Finally...

It is almost a month since ComFest, and we get the prizes on stage today. There were a lot of things going on during the month that prevented it from happening sooner. We had our exams (the very next day of ComFest), then the juniors had exams, and there were competitions our Principal ma'am had gone to. So finally, everything was over and get were awarded on the stage.

There were lots of prizes today! Lots of competitions - interbranch, interschool, district level and even international!

There was the Vigyaan Shastra Pratibha Khoj winners. I was in that last year, along with Tanpreet bhaiyya, Zafar bhaiyya, Abhinav, and some more people. It was held at Subhash Public school and was a full day event. It was fun to try to name all those strange instruments, approximate the volume of water in various containers, etc. I was not in this competition this year. I didn't even get to know that it took place.

Then there was Creativity in Science - an international competition. Utsav, Arpit, Ayush Ladiya, and one more (I think... Dutta) were in that competition. Mr. Adil went along with them to Jamshedpur. They got the second position - among the 36 schools from all over India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. And guess what... each of them got an iPod nano as a prize (in case you don't know, it costs about Rs. 10, 000).

There was the interschool Hindi Debate. Our school was first. Varsha came second. The was second by just one point. The Cyber Olympiad students were also awarded.

MathCon winners were also there. Akhil Lohia (remember him?!). He HAD to be a winner... we have been listening to his name for YEARS when the class toppers and subject toppers are announced.

ComFest had the largest number of awards!!! Cartoon Film Making (Me, 1st); Web Designing (Vipul & Milanpreet, 1st); Verse writing and collage making (Milanpreet, 3rd); Programming (Utsav & Rohit, 3rd); Debugging (Rohit, 3rd). Milanpreet got the maximum prizes - 3. But she was late, so she was not allowed to enter the school. When the assembly was over, only then did Mr. RB Singh allow her!! It was her birthday... and had gotten a "gift" in the very morning!!! Once the individual prizes were distributed, the Shield was given to the team!!! I wished it was the biggest shield at Comfest. But (as we were second) we had the second biggest shield. If we would have come first, it would have been the third time we had won ComFest. But... chalo... theek hai. The events in which we had not got a trophie were not to be announced. But by mistake, Mrs. Bhattacharya announced an event in which we had not got a prize - X-plode. And that was my event :D

Then there was the interbranch choir competition - held the 3rd time, and won the 3rd time by us! The day before the competition, Mrs. Bhattacharya had asked us 12th students to criticize their performance. Some of us said that the expression in the leftmost students was a bit less. Maybe the criticism helped us get the 1st position!!! They started a "hip hip hurray" bit went on faintly.

I wanted that the ComFest team should do that (as we did every year... right?). But as a surprise, our Principal ma'am did that this year!!! Everyone was quite surprised!!!!!

Finally, the National Anthem. And then we started to leave. Mrs. Bhattacharya collected alllll the different trophies of different fields (like computers, debate, singing, etc) and went into the lobby... most probably to get them placed in Principal ma'am's office!!!

The ComFest team went to the computer lab to collect our participation certificates. There, I got to know that the principal of Jaipuria, Mr. AK Goel was no more the principal! I was [omitted] (you know what I want to write, right?).

Like last to last year, we'll try to convince someone to let us play computer games the whole day - after all we have won ComFest!!!

Today was the Science Olympiad. Mrs. Cherian was in the conference hall. We reached there at 12 PM, and the olympiad started. Once we had written our roll numbers, Vipul asked me my roll number - **** ** 005. He said it was his. And I said it was mine. I asked Mrs. Cherian. She said that my roll number was 005. I tripumhantly looked at Vipul, and he showed me his answer sheet - he had written 006. X-( The olympiad went just fine. We also got the cyber olympiad certificate after the olympiad was over.

Finally, the last hour was games. We were not wearing our white shoes. So, we were not allowed to enter the field. So we just sat in th class, chatting about things and seeing strange things happen behind us ;)

Once the school was over, on our way back, Utsav took out his iPod. He showed us some pictures of Comfest. But I still wonder, how does that touch scroll pad of iPod work. Then within 3 minutes, a crowd gathered around us. And the show was immediately cancelled!!!

Enough for today!!