To start with, I always wanted to be a part of my college Geek team and finally I did get a chance to attend a National level Fest at Puttur. I was happy that I had made a couple of Geek friends and we won several prizes in the fest so I was very much contented and satisfied.
But, the best was yet to come as my geek seniors dint let me go and we attended a few more fests together and I was permanent member in the team of those attending Inter-collegiate fests. And then in the month of November 2009 came ‘SYGMA 09’, a state level technical fest hosted by SDM College, Mangalore.
There were many events like quiz, coding and debugging, treasure hunt, best IT manager, Advertising, dark horse we had a nice team of well versed members and we were quite confident of winning the overalls that year.
There were several rounds in each event and our entire team made it up to the final round in all the events. The winners were not announced as that would be announced in the valedictory function. I was kinda contented this time as we would take away the overalls and our efforts were paid. One of my seniors, a guy, had dressed up as Bipasha Basu as well for the IT manager round and was qualified for the finals. At the same time even the quiz, treasure, hunt, dark horse, coding and debugging, advertising we had reached the finals and done well too.
Then finally came the prize disturbing ceremony. It was a very masaledaar moment for all of us as our efforts were not to be going in vain, we were going to win and impress our Principal. One by one the prizes of each event were being announced. It was quite shocking but we won no prizes except one 2nd place for advertising. We were shattered, my senior was almost in tears as he had really worked hard to look like Bipasha Basu. We dint wanna stay there and we just started off from there. I was going home with my friend in the car when my mobile started vibrating, shattered and disappointed all the worms in my brain were burnt in my fury and I dint want to check the text msg.
And then I got a call, I was raging with anger and picked the call, it was my friend from SDM College and he was asking me where’s my team?? I was already disappointed so I just told him we’ve returned back. And then I got a shock of my life. I heard my friend saying “why the hell are u returning home who will collect your overall’s trophy??” I was not able to believe what I just heard and I asked him o repeat again, he said the same thing, my friend who was with me asked me to call up my senior and confirm.
When I did, I knew that it was true!! We did win the overalls and it was bcoz of our points as we had made it to the finals in all events unlike the other colleges. This was the more masaledaar than the wait for the prize announcing to begin. It was I was shattered and bloomed up again. That day, that moment, that excitement, that happiness was a whole mixture.
We are the only to win the overall championship, just with one 2ND place and nothing else. Finally I did tak my trophy home.
And even this year we won the overalls at Sygma-10 . hopefully we are going to continue our winning streak for the third consecutive year in 2011.
