The First Day !

8th Dec 2010
Time of departure : (Official) -> 1:30 PM
As conveyed to Anish -> 2:00 PM
As taken by everyone -> 2:30 PM
Actual Time of Departure from Insti : 3:00 PM

Usually, this time frame is pretty acceptable for a contingent of >120 members, however, owing to IITD's exclusive single court Baddy team alone consisting of a mere 9 people was supposed to leave earlier and this was surely not ACCEPTABLE and TOLERABLE for so few members. Anyway, we did manage to get off on time('on time' based purely on the fact that we didnt miss the train) When I reach SAC, the chairman, Edwin Sir, Vijit and Adhu were already breathless with anxiety about where we all were. The bus had already reached and everyone was like ... Where are you guys?!! You were supposed to be here at 1:30. The others turned up fairly quickly except for Anish. When asked at 2:00 PM, he'd already left for SAC from H4. By 2:20, he was still nowhere in sight from SAC. Then a guy appeared pulling behind him a red bag as slowly as possible. It could only be him. Appaji sir, by now quite furious, commented "He's the captian, he has to show his importance". And the chairman motioned him to come faster. Anish's reply to that gesture ? You guessed it right, simply puts his head down ... and continues to walk at his own sweet pace (if you can call that pace at all )... So, we were finally loaded into the bus around 2:40 at SAC and we left for H10 to pick up the girls, who took their own sweet time to come down. (Sukhada ->" Oh tum log aa rahe ho kya? " As if there ws a choice! ) And with that for the first time in the last 3 years, the whole baddy team was off for Inter IIT Sports Meet together! Quite an achievment really, considering that Anish, Aashish and Sukhada were all uncertain with their placements, and once placed, Anish and Sukhada kept threatening to go home. Sukhada even managed to return in 1 day. Aashish hinted it once, but was shot down so badly that he didnt bother to bring it up again. The bus ride was fairly uneventful. Chuun it seems had put videos in his cell for the first time and was busy watching Munni and Shiela all the way to the station. I hadn't had the time to have lunch, so was quite relieved to find a McD there. And we stuffed ourselves up. Its never a good idea to order fries from McD in a group of >5 people. When asked, they always say, nai mujhe nai chahiye... and jab khud order karo... to sabko khana hota hai ... Afte McD, started the OCD for chaaai .... I will probably never understand what is in that 1 cup of tea... that makes lazy people like Anish and Aashish go right out of the station in search for it... and ... AND pay 10 Rs for it!!! Purely mysterious ... Edwin sir was getting harried with all this nonsensical whims pehle khana... then chaai .. and must have asked us to call these fellows back about a hundred times before they actually came back. Then we lugged our luggage all the way to our coach, B1. Its almost a pain when you book the tickets so early, you get the seats right in the first coach of the train... and then you have to walk and walk and walk till you get there. Everyone was pretty excited to go on Rajdhani. Once in the train, Anish and Aashish once again UNCHARACTERISTICALLY went in search of cards and poker coins ! How?!Meanwhile, Mittal called. He had been getting restless right since the camp had started and we were almost giving him hourly updates about our position. We made plans to meet up the next day. We didnt want to go all the way to his place... he didnt want to come all the way to IITD.... so in the end, it was still undecided... but eventually, we all knew... it would always be like he wants it to be .... jana to hame hi padega...
Train mein.... I had hoped to make a lot of noise... and piss off a lot of people ... just like the Yellow Chilli's treat .... but .... sadly... everyone was acting tooo sober .... and we hardly made any noise. In fact, the people in the next compartment made more noise than us... and it was so SHAMEFUL....
Chuunn stated the traintertainment with Mahabharat ... During camp time, we'd been paining Anvita to tell a story and Chuun suddenly got infi enthu to tell a story ... and from somewhere landed up on Mahabharat ! Sharada got on the bandwagon bcz she has a thing for discussing indian mythology and it was decided... chuunn would tell Mahabharat on the train... It was so LAME! We all expected Chuun to narrate the story in his "funny" and "graphical" way ... and he started in ENGLISH ... "straight from his heart" ... "A long long time ago, there lived a King Shantanu ..... " Needless to say, it was boring ... so we asked him to do it in hindi with his usual "hugga" ... To his credit, he did make it interesting for a while ... but soon enough Sharada was the only one who was interested to listen to him ... and Anish had had enough by then... We were served evening snacks meanwhile... which was pretty nice ...
Then we ended up trying to play a round of DumbC in which Aashish went crazy ... he guessed "Qutub Minar ki saatwi manzil par" with only the words "Qutub Minar" and "saat" and claimed that he didnt even know the movie... HAHA we are not believing that ... Aditya cracked "Rec".. he broke it into 2 parts "re" and "c" ... and for "c" he acted for "sea".... and thereafter went in "repeat mode" to show "re" ... kept lifting the bottle and placing it...Chuun ka giveup ho gaya tha dekh ke.. "kya baar baar wohi kar raha hai..." Kaafi der baad.... they reached Rec... Afte DumbC, we decided to play Judgement.. and the usual debate ensued ... kya point system rakhna hai .... (I hope we can fix the point system for Judgement this time ... Unless there's a 3/4th majority, the current judgement point system shall remain for all future Inter IITs) And the game got underway .... once again with the stupid point system (in which there was no negative marking! ) everyone was clustered around 60 points and only Aashish was the outright loser with 41 points ... Dinner was a subdued affair ... and it wasn't really good ... we had an animated discussion about drumsticks and bread sticks and whether they should be hard or soft ... but the soup was horrible (according to others, I didnt agree) ... After dinner, we were all doing our stuff, Anish busy on phone... Chuunn watching his videos ... me Sharada Anvita engrossed in word games ... once anish was done with his phone, he disrupted all the activities going on... and Chuunn gave this puzzle ... 12 balls with one defective to find in 3 weighings ... As of 12/12/10 we still dont have a complete solution to it .... but I have no hesitation in proudly stating that we have not yet given up and looked for solutions elsewhere ... :P ... The puzzle took up most of the time till 12... when we decided to turn in.... and the usual scramble for berths ensued. Anish, Sharada and I wanted middle berths, Aditya and Kunal wanted lowe berths and Aashish wanted the top berth. Anvita and Tejas being juniors had no say at all ... and after much adieu we got our berths ready to sleep... then, as I couldnt get any sleep, we (Anish and I ) started watching FRIENDS .... thodi der friends dekhne ke baad... as usual... bhook lagna shuru ... then we got moong daal and pure magic and sat munching away... aashish on the upper berth got the whiff of it.. and soon a hand came down "abe de naaa.... kaise kamine ho be!! " ... thodi der mein Ratlaaam aaya ... and we got down... while we were getting down, this AC wala staff says, kisi ko bhi ghusne mat dena... and then, as we were getting down, a completely bedraggled guy starts to get on the train ... Aashish is like .. kahaan jana hai bhaiya.. nai chadhne denge.. and shoo'ed him away .. (apparently he didnt even know where he wanted to go... :P) fir chaaai dhundne ki fight.. (which probably was unsuccessful as far as i remember) ... wapas berth pe aake sooo gaye........