DMZP Freshers' Social & Rock and Roll

What do I say? It was kind of a flop event if I am to express my view on the Delhi Mizo Zirlai Pawl (DMZP) Freshers’ Social that was held at Mizoram House, Vasant Vihar on August 25, 2007. Maybe the DMZP leaders can shed light on why the Students’ body ID Cards were issued only on that day and not before that? And why those without ID cards were not allowed to enter the event’s premises.

It is possible that many who are not or do not want to be members of DMZP would also like to attend the event. Does it meant that the Freshers’ Social was intended only for DMZP registered members? And what about for those unknown guests, who are not freshers anymore? There is something amiss here which can be properly scrutinized to better the students’ body and its relationship with still studying students and those not studying anymore.

What I also do not understand is the feast (?). I wonder - what if sometimes the people who come to the event is so huge that the prepared feast is insufficient to meet the stomach of the feasters. This is quite possible because it will be unpredictable to know how many are going to come. The unpredictable can be predicated if membership fee or feast money (?) is collected before the actual event.

And also again – something about the freshers’ social event. I take it that the event had been organised mainly for the freshers. But there was no introduction of the freshers on the stage. Of course, the programme leaflet does not have the time for such. The reason I probably think is because that event starts only at 6:00 PM. One friend who is also a fresher was sort of dejected because of that. It was a different style of a freshers’ day for him probably – the freshers’ meets he attended in the past always had an occasion where freshers’ were summoned on the stage and introduced to all the participants of the event. It was kind of flop for him, as well as for me. However, in the second session, four of the freshers were called out and were asked to recite ‘difficult’ sentence from a piece of paper. But that did not compensate for the ‘usual’ freshers’ introduction at the stage.

Before the event I asked the DMZP leaders – how many freshers are there this year. The answer was – around 150-200 or more. However, it was disheartening that the freshers who attended the event numbers around only 20-30. I guess there is something missing here too which needs to be 'attended' properly. Ah, and yes, meritorious awardees numbers only 4! Serious issue huh? But ye, the second session’s rock and roll part more or less say it all, almost. I noticed that almost all are good in shaking our legs, hands, body and heads. But ye, it was fun and it was an event worth a place in the memory of a lifetime. Thanks to the BOOMARANG!

Below are some of the pictures I took at the event.

The first CD Album Cover I designed

I am not a graphic designer. But I do like playing around with colours and retouching them photos with Photoshop. It is one those things I indulged myself in when I get bored. When I get bored doing that too, I would be busy shifting it to imitating websites that intrigues me. For designing layouts of websites, I usually use either a Textpad or the most powerful (personally) WYSIWYG HTML Editor – Dreamweaver. I prefer Textpad to the simple Notepad for reasons that it has more features, which the Notepad doesn’t have. If somebody is to ask me why I imitate websites? Well, it improves my web designing skills and also, it helps me in the creativity department that give me more new designing ideas. Sometimes I get so engrossed to these passions that I would be sitting in front of this plastic like box for more than 15-18 hours a day without leaving my sit unless absolutely necessary. The addiction is really a thing to reconsider.

I think I am a little bit off-track now -– like I said I am not a graphic designer. But knowing my passion, one close friend asked me to design a CD Album Cover for the latest album of a popular and unique ‘Sinlung Rock & Roll’ Singer – Laltuoklien. The album was to be his third. The friend provided me a number of still photos of the singer, that I scanned. The photos were shot by Naresh Suri, photographer of North East SUN fortnightly magazine. I was on a time limit and I had only two days to design the cover. It took me a night to visualise, imagine and remagine the design before actually working on it. I had to final touch the cover design using a laptop and it was tough as I am not used to it for these kind of works (I prefer Desktop. Laptops are not suitable at all for me for that kind of works). And finally here is the what came out of the work: