About 2 hours before the start of ProNite this Festember, i am sure no soul would have ever thought what an awesome night it would turn out to be! By far, my most memorable one till now As Russel Peters would have put it.. ProNite @ Festember’09, NIT-Trichy was just “Mind Blasting” (thats right, it was Mind Blasting rather than Mind Blowing).

Benny Dayal

ProNite was composed of brilliant (but short! thanks to the curfew restrictions! grr!!) performance by the playback singer Benny Dayal. Some of the scintillating numbers he sung were Yethi Yethi from Varanam Aayiram, Kaise Mujhe from  Ghajini, Masakali from Delhi 6, Taxi…Taxi from Sakkarakatti, Antha Arabi from Bombay, etc. He sure was a crowd entertainer!! But then! the goddamn fun began only from 23:15, when the Bandish started rocking away!

Although i was skeptic about their performance in the beginning, i was thrown overboard by sheer joy and enthu around! Man, you should have been there! The Barn just came alive seeing them on stage and i too had a time of my life

The Bandish

80 Minutes of non-stop blood pumping, body thumping action.. Bandish sure won the hearts of all NITTians present there. They staged all kinds of exciting numbers with the hits like Zehreelay, Pichle Saat Dinon Mein and Rock On!! from the movie Rock On!! to their own creation called the Goonj from Kaise Kahoon. Hats off to you Bandish!! Your just Awe.. wait for it.. Awesome.. And you showed us how to Rock On.. Kyunki.. Jindagi Milegi Na Dobaara

Edit: Some pic of decent quality i could lay my hands on.. (Courtesy : Badri)

Bandish - Live at NIT, Trichy - Festember'09

Festember’09 was indeed a fest to remember (inspite of the minor let-downs and incessant rains). I know its a cliched expression uttered by most of the final years, but its just worth it.

A note to the cow-girls of NITT:  I also like to thank you people for evacuating the Barn early tonite. We dudes had a rocking nite without you No offense !!

Days just keep passing by and it feels as if am doing nothing useful. My fifth sem (July’08-Nov’08) as afore mentioned, is certainly fabulous with a capital “F”. Got Garnet, a nice room facing the great outdoors of NITT (pun intended!) and not to mention a gr8 roommate (was this also pun?? ). Gaming is in full swing on G-LAN. Got bitten by the AOE3 bug! Other than gaming all that i did was watch “HEROES” and “HOW I MET YOUR MOM“. And i must say How I Met Your Mom was, is and will be “LEGEN.. wait for it.. DARY”. Head out to Barney’s blog & feel awesome

Festember’08 was just ok. But i guess i rather “Dropped out” earlier and forgot to “Tune in” again
I was surprised to observe one thing during festember. And its not the ever bubbly AIRTEL stageshows or pronite or the Salsa workshop. I was too damn surprised to see some recent Alumni of NITT (and that too who dont live in Trichy) hanging out in college during Festember. Now, i dunno why they even bothered to come (and i think they didnt come for enjoying festember just cuz they LIKE festember, but maybe they came for someone else whom they cared for.. and am not a pro-guesser.. so i may be partly correct ). I would not even think of Festember once am out of NITT! Seriously! Think thats mostly wraps up festember from my point of view. Oh yeah, the stalls were sort of ok this time. T-shirt was the worst ever.. I had expected something more from it.

Was light minded about the first CT’s. Took it a little cool and ended up with pathetic score in a 4-Credit subject. But still thinking in lines of an arbit NITTian, theres still 2nd CT and the End Sem to manage and improve my score.. so why even bother.

I was a part of Meet GNU/Linux (MGL’08) team and took up File Perms.
A lot of things were in my mind in the past about which i wanted to blog, so will update as soon as i remember them again. That pretty much wraps everything up till now. And i hope that Pragyan’09 goes well. Especially Junkyard Wars

And some day i wish that i ll get myself a totally awesome paid domain name! (Just a reminder note)