The (official) SNIFF blog

 

SNIFFFFFFFFFFF DAY

 

Bored? Homeless? Seasick? Too many Rs. 9 first-of-every-month gelatos freeze your brain? Too many projects bogging you down? Jaws cracking by excessive yawn inducing films? Loose bowels? You don't need to wait for 2010 to get a dose of sixteen: nine International Film Festival . We're giving the world a taste of what to expect on January 15 and 16. The festival will officially be declared open on September 16, 2009. (talk about freaky alignment of numbers. Geddit? 16:9 = fest, and 16/9/09 = thirteen days away from my nineteenth birthday and official fest announcement?)

SNIFF Day is another celebration on the UPG social calendar. We're expecting mayhem (another word for participants) to sweep the streets leading from the college building to the location for the unveiling of the festival banner (which is some distance away, so I guess your running shoes should come out of your closets). Festivities will begin at 1 pmo sharpo.

Participant? I advise you to tag along with a bunch of friends just in case there are team events. To tell you the truth, I know everything that's going to happen on Wednesday but I just don't want to tell you right now because I have a conscience and I'd like the events team to hog all the credit while I shuffle between venues in the rain, seriously threaten to have my weight plummet below a consistent 56 kilos and make a general nuisance of myself.

But, as it turns out, the PR team always gets what it wants so here you are homies:-

SNIFF Day festivities will continue throughout the day culminating at 4.09 pm, the hour of the unveiling. This year, we've managed to rope in Bollywood directors, Mr. Sudhir Mishra (his name spells r-e-s-p-e-c-t in capital letters) and Mr. Rohit Shetty of the Golmaal series who along with our very own Principal Dr. (Mrs.) Geetha Mohan (applause)will tell dozens of seated mediapersons and of course you that SNIFF in on!!1!!1!!1.

Now to continue where I left off when I was talking about the events. There's a lot of stuff on my bucket but finding out what a karaoke machine looks like isn't one of them. However, you (and I) will get to do that one way or the other, either because we're just curious and we can't resist the temptation or we're greasepaint fanatics and can't resist the temptation. For the record, if I could remember the lyrics of any good number I totally would be joining the queue for karaoke even though I'm not allowed and also because people make fun of the way I talk so I can imagine the consequences of me trying to sing.

Have you tried spelling next as “nekasht”? My amazing vocab kept aside, I've tried this madness more than a couple of times and result sounds like something cute coming out of a five year-old's mouth. An opportunity to go live on radio is just one of the perks of hanging around. I'm not preachy so I'm not going to ask to try it out or even try saying please as “plezzzzz” (zzzz like the French do). ............................................................................................................................................................................ Reverse psychology always works. Hello cute five year-old.

So, on to the nekasht event. Play this one and you'll know what those poor dears competing in the amazing race go through every week. Our as yet unnamed event will take you on a whirlwind tour of our proud institution, do stop to click photos. You will have to complete a number of challenges at every stage of the event. The only way to get to the next stage is to answer a series of questions in record time and make feet (you poor dears). The survivors will dash across to the unnamed ground of great happenings and exciting prizes, yet to properly wrapped, for the last stage of finale.

Having rambled on so, I've suddenly and conveniently realized there's only three days left for SNIFF Day and that it's time I dragged my anti-social self to college and lend a hand in the last-minute preps. I know what you will do this Wednesday. Ciao.