And thats how it's done?? :P

Wednesday: 1800 hrs I check my mail & find out that I've been shortlisted for the Vestas Innovation Challenge on 'Harnessing energy from the wind' at Kurukshetra & that I had to send the final presentation that very night!

What would a perfectionist do? Simply mail the already completed, flawless, zipped version from his laptop.

What would an amateur like me do?... FREAK?!? :p

Lol...N this was just 'one' of the nicest things that happened last week. I found my topic of interest in a downtown article on kurukshetra - da technical fest in anna university. So i thought over a coupla things, had lotsa wacko ideas, spoke arnd & finally arrived at the most ingenious device - that would work fine... probably not even in virtuality..def not in reality!!

Unfortunately tis realization dawned on me on the 8th of January & 10th was da last date to submit da initial abstract.. so i started working on a more practicable sane idea on 9th.. n somehow wid some expert help from my sis.. we submitted just b4 12 am on jan 10th!:P N guess wat da next day I get a mail sayin that the due-date was posptponed for a coupla days more! Urrgggghh!:P

Anyhow I really wasn't expecting nethin outta it.. but I certainly kept checking my mail for any intimation...n none came so well I took it off my mind atleast.. n ten came da wednesday mail! I was happy.. but more so shocked cos I hadn't started on my presentation!! I requested for some more time.. n won myself a few more hours than the deadline.

I worked on it for a coupla hours on wednesday.. n finished up in college on thursday morn n mailed it from coll. Not that I make great presentations but this was one of those 'not-so-gud' ones.. I wasn't happy..but didn't have too much choice did I?

The final D Day was perfect though :) I sped on my scooty, picked up a coupla xerox copies of my paper that I was supposed to submit... n on the way I remembered a coupla pointers so added tat to da presentation wen I reached anna university!! ( wat was I thinking?? :O) The presentation however went off well... the questioning part was k too... but da best was yet to come..

I WON!! A whole month & a half internship at Vestas - no1 in modern energy! :D
It took a lot to sink in.. cos maybe I didn't deserve it for the effort I put in, but maybe I did for the idea :)

N i realised that paper presentations were, after all, not only for the big brains out tere eh?? :) :P