Ponnonam '08

Onam is a festival of colours. It is a time of the year which other than the summer holidays many students look up to (for reasons that are obvious).
Ponnonam '08 in college, as always, was grand. The competitions included Pookalm

• Pookalam
• Chakkilottam
• Naaranga Spoon
• Panchagusthi
• Vadamvali etc
  

We started off at 9

Teamwork

Co-Designer and Director

In progress

Team Work. MEx SpiritFinishing touches. Almost done

Lighting the first flame. Gopi doing the honours.

That's it. We're done. S5 royal MEx, Reining champions, (Pookalam)

With the pookalam finished, the entire Royal MEx embarked on a procession befitting Royal MEx. Accompanied by Chendamelam and ilathalam and occasional bursts of good quality crackers, we rocked the college.

400 people. One Sound. Royal MExThrill. To it's max

The entrance of the college was decorated by a magnificent floral by College Union, one for 'Mathrukam' and one depicting 'Che'.

That's the Floral by College UnionMaathrukam

The results of the pookalam competition came at 3. And sadly, we got only 3rd. But seeing the pookalam which got the second, we're really disheartened. We really deserved second. But, first was unanimous. Akhilesh and the chemicals really deserved it.

First prize. the gradient looked really superb in person

The Vadamvali(tug of war) was another affair. Of the 8 teams, 3 were mechanical teams viz, mechanical A, mechanical B, and 'veruthe oru team', which in fact was a team comprising of myself(please don't laugh), payis, niranjan, raju etc with naomboori and ms being the only able bodied ones. But we won the first match. I don't really remember against whom, but it was chaos after we won. nobody expected us to win. Not even ourselves. We were pitted with mechanical B team, which of course we lost.

Vadamvali for girls were also fought with the same vigour, which the LH team won in a closely fought row with the divyans.

The men's finals came down to mechanical A team Vs Mechanical team. Who won among them is not important, but the fact that our spirit won. Before the finals, i could see the A team captain Freddie, coaching the B team on having the perfect hand grip and the leg lock, a really curious sight.

The day came to an end by 8, filling all hearts with hopes for the next Onam. More sarees, more prizes and more fun.