Experiences of a Lifetime

Day 2: The Semi-Finals “Tauba tera service…tauba tera smash…..Tera Emosanal…Aatyaachaar!!” My ears were ringing with the taunts as I watched my team-mate play the singles match with the best player of MNIT Jaipur, a girl called Preeti, who I think is also their captain. She looked as malignant on the court as she looked sweet otherwise. The score was 19-17 against us. I tried to concentrate on the game, cheering her as much I could, when another one came our way. This time I couldn’t help grinning at the creativity of it. “Jo hamse takrayega, BITS BITS ho jayega!” They couldn’t be more obvious. We lost to MNIT in the Semi finals but that didn’t dampen our enthusiasm for too long. After a light lunch at a food stall, we spent a gloomy afternoon and dozed off at the Computer Room that was where we were put up. Two of the team girls went shopping at Shopper’s Stop while the two of us went to watch the girl’s Volleyball finals against MITS. I spent the whole evening cheering for my college...

MNIT Day 0: It took us a long and tiresome journey 6 hour to reach the Pink City of India from our little township of Pilani. After listening to about almost 1/4th of the songs on my Ipod (mind u, I have a 5 gb collection), I found the bus turning into the gateway of the much known institute, MNIT. An hour later, after all the captains had registered their teams at the registration desk, all us Bitsians, realized where we were, and suddenly hit the epitome of craziness. Girls were not allowed outside their hostels beyond 8:30pm. So if we were to go to our allotted rooms, we could not come out. Then began a well planned strategy. Girls of each team put their luggage with the guys of their teams(in their rooms), and then set off to explore civilization. An hour and an extra two kgs later, we, the Badminton team was walking back on the deserted streets of Jaipur, near the known Gaurav Towers. It was 11pm. ‘GT’ as it was called was at a throw away distance from the Institute and was their ...