Dumm maro dum (29th July, 2007)

Date: 29/ 7 /2007
Time: 10:30am
Venue: Café Coffee Day, C.P
Purpose: Campus18 “meeting”

“So what is the agenda of the meeting???” I asked Nikhita who was driving. “I don’t know yaar…….. Lets see” she replied very casually and I was not prepared of what I SAW!!


Well I arrived with Nikhita “sharp at 10:30” as was mentioned in the post by Vineet and he was err…. Not there. We Entered the café and were welcomed by Monika who I would call ‘Ms Goldilocks.’
looking around I saw only about 10 people who I suppose were campus correspondents. “That’s it??” I thought, and then I assumed it to be a “MEETING”, with an “agenda”

God I was soooo wrong!!!

I sat on a couch and I saw people gradually coming inside the café. then I realized that the hall was filling up and Ankit, Vineet (who
was not that “sharp” at arrival), Anchal ,Ms Goldilocks and other students of “Campus 18 College” were busy making
sure that everybody gets a seat. By the time our “meeting” started, I found myself surrounded with around 45 people.

It started with a song “Powerless” sung by Monika, Ananya, Anchal, and the song was followed by sincere apologies by the singers!!! Well..... apology was accepted because Ananya then sung another song which in every way mesmerized all of us. After treating our ears with music, we all introduced ourselves with multiple usages of words ‘basically and actually’. I very conveniently fumbled and was stuck in the line”I am interested in music, music music” . I discovered soo many like minded people there. I mean seriously, is there anyone who is not interested in “singing dancing, reading, music, painting, writing…….. ”????????? Everybody had same interests but still
everyone seemed to be so different. I think that is called “individuality”.


Campus 18 has had meetings in other cities also like Mumbai, Pune etc… and we were showed a video of these meetings. Every video had two things in common: the ultra high energy and fun level of the folks, and one super weird face and some sort of “cool
dude sign” which Vineet made in front of the camera after every 2 minutes!!!!

After the videos we
all had a little chat about how we can fill the forum and the upcoming site with more content with videos and photographs. Suggestions were poured by us and ideas were exchanged.

Nowadays, when every channel is conducting some
award function then how can C-18 be left behind??? We had our own award function … in which some bloggers were awarded with something wrapped in a fancy paper and were also made to give an acceptance speech. But what set this award ceremony apart from the rest was this maala which was worn by the winners.
Why I am stressing on this feature is because after wearing this maala, I looked like a hippy . My props were
completed when Nikhita gave me her glares and “whoosh……. ladies and gentle men I present you- the zeenat amaan of C-18”!!!!!!
(Round of applause,….. please).


“Thank you, thank
you”


Ahem … errrr, my
filmy melodrama was followed by an amazing stand up act by err…. Rahul… I think (I am soo sorry if I got your name wrong) and melodious songs (no apologies this time cause we all were singing them!!!!)


Dooba Dooba, Sweet Chil’e of mine, XL ki kudiya, and B.C Sutaa, (errr… we tried to censor this onebut failed miserably ), Hotel California, the cafe was echoing with these evergreen songs.
Finally since I was completely
possessed by the sprit of Zeenat Amaan (yaa yaa I know… she is still alive), Ankit suggested the song “Dumm maroo Dumm” with me in the centre.
(How could I refuse to the direct lime light that I was being offered??? )
So we sang, me being the
loudest, and at the end of it I really
want to confess: calling it A MEETING is
a sin, cause it was more of a get together, a party where all of us were made super comfortable with no stupid formalities, no nonsense but a fun interactive session . I just can’t wait for the
next.

Till then……

Bolo Subhah Shaaamm…… HARE KRISHNA HARE RAM!!!!!!

great work riju...i was writing about the meeting, but now i gues...this solves the purpose!! I shall scrap mine...uaaann!! but i think u should have started this thread in teh campus18 section...would have been more fun!!! and yea...how can you forget...the ragging videos shown to us...please please elaborate on those (especially on ankit's butt in the air..hehe) in your amazing writing style...plz plz!!!!

and yea...thanx for great company while i drove and also teh great conversations!!

nice nice..... i hope vineet n anchal read my reply.......
"""" v want an award ceremony 2222222222......... plleeeeeeezzzzzzzz? it sounded lik so much of fun!!!1"""""
i hope u ppl cum to kol soon... so v can rope in more n more correspondents, to make it more fun!!!!!!!!
chow... ("the vin's cool dude sign")... bye!!!!

wow RJ....that was a nice description..man!!!you really rocked..and you actually look like Zeenat Aman..no wonder you are a member of the nautanki group of your college...

nautanki group at kmc??? why don't i know about it...i have top be its PREz...wats this all about..temme??

i think she was talking about 'players'... i was a member of it naaaa.....

oh acchaa...pragya...players for sure are not nautanki yaar...they are the best at wat they do!!

niki...that was a joke..you should have figured out.anyway,,RJ rocks...[] right???????

arey i actually thought that there was some group called nautanki group...oye riju..let's make one now..hehe!!! and yea pragya...joshili aunty sooo roxx!!

"ooohoooooooooooo aaaauuunnnty mat kahoon naaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

hey nikhita, why dont you tell us about the ragging videos??
i am toooo moonstruck by ankit's butt to write anyhting about it

aahhh okay here it goes..

the C18 team in their amazingly creative way (hats off to whoever thot of thiss!!) tried to show us that what sort of videos and photographs they want from us to be put up on our campus pages...

there were three sections portrayed by them - CANTEEN MASTI, RAGGING and HOSTEL LIFE!!

These guys shot videos of the sort tehy want from us and guess who were the students in it....YES....teh Tangerine team themselves....Vineet, Monika, Ankit, Aanchal and Shilpa!!! We were shown 4 amazingly creative (and funny) videos on the sections above...and trust me...they could bowl over anyone....seriously..they sooo lukd like us students!!

There was vineet doing some weird dances in the 'made-up' canteen...ankit was made to write his name with his butt in teh air (kya ragging ishtyle hai...am soo gonna try it on my juniors!!)....vineet and aanchal were named the laila majnu in one of the videos...aanchal was made a murgi, and vineet had to dance...i almost fell of teh sofa...then there was the boys hostel video...shashank, ankit and vineet smoking, drinking, discussing girls, etc etc ...but yea guys...you were wearing way more than any hostel guy wud ever wear in his room...wud have been fun to see them in bare essentials..wat say gurls?? hehe....

all in all..the videos were awesome and encouraged a lot of us to get some great videos from our respective colleges...these guys sure know how to get us rolling...U ROCK guys!!

you know guys..even "our" Mervyn was asked to do the same 2 years back..and imagine MERVYN SAMUEL GEORGE...18 letters..woohooooo..so funny!!!!!!!!

@riju...there is another section on the forum.WASS UP????????? do write something..I am waiting for your post.

lol! this has become an addictive chatting yahoo messenger archival conversation between riju, nikhita and pragya!! gurls gurls gurls!! seems like ghar aate sabse pehle campus 18 pe aake baith gaye:-)

every year, i pick a new addiction from the internet, in my 12th grade, it was yahoo messenger...gali gali jaake har ek chat room me, ek sensible non-horny man, dhoondhna, needed a lot of patience.

in my second year, it was orkut....ohh god...i still remember...one day before the exam, the entire fucking classroom, used to exchange current affair notes on orkut...syllabus bhi orkut se, datesheet bhi orkut se, important questions bhi orkut se....and if i were at home, i just HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE TO visit orkut a gazillion times a day, 'koi mujhe yaad to nahi kar raha'! as if i were a PRINCESS( oh yes i am, but a self-obssessed one!), whom everyone was waiting to hold their conversations with.




and now now now, i see a positive probability of campus 18, which has huge prospects of replacing orkut( i am saturated!)...and if u keep going this way, the virtual classroom, shall soon be THE ONLY CLASSROOM!!

wel well said 'thoughtstorm'....colege grihasthi ki puri ramayan is bein telecasted ...i think dis tym i even wrote my paper on orkut...!!......dts y 4 d name sake i passed...atlest i hd written sumthin sumwhere...n saada orkut pe hi oh ....#@$@&...lolzz..haha,,,,.yaho mesenger toh ab log .in bhi Orkut construction of d site period k time hi hota hai..lolzz......Rock on CAMPUS 18....n den finaly yahoo messenger wud hv an another powerful ofspringg...

hey mizz xzeeni..dats wat m gonna call ye sweetz...

yeah d meetin was superkewl wid no1 bein anythiun but bein zemselves..n yeah i remem i cd'nt get mah eyes off from vineet's murgaaaaaaa dance..oopz cuckadooooooo

c 18 rockz..is an understatement now i guess:D

yeah yeah nice ragging ideas man...neways the "CHILLKODI" part was so funny....i ve got ths habbit of sayin chillkodi now after every sentence....hope everyone enjoyed....

chillkodi...lolzzzzz

mandeep..i realised it is..chillmaadi and not chillkodi!!

and as usual i missed it!!!!

but ankit toh said chill kodi...

It's great to know that you all enjoyed!! I too had a blast.....Riju's Zeenat act, Anshul's mimicry and everybody singing out loud with the 2 guys [K.Sreekanth & Rishab]....it certainly rocked!!
We'll soon post the pictures!!!

yea anchal... plz do cant wait 2 refresh d memoirz.....

Alright.. Sorry for the delay in posting the pics, it took some time to develop and process the pics

So here you go, the best moments from our meeting:

hey awsum pics dude......wow......neways...hope to meet all of ya again soon.....

I hate you I HATE YOU I HATE YOU....this one's for vineet!!!!

itni buri pic kyun lagaaiii...uaaannnn:(