Probably right then, those words struck like a bell, no one has done it for the last 4 years, why not we do it now? Initially I too was skeptical. The biggest problems were right in front of us. Biggest of all was CONVINCING. Especially convincing ourself. I did it to myself first, and I joined the team. Once done with that, we had all kinds of people doing their best to make sure that the fest doesn't see its day. Then one by one, everyone started joining in, more and more started thinking that it is actually possible. Then few throw a bet on us, if we could sail a boat without the paddle, ride the car without steers, fly a jet without wings, and essentially run a 2 day fest without sponsors. And there it was. It came from nowhere, an even more strong feeling of making this happen!. when THEY could do their best, we too can! after all we are their students :).
From that day, we started seeing people running around, collecting bits and pieces which could finish this puzzle. We had to do this, and we had to do it right! The best part was that, there was no need to ask everyone in person. Everyone knew it well, this was their last chance in college. We have seen almost everyone in motion and at various places uttering CIESTA CIESTA CIESTA..
All said,
When the day actually did arrive, it was nothing short of a Grand Wedding ceremony, where our dreams wed reality. I hope EVERYONE who thought we couldn't and shouldn't do the fest understood to a very good extent that they were overwhelmingly wrong, and they had to take an entirely new route to cover their tracks. CIESTA 09 began with the CS inmates dressed up in non-CS ethnic dresses. It was a pleasure watching the boys expose where as girls covered themselves :). Followed by the events for teachers, wherein our teachers were beaten and bitten hard by the laughter, happiness and enthusiasm of various events, and not to mention the magnitude of happiness of students who saw their beloved (?) lecturers polymorphosise. It then was followed by various skit teams competing against each other with the deadliest weapon in the world- LAUGHTER ( and Bin Laden thought it was a plane with a AHole Pilot!). While many girls struggled to decode the jokes, others were busy searching for a place to roll and laugh. And then there were solo songs, which brought out the BOYS out of boys. And oh my gosh! we had not seen 6 packs in the last 6 sems! ( no offence). There were other dances too! of course we look at girls too.
With the next sunrise, many woke up at a strange time and saw their watches in a state which they had never seen before. There were already people in audi warming the stage. Then started the events of all kinds rolling, Blind SMS, Lage Raho, Aapthamitra, EQ quiz. For a moment, we didn't realize, probably many might not have even realized by now; We have unknowingly made history (at least in small proportion) in SJCE.
CIESTA is the first full fledged 2 days fest, conducted without even a PENNY from sponsors. THANK YOU CS GUYS.
CIESTA had the best ever climax. We had many colorful girls, dressed in vividly vibrant colors, dancing on color filled stage. Only then we realize we had had girls in our dept, who could create stir! only thing we missed till date was a perspective to see them in a different version. Yeah, yeah, there were some anti-social elements too, who tried their level best to shake the "Ciesta" and they couldn't even shake the " of the "Ciesta". Swear on the evil nature of George Bush, we saw people on stage, who were never to be seen outside the class if there were any lectures going on. We saw almost every one climb on stage and enthrall the rest. Then there were people who conveyed tons and fetched bagful of applause with the help of 'ting' and 'tong' of instruments and not use a single word. There were more songs, which kept the C connected to I and E to make CIESTA. Finally there was Fashion Show!. what to talk about that? People who have seen it know it. Girls were looking at girls and boys on boys, and girls on boys and boys on girls? There wasn't a need of fashionable clothes, nor the flashy lights, their gaits conveyed everything.
And it ended, with a slide show which depicted SJCE in chunks of memory with a real time melodious stereo uncompressed audio feed. We don't know how, but we were on stage with our hands waving and feets tapping, we didn't care how we looked dancing, how we looked making odd faces, how our dresses looked when we raised our legs to kick the air, neither did we bother our friend's completely sweat wet hands lying on our Reebok or Westend t-shirt, nor the hands that made a V on our heads, not even the one kilo feet that lay on our feet, while we kept our teeth wide open as the lights flashed in an unpredicted manner, in various varity at various resolution and in various colors, but write just one message; A message that I had understood by then, its not the fun we had in two days, not the COLORS that we saw on stage, not the shoutings that got us tired, but something, that would make much more sense when kept in simple words; the word "CIESTA" had made sense......
" Impossible is Nothing, and when we are together we won't even need the motivation from the first phrase of this sentence"
- Sameer.A.M
8th CSB
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