Archive for April 16th, 2009

Laughter is the best medicine.  in aid of the poor patients of the dept. of medicine, the MAD MED MAYHEM was held in st.johns auditorium on 29th of march 2009. MAYHEM would be an understatement for the 2 hour LAUGHTER RIOT.

The performance of  MAD MED MEN (the renowned mad ads team from the batch of 2003) had everyone spellbound and in their splits. right from professors to students to non teaching staff, every single person enjoyed the incredible show. their depiction of the functioning of AIYOCHEMISTRY lab drew loud cheers from the crowd especially from interns and residents.  the biggest cheers and laughter though was reserved for their take on the MESS by a spoof on slumdog millionaire which can be called as MESSDOG millionaire. the other highlights of their show was , RAJNI as the brand ambassador of nano, and the appearance of a certain Muthalik in their spoof on ghajini.  the mad med men also portrayed their take on ads which dont make any sense.

Swayam – the famous dance team of st.johns also put up dance performances along with moksha . they enthralled the audience with their graceful movements, coordination and theme which was in sync with the melodious music.  music is probabaly the best healer and the audience were entertained to some delightful and soul pleasing music by Shiny from the batch of 2004 and Jarvis and Binston from the batch of 2005.

Murtuza and his team from the batch of 2005 presented a humourous account of JOHNITE KI ZINDAGI in the form of what can be called a comedy musical act. Their depicition of first day in college, hostel life,pangs of love and the previous day before  exams  had the current johnites clapping, laughing and nodding their heads in approval while the alumni  who were attending became nostalgic.

the mad med men also introduced the PYROMANIACS- from the batch of 2007 who put up a comedy mime which depicts the life of a medico in the imaginary pyromaniac medical college where everything that can go wrong  will. the highlights were their depiction of dilapilated hostel, ragging, fainiting during anatomy dissection, life as an intern to conduct a delivery and how a surgery is conducted if you dont read bailey and lowe  drew loud cheers and appluase from the crowd. their mime ended with a message on how JOHNITES are different and live upto the motto HE SHALL LIVE BECAUSE OF ME.

it was laughter all the way for  more than 2 hours.  Each and everyone  who attended felt glad  that they didnt miss out  on a show like this by the mad med men and recounted that it had been quite a while since they had enjoied and laughed like they did on that night.  the night ended with the director of  SJNAHS aprreciating the intent  and the quality of the show and Dr.Girija  thanking all the teams that performed especially the mad med men who have just passed out as interns .

the MAD MED MAYHEM did show that we johnites live upto the motto HE SHALL LIVE BEACUSE OF ME. the show which brought laughter  to the audience on that night has probably put  smiles on those poor patients (for whom the show was conducted ) for a lifetime.

Here it is finally- the campus blog for our college.  yes ,there are college and batch communities on orkut and facebook and some might feel this is redundant and might question the need for a campus blog. well, to start of with, you dont need to express and confine your thoughts to  just 1025  characters(  the  character limit of a orkut  scrap/post in the community). campus blog is meant for all u johnites(knights!!!)  to have your say on anything under the sun.  To share your experiences as a johnite in and outside college, convey/seek  information, upload pics, events happening in and around the campus like sports meet, fests, ics, ics, or u can use this blog just to let everyone know how you felt the morning class and clinics went or if any of your creative /artistic materials have been rejected by magazines or newspapers, do not despair as this blog is your platform to let others appreciate your creativity and talent and if they have been published, it would be an honour to put them up in this blog the good thing is that campus blog is extremely user friendly and hence each one of you have greater accessibilty which in turn ensures that all of us are updated regualrly and with ease on events hapenning in the campus. and more importantly we hope that this website will open quickly even in the slowest of the slowest internet connections and  not frustrate you if  you are using the college netcafe or BDA computers

well this post has been written when this blog is still in its infancy.  a sequel to this post with well defined objectives of the functioning of this blog will be soon out.
till then happy blogging.