Red Yellow and Green

Red, Yellow and Green were the colours of the day, and what seemed like a quirky dress code for a party turned out to be a great conversation starter. For these colours were laced with sinister meanings, ‘available’, ‘taken, keep away’ and the most amusing of them all ‘complicated’!! The event: Fresher’s Party organized by the Student Activities Club at the University Cultural Centre (UCC) on 21st August. It was one of the first fun events organized by the Students’ Council to welcome the new batch of 2009, and what a party it was!

Speculations were rife as to who would turn up in red and who was sure to be green. As for the yellows, they had a hard time trying to explain why exactly they were wearing the colour. Explanations ranged from ‘I had only red and yellow, and yellow was the better choice’ to hilarious denials that seemed to say that the questioner was colour-blind, and that this was actually a shade of orange/maroon.There was also a ‘green quotient’, with some people saying they were ‘more green’ than others..All in all, the dress code was a great success.

And so were the anchors of the day, Hugo and Karla who worked their charms on the audience. They started off the festivities with simple games; one of which was picking on a person, and asking him in turn to pick on the next one by answering questions such as ‘Who do you think is the best candidate in this party for a shampoo ad’. The lucky person with the raven tresses would then have to choose, say, the person who looked most like Jennifer Lopez, while Jennifer Lopez then had to choose the worst dressed bum and so on. At the end of it all, we had the best and the worst dressed people in the party, the cutest person in the party, the shampoo model, the biggest beer guzzler and many other such genuine and dubious distinctions.

The next set of games involved people being divided into teams based on yet again, the color code. Each round required one person from each team to enact a situation with prizes for the best performance. The first round? Nothing less than Marriage Proposals! The budding actresses in the 2009 MBA batch put the Meg Ryans and the Aishwarya Rais to shame with their histrionics! It was hard to say who was blushing more during the winning performance, the contestant or the hapless guy on his knees in front of her!The Greens won the day with the most prizes. They blushed and swooned and sang and serenaded their way to victory. Though the free-flowing red wine might have contributed just a “little” ;)

The piece de resistance was however the paper-dance where couples had to dance on increasingly smaller pieces of folded paper without stepping out of the boundaries. The winner was the couple where the guy gallantly lifted up his partner and swayed to the music. All in all, an immensely entertaining experience for the onlookers.

Games and jokes apart, the party was a great place to meet all our seniors, in an informal setting, get to know them and enjoy some seriously good food ( a God-send for students who have to eat their own cooking on other days).We had most of our senior batch, and the student council members present in full force, as also Caleb from the MBA Programs Office. All of them went around the party talking to the freshmen, and offering to help make our first semester smoother and more comfortable. We clicked pictures, celebrated some birthdays with birthday songs and bumps!; and got to know our friends and their talents, and bonded together over full stomachs and wine. It helped us all feel togetherness as one cohort, have fun, and get ready for the hectic demanding semester lined up ahead.

-Mihir Mohite

Class of 2011