Sleepless nights....

the past one month has been a month of 3rd sem exams and an international conference....

on an average i slept for 4 hrs a day and spent 12 hrs running around these past 4 days(1st to 4th dec)..... it is funny how i got inside the organizing team of the international conference.....one normal day back in september as i was aimlessly floating around in the corridors of the FMS campus, a hand from the inside of one of the rooms pulled my shirt inside and i happened to be inside the shirt.....before i could recover from such a jolt i ended up in accepting the appointment of me as the logistice incharge of the conference.....there started my sojourn with the conference...

the rest of the team was also formed the same way as i was inducted....at the end of it i had half a dozen juniors at my disposal.....the conference was strategically scheduled for dec 1st to 4th....our third sem exams got over on the 30th of nov......

then started umpteen number of discussions on the matters of brochures and posters.......the team which was assigned the task of designing these two took their own sweet time to tell us that they wont do it......so a couole of enthu guys in the team sat down and made the poster in 2 hrs and got it printed in 2 days......same story with the brochure too.....but it was too late already....we had our brochures and posters ready only in november 1st week....with hardly one month for the conference the team which was involved in calling up corporates was pressed t oorder....they did a decent job by registering 50 odd corporates.....

as the days passed we were left with too many things to do but too less a time....add to it the irritation of having to write 8 3hr examinations....but we somehow managed to do some firefighting.....as i reflect back i would love to share the following incidents that happened during the conference....

1. When i got really pissed of with a team member who was sleeping happily in his room on the inaugral day till 1:00 and when the inaugral was supposed to start at 3:00..... i had to call him up from one of the phones in the MSA room and started to abuse him......never ever in my life have i used all those hindi galis.....this in front of 20 odd sudents.....

2. When i forgot to arrange the lamp for the lamp lighting ceremony in the inaugral function and when we had t orun to the hostel to get the lamp....we did manage to get the lamp on time for its usage.....

3. When i got all those calls requesting for exemption from attending the conference.....some were feigning illnes...some were feigning fiesta work etc......but it was fun exempting them.....

4. When i got up late at 11(i was supposed to be at the conf centre at 9) and ran down to the confernce centre without even taking a bath.....i looked like a street urchin.....then got back home to take bath and appear presentable...

5. I wont forget a delegate from sown south who kept on bothering me for small small work....

6. my first visit to an international airport....i visited IGI in Delhi to recieve our chief guest for the closin ceremony Mr. Minoo Bhandara, Member of national assembly of Pakistan. He turned out to be a cool old chap with a cooling glass too big for his face.....he is the chairman of Muree breweries of Pakistan....

the list will go on.....i did learn a lot from this experience....although we only did firefighting...i.e., trying to solve the sprouting problems the conference was a sucess.....and hopefully the juniors will strive harder to do better next year.....

I had a good sleep after winding up the conference......feeling fresh enough to organize another conference.....looking forward to the start of the fourth semester tomorrow....