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Campus Rock Idols : A so-called-rock-literates’ view

The day before the day before the big day :

After a really long day in college, I dragged Alpana’s butt to M G Road to get passes for CRI . But first, us hoggers had to make a quick stop at KFC where I decided to try the Chicken Snacker, good stuff but I think I’ll stick to the Zinger from next time onwards. Done with that, we were off to Planet M to get the much wanted passes. I go there only to find out that they’ve only got passes for the regional event, the ones for the finals are all over!!!! Did a little stomping about in frustration and made my way out. Next, we headed to Westside, was in the mood to do a bit of shopping. I ended up buying a baby pink colored Tee!! God knows why??..Must be the hormones acting up. Anyway, from there we walked to ‘Pasteur’, no trip to M G is complete without a vanilla choco dip from ‘Pasteur’. Had the ice-cream only to remember that I needed to buy groceries from Dorabjees’. So, we dragged our asses back there, bought what was need (chocolates, soap, girl stuff, etc), got a bite to eat, got into an auto and made the crappy journey back to Viman Nagar. I cant really remember what happened after that, think I feel asleep or something. Whatever it was, I’m sure it wasn’t important.

Verdict: Pretty good day


The little day before the big day :

The passes said that the gig was supposed to start at 3pm so I figured we outta get there by like 5.30 if we don’t wanna miss anything. As usual, we first had to make a quick stop to hog so we decided upon Gold Adlabs. With our tummys stuffed, we were finally off to CRI!!!! On entering I was greeted by the most surprising sight, the gig had already started quite some time back!!! Met up with AJ, Abhey & Agnav (that spellings gonna be sooooo way off!!!). As expected a certain someone called ‘Shades’ was there in all his green glory. Tried my best not to pay attention to that (must say I failed miserably!). None of the bands were truly any good. Was shocked to see the puny SID guy on stage with the 2nd runners up! Gotta give SOS some credit for their progress. When I saw them like 5 months back, they were like pure crap, this time they were adulterated crap. Best part of the gig was seeing Abhey get into the mosh pit, it was so hilarious! He just went and stood at the center of the pit & did nothing for awhile. Being as huge as he is, no one really dared to do anything to him. After some time, he actually did do some moshing, it was all still very funny though. Due to time constraints we had to leave at 2100hrs thereby missing a lot of the show, nothing new there though (hostel life sux!!!!)
Spent sometime discussing the event with Alps & then fell asleep.

Verdict: Tiring day (due to prospectus stuff)


The big day:

This time we decided to get there a bit early. Reached at 5.30 (again) but all was in vain cause we had a 45mins wait ahead of us. Almost forgot to mention the whole ‘trying to get passes ordeal’. The first thing I did in the morning was to message everyone I could think of, ask if they had passes and beg ‘em to try and get me 2. As expected, I DID NOT succeed. Decided to take a chance & go there with our college IDs. Met up with Ruben at the gate. The Idiot refused to ask the security if we could get in with our IDs so impulsive Alpana marched upto the man three times her size & posed the question. Turns out college IDs were totally alright. Now back to the long wait, as we waited I scanned the grounds to catch a glimpse of you-know-who. Didn’t look like I was gonna get lucky. After quite a bit of doing nothing we were joined by Kush to do some more of nothing. The events that followed were a total breeze in my mind, Shades came, slapped Kush on the back, I was busy on my cell, he said a few words, I was too startled to say anything & then he left. But then again, my reaction was expected. At least now, I knew he was there & could spend the rest of the evening gazing in his general direction. Anyway, bands came, played so-called-music & left. Most of ‘em sucked, just liked Heavens from B’lore(they played Yellow & Alive). Met Chetan & Aditya. They were chilled out as always. Got introduced to another friend of theirs called Salil. Pretty funny guy. The gig ended with ‘a sighting’ so all was good. Went to Uncle’s Chinese after that to grab some dinner, got into an auto & got back to the hostel. Was left with a few good memories of times spent staring at someone & some funny conversations with Alps & others. It really wasn’t what I’d expected it to be. Thought it would be 2 solid days of rock but it didn’t turn out that way at all.

Verdict : Day was over hyped


Apologies for the lack of anything interesting & the lack of details, today being 14th Feb & all I’m not in a mood to write about it but I just wanted to get it over with.

Peace Out.

Hmmmm.. once in a while there comes a stage in your life when you get so caught up with something new that has happened that the old and important things in life which were constant previously seem to fade away in the background.... I refuse to let that happen! And so I apologise to the 'Hostages' for not being able to be around more often and for not knowing what's happening in their lives... Forgiveness awaited...
Ciao..

Campus Rock Idols- a rock illiterate's view.

DAY 1.

Saturday,10th Feb'07.

After some wasted day as usual- bummed around in college doing nothing, again failing to give the english presentation, nor working on something for the college youth activism day as i had promised myself to do, even gymming was a futile exercise since i keep stuffing myself with foodstuff thats for sure not health food,i head back to hostel for a quick shower( a downright lie- i.e. no showers in hostel. jus the good old bucket ka paani)
We head to Elysium Lawns,KP- our fav place in Pune. Yet.
My 1st time there. In Campus Rock Idols(CRI). Anna's home now. Its her place-Rock events.
Some band's playing. Some crappy host blabbing on, asking the cold indiffernt crowd (at that time) to get bit moving/grooving/rocking/anything other than sitting on their asses. Anna n Me spot SHADES- i leave no stone unturned to act myself and embarass Anna to death with my antics.
We meet some guys from our own college. Hang around with them for some time.
( right now, hostel chicks-design i'm sure, :-> - playing doori- atif aslam again n again n againn its not good.sum jamming session. not good, not at all.)
Rueben derives some sadistic pleasure in poking my sides n making me jump hysterically. Anna n he then go for drinks where i'm the sole source of amusement n entertainment for them and they again resort to pulling my (short)legs.
see some real moshpet up-close. one of us goes and stands amidst the mosh. standing like a security guard, glares at all n then finally lends his way too solid support to some group.
our resolution broken by Aj's frend's goldflakes offering.
i dunno if the bands were amazing or sucked big time.
i dunno if it was a cool rock event or not.
i dunno what i-a philstine in all matters rock, was doing there.
all i know is that we had an awesome time. atleast Anna's been all jumping and freaky happy about it.
gut nacht. :)

DAY 2

Sunday,11th Feb'07.

got up late. jus 11 a.m.( i knw, i knw its too early actually).
hav sum meager breakfast.wash clothes.we do not hav passes for the finals of CRI. we do not hav late out permissions.
a call to dad, some nice well said pleading( to both hitlers- dad and warden) we get our late-outs. whooopeeeeeee!! out till 11.30p.m.!! one who's not from our hostel and is not fattoo like us cant possibly imagine the exhilaration we were experiencing then. lucky day- warden's birthday.

after a lot of time,part of which was spent on working a bit for next day's campaign, we get ready and leave. finally- with interruptions like forgetting to take cellphone, i card, deo, and god-alone-knows-what-not!!

my resolution to not waste money on food and sticking to health food diet is broken with the amazing chicken biryani and yaam gai (sum friggin chicken salad-tatsed good though) at polka dots.rueben calls n msgs anna like a dozen million times before landing there, in the meanwhile ordering for nachos n cheese from his auto.
we finally reach elysium lawns a 5.30. an hour after the event was scheduled to start.three of us without entry passes. anna n rueben going on blabbering about whether we can enter with only our i cards or not. rueben gets on his cell every other moment, trying to find answers mayb. i go n ask the security- simple enough. we get in just to find that the its a long time till the event starts. bum around with others we know. one freaky moment- SHADES talkin to one of wid guys wid whom we were talking- oh god i was so wishing to jump up n down n do a mexiacan hat dance around Anna but i brought down my excitement to my evil grin. :D :D.
Rueben n Anna again take to troubling me due to which i go bump against 3 unknown persons- which i'm sure gave them enough reason to laugh,grin and smile. :X
Aj n his frend, whose name we didnt get till midnight began, offers me a smoke-which actually turned out to be pot!!, which i refused owing to Anna's vehement dissent. the vent finally starts. all gung-ho. we look for some more people whom we knw.we meet Anna's frends chetan, aditya n their frends. somehow they chose a place like near the toilets to be our meeting point!!! all engrossed in fagging, bumming around. kinda lost. soem head banging here n there, else jus sitting n babbling. passing on one lone cig amongst 7 ppl until the security comes n stubs it out.
finally head to the bar, anna tryin real hard to get high drunk managing to get partially high which is not any better.snatches of song yellow makes us run towards the crowd ahead. some more cheering, looking for someone, bumming around it finally comes to an end. FTN (Fuck the name- thts the band's name!!!), a band from Rueben's school,Delhi wins the comptn, for which Anna screams n whoops in joy as if her own band has won!!!
time to leave- wonder where to go for dinner. after some procrastination and a lot of confusion,Chetan, me n aditya on one bike ( yeah three of us on one bike!!!) n Anna n Saleel on one bike n Rueben Aj n his frend join us later at Uncle's Chinese- another common favourite KP haunt. a whole lot of fooling around and laughing there- one cant help but keep laughing in the company of such -oh-so-fuckin-funny guys. 11 p.m time for us to leave. Rueben, Aj n Agnav(finally we got his name- it ws not arnav nor,definitely not hrithik as Aj had told) still waiting for their yang chow fried rice, my recommendation- poor people at uncle's chinese had run out of noodles!
lookin desperately for an auto, Anna gets the urge to eat ice cream at Naturals there. so we ask one reluctant yet ready auto guy to wait while we get her icecream.
back at hostel-gates locked upon us. stupid security people.bluffed our way.
boring gig. but it was fun i guess.they played yellow- which acc to Anna is the highlight of the event.
back to working for 2mrw's youth activism day.
not a very gut nacht at 3 a.m.

thank u :P.

Hello ... Hi... wats up... My first post on this blog and as usual I am utterly clueless as what to write about... Should I talk about Ananya or should I talk about apna room or should I talk about the first time Anna, Gauri and me went for my first Concert.. There's so much to talk about!! well I shall find the time and the words and will post asap.. for now... adios people! I'll be back!! ( no similarity to Arnie here...)

ok so wht do we really do abt this ambitious venture of ours- ie to plan the best ever singles-only valentines day party??
venue- german bakery. after long time....
party timings- anytime after 6 and before 9 (hostel and other compulsions :X).
the guest list- well thats where the hitch lies. as of now its only me and anna since our other 2 members are non-singles ( as per our classified info.)
so who's gonna be there at the worst ever dud in town???


-alps.

21st July 2007
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

You may host my funeral on the 23rd.