SYSTEM OF A DOWN

On one lovely morning The Sulk came upto me in that funny walk of his and asked me "coming to Allahabad?". The first thing that came to my mind was that probably The Sulk wanted atonement( a nice movie actually) for his sins and hence wanted to visit the holy sangam. But the Sulk washed away my misconception by telling me that the actual motive was attending the MNNIT literary fest called GNOSIOMANIA. The morons that we are, we actually laughed our heads off for some 2-3 minutes on the choice of the name. My initial reaction on such matters is always no considering that I am as lazy as they get. But somehow this time my head reeled off in a completely different direction and I said "yes, ok, cool...". Over the next few days my lazy alter-ego cursed me for bringing such a big burden of physical activity on us. But showing my impeccable bravery I, along with Lefty, Rapo, The sulk and Susaaaant set about our journey to Allahabad with happiness( on account of bunking classes) and vigour( on account of the expected greater presence of the fairer sex). We took one of those dilapidated Haryana Roadways buses for Haridwar. In the course of the journey I saw some of the funniest photos I had ever seen. Rapo's had a moustache that would put any Maddu actor to shame. Lefty's was the best in the sense that he decided to bring a photograph which showed him in a much younger light...and by younger i mean the time when he still wore shorts to school. I will not discuss my photo 'cause this is my blog after all. Anyways we got to Haridwar and just as we boarded the train we were greeted by a series of claps and comments that cant be shared on this public forum. Dela undertook his own version of the Great Escape and showed us how brave he actually is. After that, the nerds that we are, we took to reading novels to pass time and a nice sleep later we were in Allahabad. We were welcomed there by the MNNIT's version of The Great Khali. The chap was nice though and got us a Vikram Auto to the campus. There we were asked to wait in front of the girls hostel. Sadly though we could spot no female species there. Could it be that they were already warned of our impending arrival? Anyways we were allotted a room and then we got down to business. Our First Quiz. It was a general quiz though it was called a multimedia quiz. We, that is me, Dela, Sushi were literally screwed by the quizmaster who did not take kindly to Sushi's antics. We couldnt qualify...However Lefty and Rapo did and made us proud by coming 3rd. The team that came 1st was a team that wasnt very popular amongst us. Lefty was particularly irked by their antics and rightly referred to them as 'The Baster Team'. Next followed the corporate and auto quizzes..and the less said about them the better. We helped ourselves to generous amounts of food at the Sagar Ratna stall setup there in the meantime and killed time by general bakar and abusing the baster team for their self obsession. Then came the General quiz-the last quiz of the day. IITR showed its class when all of us qualified for the main round only to be pummelled later..a 4th and a 5th place the only things to show for our efforts. However the next day we kicked some serious ass by qualifying for both the Entertainment and the Sports quizzes. A last gasp 3rd place in the sports quiz turned out to be the cherry on the cake. The entertainment quiz had some masala of its own..for details refer sushi's blog. Anyways we then set forth on our journey back. The only hitch being the fact that Sushi, Dela and me had no tickets. After much jostling we got ourselves some ticket for the ride back to Roorkee. We had some perverted fun on the platform to kill time. The return journey passed rather peacefully the only glitch being the lack of food( we survived on Britannia 50-50 and Lays). We feasted ourselves on some eye candies on the way back and then got back by about 4 in the afternoon.
A nice trip on the whole..the only sad part being that i missed our biannual Dehradun food trip.

(P.S. The title is a very veiled reference to a serious problem that plagued us during the entire trip. Be sure to check personally with one of us as to what it was..)