Fests!!!

The new year is turning out to be an uber busy year for me. The whole of Jan is completely taken up by various inter collegiate events organized by the various departments of our college.

The tech fest of the EEE’s (which includes me) was named Urja 06 and was held on the 6^th and 7^th of this month. It went pretty smooth. I was helping out at the games arena at Urja, which was by far, the best gaming fest of its kind. The PCs were sourced from the hostel and the LAN was set up by the “Master” aka Pradeep James, the god of all things connected to computers. Shyam and Deepak were among the main brains behind the organizing of the event. The Master’s LAN took all the beating given to it with élan and we were quite surprised to see the network intact after two days of continuous fragging, racing and shooting(both goals and bullets,’doh)! Hats off to him, and all others who made the 0 p/l arena happen! There were of course, the other usual tech contests happening, which I didn’t have the time and privilege to watch.

On the 7^th and the 8^th, an auto show Geared 06(which is incidentally, Kerala’s biggest!) was organized at Kanakakunnu Palace by the Mech department of our college. It was very cool with many different brands of automobiles lined up in full splendor. A 4 time moto cross champ Jinnan performed various bike stunts at the event. The Indian Army also had a pavilion with all their guns, jeeps, et al. A contest was there for the best modded bikes yesterday. The MC for that was our own Siddharth Ommen. Nice show guys!

There are still more in the offing this month. The Electronics people are ready to launch Dyuthi , the Mechs have one more ace up their sleeves with Yantra and the Civilians are coming up with Srishti 06. There might be more, but as usual, my memory fails me. What a nice start to the year!