Although I've been on campus, the past 3 days have pretty much been a blur and I cant help but club all of them into one post.
On the 20th spent half of the day at the stadium. Had to go to collect my accreditation and since I had made the trip to the stadium I decided to check out the stands and facilities available for the work to be done the next day. The pavilion at the ground has some really good pictures dating back to the 1940's. Met an IMG official who took me to the sponsors office from where I could send across the videos that I'd be taking. Was also lucky enough to see the Australian contingent, who had come that time to practice. I must say that I was never really too fond of Ricky Ponting but on seeing him in person, the realization dawned that he is one of the greatest batsmen of our time and I felt sorry for the guy for the way he in which he might exit Test cricket. Came back to campus and slept off for a bit, never realised that riding to the stadium could be so tiring. Had nothing much to do post dinner so saw The King's Speech - a nice movie, about how King George VI overcame his speech impediment to give speeches during World War 2 and united the country.
On the 21st had to go to the stadium at 10 in the morning. It helped going early since I could get in quickly and ensure that things were in place for the rest of the day. Got to learn a lot about events are run in India. At the end of the day no matter how much planning is done in advance one is at the mercy of the local authorities on match day. The cops at the ground love going on their power trips and there is really nothing one can do about it. It's sad all this happens for a world class event. Anyways got to meet some interesting people in the stands, there was a decent turnout considering it was an Australia Zimbabwe game. Met a few kids who had bunked school to watch the game (brought back old memories!), there were also people from Australia,Zimbabwe and South Africa who had come to watch the game. Good experience overall. Got done by around 10 in the night after which I had to get back to campus for the MCSA elections which were scheduled to happen at midnight. Now the process for the election goes like this - there are 3 posts President, General Secretary and Treasurer. A person can stand for multiple posts. First all the candidates for President will give their speech after which the batch votes for their choice. Until there is a clear majority for one person, there are multiple rounds of voting with the person having the least number of votes at the each of every round of voting being eliminated. I had applied for the post of President which was the first position for which speeches and elections took place. There were 6 candidates and once the first round of voting happened it was clear that the choice was between 3 of us. In the second round there was just a difference of 2 votes between Shail and me and unfortunately Shail had to be eliminated. The last round was between Apar and me. The thing about counting of votes is that once a person crossed the halfway mark the counting stops. When I crossed the halfway mark there were still 20-25 odd votes left to be counted. So now yours truly is the President of the MCSA! To know more about the MCSA, you can find out here. The elections for the other two posts took really long with a lot of drama taking place along the way. The elections finally got done at 530 in the morning! The other 2 members in the MCSA now are Apar - Gen Sec and Karan Jhamb - Treasurer.
Since I slept late and considering how tiring the previous day was, woke up only at 12 the next day, was able to make it for the 1 o'clock SCM class. The other 2 lectures were SDM and NVC. NVC was quite interesting, it dealt with how branding is done through sights and sounds. Came back and slept for a while in the evening. Met up with the present MCSA in the night and got some of our queries cleared. Got back to the room at around 130 in the night and tried to catch up on some more sleep!
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