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The T-Nites are long over, but the excitement is just as fresh! And today, we all got reminded of it again... Why? I will come back to that later... But first let me continue from where I left! Yeah, the second half of the T-Nites.

After the dismal performance on Day 2, we were all charged up, thanks to the tuchchas also, to go out there and give a scintillating performance on the RJM nights.
Our auditorium here is called the RJM in short, and since the second half of the T-Nites takes place at the auditorium, it's called the RJM Nights.

T-Nite 2006 Day 3

Our classes got over on Saturday afternoon and we knew we had very little time on our hands to get our act together for the first of the RJM nights that same night. We all quickly had our lunch and got back to the class to start off a marathon preparation session. Oh man! One should have seen the enthusiasm and commitment. We were all working frantically with one single aim... to rock RJM. One main hurdle was to decide upon a theme. It was critical that we have a theme for the night because that's where we had lost points in the past 2 evenings. After much brainstorming, suddenly someone came up with an idea of 7!!! Seven??? What the heck is that... was the initial reaction. But slowly it started making sense... our class was CR 7... our fashion show had a theme of seven emotions / qualities / styles... our dances came from the seven seas... and our music spanned seven continents!!! Yeah, not a bad idea... And so, it was decided... 7 is the theme for the night. And Voila! The poster team immediately got going and started work on a real real huge banner for the stage. What a fundoo modern design it was depicting 7... I tell you, these girls in our class are damn talented!!!

The rest split into their own teams and started practicing... Before we knew, it was time to go to RJM... The dress code was black for everyone. So there we were in a group moving towards the RJM... a huge black group shouting slogans, a bit nervous though. Nervous because the practice was not comprehensive due to paucity of time... We were not sure if we would be able to pull it off well.

One good thing we did this time was that we had planned our entry and exit well because there were points for that also. When we all entered, a song started playing in the background - "Zindagi mil ke bitaayenge" - from the movie Satte Pe Satta... Boy, the strategy was bang on target, it worked like magic with the crowd because none of the sections had entered on a song... which was also related to the theme. We all got on stage and spread ourselves out because it's a huge stage and we needed to cover the entire stage. Just imagine, nearly 60-70 guys on stage cheering, waving, dancing!!!

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* Contributed by -
Vinamra Srivastava (Campus Associate),
PGP - 1,
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.