Vo jo pare pare baithey hain….. (Saturnalia Part-1)

Saturnalia… What does it mean??? Even I don’t know…
About it, in the words of one of the bhoru gals of our college, “You know it is the biggest fest of north India…”
Anyways, today was the day2 of saturnalia. Day-1 passed with not much fun….
For me the day-2 started at 11:00 when I got up after been bitten up by a Pomeranian at the scooter stand of our college... ( that was one of my dreams, I had last night and I wont wish that it should come true, for there are much more happening dreams which I wish could come true )
Anyways, I was up and about by 12:00 am when I left for college.
Wont write much about the events of the morning, just give a brief outline.

I’m into the organization work of the Fine Arts and Photography Society (FAPS) events. FAPS organized Poster making, which was scrapped, then Collage making, jiske results came out to be just opposite to what I thought, as the collage I suggested to be 1st was declared 3rd and vice versa, and the last one was Rangoli, mere liye to Rangoli kamm aur Holi jyada thi… is bar holi nahi kheli na.. saari kasar nikal gai. How embarrassing it is when I’m walking around with some colours filled in glasses, my pants and hands giving a multi colored imagery. I myself took part in Quiz prelims, which was a big disaster.

Anyways, coming to the main-stage event. The Rock Competition, followed by performance by “One of the oldest bands of India, which has been entertaining Indians for the past 16 years and was now to entertain the Thapar University students”, The ‘Black slate’.. heard the name before??? I wonder…

Before I proceed I’d like to describe the Thapar main stage theory. According to the Thapar Authorities, (wont mention the person behind this theory, lemme name him Mr.P). So Mr. P, I think believes in the theory of homosexuality. Only this gives the reason why the guys and the gals are made to sit, rather stand in the same ground, but with an LOC running between them. He believes ki is tarah se aapsi bhai-behen chara badhta hai. But I fail to explain what I saw today. I saw Mr. P turning around, with his eyes escorting a girl to the stands… Mr. P seems to be a big Tharki mann se.. vo kehte hain na.. andar se aur bahar se aur… ;)

Okay, now I think its time I justify the title of this blog. Although we had paid a hefty Rs.250 just for entry into the Amphi stands, but we decided to stay out and watch the show from outside (there was a small platform kinda made outside, big enough to manage 10-15 people on it. So we stood there, thinking that we’d get a better view of the main stage. And we did, PLUS there was another stage of which we got a clearer view, the girls stand. Although the girls are nothing much to talk about, but their actions and their dance is. Before I give a description of the dance steps, I’d like to mention that the dance goes like, one gal starts a weird step and the others follow it….. Here it goes…

1. The Tick-Tock Step:- What we guys Head Banging, it goes tic tic for the gals. The reason is quite clear, hair style kharab ho jayega na… so head banging comes out to be tick tock tick tock in that order, with the head moving in perfect co-ordination rhythm.

2. The Machar Pakdo Step: - I don’t know what they call it for guys (coz I’m not much into these rock show terms), but for gals it’s the machar pakdo, as I saw it. The gal takes her hand up, opens it, slowly moves it down and with that the hand is now closed…. Yesssss machar pakda gaya.

3. The Mango Shake Step: - Untie ur hair, shake urself as much as you can, then retie ur hair again…. (I still wonder why gals look beautiful with open hair)

4. The Pata Nahi Step:- This step lacks co-ordination, coz every gal is foing, what she thinks is right, and jahan kuch nahi samajh ata vahan zooor se cheekh mar deni.....

5. Ringa Ringa Roses Step: - This is the best of the lot, coz all the above mentioned steps can be a part of this step…. All u have to do is make a circle and move round and round and round… (Merry Going Riung huh!!!) While Moving around u can just Tick Tock, u can Catch mosquitoes, You can shake urself, you can just move and move as if ur on an evening walk, you can hold each other’s shoulders, like we used to do in pre-nursery, and then jump jump jump… you can make a train outaa that circle you are moving in…. and yea… the worst thing, while moving in the train, you can move alittle towards the walls of the Stand, so that Blogger cant see you anymore… :(..

So guys that was the end of the story, as the ‘maal-gaadi’ was now parked where the blogger eyes couldn’t reach…


P.S. I was warned by daman not to write all this in blog, as the gals would eat me alive, or maybe cook me into dishes like ‘Butter-Deepinder’, ‘Cream Deepinder’, ‘Deepinder Masala’, ‘Afghani Deepinder’, ‘Lahori Deepinder’, ‘Chef’s Special Deepinder’… Now I just hope that most of my lady readres are veggies ;)