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My Boards ended about 4 days back and I, to be honest, have gone out every single day apart from 31st March, when I decided to stay at home *duh*. Anyways, the boards had been truly remarkable and I hope that the checking is fair and favourable 
.
So, what’s in store this month for me? Apart from appearing for those admission tests to coaching institutes like Vidyamandir or Resonance, I plan to go to KOTA for a week since Resonance has invited me to a camp for Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yogana training. This is an exam for science students who can get upto Rs. 7000 per month if you clear the exam. So, I’ll might be off to Kota on the 13th of this month and will be back by 18th or 19th.
Other things this month include the THEME Piano Concert where I’ll be playing and singing a few ABBA numbers with a group. This is on the 25th of this month so there is a lot of practice to do since I had taken a break from piano from January to March. That’s it for April.
This year is a crazy year for me atleast since we have a lot of things planned for our school, a lot of competitions to go to and lot to study because I don’t wanna flunk class 11 roflmao. There are lots of things like SAT I and II for which I have to prepare along with the Grade 8 piano exam and the IITJEE coachings.
This academic year is going to be a pain. Hope it goes well!
2008 hasn’t really been one of my best years. I’ve tried lots of things this year, gone for many competitions, won some and lost many. Still, as the memories fade away and I witness the last night of 2008 in another couple of days, just want to write about some the defining moments of this year before I crack up studying for the preboards:
One of the worst quizzing seasons I’ve had. Its been a downhill ride since April when we won the quiz at Gyan Bharati (Anveshan). Since then the only good moments have been the Columban quarters and the CBSE Heritage quiz zonals – which we lost again. The japan quiz, LBR, TCS etc etc…the list could go on and on….Still, let history not repeat itself…2009, I’m waiting for you!
This year was my fist experience at Computer symposiums at DPS VK, RKP, MR. I loved the way the event functions – students running around all over the school, the whole school buzzing with activity and 4 guys from Amity Saket running from event to event in the pursuit of getting “Something” for our school. We did get some stuff in DJing, Gaming and made it to some quiz finals. Atleast I got some experience!
I have successfully messed up 3 sets of examinations, trying to resurface after each attempt. July test, 1st term, December test…..SSc has become my nemesis. And with the preboards on my head…SSc is the last thing I want to do. But the catch is that it is the first preboard.
Other subjects have been fine. English is going good and there has been improvement to a 94 in german. Am just about to touch perfect score in maths. Science is OK….apart from some silly errors here and there.
This is one ‘big’ event we won – big because it was a national event. We got both the 1st and the special awards in this computer event. It consisted of a quiz in the first round and a makeshift powerpoint presentation in the second round since the quiz couldn’t take place. We didn’t go to collect the prizes in Chennai since that would mean missing out 8 days of studies and a band competition.
Speaking of the band, we’ve made a start. Now, we are playing DreamTheater stuff although our inclination is more towards punk. We also got Rs. 3000 for qualifying at a RockFest organised by Ansal Plaza….we were the only school band, the others were college bands and professionals.
Among all the quizzes, IT comps, band etc etc saw me missing from fast paced action in class sometimes. The teachers took this as a chance to speed up studies – The course was wrapped up in November! I thought of putting up a notice on my usual, changing empty seat in class with my photo and the words ‘Missing, presumed fed’ written below it.
Something I will surely miss from next year. This quiz has BIG prizes and a HUGE no. of teams. Shreyans and me finished 4th out of 500 odd teams by 5 points – heartbreaking.
We went, we sat and watched in awe… These matches were too good to be true. Thanks to Abheek and Akash for getting me tickets to these matches. Abheek’s leaving school and I’ll truly miss him – my best friend.
Starting April, I’ll be doing Grade 8 for western classical piano from Trinity College, London. This is the final level and after this I’ll only have to do the diplomas.
I’ve slept through the year and now is the time for the New Year Resolutions:
Why? Because I’ve missed so many classes that it is impossible to count the number of classes missed on both your fingers and toes.
See (1) for further explanations. Less Sleep -> more study
Come on. I’ve lost count of the no. of events I lost through this year!
I’ll write more often than not on this online journal. I lose track of what to write and what not to….
Well that’s it, I guess. This may well be the last post for 2008.
Wishing you all a prosperous new year!!
It wasn’t to be. Lost the only chance to win the quiz.
It started a day before the quiz i.e. 15 Oct. I was at my piano class when I got a call from mom telling me that the quiz was the next day. Normally this quiz is held in November and we usually got the invite and I had been waiting for this quiz for AGES since my friends form Vidyamandir, Chennai had won it a year ago. I rushed home and tried to register by calling up the TI office and other random places but to no avail. So we decided to go to the venue directly and sort out matters there itself.
Venue was the Air Force Audi in Subroto Park. We reached on time and with some smooth talking were allowed to take part in the quiz. The audi was jam-packed and a source revealed that there were effing 520 teams in the competition. The written commenced where we missed some simple answers but got the tough ones correct which fetched me a Texas Instruments calculator. These calcs are damn expensive and I had gathered 2 on previous occasions. We finished with 25 correct and 4 stars. News revealed that the girls from DPS Dwarka failed to qualify at 25 and 2 stars. We were damn scared since the other team from our school ALSO had 25 and 4 stars. So if they qualified, we did as well.
Qualification results showed that the guys at 26 and 5 stars topped and both our teams from Amity Saket went through. Arjun Hans (my dramatic quiz team member, this time on a different team) reacted as if he had grown up watching American Idol and other reality shows. On stage were DPS RKP, DPS Rohini, Springdales pusa, SPV and 2 Amity teams.
There were many rounds where we did messup in places but got some stunners right. We tried to pull up in the speed round but missed by a whisker. 5 points. That is the difference between guys who come 4th and the guys who come 1st. I was heartbroken. I wanted to run away…but not before getting the prize…
Final scores showed that there wasn’t much to choose between the first 4 teams with scores 85, 82, 81 and 80 (SPV had 82 from the one mark in the tie breaker. DPS rohini had 81 from the written marks carried forward).
If this would have been a 3-a-side quiz, we would have RULED the quiz since one guy from my regular team was in another team and scored 70. IN all, Amity teams had 150.
Hard luck but well then…..time to move on and look forward to bigger and better things.
Gyan Bharti School had their annual ‘Anveshan’ event. Surprisingly, this was the postponed version of the 2007 event. So, the 2007 edition was skipped for unknown reasons. Forgetting this, we had this on the 19th of April. The other kids of my class were going for a visit to the Open House at IIT Delhi. Wasting a Saturday for a lame quiz wasn’t worth it. So, I just went to school with minimum preparation and left school at around 8.20 for Gyan Bharti (which is a stone’s throw away from my school). Registerations had started and it was surprising to note that only ONE team had registered before us!! We registered, roamed around the school and sat in their auditorium. This auditorium had these small CFL tubelights around the place to light it up and the walls were lined with amazing facts and other stuff about Moon and Yamuna….lame. Then the surprise came. DPS RKP and Mothers strode in the hall with that utmost look of overconfidence, heads held high as if they OWNED the competition. They didn’t know what was in store for them… our team had 3 NTSE scholars and walking into a science quiz, you don’t expect us to lose. We waited for another hour before the lighting of the lamp started along with the regular speeches and all. Time for the quiz. The quiz had a relatively easy written round. We were confident that we would clear it and we did. Questions are as follow:
We aced through this paper, easy wasn’t it? Next we had a stage round with Amity, DPS RKP, Blue Bells, Springdales, Gyan Bharti and Air Force Bal Bharti. The stage round was simple as well, not that easy in comparison with the written. Usually the writtens are tougher than stage rounds… There were rounds like face to face, Visuals, Identifying scientists on the basis of 3 clues, names of scientists as anagrams with a clue eg.
TAN COW IN SEA : This is why we stand on Earth
Ans. ISAAC NEWTON
And the last round was a complete copy of the ESPN Sports Quiz stage round where one participant from the team goes and faces the quizmaster, only that there were no lifelines in this one. We won with a question to spare. The quizkid, tried being oversmart and when I asked for a 5 marker, he said,
No, I’ll ask a 20 pointer instead of the 5. You answer this to prove you have the winners touch.
I didn’t bother answering this one! Then the guy bored us with questions after the quiz and after an hour we got our prizes. Incidentally, the GBSchool exchanged all the prizes and we only got one trophy, the other schools took away our trophies! Though they’ve assured us that we’ll get our trophies, I have my doubts. Any way, a great start to the quizzing year and I hope I win some more!
PS: If you want the stage questions, I’ll send along a mail if reqd.
