Well, Onam celebrations at IIM Bangalore was not exactly how i thought it would be. It turned out to be much more colourful. The enthusiam was simply amazing. The 2nd years had told us that we would have to do all thenecessary things as they were busy with their submissions and stuff. We thought "well!!.. let us rock the place!!"... and so the malayali 1st years at IIMB set out to show the insti how it looks like when we get going....
The gals zeroed in on a design for a pookkalam(flower arrangement), while the guys arranged for the flowers and the food. I think Linu Koshy, a good friend of mine, deserves a special mention here...He is the man who ran around the most. He good mundus for all of us, was the lead bargainer at the flower market and the camera we used to capture the celebrations was his. Kudos to Linu!!.....
At 00:00 hrs we started sorting the flowers and by 2 am we were ready to attack the mess floor. The pookkalam was ready by around 3:30 am...We took the lamp and placed it near the pookkalam and we were done for the time being. Well... next day's class had a quiz.. so i dragged my back to my chair and read till 5:30 am before crashing.
Tiruvonam Morning.
When the alarm went off at 7:30 i couldn'tmake out where that irritating sound was coming from.. and I searched my bed, under it, around it, under the mattress. God knows where all.. before i came back to my senses and understood it was the alarm. Ok!!.. so I then made myself stand straight, cursed out loud and then did all my morning chores in Fast forward. At 8:30 I was in class wearing the traditional mundu.. Yeah... We did it for the first time I guess.. the entire mallu males from the batch wore mundu to class.. and some of our enthusiastic non mallu friends too....
When the class was done.. we ran back to the mess to serve the sadhya(feast).. the food was good.. people liked our enthu... and the mess chat group on BRacket(internal chat) was overflowing with praises!!!!.... It feels good when someone appreciates all the effort that you have put.... after everyone had their lunch, we, the mallu gang sat down.. ate to our heart's content.. we had got special palpayasam for us... drank it till it started coming out through our noses... stood around and joked... and then went and crashed!!!....
It was good!!.. it was awesome!!.. the kinda work that we had done.. the effort that we had put in when faced with threats like surprise quizzes and tests was beyond words of praise...
We Rocked!!...and all of IIM cheered!!!
3 comments:
pookalam looks quite nice.. didnt know students at iimb actually take time and effort to celebrate every festival... great going cherian... and yes people actually do read u'r blog:-)
oh my god!!!. well.. i donno if you ever came back after you posted this comment.. well. if you ever happen to come back again... my APOLOGIES for this quick reply :)... actually it has been quite sometime since i opened this myself.. Thanks for taking the pain to read through my blabber
and yes reshma.. we celebrate all festivals here :)
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