Potluck

Every time I think it's over now, somehow she returns back into my life with more challenges. I'd been under the impression that after not getting through the Rythmica auditions at IISc, it would really be the end. Then came Potluck and the challenge was much greater than previous times for me.

We always had someone doing the directing/coordinating part in the band while in CET. I just had to simply sit around and watch them all practising. But this time around I turned out to be the senior-most guy, in the sense I was the only one who'd actually performed with a band. Determination and love for music are the two things required to keep it going. We had enough of both and with the fun added, we got it through. And the CEDT freshers band was formed - Mitsu and me on Vocals, Gaurav and Bach (Suraj as he is known here) on guitars, Navyendu on Violin and Abhishek and Makarand on Keys. We did a pretty good show on stage for first-timers, though it had moments like Gaurav breaking the pluckdrum half-way into the final song. Hoping to continue with the band in future..

Though the band performance was the most important part of the event for me, Potluck is much more than that. Let me start from the beginning. Potluck is a family gettogether of our department. The 'crazy' CEDT family, including the faculty, alumini, seniors and freshers. We, the freshers are in charge of organising the two day event involving sports, cultural nite and dinner. I'm happy to say that both sports and cultural events went very well. Esp. cultural events since Akansha and me were heading the cultural comittee ;-). The night ended with a sumptuous dinner and long photo session.

Our Potluck day didn't end there. Gaurav, Bach and me set out to airport on Gaurav's Honda City at around 11pm. The route to airport is one of the best I've seen. The new airport looks really great. We sat down and had drinks at CCD outside the airport. Too bad the parking cost us Rs 80/half hour or we'd stayed longer. Thanks to Gaurav, I got to drive the car back to IISc. It felt awesome. Thouroughly enjoyed the ride back. Thus ended a really nice saturday and it was back to work from next day.