Archive for November, 2009

President, Student’s Executive Committee, SJMC

Hey there.I’m really sorry for bringing out this post real late.No excuses just downright lazy…Well here we go.. First Stop JIPMER…Well this year we had a massive contingent going there numbering about 90-95!!! majority being the jobless second years.This Spandan we happily continued our ever so loving rivalry with KMC Mangalore and of course were winners in football ,throwball & runners up in Badminton(Mens),Basketball(girls) and in hockey(did ya know u could score with your leg in JIPMER ,turns out to be YES).In the culturals we,of course,missed the music team from the batch of 05 and “Swayam” our choreo team…. having said that we weren’t short in enthusiasm to make up for the absentees …take for instance..the enthusiastic bunch from 08 putting up a performance in Indian Music and won Sharan the second best vocalist.We finished first In western acoustic…let me brag a bit..I was in that team…Anyway then we had the boys from 07 aka Mad Med Men Inc Juniors who came in a car and went back the same way by being winners in Ad zap n second in Skit.Shanti won painting and Nobin won in face painting….well this SPANDAN was fantastic not just cause of the prizes won but the UNITY OF All JOHNITES always stood high..So what can I say”You may hate us,You may love us but you just can’t ignore us”

Next Stop – Tea with Bishop Percy…Our former director agreed to join us for tea to distribute the prizes won at JIPMER & talk with us – the next generation of docs.He talked to us about his times in John’s and difficulties he faced and advised us how to get along with our lives here with the changed atmosphere in place…

Finally to those who feel that the Gym is really close to their hearts….With the help of Dr Kutappa (Anaesthesia) and of course efforts by Steve Joys,The Indoor Sports Secretary, the gym has been reasonably renovated to our needs.We would be extremely happy to welcome any contributions towards to the gym fund so as to maintain it for many years to come…Alright thats about it now.Oh i almost Forgot Jingle Rock’s happening on Dec 11 probably the only sought after event in St John’s now…

Well its been almost 6 months since johnknight.in was launched officially.  Some introspection needs to be done at this small little milestone that has been achieved. To the positives first.  The very idea itself should rank right up there cause there is no website which brings you happenings in and around the campus from the horses’(aka students) mouth. We got the most recent Rhodes scholar to blog about his extraordinary achievement. And now we have successfully manged to convince a professor to write accounts of his travels(thank u dr.bobby). oh and not to forget we have a jobless technical team headed by Jino, who experiments with the layout and format of the site to make it more appealing to the eye and easy for the hands on the mouse.
However we have failed to chive one of our goals. the goal to make it truly a campus blog. and that would happen when you ( yes, you who is reading this) takes some time out and decided to comment on the posts and also if you can take a little more time out and blog something you want. Like we said in our 1st post, this is the place to blog about anything and everything under the sun as long as it somehow remains connected even remotely to st.johns. we do hope that this goal will be achieved soon and we hope to take some steps to achieve it.
well after 2 weeks of slogging for prelims , u cant expect any better article. Till next time its adios from the johnknight.in team.

Full marks to you for persistence. Honestly, with the hectic schedule that I have these days – I can hardly get down to checking my mail. I thought this sabbatical will give me some free time to do some personal stuff but this is just not happening. After your “n”th reminder I thought I should open my account.
With all my traveling I think the theme of my posts will be the Johnites I meet on the road – with the intention of informing our students what the alumni have ended up doing. Let me warn you guys there will be a lot of “those were the days…”!
So let me start with my latest encounter – Dr. Rony Mathew at Ernakulam.
Rony is from the Bo83 – a year my senior. President of the Student’s Union for the year 1985-86. I took over from him the next year. My memories of Rony go back to the rivalry that his batch and ours had during the late 1980s. Those were the days (there I go) when all the able-bodied men would be found on the hockey or football field every evening – and we have had our share of encounters there. But there was more incidents in the cultural arena – naturally immediate seniors cannot stand the thought of losing to their juniors.
But all this is forgotten once you leave St. John’s. I remember going to Bombay in January 1994 (four years after I last met Rony) and he came all the way out to my classmate’s residence in the KEM Hostel just to chat and catch up with old times. That’s one lesson – no matter where you go Johnites will hunt each other down just to relive the old days.
Rony is now the much sought-after Chief Cardiologist at Ernakulam’s Lissie Hospital. I had to go and see him because he was treating two of my relatives. The crowd outside his evening OPD was humongous – I took the liberty of walking right in and discussing my relatives’ cases. I had to do that because when we used the normal channels to get an appointment we were told that the earliest we could get to meet Rony would be May 2010!! Even, Devi Shetty at NH is not so busy!
At the end of the day, it’s guys like these who make you proud to be a Johnite! Am traveling to Delhi this weekend – wonder who I will run into.

After the huge success of Johnite Premier League, the organizers have decided to launch a micro version of the league – just 2 days with total 5 matches only. As all the batches have finished with their prelims exam its the right time to have some cricket back in JOHNS !!

First match as it was in Season 1, will be played Hyderabad v/s Kochi on 18th Wednesday.

The Season 1 teams intrested in taking part in JPL Champions League may contact :- Yatta Jeeson John (2007) as soon as possible.

A three day cultural fest ‘COBALT SKIES’ was organized by BMC on the 22nd,23rd and 24th of October’09.
In keeping with the true Johnite spirit we were all eager to participate and put our best foot forward! Since the seniors were busy with exams,batches ‘08 and ‘09 teamed up and took part in most events.
All of us…the juniors of ‘09 were  eager to take part in our very first  inter collegiate cultural fest as Johnites…! It was a perfect opportunity for us not only to display our talents but to unearth some as well.

"Aagnya"

Encouraged by the accolades we received after the performance at ‘FAREWELL’,our dance team ‘AAGNYA’ participated in the Theme Dance event and depicted Indian Mythology.We competed against 8 other colleges,PESIT being our toughest competitors.However a bit of last minute improvisation and extra hours of practice(not to mention extra members…still don’t know how 14 of us managed to sync!)
seemed to pay off as we bagged the 1st place!winning a cash prize of 5k.We were exuberant!…more because our seniors told us their “baby juniors” had done them proud!
Students of ‘09 took part in other events too…Quiz,Personality,Jam,Western electric…The fest gave us good exposure and we gained a lot of insight.It was fun working with the seniors of ‘08 and getting to know them better.
We are really grateful to our seniors(especially the committee members) who despite their exams always kept themselves informed about the on goings.They were a constant source of help and encouragement…egged us on to go for a win…and of course..to have the time of our lives!(you bet we did!)
All in all it was an amazing first experience and all of us are avidly anticipating more fun times ahead!