We rocked T-Nites

Phew....
In the past 23 years of my existence, I have never seen and felt so much enthu, fun, talent,coordination,hard work,partying,planning,panic,strategy,contingency,bonding,unity and to sum it all.....PURE MAGIC !!!

Yes, I am indeed talking about T-Nite 2006. These words can only hint at what the T-Nites r all abt......U gotta feel it to understand its magic...I will describe each day of the event in installments in the next couple of days.....

First let me desrcibe the format of T-Nites. It lasts for 4 nights and is an inter-section contest among the 5 sections of first year students, A,B,C,D and X (X is of the PGP-executive course started this year). The first two take place at the mess which are very informal events with a small makeshift stage and all the tuchchas sitting on the floor and cheering/booing us,depending on how exciting perofrmance is. Each section is alloted a time slot of abt 20 min. The time included ur entry and exit in the mess and penalty points are deducted if u exceed the alloted time. There are points given on hosts of factors ranging from strength of class participation, posters, enthu level of the class and the actual performnaces. The Mess nights are such that you can not have any plays or something very formal and high class kinds stuff.....They r meant for lots of masti and thus u need great dances on catchy songs that can keep the boisterous audience rivetted.....the music must never stop !!! The last 2 nights take place at the auditorium about which I will write later.

On the first day, the T-Nite are officialy inaugarated by the PUB-RUN that take place in the afternoon. OK, before u get weird ideas, lemme explain what it is. It stands for "Publicity Run". Basically each section has tio put up posters in the mess complex for their publicity. IN order to decide which section gets which places on the mess complex walls, this run is held. Getting the ideal places for ur posters is super crucial. So what happens is that there are 10 runners from each section. The enitre batch (all sections) gathers at some distance away from the mess. When the whistle blows off, the first runner of each section runs off into the mess comlex, carrying newspapers/cloths marked with their section names on them. Its kind of a race who reaches first to get the best places. So when a guy pastes his newspaper on the wall, then that place is booked for that section. Once the pub run is over, the section can come, remove the paper and put its poster there. After 1 minute of the first runners, the second set of runners of each section dart off and so one till the last runner. The total time for pub run is 30 min.

Now I was the first runner from our section. It had started raining when all the sections had gathered outside just before the begining. The preps were frantic. All the runners were carrying huge newspapers (which had been prepared for the last few days) with their sectin names, cloth etc. Tapes of different shapes, types and sizes were pasted on our shirts, body and wherever there was space so that we dont have to struggle for tape inside the mess. Waise the papers already had the double sided tapes but still. So there we were, tapes all over our body and papers in our hands, all waiting for the whistle. The runners were in line for each section and all the other section people assembled behind cheering us up. The anxiety built up, so did the section tempo shouts....."Section A ka tempo high hai......." There were drum beatings, slogans, synchrionized claps and what not, each section sheering their runners. 3.....2.....1...the whistle went and all 4 fronts runners (me for Sec A) darted off amidst huge cheers. Wow......After a long time I was running so fast.....i was put as the first runner basically coz of my spped and it pasi dividends as I was the first one to reach inside and grab the place we had planned acc to our strategy. Othrs followed soon and then there was frenetic activity with people shouting for tapes, climbing on tables, and what not. Finally after half an hour, we all came out to be received by our section in style. It was raining outside and the entire sectin was standing and cheering for us.......Thas called bonding and that what T-Nites are al about.

So that ended the pub run. We got decent spaces and though we cud hv done better, it was a good show. We also put up a huge piece of cloth (sheet) at the entrance of the mess that hung from the roof to the ground. It contained a huge DNA shape with the dorm names of all the sectin people mentioned on it. It looks so majestic.


Then came the first mess night. Before I go ahead, lemme tell for all the 4 days, we spent most of our time in the classrooms preparing....went to the dorm only to sleep. We all reached in time for our slot at the mess in a huge group shouting new and innovative tempo shouts. There are also marks for tempo shouts and the junta enthu. Our time came, we entered shouting slogans, all of us surrounded the small stage and the events started. There were mostly dances and all we reamining people stood besides clapping, shouting, dancing etc...We have some of the best dancers in our class and that really helped us thorughout the 4 days of the T-Nites. Our performnace was indeed a hit and the tuchchas liked it I guess. We all came back to the class, celebrated among ourselves for giving a great performance and then went about preparing for the next night.

After that we completed out studies for the next days classes. Coz classes go on as usual. Its upto u to find time tostudy despite the crazily hectic T-Nite. I finally slept at 7 am and got up again at 8 for the classes. :)

After Day 1, the cumulative scores read : Section A ranked 2, ahead of Sec X, B and C. What great jubiliation for us. But we knew its just the begining. There r 3 more nights to go. And also the weightage for the mess nights is much less.....the weightage for the auditorium nights is much more and they can change ur fate easily.

The same sequence followed the next mess night. However, this time our performnace was not as good and we were a bit disappointed. The cumulative scores after day 2 said we went down to the 4th spot, and that hurt. But our section tuchchas lifted our spirits, motivated us to go all out next day. As it is now the audi nights would start and they carry much more weightsge than the mess nights. And we knew we have some amazingly super talent in our calss to give a classy show on the audi nights.

So we went about the prep with even more gusto with the sole aim of coming back with a bang !!! Post the mid term exams, we have classes even on saturdays,. That meant the even on sat we had to attend classes even when the audi night was on the same night...Nevertheless, after class got over, we all had lunch and came back to the class for prep. And when I say all it means abit 50-60 odd people :)

What happened at the auditorium nights ? Could Section A come back ? Did we please the seniors and judges this time ? Did all our high class talent pay dividends ???? How exciting the audi night was ? How as our enthu and prep ? What happened on stage ??

To find out, keep visitng this space. The second half of the T-Nites 2006 will be coming up shortly.

PS: the final results are tom afternoon...Am super nervous, so is the whole class......Will keep u informed :)