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For Part 1, refer my previous post! :)
Day 2 of Riviera happened to be the final day of our chess event. Those morons kept the 3rd round at 8:45 AM which was more or less our tooth-brushing time (Ya I coin some words!). I mean, who the hell gets ready at this hour? I was staying with the most active teammates one can ever get. I had to keep 3 alarms to wake up... myself! I think that tells the whole story. With unprecedented difficulty, we made it to the round on time. We defeated AMET University this round 4-0. The fourth round happened at around 10:30 AM. Our opponents were PSNA, Dindigul, a formidable opponent for any college at this stage. We played great chess (especially Shanmuganathan) to blank them 4-0. SSN College had lost to PSNA the previous day. So we had a 2.5 points lead going into the final round, which was scheduled at 2 PM on the 2nd day itself - there we are... nearing our completion!
We had time to witness a great stage show organised by Airtel. They had tongue-twisters, singing and dancing shows amongst others. It was great to see audience participation in everything. Except Tamil Nadu girls, all the other human beings took part in the singing and dancing (மன்னிக்கவும் தமிழ்ப் பெண்களே, நான் நடந்ததைத் தான் சொல்கிறேன்). We had an ordinary lunch at some mobile canteen outlet and went to the auditorium to watch tamil events.
Tamil events though did not disappoint us! When we were there, 2 events were staged. 1) A famous dialogue was played. The teams had to guess the movie in which it came. No points for that though - they had to sing at least a few lines of FOUR songs in that movie. Interesting enough! Some teams performed poorly for movies like Boss (a) Baskaran, Naadodigal et al. 2) Photos of singer(s) / music director / female singer(s) (any 2 or 3) were displayed and a song in that combination has to be guessed. This was even more fun than the previous one.
Our watches showed the time. Damn! 2:05 PM! 'What the hell' we thought. We are going to play SSN anyway and the results were decided by us! We left at 2:10 and finished off everything at 2:30
SRM first, SSN second!
Shanmuganathan, Aravind and Anandhraj left on the very same evening leaving 2 of us in the SRM team and 4 in SSN. SSN guys were our only companions and I felt the crowd was smaller now. It did not matter much however. There was plenty of happenings around to keep us going!
We watched the one sided Women's Badminton final where SRM defeated VIT easily 2-0. The match was funny even though SRM girls did not perform to their best (they said so)!
We fought with the organisers to get the prize and leave on the same day. After all the hassles, they agreed to give the next day at 11AM. Fair enough! One more day at VIT!!!
The very thought of staying one more night at VIT gave me a lot of energy! We went for an exotic dinner that night (SRM and SSN) and played the evergreen card game of 'literature'. Prem and I were the only ones who knew the game. We taught the game to the others and managed to play just 2 full games for 3 hours. Both the games were drawn 4-4!
We slept well... for a long long time! On day 3, there was no time prescribed for us to be awake. We could get up whenever we wanted (before 11 of course!). After we woke up, we just vacated our rooms, got our ID cards, got the Caution deposit back and packed to leave. We got out trophy, medals and cash award of 10,000 (yeah, a great prize money for a college event). The trophy was broken in VIT itself - we did not break it, a passer-by (participant from some other college, unintentionally) kicked the hell out of it! :)
On days 2 and 3, we tried out new stuff. We played silly games organised in the other corner of VIT. Mostly gambling games. Pay 10 rupees and get 20 if we do the dare. Anandhraj became an expert in arranging a chess board in 30 seconds! Abhay and I failed (with one black pawn remaining)! Anandh also tried holding a wet brick with 2 fingers (thumb and middle) for 90 seconds, but dropped it after 35 seconds! Games like these reaped a huge sum of money for the organisers I think!
We got the AC bus number 502 to Chennai at 5 PM - smooth travel to the rough city of Chennai! :)
SSN, SRM (and SSN tennis team ;) ) boarded the bus for a wonderful game of literature (we played 2) till we reached the outskirts of Chennai - a perfect finish to Riviera trip... a memorable one at that!
VIT rocks!
Arunkarthik :)
For Part 1, refer my previous post! :)
Day 2 of Riviera happened to be the final day of our chess event. Those morons kept the 3rd round at 8:45 AM which was more or less our tooth-brushing time (Ya I coin some words!). I mean, who the hell gets ready at this hour? I was staying with the most active teammates one can ever get. I had to keep 3 alarms to wake up... myself! I think that tells the whole story. With unprecedented difficulty, we made it to the round on time. We defeated AMET University this round 4-0. The fourth round happened at around 10:30 AM. Our opponents were PSNA, Dindigul, a formidable opponent for any college at this stage. We played great chess (especially Shanmuganathan) to blank them 4-0. SSN College had lost to PSNA the previous day. So we had a 2.5 points lead going into the final round, which was scheduled at 2 PM on the 2nd day itself - there we are... nearing our completion!
We had time to witness a great stage show organised by Airtel. They had tongue-twisters, singing and dancing shows amongst others. It was great to see audience participation in everything. Except Tamil Nadu girls, all the other human beings took part in the singing and dancing (மன்னிக்கவும் தமிழ்ப் பெண்களே, நான் நடந்ததைத் தான் சொல்கிறேன்). We had an ordinary lunch at some mobile canteen outlet and went to the auditorium to watch tamil events.
Tamil events though did not disappoint us! When we were there, 2 events were staged. 1) A famous dialogue was played. The teams had to guess the movie in which it came. No points for that though - they had to sing at least a few lines of FOUR songs in that movie. Interesting enough! Some teams performed poorly for movies like Boss (a) Baskaran, Naadodigal et al. 2) Photos of singer(s) / music director / female singer(s) (any 2 or 3) were displayed and a song in that combination has to be guessed. This was even more fun than the previous one.
Our watches showed the time. Damn! 2:05 PM! 'What the hell' we thought. We are going to play SSN anyway and the results were decided by us! We left at 2:10 and finished off everything at 2:30
SRM first, SSN second!
Shanmuganathan, Aravind and Anandhraj left on the very same evening leaving 2 of us in the SRM team and 4 in SSN. SSN guys were our only companions and I felt the crowd was smaller now. It did not matter much however. There was plenty of happenings around to keep us going!
We watched the one sided Women's Badminton final where SRM defeated VIT easily 2-0. The match was funny even though SRM girls did not perform to their best (they said so)!
We fought with the organisers to get the prize and leave on the same day. After all the hassles, they agreed to give the next day at 11AM. Fair enough! One more day at VIT!!!
The very thought of staying one more night at VIT gave me a lot of energy! We went for an exotic dinner that night (SRM and SSN) and played the evergreen card game of 'literature'. Prem and I were the only ones who knew the game. We taught the game to the others and managed to play just 2 full games for 3 hours. Both the games were drawn 4-4!
We slept well... for a long long time! On day 3, there was no time prescribed for us to be awake. We could get up whenever we wanted (before 11 of course!). After we woke up, we just vacated our rooms, got our ID cards, got the Caution deposit back and packed to leave. We got out trophy, medals and cash award of 10,000 (yeah, a great prize money for a college event). The trophy was broken in VIT itself - we did not break it, a passer-by (participant from some other college, unintentionally) kicked the hell out of it! :)
On days 2 and 3, we tried out new stuff. We played silly games organised in the other corner of VIT. Mostly gambling games. Pay 10 rupees and get 20 if we do the dare. Anandhraj became an expert in arranging a chess board in 30 seconds! Abhay and I failed (with one black pawn remaining)! Anandh also tried holding a wet brick with 2 fingers (thumb and middle) for 90 seconds, but dropped it after 35 seconds! Games like these reaped a huge sum of money for the organisers I think!
We got the AC bus number 502 to Chennai at 5 PM - smooth travel to the rough city of Chennai! :)
SSN, SRM (and SSN tennis team ;) ) boarded the bus for a wonderful game of literature (we played 2) till we reached the outskirts of Chennai - a perfect finish to Riviera trip... a memorable one at that!
VIT rocks!
Arunkarthik :)
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