MY EXPERIENCE IN RIIMUN-'09
Or should I say it Re-MUN...cause I want it again and again and again..What a trip it was, at least for me. A trip filled with fun, humour, disasters turned into opportunities, bla.bla.bla.
As was expected, we 'launched' our mission from Lucknow in three separate groups crafted out of our 12-member team(at least on paper).Mind you I wasn't aware our full contingent till the event got over!
I think the leader was our very.jpg)
own 'modern-day-MANU'(you got it right!).The trip to Allahabad was 'educational'-thanks to Alok sir-I now know about all the 'pairs' of RML. Upon reaching Allahabad 'Cow' Station we were served to a quite wide variety of fauna ,viz. , donkeys, monkeys, cows, rats...n yes, some humans also. The journey to Pune was largely enjoyable for everyone except Ashutosh who was subjected to some 'intense mental and physical molestation' by Deepak.
Pune-as a city-we found hot(in the better sense...of course). The four days of the event-first at Vishwabhavan and the rest at SCMS-were the most hectic ever. Imagine 18-hour days continuously for four days-no wonder some delegates decided to distract their minds to other 'objects and activities' of fun. The first day was the training session-delegates were introduced to the the nuances of the trade. People were finally allowed to have a look on the much maligned, abused, victim-of-all-outbursts Mr. Harsh Nangia, the project-director, RIIMUN 2009. The second day entailed much hard-work( on all fronts).And as if none of the delegates were exhausted by the evening-there came a surprise of DJ(or was he?)No surprise only a third of the delegates attended it(and a third of attendants danced). What was most spectacular were the faces of the delegates-resembling more like Tenzing Norgay just after he achieved his mammoth feat. Back at our room, we slept from eleven to seven like ‘soldiers back from Tiger Hill’. Third day was more or less the same apart from the expressions on each face that read out loud-ANYTHING BUT DEBATING. The respectable delegates could be found watching movies, playing games, flirting, discussing each-others private lives, hitting on the judges themselves, etc.etc. A very interesting feature of the event was that the organizers were more than willing to deliver a rose(with a personalized message) to your preferred delegate in case you wanted to express your feelings to him/her. Special ‘hit-proof’ messengers were even appointed for this job. Hats-off to Symbiosis for pioneering this effort which will definitely have Shiv-Sena’s work cut-out for a rather eventful festival looming large on the horizon. Then came the Award ceremony...accompanied by crap humour. Most of the awards, I suppose all of them, went to Symbiosis. I’m still wondering why.jpg)
does this always happen?(see how intelligent I am).I sincerely feel Avinash sir should have been given the award for the ‘Outstanding Delegate’. Come on yar, he was rarely seen inside his committee.INJUSTICE. There was some rock concert scheduled which the delegates of-course decided to skip for the simple reason that you needed to give some 300 bucks in ‘charity’ for getting an entry. And I guess the concert was nothing but a pole-dance by an insanely over-grown guitarist(he claimed to be) who doubled up as the secretary-general. Imagine Ban Ki-Moon doing it for you...the rock-concert BOMBED.Bigtime. Well, that sums up our RIIMUN experience as a team. As for my personal experience, it was one of the most eventful experiences of my life. You don’t get to represent a whole country every-day. And yes, who can forget my two-day ‘dream’ with one of the most beautiful girls there( i think she became Ms. RIIMUN). I cherished being the sore of every eye there. Bragging Rights...Anyone?
Final Vedict:Still confused if you should participate in RIIMUN 2010?Here’s my verdict...
Why go there?
· You wanna have fun of your lives
· You haven’t ever seen Pune..and are dying to see it
· You want Bragging Rights(like me)
Why don’t go there?
· You participate in any event with a slight chance of winning something.IN RIIMUN YOU DON’T
· Pune’s extremely hot(I mean the weather) and costly
· You find your local girls/boys more attractive(poor fellow...)
· You are a die-hard MNS fan
Some Notes in case you decide to go there:
· Don’t go via Allahabad- one of the most mis-managed, unplanned, dirty stations I’ve ever seen(sorry Aditya)
· Don’t ever order food from the pantry car of Indian Railways. Even our ‘much-maligned’ mess serves 100 times better food.
· Don’t expect Symbiosis to provide respite from the weather there
· Always Remember: RIIMUN IS TAILOR-MADE FOR SYMBIOSIS
10 comments:
were u belgium?
nope i was GFCE,Afghanistan.Btw,who wer u?
just for the record, its not tailor made for symbi, USA was only symbi law, by no means the most popular college there.. in fact more likely to be one of the most hated:P even by the organisers, and i resent the fact that you seem to think we won by default rather than because we deserved it.
@Nikhil
May I conveniently tell you that almost all the Institutes that 'got' prizes(well ofcourse if you can call them) were from Symbiosis...And this i supose everybody knows(apart from maybe Nikhil).Still if you don't believe my comment,open the riimun website and have a look at the past winnners.You'll get for yourself.Plus all the top countries(UK,France,US,etc.)were previously allotted to the Symbiosis institutes...n i supose there shouln't be any argument for this.Period.
@Zoomer
If you had read the rules carefully, you'd have noticed that the countries were allotted on the basis of past experience, and that the Symbi teams that you claim won by default at this model UN have also won prizes at HRMUN, MMUN , DAIMUN and the previous years RIIMUN, now unless ur suggesting that all of these MUN's are biased towards symbiosis for some odd reason that defies logic, you cannot say that a bias existed. Please google the abbreviations if you need the full name to further clarify.
@Nikhil
Do i have the luxury to ask you why such a system was adopted for awarding countries to teams???And how many of you think this is just???Well, they always give a reason for every felony..Poor chap,i think you are smitten by symbi whores...
@ zoomer
few things i ABSOLUTELY HAVE to say..
1. i really like your name by the way. i think it sounds UBER cool!
2. there seems to be a conflict between your blog and your last comment about symbi "whores".. you seemed to have been drooling over the female who became miss muna? well, she's from symbi law.. tut tut..
you should chill man. don't get so worked up! shit happens.. deal with it..
the reason symbi law got USA and other high profile countries this year, last year and the years before that in the RCPNE, is because the RCPNE had a criteria, which basically gave teams their country preference based on the number of training sessions they attended and their performance in them. Considering it was previously a pune based competition, it obviously received a lot of participation from symbi law. plus, we have practice MUNs in our college, and we've gone and won quite a few as nikhil pointed out.
If these high profile countries are given to some random ass loser teams, then the competition would not be heading in any constructive direction... if you've been to any other MUNs, you'd know this to be true.. thats why symbi law got decent countries and not some other colleges..
Your luxuries sure do lie with you, take it up with the organisers if you're so ticked off..
and "felony".. seriously???
@Andy
Thanx for ur first comment...
Now moving to ur second comment.Firstly,I never used the word 'whores'..C i have the highest regard for females(ya, even if they are symbi ones!!!).Secondly, I dont think any of the participants were aware of this training sessions stuff...But then again, Symbi had leased their campus for the MUNA,so i believe i lil partiality(if v can cal it) is granted.
N finally,coming back to that MISS MUNA girl...MAN I cant stop laughing at the girl and her boyfriend.I mean, wat the hell was she intending to do by trying to play with me...
nyways do u know her personally??
This year i am participating there.
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