I guess pretty much everyone here knows about Aatmatrisha by now, my college Fest. This was surely one of the best weekends of my life. I mean THE BEST.

Day 1: (Thursday )

As usual being a sleepyhead , got up late and was there by 11 (after many phone calls from college ;). The Western Music competition was going on. Theere were the usual issues – Delays, Sound problems, food for judges etc etc. mrinal and noelladsa were the organizers so , was helping them out with stuff ( rather was trying to
help them 😉 . Phenom finally got around to playing at about 2. This was seriously their best performance ever. They just seem to be getting better each time. Noella started with ‘Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love’. Next was ‘Message in a bottle – sting’. It was just mind blowing… will post the mp3’s up as soon as possible. Then came their own comp “Colored for the world”. This too has improved a lot . Came out really really well. They were supposed to end with ‘Ironic’ however, gaurav ,shashi and mrinal realized they had 3 more min. So they performed one of their best covers “gel”. Ofcourse while this was happening, I was busy clicking pictures from the front row. ( and receiving a certain sms spam message from manusb 😉

By the time it was over, it was 4. So rushed back home , and came back in more formal clothing. We were suppose to have had our class reunion that day.. but hardly anyone turned up. Then there was the disti awards… more about it here. Had to drop the chief guests back to office( yahoo boss). It was a scary moment. I pulled my car in the front.. and my princi , director etc come and open my car door. Only to find stinking socks and dirty shoes lying around( not to a mention a few ladies items). Immediately threw everything at the back. Traffic was insane so returned home and crashed out

Day 2 : (Friday)

Dragged myself to college at 11. Ashwin was conducting the IT Quiz. I really miss the IT Quizzes. been doing that all my college years. Anyway he did an amazing job of it. We went to Casablanca for lunch, and came back for the dance competition. I think this was the 1st time I sat through a dance competition. Was very impressive, with few
colleges doing really great dancing. Sat through the general quiz in the evening. The fashion show was crap as usual. did not even bother to see… instead had a nice time with my girl

Day 3: (Saturday)

This I think is one of the most amazing day’s in my life.
got up late as usual. Had to go to our house (which is underconstruction ), to decide on some stuff etc. From there went to office. Ashwin and Noella joined me there. Thats when it started pouring. was just amazing.. the cold wind…. the drizzle etc. From there we get to college for the moksha show.Ofcourse I was very early. So was there for their sound check.,.. which I must say was almost better then the actual concert. Many of my old class mates, friends etc turned up. was great to catch up with them. Soon they were off the stage and the crowd started picking up. The big gang of LJ users were there. jace had some issues getting in…and was sms’ing me every 1 min. Once he came in, introduced him to rest of the Lj gang. Almost everyone was there expect khorgath ( who btw was in office , working hard ;).

Moksha came on stage..late as usual. A better description of the event can be found here
As soon as the show was over , it started to pour cats and dogs. and to top it all, I realised I had locked my car with the key inside. So took gandhi’s car and drove home. That drive was very very bad. Could hardly see anything in the rain. Luckily got my spare keys, and came back with some dry shirts for others. Got back, and then was gonna drop noella to her place. Was one of the scariest drives of my life… half the roads were blocked… trees falling. I tried going into the city by 6 different routes.. but all of them were blocked. After more than an hour of driving, realized I could not drop her home. Dropper her back at her PG’s place ( Who btw thought I was a major night warrior battling the evil storms and savin damsels in distress ;). Came back all hungry and wet. me and raghav in the middle of the night started searching for water all around. finally got some lousy water. played a bit of UT and then the UPS goes off. .So ended up going home at 2 in the night.

However, this was one of the best weekends of my life. thank yous to jace, noella, gandhi, ashwin, raghav,snagappa, mrinal, gaurav etc.

P.S- my neck still hurts.