What's in a Pondy?

What's in a Pondy?

Frankly speaking, most Christites who put their hearts into Darpan, dream about going to Pondy. What's at Pondy? Factually, a mega fest named 'Spandan' (meaning: beat/ heart beat) in a mega College called GYPMER in Pondicherry , where many other colleges take part and the competition is tough. The programmes go on till late night and the feeling of being on the bus to Pondy along with your 'Cul' team mates and representing your college elsewhere is something that is supposed to be memorable. I haven't gone there, so I don't know. There's much excitement in the air. Perhaps, more than our team and the fellow Cul team members, it's our friends and class mates who seem to be in seventh heaven about us going to Pondy. I wonder what the previleged Cul team members of the previous years felt when they won the compettions and found themselves destined to go to Pondy. "Man!!! Gonna rock in Pondy, eh?", "What macha..All set for Pondy-a?", "Lucky buggers!/ (sigh)/", are just some of the describable reactions. I don't want to sound all previleged and proud. But the reaction of the other guys, who haven't been to Pondy but still are mesmerised under the magic of a place and event, which they have only heard of puts me in a thinking mood. So what's in a Pondy, where I've never been, but gives the other fellows who're going to stay back, when we're away, the jitters? I see people dying to go to Pondy this year. Various tactics, strategies and exertion of influence is going on just to get oon that bus. All that's going to be over. I know who's going and who is not. This list is going to be up today.

I'm happy to be a potential Pondy goer this year. To be part of the College folktale ("We did this in Pondy", "we won that in Pondy", "We lost but we had fun in Pondy", "What a feeling to get the cup in Pondy", etc.), which would be told further down the generation. To be a part of the contingent which represented the famous college of Mission and Vision. I look forward to it. To be part of the team, make new friends, experience something new together, to share and laugh and cry and travel together, to form new bonds and add in something in the album called life. Thank God for the opportunity. Really thank God. Don't think I deserve it.

And to end on a queer, but joyful note. My friend is happy and all excited about going to Pondy this year. He's been working out a lot off late and I ask him why. With that trademark smile he says "I'm getting ready for Pondy". Well, well.