Friday, November 28, 2008

Harry Potter Drama

You may have read or watched Harry Potter Series by J K Rowling. This has won the Best Children's Book of 2003. On our Entertainment day at our college we decided to stage the 5th part of Harry Potter ie: Harry Potter and the Order of Pheonix.


It was quite a controversial decision. Many were against it. But we were confident that we could host a good show. We started preparing the script and dialogues. We began to search similar faces with the original Harry Potter Characters. The main protagonist Harry Potter's role was given to Surya.V(Same person who was partnerd me TCS Rural IT Quiz). Ron's role was given to Avadhoot.D.J(My best Friend). Hermoiny's role was given to Madhuri.D.V(Not Madhuri Dixit). And other roles too were given to my friends. 

From Left to Right : Avadhoot (Ron), Madhuri (Hermione), Surya (Harry Potter)

I refrained from acting and took on the job of Special Effects or Audio Video Department. We started practising it by bunking our classes not that we were too interested in doing drama but to avoid listening to the boring lectures.

Sunil (Dumbledore)

There were many hiccups during the journey. As you may have learnt we participated in TCS Rural IT Quiz (infact we secured 2nd place) and also the Mid Term Examinations had commenced. We started losing interest in it. Our English teacher who had kept hope and faith in us fighting all the criticism of choosing Harry Potter was in a weepy state.

Abhijeet (Voldemort)

After a small duel between me and Surya we gave it a new kickstart. In just under 10 days we rehersed it. Now it was my turn to put all the sound and video effects in it. With the help of our Computer teacher we were able to do that quite easily. Our school has projector and we made very good use of it. We showed flashes of light when the spell was cast.

Soujanya (Umbridge)

On the day of Entertainment Day, our hearts were beating hard. After coming at the college at around 3 PM we got ready in our clothes, dresses and costumes. The most funniest part was that even the boys had to apply lipstick.

A Classroom Scene

At around 6 PM the program started. On that day there was also a drama on Cindrella by our School students too. When our time came we performed quite good. We got appreciations from our classmates, audience and teachers.

The whole crew! Along with me in Grey Double Shirt

After a long fought battle we managed to put down a great show.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

TCS Rural IT Quiz - II Place

As you may be knowing about TCS Rural IT Quiz. It has been conducted from the past 9 years and is still going strong. I had been the state finalist for 2008.

We went there to see the exhibition on 6th NOV at around 4 PM. To be honest the exhibition was lacklustre. Only a few stalls and the most that hurt me was that Microsoft being a Diamond Sponsor did not put up a stall. It was inaugurated by our CM Mr. Yeddurappa and Gujarat CM Mr. Modi.


We came the next day ie: the Quiz day to the Palace Ground at 1:15 PM. It was one of the most frightening moment because our Autorikshaw toured the whole Bangalore city before taking us there. But it was his loss because the meter had gone up to Rs 50 but we just gave him Rs 20 and some scoldings.


The six teams who qualified for the State Finals were: 
1. Kashinath Handiganur & Manjunath Malipatil – Vidyabharati High School Talikoti, 
2. Shashank S Meti and Prabhu B Viratimath – St Annes Convent High School Bagalkot, 
3. Devrath N D and Surya V – MKET PU College Harihar (ofcourse we), 
4. Vittal R Pai and Madhusudan S – Kalpataru PU College Tiptur, 
5. Prashanth Pai  and Snehith Periera – SMS PU College Brahmavar and 
6. Rakshitha H M and Shravya R – Carmel Convent Mandya.

The quiz started with the commencing of Mr. Hegde, the Primary Education Minister at 4:30 PM. It was our first Zonal and State Finals so some nervousness and curiosity at the same time. And the quizzing began with the quiz master Giri 'Pickbrain' Balasubramaniam.



The first round was "Global Bytes" that had questions on history of computing, to people and products from the world of IT. We choose History and got a picture of a man standing in front of a computer. We answered it as Bob Bermer and UNIVAC but right answer was Grace Hopper and UNIVAC. Bad start.

The second round was "Quick Bytes" which was rapid fire rounds on buzzers. We answered quite a few questions here. I guess we answered 2 questions here. 

The Third rounds was "Lateral Bytes" which was an audio/video round requiring lateral thinking. 

The Fourth round was "Bits & Bytes" which was a round of crisp animated clues where teams had to think on their feet. I remember answering Intel for one of the questions here.

And the last round was "Last Bytes" which was on the buzzer and we had to crack the answer based on the clues.

After 6 rounds of adrenaline quizzing the team from SMS PU College Brahmavar got I Place and we got II Place. We got a Trophy, Rs 35,000 + 16,000(Zonal finals) and Nokia 3110.



After many firsts this year I have promised myself to study much better next time and win this Quiz. I thank my partner Surya too for the hard work and being my partner. And i also thank my parents without whose support i could not have become a Zonal Finalist I guess. And also our Principal for relieving us from the Mid term Examination that is being held presently.

Good Bye for now and hope and pray for winning it next year.