Life after Placements-A Glimpse from Symbiolympics!!

Placements done! Senior Batch placed and exams to the fourth and Final Semester announced, thats the Status in Mid Jan!! The junta had already.... had a ball during the Lohri Celebrations on campus when the DJ went on till 3 AM in the morning...The Scrambling for notes and collection of essential photocopies is always a sure sign before exams, but this time ...the urge was missing..the rush was missing.....the interest lay somewhere else!!......

The SIC aka Symbiosis Campus was privy to a Sports meet titled "Symbiolympics" between three Institutes namely SCIT, SIIB and of course SCMHRD!!....

Matches predominantly in the nights..late nights to not disturb the schedule of the colleges!!....One memorable match.. from ... the matches is the Women's Throwball match-Finals between the SCMHRD girls and SCIT counterparts....a memorable one....

The match had got delayed from abt 9 in the night to as late as 2 early morning...on 21st...on which day..almost many of us had exams...in the morning and in the afternoon...(depending on the electives!)...infact the first day of exams...

so after a late wait..the stage was set....a small and sporting crowd of 30 people was there to cheer the SCMHRD girls who were happily sporting the Black NEEV T-Shirts!! and seemed ready for the kill..... moi was also among the crowd..thrust with a digital camera to click memorable moments...(rather I volunteered to..)..by no chance it seemed like 2 am early morning ....the enthusiasm of the audience should be seen to be believed....

The early to bed junta had hit the sacks, while some were up with their books preparing for the early morning exams, part of the football team members were seen with their notes around the ground..since the Football finals was slated next and could well go uptill 5 in the morning....

The rivalry was killing...and so was the cold ..and most of us were wrapped up in the "Journey is the reward" Sweat-Shirts...winning was crucial to the overall winning tally of SCMHRD.

So the girls started the warm up and just ...before the start whistle, they went into a small huddle (bilkul Team India Style!!..but I prayed these girls not repeat Team India results though!!)...I also leanrt from my fellow batchmates in the audience that this game is not played at the national level..but some of them in our team were great at it...

After seeing a few shots in the warmup..I had decided one thing..never mess with these girls ..ever...since chances of blows were more likely then slaps..:) ...one sure needs strong arms to play the game!!

Some of us through the entire tournament had acquired mastery in the technique of hooting, sledging and instant sloganeering......Every single opportunity to show the opposite team in poor light was never missed..and we were up to the task at all times....

Some of them actively involved during the match were Karan,(Have no words to describe his sense of humour and wit),Vibhor(is awesome with his instant slogans), Vinay(referred to as chutki among the match since he is the youngest), Santosh, Samir, Sharad and yours truly with a few contributions here and there...but my personal award for that morning would go to Sumeet for it...for every time he screamed..the girls of the opposite team missed and dropped the ball...
Infact during the last few points of the match..he successfully did it .with 100% success rate...The junior cheer gang was led by Anand aka Saraf...who had this typical jingle of his everytime..which i have no idea ... what it meant...(Or may be it was not meant for any understanding at all!!)

Few minutes in the match..and I clicked few pics..with the girls in action..and suddenly one of the junior girls complained...saying she was getting distrubed with the flash!!..well..i hence sensibly stopped the clicking....the wrath of my mates was too big a price to pay for the pics!!

Every point and service break was subject to thunderous applause and louder hooting....which made some of the studying junta to peep from their hostel room windows facing the court....The hooting team was also excited about the results of the swimming meet, where one of the junior SCMHRD girls had beaten all who contested*(Boys included)..and this was being constantly referred to during the exercise ....

The girls were at their task..and Sindhu(my junior and part of the team)..too invited continuous cheer from the audience for her on field aggression and play...and so were the other members of the team namely Suchita, Rashmi, Reema, Prashanthinie, Neha Takshak, Radhika and Gauri...(These include two substitutes).

The crowd also made sure on a lighter note to heckle the refrees from SCMHRD ...who gave decisions in favour of the opposition....all in a lighter note....

Voices like "Kill them, Butcher them!!"were eminating at intervals of successful times....the SCMHRD junta sure had every trick up its sleeve to make the situation lively with the momentum built up in the match...the girls did not disappoint either... they wrapped up the match in no time..straight winning 3 sets to 0 for the best of five game.

As the winning shot came through, the team was mobbed by the crowd and the girls enjoyed very bit of their victorious moment!! Slogan shouting was at its peak with the hooting gang having a field day!!

P.S- I was promised pictures of the event since I wanted to put them along with this post, but unforunately have not been able to lay my hand on them. All this inspite of clicking good pics!!