I m not just back from the oxymoronic exhaustingly-refreshing trip from Bhubaneshwar. My first trip from my sophomore years at college. The occasion was The Kritansh-the annual techno-cultural fest of KIIT(Kalinga).
The trip started with my feather-headedness when I very piously asked my caretaker for a two-day leave from hostel on behalf of myself and Estee...and got heavily reprimanded in return and forced to roam around the campus in scorching heat with a furious Estee in tow, seeking OFFICIAL permission to leave the campus. I decide not to go into the details of this one as it is frustrating...believe me. On an equally extreme parallel, Pranshumaan was busy booking tickets for the trip...just one day in advance. Wow..Estee exclaimed as this was going to be her first experience with Indian railways ever...EVER.I think the thought itself made her fall sick that very evening. We didn't know what to do as the trip was scheduled for just the next day, and the tickets booked (in tatkal...which meant no cancellation :|)..We prayed and the next day she was as fine as she ever was...ready to sizzle being the pioneer of girls' quizzing in 2k10. As for the other foduus comprising our team...Vrudijones, Pie aka the Cre8r,darkwa, DJ, Agent Provocateur, Headphone wale Sangam baba and Atri-the hooker(!!)...I won't write paragraphs about them because none of them needs a description, and I aint verbose enough to achieve the feat.
We reached Bhubaneshwar in the wee hours of the 16th of February, after spending the entire previous evening playing mafia city.( was quiz discussed on the eve of our quizzing tour? except the occasion when Vrashank bhaiya said, "we never imagined quizzing in BIt would ever attain such heights"), which resulted in Shikhar being nicked the Hooker for the trip (AND strictly for the trip :P) Thusly, we loitered about the streets around KIIT before having our breakfast. We finally reached the venue after waiting outside the big yellow gate for about half an hour(the time doesn't seem that great in magnitude but waiting makes it worth)..the next shocker was the pocket-pinching and exorbitant participation fee for the event. We were like astounded, consoled, and after much bargaining by our Godly seniors, the show went on; I mean we went on...to the Audi of course. As soon as we settled on the cushioned seats another shocker awaiting us unfolded. Vrudijones pointed out, sitting at the extreme corner of the audi where three quizzing champs from KGP, who according to us were a bunch of cheaters, because they claimed to be college going snrs, when the truth was just a li’l faraway from this fib, ie. They were passouts. But this would hardly made any difference as this was an open quiz. Turned out this was just the beginning of a yet-to-unfold series of events. In came the quizzing geniuses Kamal Rathi n company. A text from the godfather of Q-BIT, the humbly ignoramous scribbler, Prabhakar bhaiyya, put everything into its right perspective.
An ignorant-for-us round of prelims later, when the two senior teams successfully cleared it, we settled down to experience an awesome round of quizzing. Okay, we didn’t like some of the un-workable questions…but hardly anything to question about around ryt?!
In the end, after lunch session (which comprised of a cup of ice-cream for everybody and a fag or two for the frooti brothers) it was the business quiz encounter. After witnessing another bout of excellent quizzing, where the unbeatable quizzers of our college managed to win a deo(we were still awed seniors…very awed..really) and the team in gold(which yet again cleared the prelims…with a plausible margin) .
On a happier note, according to DJ, we WERE winners in a category called “naxalite-hit, college going students”...yayy to that!
I feel guilty to mention the awesome time we had inspite of the mentioned spoil AFTER the quiz got over, which included a trip to Dominos AND Pantaloons(much to my excitement if not everyne else’s) and would thus skip to mention the return trip was which was quite uneventful as compared to the previous trip although we did feel that we had spent an age there in the stead of just a few hours..yes, we had aged…we had aged a decade in quiz…
NEER-KSHEER VIVEK happened…
