Horizon 2K8

3 Days Of Madness
72 Hours Of Hard Work

Preparations:

1) It all starts with the frequent trips of SUCers to the FE classes. They try their best to get FEs talking but in vain.

2) Crowd outside the dingy Alumni room increases with the amount of graffiti and so does the garbage.

3) Alternative Rock music in the background… daily. Source: Jamming in the SUC room.

4) RAIT t-shirts are up for sale. Some FEs buy them enthusiastically. Some have to be convinced. Some have to be threatened.

5) Mysterious disappearances of numerous FEs. They turn out hours later with a wide grin (“Hey dude! I helped da SUC guys move furniture! I saw that babe up close! The GS called me by my name!”) :P

6) FEs given important jobs strut around with a Will Smith swagger (Hey Fraands! I’m in da SUC!”)

7) Missions sent to the city colleges. Horizon Publicity. People choose the colleges according to the number of chicks present or the presence of ‘gullphraand’/’buiphraand’.

8) Population believes that if you can speak good English, you can do work during the Horizon. (“Abe kya jyada shahana samajh raha hai kya khud ko?!”)

9) Empty classrooms. Quite a few frustrated Profs. (“Single digit term marks for you sonny boy!”)

10) Exhausted seniors. (“Jhol ke upar jhol ho raha hai!”) Tired faces, swearing, yells, bouts of sudden laughter, tempers running high, excitement running high. People running around like mad caps.

11) Lessons to be learnt by FEs: Be regular when there are no festivals. Be nice to the Profs. Don’t show attitude, we’ll shove it down your oral cavity. We are your seniors, respect us.


Horizon Mornings:

1) Empty grounds. Empty corridors. Classes with mattresses strewn all over. Pizza boxes and paper in the corners. (“What’s the date?”)

2) Slowly activity starts. Some event heads are out in the grounds arranging chairs and stuff. Some are near the glass doors just chatting. Some are invisible.

3) ‘Kalaraag’ blokes can be found only at HMCT auditorium during the festival.

4) Flurry of movement in the basement canteen… few contestants, workers and students are found yawning on the benches. ‘Poha’ and tea is being made ready for all.

5) Tins of glue and posters can be found in the corridors. We have the freedom.

6) Primary job: Laze around till 11 at least.


Horizon afternoons:

1) Volunteers slowly becoming crazy. A dedicated group of people is sprinting wild-eyed from one end of the college to the other. (The Amazing Race: Ateet and Aditya)

2) Crowd coming in. Desks being set up. First floor full of Counter Strike fanatics. NFS racers and AOE Lords queuing up too. Shreds of pizza being offered to the winners.

3) IT Lab: Same scenario. Literary Events and Stock Market sen’ors sharing a room alternately.

4) Benches being moved from one place to the other for no reason at all. FEs being caught and taught to sit at the desks. FEs who are working look smug. Seniors making them feel smug just for the sake of it.

5) Posters being torn by the Amazing racers. People running in and out of the college to stock up on resources. Hon. GS and Hon. CS not visible in the college.

6) Stage being set-up for the Live In Concert or The Fashion Show or the Pro Nite.

7) Pritam (yesh, the ‘metro’sexual ‘gangster’) can be noticed strolling up to the stage, making weird gestures and puffing on a fag.

8) Near the dental college, stage being set up for one of the most awesome Rock competitions in metal-head India! (\m/ “The Unchained Rules maaan!! My head banging ain’t enough! \m/”)

9) Here, the crowd with grey shades glides in. Long hair, accessories, black band t-shirts and fags. Slowly glaring at the Amps and the Speakers being set up. Chanting (Yesh, I’m making that up) gothic verses… having just performed the Satanic rituals of the most underbred. Hon. Nipun Sir (who plays awesome guitar) heads the proceedings. Vocalists get ready… adjusting the controls… squeaking out to the other band members. Their voice undergoes a transformation during the concert but that’s another matter altogether.

10) The rest of the crowd in the college is busy loosing their senses and having fun in the music shows and the Informals!


Horizon Evenings:

1) RAIT rises out of the gloom… slowly the population gets into the groove and the spirit of ‘Horizon’ sets in…

2) Heads being banged at the Unchained. Bands like ‘Black’ making the others see red. Some show RAIT ‘The Depths Of Suffering’. Metal Immortalized.

3) Most of the crowd gathering near the main stage for the concert or the *drools* Fashion Show.

4) All other activities inside the college building abandoned. Security beefed up at the gates. RAITians who have nothing else to do start yelling their college’s name… are silenced by Hon. Security Man.

5) Stalls put up near the grounds by dear sponsors. Coffee and every eatable imaginable available. :P

6) Crowd calling Pritam (Yesh, the same one) ‘Babaji’. They are enjoying his confusion on hearing the re-christening. To avenge it all, he jumps into the crowd. Front rows try to back off but in vain.

7) Music rules the evening. Unadulterated fun.

Horizon Nights:

1) The best part. Though I wasn’t present. Call it fear; call it mistrust, whatever… I do regret it though.

2) There was this war between the DJs and the lounge… good hookahs! :)


Gonna miss Horizon 2K9..!! :(