My colLege COOL fests - Part-1 of the series "WIE DAY, 2006"

I am an IEEE member and hence filling my responsibility to the society by writing this review (please NOTE all readers! it’s not actually a report on the WIE day, it’s just a review). The annual function (do take into consideration the difference b/t ‘function’ and ‘festival’) of WIE chapter ‘Audora’ was celebrated on 13th April.

‘Audora’ was basically a one-day show (precisely speaking a three hour show). Thankfully; from a student’s point of view; there was no chief guest, inauguration stuff, etc…etc to start of the proceedings. Without wasting much time let’s have a run-through of all the events and keynote sessions held on that day.

As soon as the committee room was sufficiently occupied, straight away we had the fortune to see Mr. Mahavir Jain (most of the janta consisted of fachhaas and velas and guys like me who were forcibly taken to the committee room...venue of the gr8 event... from the reading room, where I was completing my NACP register). By his name he sounds like a God; though he is not. But he surely had some super-natural powers embedded in him as he somehow managed to mug up the whole Oxford dictionary that TOO! with page numbers (why?) ... may be, he is also a vela (wo0O man!! I haven't heard this kind of vellapenti ever). Also, his name stands deep inside somewhere in the Limca Book of Records for this great mugging work.

He presented a talk on how to mug difficult English words and how to increase vocabs and communication power. In my view, he was the hero of the WIE function as his talk was most appreciated among all other talks. He also disclosed various ways by which one can learn difficult English words e.g. how to use principle of linking, etc. As soon as his talk ended, 90% of the crowd went. I stayed, coolly doing my register work.

Next was a presentation by somebody from AID association (it’s an NGO). I won’t write much about this as you won’t read it…said as simply as that.

Then came the third and the last event of the day. It was presented by a woman! … she was the only female talker in the whole WIE day ! Gutsy Lady. She looked like a not-so-old version of Shyma Chona (the DPS RKP one!). And if you are interested in her name…I read her name on a poster outside the male toilet of the first floor…so interested guys should see that. In her quarter hour talk she talked about the World Wars (both versions -1 & 2), Indian struggle to achieve freedom, Yamuna, Ring road, Street outside our college and how clean it is, politics, tambaccu (including pan, bidis), puppets, pakode and samosas and daal-chawal and blah blah blah. She talked about everything except engineering…………and meanwhile I was completing my register. Her talk was attended by at most 15 guys.

Then came the refreshments time in which the organizers were shouting “khana le jaoo yaaron bach gaya hai”. This was proceeded by some fun-creating non-formal events which saw sizable participation from first year guys.

Some extracts:-

“ what is that a woman has and a girl does’t?”
--- This ques was asked by the 3rd speaker during her talk

“ U can learn the word wanton by expanding like want-her-on”
--- Mr. Mahavir Jain

Last line: The purpose of Women In Engg. was fully served...n

if you wanna see the proof...just have a look at practicals or internals marks of girls...