Today we had the inter-house Symposium. The topic as usual was a not-so-interesting one: The Relevance of Gandhi Today. So in order to make my presentation, I quickly compiled a couple of videos (stolen from Google obviously) and placed them on my Flash MX workspace. The result was pretty good (at least what I thought). But surprisingly today, Price House (mine) got the third position for the visual aid. I was pretty stunned and I wasn’t the only one. I had heard the whole audience shouting “Price House” when our chief-coordinator asked them, “Any guesses for the first prize?”. It doesn’t make much of a difference for me now, since the audience loved my presentation. I can’t comment much about judging since I have never actually seen how a symposium is judged but if I do compare it to Run 2005 in St. Columbas (where I got the first position) then *&%^#curses#$*!@ was how it was today.

Mr. Karan Bhola did an excellent job with his speech. The only big mistake he did was to stare at the podium when he was nervous to make it look like he read the speech out. He in fact didn’t do that and was staring at this dumb wooden box held upright for no reason which made him lose all his points. It’s a start for him and a good one.

We also had the quiz today and the people whom I thought would win once again didn’t, but this time it was only luck that didn’t take their side. Poor Suraj and Amlan.

As I had promised my friends before the symposium, the videos which I used in my visual aidhave been published on my website and available for download.