AXIS '09 Blog

3 DAYS TO GO

4 DAYS TO GO

If there’s anyone in the world of sports or athletics who is deserving
of wearing the famed Jersey no.10, it’s Nadia Comaneci. This Romanian
Gymnast, at the tender age of 14, was able to captivate the entire
world at the Montreal Olympics with her breathtaking gymnastic routine
on the uneven bars. It is one thing to win an Olympic competition and
it is a totally different thing to take the sport to a totally
different plane and inspire an entire generation while doing so.
This is a tribute to the legendary Nadia Comaneci and just a way for
AXIS to remind everyone that the countdown to AXIS has begun………….
10 days to go.

I’ve grown up wetting my bed after being subjected to gruesome sessions of monster and ghost stories. A plethora of TV and shows and horror movies (not suitable for young minds) had ingrained into me a sense of apprehension about wandering into a dark corner of my own house or sleeping alone at night. But, as the mind matured, fact overpowered fiction and a sense of the natural prevailed over that of the supernatural. Adulthood made me believe only in monsters, the likes of those in Monsters’ Inc. or Shrek.

But, AXIS ’09 has twisted all strings of logic and reason and has given shape to a noose that hangs above anything and everything associated with it. The build up to this event has reinstated my belief in the creatures of the night. I hereby christen the aforementioned miscreant – The AXIS Monster. Its main agenda is to disrupt proceedings while laughing sadistically.

As if the postponement of AXIS ’09 was not enough, it ate up a lot of resources and screwed up all the blueprints and plans. Not only has it made VNIT an extremely unwelcome place for outsiders, but also timed the deferral to achieve optimum damage. Even when some brave souls managed to pick up some broken pieces and attempted a recovery, the AXIS monster struck yet again and took away what was most important for its revival – Electricity.

With 11 days to go, I can only hope that the AXIS monster doesn’t return to deal a final, telling blow.

“Now I lay me down to sleep,

Pray the Lord my soul to keep,

If I die before I wake,

Pray the lord my soul to take”

If there’s one part of the week that a man can call his own and do nothing constructive, it’s a Sunday afternoon. Even if the Sunday comes immediately after a very drab exam and has a crucial elimination round for a heart thumping game such as Counter Strike in it, the Gods conspire against such drastic changes in the laws of the land to mar any form of excitement.

This Sunday afternoon was supposed to be event filled with shouts of “go go go” and “fire in the hole” echoing through the packed corridors of VNIT. Instead, Mr. Electricity played spoilsport and ensured that the eliminations got postponed till the evening. And true to its reputation, the afternoon remained lazy.

But once the proceedings got underway, the atmosphere was nothing short of mesmeric ‘chaos ’. With teams swarming the small 10X10 cubicle and the spectators crowding around a projection, the event lived up to its hype and delivered.

Every underdog was cheered and a round victory for them usually led to small jigs and shouts of approval. Big players and terrific game plays notwithstanding, what appealed to the audience most were the team kills.

All in all, this small event provided a much needed impetus to an already sagging AXIS ’09.

“And that’s how it’s done”.