if i don't write about NIRMAAN '07 I'll be missing out something in my life. NIRMAAN '07 has been an unforgettable phase of college life. but before i come to NIRMAAN i have to talk about the days before it all. the year has been absolutely rocking and packed so far. i actually started off with the alumni meet function on dec 30th. i learnt a lot that day... a lot. for the first time i faced a really really crazy crowd... standing up before them was a little scary. i got through and ended up having a lot of fun at college... the best part was staying back till almost 11:00 and the beautiful beautiful sight of my college building all decked up. i LOVE the main building of my college.
then came the week at arkapalli... that was another learning experience. this time too i was up before people, but a different crowd altogether. trying to teach the students in telugu... concepts that i learnt in English (ages back it seems now!). arkapalli camp will be a never to be forgotten adventure. coming back from arkapalli i had to go to IITB for the techfest. this was yet another learning experience. this time i was down on the ground observing, making mental notes and learning. i came back from IIT with a urge to do better and better... the sky moved up... the limits and boundaries changed and altered. the world became much more challenging and much more exciting.
then after a brief interlude with books, i got my fingers and hands and everything into NIRMAAN '07. in spite of my strict resolutions about not being involved i couldn't keep away. neither then then nor later did i imagine that NIRMAAN '07 would make a such a change in my life. the week that contained NIRMAAN was filled to the core... complete physical exhaustion, mental saturation an extreme hunger... we had them all. with loads of masti, laughter and to my surprise... dancing!!!
NIRMAAN '07 didn't go according to the schedule. many things that were planned didn't show up, what did weren't perfectly executed (near perfection isn't perfection). for a someone looking at everything with a critical eye it was probably a slight mess. but i have to admit i am damn glad that it was only a 'slight' mess. i shudder even now when i think of the near disasters we avoided. but for all that NIRMAAN was great... simply great.
I'm damn proud to be able to say that i was an event manager at NIRMAAN'07 (program coordinator according to the souvenir - thank you ramesh!!!). NIRMAAN wasn't perfect but it was ours. completely conceived and carried out by ourselves... given the resources and time i think we did very very well. the Total station workshop was a hit (thank goodness!!!) , AAVISHKAR was another bigggg hit. i don't think we ourselves imagined it would turn out to be such a wonderful event. i will never forget the silent look of achievement on the faces of the team as they saw the participants struggle to build the bridges. the autocad design contest wasn't a biggg hit but it was something new... the guest lecture by prof.P Rao was aweeeesomeee as always...
though the paper presentations werent up to the mark... just as expected. everything went off pretty well. my alpha sudokus, jayanth's crosswords, sweta and satya's quiz, sweta's family finding, rohit and naresh's AAVISHKAR testing stand.... we all had our bits of work and our bits of glory. shravs and her registration desk, kiran and his certis, vamshi and spandy's tambola and lucky 7 requests... pandu's journalists, ravi nayak and his dances, sanjay and his cam, murali and maya!!! surekha, sujay and mallesham and their queries, murali and meena and their masti... ohhhhh i have so many many many memories... prof.ravande kishore... working under him, was great.
we created history at OU... the girls getting up to dance at a cultural event... that too with no akward situations coming up. the masti on the main steps on the last day. UNFORGETTABLE... seriously i never felt that such moments could come up at OU. no one minded anything. and for an amazing amount of time... we forgot one thing that OU is great at reminding - "we were girls and they were boys..." of how i love my college!!! i LOVE my life at OUCE. with all its obstacles, all its troubles and all its challenges. i am a part of it now, and i am so PROUD of that fact.
at the end of the day... after the crazy valedictory function - ramesh your speech... i know i wrote it out for you... but people he didn't read it at all!!! (our HOD B.N.Reddy??? :-) )the night on the steps... i had an acute feeling of depression. NIRMAAN was a passion that filled our entire beings those 3 days. once it had all been drained out... the emptiness seemed maddening. but the feeling of satisfaction of a job well done... could have been a little better (as always!!!) . OUR NIRMAAN was a hit!!! it really was... in spite of all the wrong starts and with every possible thing going wrong... YES!!! it was a hit...
NIRMAAN taught me a lot about responsibility, planing and execution. It also gave me the confidence that i can handle somethings.thanks a lotttt Ramesh... for giving me a free hand, for pushing me on, for believing in me!!! i am more comfortable on the stage now ( but i still don't know what one is supposed to speak when one is up there for a cultural event... how do u anchor it properly???) i MISSSSSS NIRMAAN very very much. after NIRMAAN '06 i made new relationships and broke some old ones... and i thoughts things couldn't get better. NIRMAAN '07 changed all that. Things got bigger and better... and yes some more new relationships starting off... next year at the same time i will tell u how they turn out!!!
then came the week at arkapalli... that was another learning experience. this time too i was up before people, but a different crowd altogether. trying to teach the students in telugu... concepts that i learnt in English (ages back it seems now!). arkapalli camp will be a never to be forgotten adventure. coming back from arkapalli i had to go to IITB for the techfest. this was yet another learning experience. this time i was down on the ground observing, making mental notes and learning. i came back from IIT with a urge to do better and better... the sky moved up... the limits and boundaries changed and altered. the world became much more challenging and much more exciting.
then after a brief interlude with books, i got my fingers and hands and everything into NIRMAAN '07. in spite of my strict resolutions about not being involved i couldn't keep away. neither then then nor later did i imagine that NIRMAAN '07 would make a such a change in my life. the week that contained NIRMAAN was filled to the core... complete physical exhaustion, mental saturation an extreme hunger... we had them all. with loads of masti, laughter and to my surprise... dancing!!!
NIRMAAN '07 didn't go according to the schedule. many things that were planned didn't show up, what did weren't perfectly executed (near perfection isn't perfection). for a someone looking at everything with a critical eye it was probably a slight mess. but i have to admit i am damn glad that it was only a 'slight' mess. i shudder even now when i think of the near disasters we avoided. but for all that NIRMAAN was great... simply great.
I'm damn proud to be able to say that i was an event manager at NIRMAAN'07 (program coordinator according to the souvenir - thank you ramesh!!!). NIRMAAN wasn't perfect but it was ours. completely conceived and carried out by ourselves... given the resources and time i think we did very very well. the Total station workshop was a hit (thank goodness!!!) , AAVISHKAR was another bigggg hit. i don't think we ourselves imagined it would turn out to be such a wonderful event. i will never forget the silent look of achievement on the faces of the team as they saw the participants struggle to build the bridges. the autocad design contest wasn't a biggg hit but it was something new... the guest lecture by prof.P Rao was aweeeesomeee as always...
though the paper presentations werent up to the mark... just as expected. everything went off pretty well. my alpha sudokus, jayanth's crosswords, sweta and satya's quiz, sweta's family finding, rohit and naresh's AAVISHKAR testing stand.... we all had our bits of work and our bits of glory. shravs and her registration desk, kiran and his certis, vamshi and spandy's tambola and lucky 7 requests... pandu's journalists, ravi nayak and his dances, sanjay and his cam, murali and maya!!! surekha, sujay and mallesham and their queries, murali and meena and their masti... ohhhhh i have so many many many memories... prof.ravande kishore... working under him, was great.
we created history at OU... the girls getting up to dance at a cultural event... that too with no akward situations coming up. the masti on the main steps on the last day. UNFORGETTABLE... seriously i never felt that such moments could come up at OU. no one minded anything. and for an amazing amount of time... we forgot one thing that OU is great at reminding - "we were girls and they were boys..." of how i love my college!!! i LOVE my life at OUCE. with all its obstacles, all its troubles and all its challenges. i am a part of it now, and i am so PROUD of that fact.
at the end of the day... after the crazy valedictory function - ramesh your speech... i know i wrote it out for you... but people he didn't read it at all!!! (our HOD B.N.Reddy??? :-) )the night on the steps... i had an acute feeling of depression. NIRMAAN was a passion that filled our entire beings those 3 days. once it had all been drained out... the emptiness seemed maddening. but the feeling of satisfaction of a job well done... could have been a little better (as always!!!) . OUR NIRMAAN was a hit!!! it really was... in spite of all the wrong starts and with every possible thing going wrong... YES!!! it was a hit...
NIRMAAN taught me a lot about responsibility, planing and execution. It also gave me the confidence that i can handle somethings.thanks a lotttt Ramesh... for giving me a free hand, for pushing me on, for believing in me!!! i am more comfortable on the stage now ( but i still don't know what one is supposed to speak when one is up there for a cultural event... how do u anchor it properly???) i MISSSSSS NIRMAAN very very much. after NIRMAAN '06 i made new relationships and broke some old ones... and i thoughts things couldn't get better. NIRMAAN '07 changed all that. Things got bigger and better... and yes some more new relationships starting off... next year at the same time i will tell u how they turn out!!!
