Encore!

Mood Indigo 2007. Was the most fun I've had in a long time. We did so much! Here's a quick roundup:

Begging - Yups. The best staccato begging session *ever*! We earned some 150 bucks apparently! We also came on TV and on the net! Long live the buttscratchers!

Unicycling - A one wheel cycle... And we (sort-of) managed to ride it! The dude was teaching us. Nice fun :) Must do this more!

Treasure Hunt - Came in 2nd. Damn you Jose!... More phones again :-/

Kp sang - At LIVEWIRE elims and at this chilled out "Sultans of Strings". It was this sort of impromptu jam-singing thingy that only KP can pull off. He started reading advertisements as lyrics!

Dancing to RD Burman - Okay, this was cheesy. I shan't elaborate, but just that a small bunch of us inspired the whole convo to come out and swing around!

Pronites - LIVEWIRE and Pop Nite. I think Pop Nite was better... No.. really!... TAAQ were damn good too :)

Jam - lol lol lol lol... (as usual)

sms clear 40 - congos Arvind :)

Nikita won - a VIAO and an XBOX 360! Lucky bitch. I'm jealous. Yeah.. she cracked off at MI Most Wanted. Great job you!

Met old friends - All the MI punters, GIDDU!!!, Sahil, Mahesh et al, Grish, Nidhi, Nikita. Great to see everyone again :)

And new ones - :)

Loads of drinking all round (I actually drunk *very* little this year :P)

Broken toenails. Sigh.

Shades of Indigo (Part 2)

Here's more pics... this time of Face Painting and The Shuffle Demons. The Shuffle Demons put up a really rocking show! Cheese on Bread?

Shades of Indigo

Click on the pictures to enlarge them ;)

Dive In!

Archit and I and the Santa Hat :D

Shariq

Splash and I

Splash and the Smiling Duo

Freshie Orientation

Photoblogging :D

Fine Arts for PAF

Emani and I

Eating (Sub treat)

The Bill is 6 feet long! (Sub treat)

Happy Birthday to MI: The Cake and the OCs

Resting

Livewire: This is Mood I

Feelin' Groovy

Hi all!

Like wow! It's been an amazing day. Loads of work got done and I painted the "Wall" for nearly 10 hours straight. Alright.. I may have shortened my lifespan a bit by inhaling a lot of paint-fumes from the spray-gun, and my hands now look like Helga from some Witchy-movie, but it was fun.

Painting "The Wall" is no mean task. It's 60 feet by 20 feet of wall. That's a lot of surface to be painted!!!

The wall took more than 5 days to paint last year. This time around, in 10 hours flat, we've white-washed it completely and painted the blue part. It's on schedule to finish in 2 or 3 days flat. That's great. And I'm proud to say that I painted more than half of it all (so far atleast...)!

Here's a pic of the '03 wall: (competed)

And the '04 wall (3rd day of painting):

So - fun stuff. Mood Indigo is now just around the corner. I guess many of my coming blogs are going to be about MI. Some of the best days of my life. :)

It's now 6:30 AM. About the right time to go to sleep. Breakfast first... at Maddu. Then sleep.

So, What's The Craziest Thing You've Done Lately???

I've been more-or-less living in the Mood Indigo office over the last couple of weeks. In the mess that we call our home, we sometimes discover goodies from last year. I found one such item today. It was the "Informals '04" leaflet which had been written by KP last year. Here it is:

I.N.F.O.R.M.A.L.S. '04
So, what's the craziest thing you've done lately???

Declaration: We here are Informals hereby solemnly swear to completely redefine what the word crazy means to you. Go wild with freaky games, celebs, personality contests and a fiendishly huge amount of freebies.

Moving Informals: You have heard of the wheel of fortune or the dice of fortune. Well, Informals brings to you the Truck of Fortune. And it's loaded! Winning stuff was never this simple. Just sit around the major roads if IIT and Informals will come to you.

Scavenger Hunt: If you thought finding lost keys was difficult then get a load of this. The classic Scavenger Hunt. Find things that you never even knew existed!

Aakruti The Clay Modeling Competition: Remember the good old days when playing around in the mud was really fun? Well, it still is. And know that you might even win stuff in the process!

War of the PJs: Remember the joke about the sardar? Well write it down! And if you can't remember that one then write any bloody joke you know, and who knows? We might fund you silly enough to give you a proze!

Informals Graffiti Board: Record your wisdom (or lack of it) for the future generations. Philosophize, theorize, conjecture or plain blab. This wall is your's for the taking.

Those were fun days :) ... And they're back again!
So, what's the craziest thing you've done lately?

A Hazy Shade of Winter

I woke up this morning and stepped out, and the weather was brilliant! Clear skies, cold and fresh. It reminded me of last year. And the year before that - When I (along with many many others) put nightout after nightout in SAC preparing for the 4 most amazing days in the year.

Yup! 25 days to go. Mood Indigo is here at last. As I look around, it dawns upon me that I have loads of work to do. A website to finish, registrations to start and much more. But it isin't really work - it's fun!

So, to all my old friends - do come to Mood I, December 26th to 29th. It's amazing.


Look around, leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
Look around, the grass is high
The fields are ripe, it's the springtime of my life

Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time
Funny how my memory slips while looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

I look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Pauil Simon, A Hazy Shade of Winter