Yes, today (yesterday) it happened. Efforts spanning over three months finally manifesting themselves as a brilliant three days was a pleasing sight. This being my first experiance with something so big made it all the more special. Albeit my job involved mainly sitting in the Cognizance office, I'm glad to have been part of the event which seems to have redeemed some lost glory after last year's abysmal show. Throughout the last three months, I have only looked forward to the event and now it has come to an end.
During my great sittings in the office - chatting with arbit creatures, studying the patterns of cracks developing on the walls (and hacking Jetty's facebook profile), I learnt that sitting can often turn out to be a regretful experience. Not only does your backside get numb after a while, it also leads to a highly vela (jobless) and destructive mind which only calms down (on further sitting) due to sleep. Nevertheless, as I was saying, I had looked forward to the event... and perhaps to the temporary periods of plush greenery on campus ('Think Energy. Go Green.' - it was always there for a reason).
Today, the curtains finally fell... (can I take a bow here?) and it was definitely better than I had imagined it to be. In fact Cognizance grew into something so big (amplified by the absence of mishaps during the event - apart from the falling of ceiling tiles at the string theory lecture) during the three days that even the anticlimax, being Anushka (who was bad; apart from the mini) and The Aryans (who were worse and didn't have the mini), couldn't cloud the aura. Even HHH stealing my icecream didn't dampen my spirit! (That's saying something...) The only regret which remains is the fact that I have wound up richer by not a penny (read: I did not participate in Ideaz).
I don't believe in lifting others' years of sweat and brilliance, putting it in one concise 10 slide ppt (or pptx) and winning myself two or three K (which every random guy seems to have done). If Ideas weren't enough, there were a more paper presentations - Prakriti and Urja, Ruraisle, and zillions of other such events attracted people from far off and wide - transcending states (and nations?). But these definitely satiated the monetary requirements of the Roorkee junta and also promises a number of chapos in the month to come. I'm disturbed by the ease with which people have made cash. But then again - maybe I should have entered one? Why blame someone else for my abysmally (yes, I've taken a liking for this word ever since I learnt how wrongly it can be used) dry Cogni!
The quizzes were there again... This time, more than the others, I regretted sitting through some of the torturous finals (esp. General - which gave even the finalists a headache and MMS - which I thankfully didn't sit through). I organized and I participated, but whatever I did - all the quizzes could be described by the great word - "Arbit". In fact it changed from arbit to arbiter to the arbitest.
'Arbit-Quiz'-manufacturer: Any answers?
The-Biz-Whiz: Pass.
Arbit-fact-collector: That is an artists's depiction of Europa being kidnapped by Zeus! (what?)
'Arbit-Quiz'-manufacturer: What a nonchalant response!
Whoa! I came. I saw. I got Arbitted! As matter of fact, even Bizztech (to the great frustration of Ghajini) was arbit - reasons may have been many: the less time we'd got; we overslept etc... still. I nevertheless congratulate the winners of all the quizzes whilst I'm still thoroughly perplexed as to where, how and why someone would gather such strange trivia!
Today, the last day of Cogni'09, was the first day I actually went out in a quest for events, but alas, there were none! As usual, the great saviour called Bakar was there yet again.... Though a certain Akhilesh's (who?) losses livened the atmosphere at UG. The day almost ended in a high but the cacophony at Pro-Nite quickly brought us down to the Earth and firmly rooted our feet in good ol' Terra Firma.
What I was looking forward to, since the holidays, has come and gone, leaving behind only a TS, an end-semester and lots of classes hovering ominously in our path. Talking about classes, what about tomorrow? (or is that today?)
P.S. We are the champions of Chandigarh... I congratulate the Biz Whizzes as well as Lit-Sec whilst I condemn Biz Whiz #1 for not showing restraint and rationale in his single handed 'completion' of certain purchases.
P.P.S. The aeroshow rocked. I didn't expect IITR to put up something like it...
P.P.P.S. Guus Hiddink is a magician.
