By Ashish Arora on January 20, 2010
BHU events and occasions
Last week had been a little more active than the previous ones of this month. It made an impression of a festive season because almost every day came with a celebrative moment for us. Second week of Jan, 2010 started in a very routine manner but the last 5 days of the week been quite crazy. Cricket Match, Lohri, Makarsankranti, unexpected holiday and Baati-Chokha program were the main attraction of the festive week.
A long awaited cricket match between Mass Communication Dept. of Main Campus, BHU and Rajeev Gandhi South Campus, Barkachcha, was all set to go on 12th of Jan. On 11th Jan everybody seemed to be captivated by upcoming cricket match event which was to be held on the next day. We talked, laughed, ate, drunk and slept cricket.
I can say that we even woke cricket because the next day when we woke up, it was the very day of our cricket match. Our main campus team was selected from both the batches of our department. All the buddies who were not going to play had been shouldering the job of cheerleaders.
BHU events: On the ground
We all were on the ground during the worm up session as we were in the host team. Then landed the guest team on the ground and the match began. We won the toss and went for bat. Our team during batting inning scattered as the playing-cards with making a little more than a century. The target might be easy for the guest team but not we were.
Our tight bowling and less blundered fielding ended their inning before far fromb reaching the target. We won. The level of excitement was at the peak. As always happens, we as the cheerleaders were in more zeal than our team members. As I had missed the last year’s match, this time was in the mood to take double fun.
A festive week
The festivals of Lohri and Makarsankranti happened to be as usually celebrative. Unexpectedly, one more holiday declared on next day, gave us one more chance to keep ourselves safe from the skin prickling cold. The last day of the week broke all the records of enjoyment when we organized the Baati-Chokha event in our department. Since morning till evening, we prepared the edibles called same as the name of the event.
Every member of department who was present their, lend his/her helping hand in the group operation. Now we worked, now we sang, then we danced and then we played together. There was no room of being tedious. This evidenced that team effort is the most important factor of any group activity.
The evening proved to be a delighting GAIN of serving food to one another and eating together. We forgot all PAIN of the hectic day. This time I was making memories with my juniors with cracking of lots of jokes and having fun together. This made us recall the last year’s album created with the seniors.
The festive week comes to an end…I wish if I could make every day festive. It’s not possible… and if it were so, it’s possible that the excitement will lose its intensity soon. But possibility is that we can save tiny happiness of the day to day life and create a huge bank balance of it just in the near future.
Happiness forever…
