Story Of One Rejected In Love (Of KIT KAT)

Life is full of surprises and startling revelations. Agreed? No? Well let me share with you a bitter sweet experience. Today was NUST Science Society’s event TECHTALK.I came all the way from EME College to attend it in H12 NUST.. Why am I making it an issue of attending this event? Because being a student from EME I feel very much the absence of effective public transport system in the twin cities. So as I was saying I attended this seminar on Zero Energy Homes by Saad Asif CEO Nexton group of companies. At the end of the seminar there was this interactive question and answer session in which the organizers asked some questions from the audience based on the knowledge given by the speaker. Correct answer warranted a free Kit Kat medium bar ( I happen to love Kit Kat very much ). On the first question asked I eagerly raised my hand determined to win a Kit Kat (i hadn’t eaten a Kit Kat for a long time).

Question: What is the biggest source of power consumption in homes?

Me(effectively misinterpreting the question and with everyone’s eyes on me): Iron

(Silence)…

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God, why did I raise my hand? Why? But then the organizer pronounced my answer as incorrect, and I was relieved of my misery.

Not to be deterred I raised my hand again a few questions later. This time I damned as hell knew my answer was right because I happen to have done a lot of reading on this stuff.

Question: What is the first step to power efficiency?

Me: Reduction of power losses in distribution and transmission.

Now of course the question asked was WHAT the first step was. Not HOW you do it. Of course you improve the power transmission and distribution by better wires and insulation. Again nobody seems to understand my answer and the organizer again pronounces my answer as incorrect.

Now, I am seething. Alone, sitting in the corner of the seminar hall. With half of the directors siting behind me, I feel like a fool. Well you tell me, if I said milk was beneficial for children. And you said no, not the milk, but the cow is beneficial. What would be your reaction? Part of me wanted to raise hell in the middle of the hall and challenge the organizer’s decision. But then I thought better of it and looked forward to the free samosas and tea awaiting me.

In short this (embarrassing) experience taught me that the organizing package comes with a few letdowns too, one of them being that no prizes for you for answering a question correctly in a quiz which you are organizing. As I am an NSS member so obviously they wouldn’t give chocolates to me , one of their own. For if we (NSS Members) started taking the chocolates how would you justify those two tables outside the seminar hall filled with samosas and tea J