Himalayas here I come.
I am off to trek to baralacha la in himachal. The base will be manali. The schedule of the trek is:
day 1 trek to batal
day 2 trek to chandra tal
day 3 trek to topkogongma
day 4 trek to topkoyongma
day 5 trek to baralacha la to back to manali.
We will be going upto 17000 feet. Yeah thats right 17000 feet !!! Hoping to have no height sickness.
IF anyone wants to get in touch. You know where I will be. :)
What I missed behind "just study this year then its cool".
Today we went for the basketball tournament at St. Xavier's Calcutta, Park Street. Man!! I realised today how many girls there are supposed to be in a college. Having spent my entire adolescent life and the lonely years after that in all boys school and shitty engineering college. I didnt know that there can be so many girls around a guy. We need to ask where is the basketball court and I looked up to ask someone and wohhaa there were girls everywhere. If you noticed that I "looked up". I was looking down as I didn't want to stare open mouthed at all those girls. There were cool chicks, hot chicks, attitude babes and all sort of varities of them in my line of sight. Which was not more than a 10m circle. I mean that was enough to fill out my vision. Yeah finally I did infact observe them closely to make out all these kinds. Me being the usual shy guy tried to look for a guy and after quite an effort spotted a few of them in those trademark Bengali kurtas. I didnt expect them in St. Xavier's. (I am not talking about boys bozo but those kurtas.) Its Xavier's !! supposed to be cool and all. Turned out they were not from the college. So again I looked up and finally one chick saw our predicament and directed us to the court. Smart girl saw that we were carrying a basketball. Now that's how a girl should behave not like what they do in my college. It screws them in the head when they get all the attention of a skewed ratio of 1:15.
Meanwhile the captain called up the contact we were given in Xavier's to tell we are here to play. Now that was a girl too. So you can imagine how many girls there were. Let me explain....if a girl is organising a basketball tournament !!! then imagine how many girls are there to organise other things so that this chick got to manage a game as manly as basketball. No chauvinism here just getting my point across. Yeah we played and won. Forget it. The guys playing were from Scottish Church college and I felt old looking at them. Boys really.
We have exams next week and a few more games lined up in Xavier's. Dunno what to do.
War of the worlds
We have this "World War" going on among the 3 hostels. It is the annual publicising of your own hostel, putting up posters, putting up skits to get your point through and getting maximum points(Yeah here too!!). And then the week long sporting activities. This is the preparation for the annual IIMC-XLRI sports meet which XL manages to win once every 8-10 years and that disaster struck last year. But what happens is basically it brings the same hostel people closer and by newton's action reaction, further from other hostels people. One can sledge to heart's content in the matches and still not get enough of it. One's family is dragged on to the court and by the end of the match the family relations are so screwed up that you hope you can start afresh. This is also a good preparation for IIMC-XL as the same things you hear from the girls there. And in the end, like everytime, there was the usual discussion about the futility of it all.
Anyway, I got interested only in the sporting part and that too in the sports which me and my close friends were playing. Sounds snobbish but that is the way. I have not the sort of enthusiasm I had as a fresh bachelor in these activities. I played (basketball) with some passion on court and remember bashing a few PGP1s. The institute basketball team players are too close knit to sledge among ourselves in these inter-hostel matches. But still there were heated moments on courts. Without these moments sports are not sports. I enjoyed it thoroughly. The result went like "win some loose some" :P. I also realised today, as a referee, how difficult it is to referee these matches. And we had this basketball coach at IIT-B who can referee while showing favouritism. Man!! that required skill. I recall he had a PhD in sports. Getting back to IIM-C I expect people of the age group around 25 to be more gracious in their victory/loss. But here people will just not shut up. They will stand on rooftops, shout themselves hoarse and more. The war is over with the closing events going uncontested as the winners are well ahead of the pack and right now they are shouting down below that they are the ones. I would have been happy to win but I mean who cares!!
