This was 5th of September 06, we had our senior’s placements ,everyone was busy with one thing or the other, things were becoming too messy and tense, when Tarun (Hail Col0sseum) told me that I need to go for the teacher’s day and represent our class. This happens when your batch mates feel that you can do some thing or the other to lure audience :). Seeing the demand of the situation I went for the teachers day function, and that too as usual late!. I was sitting on the last seat since I entered from the back door again as usual :). First thought that came to mind was to sit quitely see the function and escape quietly and then I can always fake anything to batch mates that I gave a great speech and all.
But suddenly good RU made an entry and told that its not the matter of me going there giving a vote of thanks ,but the reputation of whole class is at stake; as all the programs will give vote of thanks and how the rocking batch of PGDSM MIT 03 can miss this opportunity.
And here started The struggle............
Like a turtle I some how struggled to make my place in the first 2-3 rows of the auditorium. Everyone was looking at me as if I was some terrorist who is making his way to plant the time bomb :). Do I look like one!! God knows better :). Another big problem was that there was no slot planned for vote of thanks. Now I was looking for that one chance when I can get hold of the mike wish teachers and get away with the thing. One by one my teachers were giving hilarious performances that made me even more nervous. I have heard somewhere that when you are under lot of mental pressure a time comes when you stop thinking about anything. Suddenly fear left my mind and I started enjoying the pressure. And as they say “Happy Go Luck” I got the chance as there happened problem in one of the CD and to fill the gap they asked anyone from the audience to come to the stage and perform anything. This was when I raised my hand and got the chance.
So I started with “My teachers and dear friends a very good afternoon, on the eve of teachers day I on the behalf of PGDSM MIT take this chance to extend my thanks to all the teachers who made our knowledge world even brighter”. Then I thought since I came here to perform something, I should sing something, but no song other than “Huzur is kadar bhi …” was coming to my mind then, so in the spur of moment I said “I want to dedicate a song to my teachers but it has no connection with teacher’s day” there was laughter all around. I sang few lines of the song and the ovation I got was mesmerizing, I thought either they liked the song or they are clapping because they got rid of me :).
Next day I got feedback from the teachers and people from other batch that it was very natural and nice.
So once again PGDSM MIT rocked the stage with a small but a memorable performance…..
