Gulbadan

MINDQUEST 2006

Now, let's start with something fun for me and boring for you. Mindquest is a quiz competition that's held every year by this thing called the Debating and Recitation Society of LUMS. In my first year (I'm in my third right now) I entered the competition, having pride in my unsurmountable knowledge of general and useless facts. I lost in the prelims. It sucked. The next year, I couldn't participate, and the team that beat us in the first year, they ended up winning the competition in my second year. Oh well, this year we decided to participate, me and my perennial quiz competition buddy Aqeel made a team. The team ended up being called the Pakora Sisters (don't ask why) and we (me, him, Talha the ganja) passed the prelims with a lot of luck. We then added a new, fourth member to our squad, another ganja by the name of Ammar. That made three fucking AIESECers in this team. In the quarters we came across, and beat an amazingly wehshi team of freshies (who were appropriately called Wehshie Freshies). It was an extremely close match, and only one darned question separated the two teams. The losing captain was really depressed, poor guy. I'm sure the bastard will shine next time 'round.

Kher, the semifinals were beautiful. We were up against the favourites, the same team that won last year, the same team that beat us in my first year. And we beat them. Actually, we ass-raped them. By the end of the second round the score was 40-10 to them. By the end of the sixth, it was 100-50 to us. Total ownage. Felt good.

Last night was the final. It was, again, ass-rape. We won :) Ammar, our new ganja, was simply sublime. Aqeel was good, as usual. I was adequate. Talha probably wanted to be somewhere else :p
My contribution to the team was a total of 3 measly correct answers. Fuck it, I can always say it was a team effort. What was funny was that our opponents, being certified sons of bitch, were actually preparing and cramming before the match, going through CNN.com and mock quizzes and what not. Haramzaday. One kept saying "I will kick your ass, ass." Hah.

Special thanks to our lovely red balloon that I had tied to one of my fingers throughout the match. In memory of Hamoon Jadugar and his dimagh, we all rubbed our heads against the balloon to gain knowledge and wisdom before the match. Those who didn't get the Ainak Wala Jinn reference can hand in their privates to me, as they simply don't deserve any pleasure in life.

We got a grand total of 500 rs as victory booty, which we obviously split evenly. I spent mine treated my "friends" to davidoffs and botlein.