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.