajendra Circle but couldn’t find anything. So came back and slept. We told mittal to sleep straightaway. And told him that we would go to see the girls’ semis and he needn’t worry. Girls had it easy against roorkee and Mittal had already woken up by 10 and came to the court. Everyones’ heads turned towards him and it was heartening to see him at the court! We did some drills, trying to give Mittal a feel of the court. We played a few doubles too and by the end of the practice session, Mittal seemed satisfied. I broke my MP25 :(. During doubles practice, Kunal's racket collided with mine and that was it! Was really sad about that, and wasn't feeling very comfortable playing with the new MP 99. Mittal kept telling me it was all in my head. Didn't have any other choice too. In the evening, We did ROORKEE 3-0 3 years in a ROW! Anish played another awesome game against Sanath and beat him in straight sets. We were all a little concerned about how Mittal would play, with all the tiredness and no practice, but we needn’t have worried. Mittal annihilated Gotham (freshie from roorkee) and thereafter Me and Chuunn played against Gotham and Himanshu and I won my first doubles in IITM. There was this Roorkee guy shouting against us during the match. And as soon as the match got over, Mittal went over to his side and shouted ”Roorkee Loses 3-0 3 years in a row!!!!!!” After the match, we went to the lawns in front of Himalaya complex and sat there doing tp. Clicked infi photos there. We felt like going to CCD from there. Sharada wanted to sleep as it was already past 10:30 (her sleeping time!!!) but somehow we managed to convince her to come. After having chocoflocs and coffee, we went back. On the way back to the hostel, we started singing (rather yelling) “Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe Hain” all the to the hostel. On reaching, we saw a couple of episodes of FRIENDS and went off to sleep.
Mittal reached at 7:30 in the morning and was getting restless to go to the court. I was going to pick him up at the airport. I went in search for some transport till the Gajendra Circle but couldn’t find anything. So came back and slept. We told mittal to sleep straightaway. And told him that we would go to see the girls’ semis and he needn’t worry. Girls had it easy against roorkee and Mittal had already woken up by 10 and came to the court. Everyones’ heads turned towards him and it was heartening to see him at the court! We did some drills, trying to give Mittal a feel of the court. We played a few doubles too and by the end of the practice session, Mittal seemed satisfied. I broke my MP25 :(. During doubles practice, Kunal's racket collided with mine and that was it! Was really sad about that, and wasn't feeling very comfortable playing with the new MP 99. Mittal kept telling me it was all in my head. Didn't have any other choice too. In the evening, We did ROORKEE 3-0 3 years in a ROW! Anish played another awesome game against Sanath and beat him in straight sets. We were all a little concerned about how Mittal would play, with all the tiredness and no practice, but we needn’t have worried. Mittal annihilated Gotham (freshie from roorkee) and thereafter Me and Chuunn played against Gotham and Himanshu and I won my first doubles in IITM. There was this Roorkee guy shouting against us during the match. And as soon as the match got over, Mittal went over to his side and shouted ”Roorkee Loses 3-0 3 years in a row!!!!!!” After the match, we went to the lawns in front of Himalaya complex and sat there doing tp. Clicked infi photos there. We felt like going to CCD from there. Sharada wanted to sleep as it was already past 10:30 (her sleeping time!!!) but somehow we managed to convince her to come. After having chocoflocs and coffee, we went back. On the way back to the hostel, we started singing (rather yelling) “Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe Hain” all the to the hostel. On reaching, we saw a couple of episodes of FRIENDS and went off to sleep.
13/12/2008
Off day for us. Girls had the match against Kanpur though. It had been decided that Sharada and Sukhada would be playing the match without any risks. Sharada played against the “Kanpur bhais” and won. We had assumed that it might be a close match but Kanpur player seemed sooo much in nbd that she couldn’t play at all. Doubles was also wrapped up easily. Heard the Kanpur coach shouting at them like crazy which was really satisfying!!! :)
S.N. Goyal (Roorkee Coach)
This guy is amazing! He has said some of the funniest things in inter IIT. As Anish and I were observing the macth between Guwahati and Roorkee(against whose winner we would play in the finals) he comes up and asks “kiske saath match hai tumhara?” We told him that we were supposed to play with the winners of this match. He says “fir to tum finals mein pohoch gaye! Dekho mere players ko…dekho…aisa lagta hai ki maine inke peeche bandook laga ke rakha hoon. Koi temperament nai hai! And that too mere jaisa coach hone ke baad! Mere players ko sirf international players ke against khelne jamta hai.” Then he asked about prateek mittal. “Ye tumhari achchi strategy hai! Pehle din se sabko daraake rakho ki prateek mittal aaega prateek mittal aaega!” he says “Prateek mittal ka to hauva hai hauva!!”
After Anish’s match in the finals he says ”Wo tumhara pehla player achche se nai khela, abhijeet koi player hai kya 3 game karne layak? Aur prateek bhi achcha nai khel raha hai! Kitna impatient hai!! ( I have to say he had a point there :P :P :P)”
S.N. Goyal (Roorkee Coach)
This guy is amazing! He has said some of the funniest things in inter IIT. As Anish and I were observing the macth between Guwahati and Roorkee(against whose winner we would play in the finals) he comes up and asks “kiske saath match hai tumhara?” We told him that we were supposed to play with the winners of this match. He says “fir to tum finals mein pohoch gaye! Dekho mere players ko…dekho…aisa lagta hai ki maine inke peeche bandook laga ke rakha hoon. Koi temperament nai hai! And that too mere jaisa coach hone ke baad! Mere players ko sirf international players ke against khelne jamta hai.” Then he asked about prateek mittal. “Ye tumhari achchi strategy hai! Pehle din se sabko daraake rakho ki prateek mittal aaega prateek mittal aaega!” he says “Prateek mittal ka to hauva hai hauva!!”
After Anish’s match in the finals he says ”Wo tumhara pehla player achche se nai khela, abhijeet koi player hai kya 3 game karne layak? Aur prateek bhi achcha nai khel raha hai! Kitna impatient hai!! ( I have to say he had a point there :P :P :P)”
12/12/2008
We beat Kanpur!!!! And What a Game it was! Kunal played a cracker against Sidharth. Ended up losing 21-19 in the third game. I won against Praveen and then lost the doubles against sidharth and “chhota mota” player. Once again I was playing useless! Anish gave the scare of my life by losing a string of points against Tanmay(freshie from Kanpur). Sukhada had told us that he used to play in Pune with her and was a good player. From the day I had seen him playing, I got a feeling that he was a good player and seeing Anish trailing 11-3 just seemed to confirm my worst fears! Mittal was shouting like crazy on the phone. “WHY DID U HAVE TO CHANGE THE ORDER???? EK BAAR MUJHSE CONFIRM TO KAR LETE YAAR!!!” we had a huge debate about who would play the third singles against Kanpur the day before and Mittal was hell bent that I should play the third singles. Anish and Bizza on the other hand thought otherwise. I didn’t feel very comfortable playing the second singles but we had decided to go ahead with this scheme. When Anish won the first game 24-22, we all were relived and then Anish blasted Tanmay 21-8 in the second game. At this point we were sure of going through to the semis. But we couldn’t lose a match….and the second doubles started exactly in the way we didn’t want. Kunal was making too many mistakes and we actually ended up losing the first set. But we knew that their doubles was really no match for ours and we won the second and the third set peacefully. Phew….was a close call! But we had made it through to the SEMIS!
Bizza leaves. It was sad to drop him of at the main gate. After the time we had through the camp till day, it was almost a senti moment to drop him off. We were having soo much fun! Still he had to leave. He gave us a treat at CCD before going. I wanted to go to the station with him, but didn’t have my wallet with me nor my I card, so decided to ditch. The next day, girls were supposed to play against Kanpur the next day. There was a huge debate going on whether Coach would play or not and that spoiled the remaining day for all of us!
Bizza leaves. It was sad to drop him of at the main gate. After the time we had through the camp till day, it was almost a senti moment to drop him off. We were having soo much fun! Still he had to leave. He gave us a treat at CCD before going. I wanted to go to the station with him, but didn’t have my wallet with me nor my I card, so decided to ditch. The next day, girls were supposed to play against Kanpur the next day. There was a huge debate going on whether Coach would play or not and that spoiled the remaining day for all of us!
8/12/2008
We leave for Madras today. Infi things left to be done. We have to get the Tshirts from CST, the MP 99 from Selection Sports, get my ticket cancelled and Anish has not even started his packing! Anyways, we leave for CST at around 10 and when we reached Selection Sports, they told us that the rackets were on the way here and it would take atleast an hour for them to get here. The Pioneer Sports guy told us that the Tshirts had not been printed! And that taklu guy started giving us fundae that its human work and humans fall sick and so its not necessary that work can always be done on time. All of us tried to shout on him a little but the idiot was too much for us. He told us to collect the Tshirts from some third place. It was approaching 1 o clock now. I also wanted to get the chain of my kit repaired. So Anish and I went towards the market in search of someone to do it. Didnt find anybody. On the way, Anish managed to get a cool RBK tshirt...BTW, we didnt have any cash left at this stage (just to compound our difficulties) and my cell had exhausted its batteries. Finally we went back to Selection Sports and the rackets had still not arrived. We were getting very late already...I finally decided to go to CST and get my ticket cancelled, while Anish waited at Selection Sports. Meanwhile, Mittal and Bizza had started calling us up and asking "kahan ho? Jaldi kaam kyu nai kar rahe" which was really irritating! There was a long queue at the ticket cancellation counter and I got into that. Anish ka finally giveup ho gaya and he left from Selection Sports and decided to go after the Tshirts. Finally around 3:45, I could get my ticket cancelled and Anish had managed to get the Tshirts. I then went to Sel Sports and also got the rackets. It was already 4:10 by the time i reached CST back and we were supposed to gather at SAC at 4!! Good thing I had my cell switched off otherwise I would have had frantic calls from Bizza and Mittal and Anish! Finally reached insti at 5 PM, just dumped everything I had somewhere and started running all the way to SAC. Got 5 calls from Mittal and Bizza as I reached SAC. Anish too had just managed to reach the insti and we made it to the bus!!!! From the expressions on Mittal's and Bizza's fce it was clear that they felt we were doing lukkha there and me and Anish were too tired to explain anything. After saying Goodbye to Mittal we left for Dadar.
Coach cracks everyone up with the sleeping bag comment. Bizza’s berth was not confirmed and so we were tinking of some solution. Coach had a sleeping bag and so we decided to put it down between the berths. But coach says “ Why don’t we sleep in slots??” first we thought it was a joke..! Evidently, Coach was Making a serious suggestion!!!!
Bizza cracks Judgment by CHEATING. Keeps throwing cards of other suits in spite of having cards of the current suit. STUDD ADVICE AT WORK!
Width of the sleeping bag is lesser than Coach’s Width yet she manages to squeeze in. Studd wastes half an hour trying to understand how!
Coach cracks everyone up with the sleeping bag comment. Bizza’s berth was not confirmed and so we were tinking of some solution. Coach had a sleeping bag and so we decided to put it down between the berths. But coach says “ Why don’t we sleep in slots??” first we thought it was a joke..! Evidently, Coach was Making a serious suggestion!!!!
Bizza cracks Judgment by CHEATING. Keeps throwing cards of other suits in spite of having cards of the current suit. STUDD ADVICE AT WORK!
Width of the sleeping bag is lesser than Coach’s Width yet she manages to squeeze in. Studd wastes half an hour trying to understand how!
THE CHRONICLES OF INTER IIT 2008
8th Dec 2008 to 19th Dec 2008...
Team :
Prateek Mittal
Srikant Bizza
Raunak Khandelwal
Anish Nahar (Better known as Studd)
Kunal Naidu (Chuunn)
Vijay Pal Singh (DUDE, Pseudo Member)
Aayesha (U wont find that name anywhere else in the blog. COACH refers to her)
Sukhada
Sharada
Team :
Prateek Mittal
Srikant Bizza
Raunak Khandelwal
Anish Nahar (Better known as Studd)
Kunal Naidu (Chuunn)
Vijay Pal Singh (DUDE, Pseudo Member)
Aayesha (U wont find that name anywhere else in the blog. COACH refers to her)
Sukhada
Sharada
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