I am 20...!! :)

It’s like New Years was yesterday

... So quickly the time rolls. Well what I understand time is spend when you use it. These two months, January and February were damn tight. I met a lot of people, been to lot of places, ate many new dishes, worked at odd hours, did many things that I never did before.

To start my new year, a new life, we can rewind a little to 29th Dec. The day I landed Kerala after Christmas vacations in Bhopal. That day was the All Kerala strike, so I had wait at Aluvae, luckily at one uncle's house that was situated at the beautiful bank of Periyar. I even tried to catch a fish or two, but learned wasn't lucky enough. I did fishing for the first time…

My college is divided into 5 groups; 4 houses and the remaining ‘core’. Core conducts different games, and competition where these 4 houses compete to win. This includes events related to music, sports, literary events and many other arts activities. I was in the house named ‘Red Devils’. I took part in many competitions, late night practices and rehearsals, on stage performances without any preparations. Oh mayn! I enjoyed a lot, well I didn’t won any individual prizes, but got a lot of prizes in group events. All this bought me into interaction with many seniors and my batch mates. I learned many things about karnatic music too, and still learning the music culture over here. Have you listened to Prasanna? Music to hear, especially ‘peaceful part-II’. We played ‘mindstreet’, motherjane for the rock band competition. Heard the lead guitar in that, super cool ain’t it, courtesy Jo’ Paul. In all what moved me the most is the dedication of seniors, the energetic spirit they have which made the environment of college duper vibrant that 1 month. One thing they believe and now we follow, ‘being the best and inspiring the rest’.

College event was not the end, intra journey was continued to inter. We took the best from our college to other colleges, representing MEC. Won lot of prizes! It’s not just event prizes we aimed for, but also we bought the best college awards from many cultural and tech-fest.

Talking about me, I also participated in many inter college events, and bagged one First prize for ‘Jugal Bandi’, at ‘Brahma’, Adi Shankra College. First prize worth Rs 10, 000, and on dividing we got 1000 bucks each.

Not just races, Yi (Young India) chapter of my college organize an event called ‘TECHNOPRENEUR’, a stage where successful leaders of the Entrepreneur world are invited. It is a platform which enables the students to interact, know about them and get inspired by their achieved dreams. I got the opportunity to participate as a volunteer, in its sister event called ‘Sociopreneur’, a platform to search for the best Social Entrepreneur from the lot of many talented.

Our colleges Jy (Jesus Youth) group also started a new chapter, Music Ministry. It is a budding stream. We’re praying and working for it to be a success in coming days.

Experiencing these two months was particularly needed, is what I feel now.

Quote…

“When I am full, I am nothing, when I am empty, I am something"