the best chocolate ever !


After a hectic bout of applying for graduate studies and in between a not so enjoyable spree of calling companies for placements and explaing to them what design is , luckily enough to keep us sane there was Alcheringa - our cultural festival.

Even as I write this there is a twang of nostalgia - it was my last alcheringa -as a student at least.
And it was truly memorable. After a spree of offstage shows - which i truly love doing!- i finally hostd the biggest game show of alcheringa 2006. Thanks to Shaiz for the wonderful way he organized everything and all the guys behind the scenes for the show. There were lots of expectations and I wanted it to end on a really good note. I do plan on writing a post about the show - another one on the to do stack ! - but for now i'll just say that the horde of sweet people coming to congratulate me and some truly lovely compliments do feel nice and i'll venture to say that the show did go really well. Thanks to all the people in the audience and organization for being so wonderful.

Not that i didn't do offstage shows. I did both informals and Crush- the dating game show - and it terms of pure fun - yeah it was the best :).

oh the post header did say something about chocolates right ?
well here's why ;) (p.s. the chocolate sort of disappeared in the pic to come !!). And to the lovely girl with those hypnotic brown eyes and the super smile ...........thank you for everything :)

Comments

Anonymous said…
hi,
remeber me , stuti? I was at your 2002 festival ? is this a picture from crush ? missed alcheringa this time. looks like it was great fun. will mail you.
bye.
6:42 AM
Anonymous said…
naini tum bond ho yaar...;)
2:48 AM
neo said…
Hey Stuti! Yes I do remember you :)
What are you upto these days?

Gaurav - tum bhi ;)
7:33 AM
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