There are some things in life that are relished more when done in a group....the moments you want to freeze...and see over and over again. When you can see white flashy teeth on every face, hands high up in the air, mouths screaming, handshakes, hugs, camera flashes, the shield...victory...thats what i call EUPHORIA.
Our college celebrated its 5th college day yesterday....12th april. Its supposed to be a big deal...a day filled with 'fun'.... but let me tell you what you'll actually end up getting...
A mokkai speech early in the morning by chairman dear (with a gel-ed bald head!)
Exploding music...you'll go deaf by the end of the day...and you'll still feel like you're vibrating with the beats long after your step out of the place...!
Chief guests who they'll make you wait for....who'll end up being people you definitely don't want to see (actually, this time was slightly better than last time when we had paarthiban!)
A dehydrated body...and a lost voice (screeeeaaaam)
Terrible lunch, but good gulab jamuns!
Students dancing to the same 'dabaankoothu' songs over and over again.
The smell of 'sweet-summer-sweat' !!!
Well, there's more....but i really don't want to make it sound exaggeratedly bad...because i was a part of it, and had my side of the fun... the tension back-stage, decked up in costumes...praying...cracking last minute tension jokes...Then onstage! Trying to smile hard...getting the steps right...trying to look like everything's so perfectly normal....trying to turn a deaf ear to all the whistles and screams and cheers....waiting for every minute to pass, so that i could get out of the sight of hundreds of fellow students.... That was the feeling....after a week of practice, and vetti-ness, and experiencing the joy of music, and the beauty of dance (by select few dancers from my class.....definitely not me!). And when it was over, that feeling of relief could only be equalled by the feeling one gets after a last exam! Ha... Divine!
If that was divine... i dont know what i'd call the next feeling. Seated in our chairs, hair tied up into a kondais (bun), shoes off, energy-drained, sour throats, voices lost... awaiting the results.... And the biotech dept had to come first!!!! AAAAAAHHH i screamed... we were a part of that show! We were...! All our mistakes, and droopiness faded away in a second...and we were running towards the pordium....it was teamwork! We all screamed....unbelievable euphoria... somehow i just felt like i could keep screaming for the rest of my life...and hold the moment, live in it, with all those who were a part of the feeling, jump, smile....just hoped it could go on forever...nothing else seemed important! Ofcourse we all came back to reality in a while...i'm still wandering up there...on cloud no.9...drunk with euphoria! Thats the word of the day...and this should go into my 'heaven' list!
Still up there!
And...Happy new year! Inia tamil puthandu nal vazhthukal!
Signing off....
19 comments:
aha as usual d 1 st 2 commnt- yo - n am glad cos i thnk i experienced evry emotion dat u spoke bout in d post- d tenshn backstage, d fear of gettng d steps right onstage(am included in d list of bad dancers), n den keeping ur foot moving inspite of all dose whistles n shouts - yappa n after all dat xperiencing d EUPHORIA - after dey announcd dat BioTech was 1st woww - wot a feeling -n d results least xpectd loll def goes in to my list of things dat makes u feel like ur i heaven (n also d feelng of satsfcn wen ur hrd wrk pays off in sum way -d whole thng was grt) n am glad u posted bout it!!!
well, i guess your comment pretty much summed up the post sand!!1 wooo hooo!
hehe ya luks like i've repeated evrythng u mentiond :) loll i neva realised d comment was so long until i read it now - nyways i guess d excitement of d coll day was stll der wen i read d post dats why all d josh ;)
so many references to bryan adams...sigh...but that is besides the point!
WOW..you guys won huh?? amazing di! of course it is a great feeling...and you managed to describe it perfectly. great post-made me smile!! :D
sand - josh!!!! Lol.. its dying down...reality of the situation dawning in...chem engg on monday :(
anu - maybe i did it unconsciously! whats the reference to bryan adams? Just 'heaven' or...anyway, pl lemme know! Glad u liked the post!!
inia puthandu vazhthukkal di...nice post....
hey madhu - same to u! and thanx!
happy new yr!
btw, my word verification- goltili.
how did blogger know about my half-telugu heritage? :@
tsb - LOL! word verification does wierd things like that once in a while! its happened to me too... i've even got 'stupdi' which i assumed was a small spelling error!
hey divs de next time m comin over wanna c dat video ok..cant blieve u danced man..hehe..nywayz congrats agin..tho i've already told u dat once b4.:)
imagine you are a guy...you wear a veshti that has let u "down" every time you wore it..come new year u wear it cos u dad pesters you too..in front of say 50 ppl it comes down...but by some miraculous foresight you had your shorts on..now this is another heaven s lister..one from feelin frustrated to bein embarassed to feelin relived annddd finally happy that you are rid of it...
congratulations and putthandu vazhthukkal...
p.s. she never told me you danced
shruti - am definitely not showing it to u! I laughed so much when i saw it first...and i laugh more when i see it each time!
sathya - thanx! Talk abt wearing veshtis...i wore one on stage! imagine if it came off when i was "dancing"! lol...anyway, it was on top of the jeans ;-)
and...she didn't tell u i dance, because i've never danced before this, and because i don't really dance. What we did on stage was not a typical dance, but just a song sequence that depicted the important stages of life...so it was more of actions and stuff...with a considerable amt of dance, maybe ;-) anyway, it over! thasall...!!
arrey dancng on the stage with those veshtis - dont even remind me of that - pa how scared we wer na wheteher it'll fall of or sumthng loll - nyways glad it's all over;)
thats why we wore belts ;-) But obv, the fear persisted! LOL...
i thnk saris will fit men well..trust me...i am talkin outta experience..this one time..i made my cousin wear a veshti..she moved all day long and carried it with ease.:)probably we should change things..
by the way she din need a belt annnnddd she is not fat..
i saw the part again..agree with sandy..it was not Dunst's line..and fitted Carrey better than Kate
hey i din mean and i dunno if you are fat..no offence intended..
lol...no offence taken! am not thin...not as thin as lav atleast! and i think it's anish you're referring to, not sandy...he's the one who said it'd fit carrey better.
and well, guys in sarees?? LOL! that wud be quite a sight! veshti's are much easier to handle...atleast when u're not dancing ;-)
lav is not thin by any stretch of imagination...this time its intended..you can tell her that:)
watever! she atleast appears thin...shez tall. Something we're not :(
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