After three long months full of swine flu upsurges resulting in 1. almost a month long break from college and 2. everybody running away from Pune; we didn't know what to do. Even after all this, came in a lot of instability and stressful nights, where dead lines could not be met. All of us had started to think that Fdm 2010 was jinxed. People started avoiding meetings and during the swine flu epidemic we thought of meeting up online, but nothing worked. Finally, we gave all that we had and came up with what everyone now knows about Fdm 2010.
The theme for Fdm 2010, that is, Create Destroy Sustain, was finalized in a days time, after our very first meeting, but the day names were still hanging in mid air. Everytime we met, we came up with names and ideas but nothing worked and nothing made us say "WOW! This is it". There were unending and at times even meaningless arguments, but no zeroing down to the day names.
On the last day given to us for the themes, the core team along with the committee sat down throughout the night to finalize the themes, because it was high time and high levels of mental block were hovering all of us. The meeting had begun at 5 pm and went on till 7 am the next morning, and still we did not have a concrete set of day names, besides all this ofcourse everyone had their classes to attend till 4 pm. So, after everyone attended their classes the teams met up once again, without sleeping for 32 hours at stretch. This time everyone was too stressed out and sleepy, and hellbent on finalizing the day names before 7 pm. It was actually very tiring.
We waited till 6.30 and still couldn’t finalize the day names. So we devised a new way of doing it. The teams shortlisted 5 of their favourite name trios and asked everyone to vote, like ONE! And we know which trio finally won, the whole college knows, JOD TOD MOD !
After the unveiling ceremony, there has been a slight confusion about the day names and the themes. Just to erase it all, let’s go through this once.
Well, the theme of the fest means the soul of the whole fest, which means that whatever events take place in the fest would majorly be classified on the basis of the theme. Also, the installations, performances, music and all our work would majorly head in a direction so as to depict that. Secondly, after the theme, come the day names which were derived from the theme, and carry the essence of the theme all along. But, these are what are days will be called, i.e., Day1 will be called Jod, Day 2 Tod and Day 3 Mod. Since the day names carry the theme and its soul too, the installations and various other happenings on the 3 days can relate to the days too.
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