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UG talent Show "ECHO" experience

It was the day when I performed a song with a guitar on the UG talent show held at IISc. I also played keyboard and guitars with other songs. But the mentionable happening is the following one.
I was to play a song "Tighten Up" by a Band called the "Black Keys", I rehearsed with the electric guitar to play with it. While getting on the stage, I wanted to give a homage to the singer, who, in the music video, wears a sunglasses. So, I took a sunglasses and a hat from a friend who wore it for a drama to be coming after the song. I wore it, and everyone started cheering, the moment I got on the stage. It was really a nice experience.
But then, I found a string of the electric guitar torn, but still I picked it up, I thought I could play it, but just after I started playing the intro of the song, I found out that the tuning was gone too. I stopped midway, and everyone started clapping in a joking mood. Well, I gave the guitar to the owner, Kushal bhaiya, who is my senior, who said it couldnt be tuned now. Hence, I told the audience a joke, and said about "how shit happens", and then, since the show should go on, I took my acoustic guitar, and started playing the song with others. At the end, everyone cheered and clapped, as usual. Then I took up my guitar and asked the audience to cheer for the guitar once more as "it saved my ass" on the stage!
Later I asked some of my friends how my performance was. They said it was very good, but the way I managed the situation without fumbling, was even better.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, of course, I felt good.
And below are some of my photos taken. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video of my performance till now.

This fun video was made when I suddenly planned to go out in a Mexican outfit (with a blanket), and try out some non sense things.

End sem Physics practical exam experience

It was fun doing the physics experiment. And one of the primary reason was that the question given to me was fundamentally wrong, and I was so tensed because the variable I had to figure out was getting canceled out. Then I asked sir, and he verified officially that my question was wrong, so I designed my experiment, and from the last few days, I was so habituated in making notes that I wrote my experiment very neatly, as if it was some note. After the experiment, sir said that next year, he is going to include my modification of the experiment and give out my copy as the handout. And there was also a tea break in the middle, which was awesome, because I never had tea during the exam, so the first in the lifetime experience was nice, and I had three cups of tea (LOL)!
Anyways, thank god my experiment was not related to waves, else I couldn't have derived the working formula. I don't have that much knowledge in waves.

It was a very enjoyable day in the Vijyoshi Science camp 2014 IISc. I was suffering from fever, and because of which, I had to cancel my initial experiment which I was supposed to demonstrate, which was, home made cloud chamber, and detect muons. I recovered on the very morning of the last day of the experiment demonstrations. Suddenly I felt an urge to give a demonstration, and that was the doing o the teaching part of my mind. Then I straight went off to the physics department, spent the whole afternoon  in planning how to demonstrate the science associated with playing with liquid nitrogen, and had a nap for 2 hours, and then Prof. Raghavan gave me a ride in his car upto the venue, during which some of the liquid nitrogen spilled on my foot, no damage was done, since "Leindenfrost Effect" was there to save me. And that was the very dialogue I used to describe the phenomenon of Leindenfrost effect and I told about the accident too.
After reaching there, P. Ganesh Subramanium, but known as PsGs, couldnt give me a table spot for demonstration, so I set it up on the central balcony wall, and I quite liked that spot too. Then I started giving my demonstration, starting by saying "Whatever I am about to show you now, they are so simple that you might think later that this could also have been done by a 9 year old boy. But mind it, a 9 year old boy wont get his hold upon Liquid Nitrogen!" Then I showed them how liquid oxygen can be pulled out by dipping a strong magnet in the Nitrogen, and the priciple behind it(paramagnetism). Then I showed them the Leindenfrost Effect by pouring some drops on a petri dish, told them how it is seen in the kitchen when a drops of water starts running around on a very hot frying pan, and then I dipped my own hand in the box of Liquid Nitrogen (for those who are already imagining how I would look like without a hand, you will be quite disappointed when you see my recent photo, since I still have my hand intact!), and explained them how I retained my hand. And then I ended my demonstration by doing that biscuit dipped in Liquid Nitrogen thing after saying "It is kind of boring, and conventional how people eat biscuits dipped in tea. Today, I will be showing you the more unconventional and cool way!(Pun Intended)." It was a simple experiment, but as Prof. Venky, our physics prof, told me, "Very simple yet full with fun filled science."

After seeing my demonstration with liquid nitrogen, some of the enthusiastic viewers tried out my stunt of eating a biscuit dipped in Liquid Nitrogen!
I still remember at one time I was almost running out of biscuits, and someone asked me whether he could try with his own biscuits, and coincidentially, it was a Hide n Seek, the same biscuit that I had. To this I replied, "You may, but in one condition, that you have to donate the pack of biscuit here in the name of "Science"!" And he had a biscuit and donated the packet, and soon, everyone started to do the same. I didnt mind, I just showed them the safe way.
And some of them even started calling me out "sir!" Although I was enjoying it(narcissism LOL), it still sounded strange to my ears, so I told them not to, and gave them my name instead.
In the end I disposed the liquid nitrogen on the floor. It was fun to watch, and after the successful demonstrations, I became very ecstatic!
I was very unsure whether anyone would come and enjoy such simple issues, but later, I was satisfied, since a horde of people came to my "fun" table(or should I say, "fun" balcony wall!). Still, to get a verification, (and to satisfy my narcissist curiosity), I asked PsGs about how many people came to my demonstration, to which he replied "Your show had the highest TRP for today!" And I was more than satisfied.

Then after that, I got my lunch packet, and after submitting the equipments, I returned to the hostel and started playing Limbo on my laptop. I finished the whole game that night itself.