Hook, Line and Sinker

With impressive oratory skills and strength in performance, INDERPREET KAUR blew away all competition and walked home with the Vice-Chancellor’s Trophy on Friday night. With her powerful and straightforward manner of speech, this Ipoh native dazzled the audience and judges in the first round with her interpretation of the theme. Then, she nailed it in the Impromptu round by convincing an audience alien to her (almost all her batch-mates were at home on break) to vote her for President of the Student Council. Confidence, fluency in speech, flair in performance and what not the X-factor made this girl from the January Foundation in Science intake to win this year’s competition.

The runner-ups were Hemalatha (first from left) in second place and Wilander (first from right) in third. Hemalatha was good in the sense of bridging simple topics together in her speech while Wilander was comic crowd puller. Nevertheless, he made his mark on the competition very unforgettable with swishing movements of his cloak (sorry blazer, was it?), eccentric questioning and sometimes passionate euphemisms. The other participants did display some skill in speaking and passion. However some disappointed the crowd in general by being nervous, soft and the All-Time Competition Crusher: The Going Blank Moment and subsequent … well, let us not go there. Our sympathies go to them as speaking in front of a full-floor can be quite a challenge.

Syed

On the whole, the Finals was a great success with everything going clockwork except for a few hitches in the Impromptu Round (no thanks to some very confused people). The VC was pleased with how things were done and the night was graced with intellectual exchange on humanity in the first round and quirky details of the university in the Impromptu Round. Performances were peppered here and there thanks to our friends from the School of Dentistry and also to Syed (check the name) from the School of Pharmacy who sang his solo numbers to perfection!

The emcees: Vinod and Jycinta were as usual witty and doubted and debated each other’s status as humans. Well, aren’t we going to miss them since everything is over? Oh, shucks… now we are going all emotional and nostalgic about ending this season’s competition. Well, there will always be next year but just different people doing it. Hence, it is time ripe to express our thanks to all the people in the machinery behind this competition especially MBBS Batch 13 MATES! The organizing team will no doubt miss those irritating sessions of getting things done every week and going for meetings where we unearth more and more problems while maintaining a cool composure on surface. All in all, in truth it was fun, engaging and memorable. With immense feeling of satisfaction of a job well done, we pass on the torch and wish great success to this competition in the years to come.

~ ravi