Symposium Saga 2010 Episode 2 : Warming Up (Interface)

Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 11 am

Millennium Hall, Senior Quiz Final

Quizmaster: Right Answer DPSN. Moving on to the next team.

Me: Dude, this is fucking boring. Bhaad mein gaya quiz. Uth ke chalte hai.

Mihir: Check out the semi-cute Xavier girl on your side.

Me (to girl): Who made this stupid quiz?

Girl: You think you’re too smart for it? What kind of quizzes do you have?

Me: The sexy kind. Will send you an invite for sure.

Girl: Huh? Which you school are you from?

Me: DPS Noida.

Girl: Aaah!! Attitude waale bachhe!! DPS mein manners nahi sikhate?

Me: Nah. They focus on speed flirting instead.

Girl (suggestive smile): Do you hate convent school girls or what?

Me: Na Na. Hum to aapse pyaar karte hai

Quizmaster: Next question for DPSN.

Interface 2010. Chose it over Silico Battles 2010 (Ahlcon, Mayur Vihar) only because I had to go to Code Wars  (DPS Vasant Kunj) the next day. (Silico clashes with everything). We split up the eSpice squad and sent half to Code Wars + Interface and the other half to Silico Battles.

Started from DPS Noida after some MAJOR confusion over who was going to which event. Me and Rohan tried sneaking in a hot girl (name classified but well, she just might be reading this and smirking to accompany us under pretext of of having a full team, but that plan got nuked. Reached St. Xavier’s in 25 minutes where we the male escort PK Sir escorted us one-by-one through the rain under the only umbrella we had.

St. Xavier’s looks like a typical convent school from the outside, but not as sucky from the inside. In fact the main hall, “Millennium Hall” was pretty big, almost a replica of Cambridge Noida’s Auditorium. After being treated to a torturous performance (during which someone swiped the Interface invite on Sawhney’s ass like a credit card) by the school band (see pic) we were sent off the various events. Me and Mihir for Quiz, Tushant and Nitesh for C++ Programming, Srijan for Java, Utkarsh and Rose for WebD while Karan & Karan (Malik and Sawhney) presented the PPT in the hall.

Quiz prelims were of MCQ type :/ Ranging from sitters like the developer of Java, to WTF? like last MSDOS version (6.0 or 6.2 or 6.22), it was a pretty disappointing one. Obviously, we owned it. Halfway through, in walks Akshay Kumar.

Erm… no, not that one. Akshay Kumar is the quizzer from DPSMR who had to attend Silico but turned greedy and decided that he could manage both. (He eventually lost in Interface finals and won in Silico prelims. Silico finals tomorrow)

After the prelims, we headed back to the hall to catch K&K in action. Malik was presenting with an iPhone in hand, reading off the notes. When he receives a SMS from a girl. In the middle of the presentation (see pic)! Fortunately, he chose not to reply to it and carried on with the thing, while our team rofl-ed.

An interlude followed, with more tortuous music. The iPhone had a cool app which repeats whatever you say into it in Hamster/Dog/Horny-Bitch tongue. We tried everything into it, until Sawhney got a little too excited.

Sawhney (loudly into the phone): Teri Maa Chod Doonga.

Some Random Teacher of Some Random School sitting across him: MIND YOUR TONGUE!

iPhone-Hamster: Teri Maa Chod Doonga.

After the first block of events, it was time for Video Editing (Rohan and Swayam, our winning-streak video team), Crossword (Dhananjay and Vishesh), Gaming (Malik) and Quiz Finals (We had topped the prelims). Turned out that Srijan forgot the syntax during the Java event, C++ programming was a farce of loooooong programs, and WebD was okayish. Overall trophy was a distant sight, basically.

We walked on to the stage for the finals like we were born to do just that, untucking our shirt midway (it brings good luck, seriously)

Quiz finals were a joke. Have you ever heard of a quiz with MCQs, True or False questions and NO passing??? I had’t. Until now. Easily the yuckiest quiz ever. We were reduced to making fun of basically everything to keep us interested.

Quizmaster: For DPS Noida. Jack Kilbi invented the IC. True or False.

Me: Pretty hard question, you know. Jack Kilby invented the IC, Jack Kilbi did not. Would you say its wrong if we say False on this pretext?

Quizmaster: Just answer.

Me: You won’t even clarify anything. We know the answer, that should fetch us points. Why do you base a question around a spelling mistake?

Quizmaster: Just answer, dammit.

Me: True.

Quizmaster: Yeah.

Lousy quizmastering:

Quizmaster: What is the name of the new motion sensing technology for the XBox?

Me: Kinect

Quizmaster: No. Its Project Natal. No points.

We fought. They didn’t relent. Suckiest quiz ever. We still won, of course by a landslide margin over New Era. And yeah, the girl WAS semi-cute (if you had the eye for it).

Video Editing was mixing and mashing trailers for the first 3 Twilight films to make the trailer for the fourth film. Twilight is gay and they removed all music, taking “Video” Editing a bit too seriously.Rohan-Swayam said everyone else was overdoing effects and making it tacky, so they might win. Malik lost in the Burnout round of Gaming. The finals were between MSM and DPS, Rohini — SFIV, FIFA10 and NFS Shift on an Xbox. They were sooooooo bad at NFS that half the people (including us) left the hall in boredom.

In a sudden call of hunger, we called up Dominoes and got a pizza delivered in the school Reached prize distribution with a full mouth, but I don’t think the Chief Guest even noticed. We won 1st in Quiz, 1st in Video Editing and 2nd in Crossword AND THE OVERALLL!!!! w00t!!! Never thought we’d have won it after Jaata Main Kaun School Mata Jai Kaur School got a podium in around 4 events, but whatever.

On the way back, we wanted to rape Sawhney (he’s kinda fat and cute, so we rape him after every symposium) and make a video out of it, but he wasn’t in the mood.

Well, This was practice.

Tomorrow is the real thing.

Code Wars. We’re in.

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