The stage was set for His highness or rather the most simple selfless ever working man i have seen in my life; to visit our campus for receiving Honorary Doctorate in Engineering
The moment i say i got fortune of a life time to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam friends have been asking me- "Wow how was the experience ?" , "Hey did you really meet him?", " Great how was he?"..... and so on.
So i key down the most cherished moment of my life in this post.
Here goes the sequence of events:
We go to the venue dressed completely in formals [ first time i went in complete formals to the university] the scheduled time for the commencement of the event was 6 PM Local Time, but we were so excited that i and a bunch of like minded were there in the lobby of the auditorium at 5 Pm.
First Look: One of the security officials asks me "Are you here to meet Dr. APJ ?" i was so excited since it was an hour early and the place looked deserted with only cops settting up their metal detectors and various security arrangements in place, I enquired back skeptically " Has he come already " the reply was affirmative and with in No time the head of the security officials Echoes back into his Communicator "Lobby Clear" and elevator door opens and I saw impeccably dressed as ever, in black suit with shining white hair just like his wisdom; in uniquely combed style, beaky nosed Dr. APJ waving at us !!!! i alerted my friends "Hey See there". That was the first look at the "Missile Man of India" -I skipped a hear beat.
I was replaying the moment in my memory for a few minutes and then the security team were all set to allow us into the auditorium and i was the first to enter the auditorium [proof to your right]
The ceremony kicked off with the packed auditorium in the meticulous fashion as ever as if some one has programmed it with no bugs.
If you have time you can have a look at the ceremony video which is the courtesy of NTU website.
The moment i say i got fortune of a life time to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam friends have been asking me- "Wow how was the experience ?" , "Hey did you really meet him?", " Great how was he?"..... and so on.
So i key down the most cherished moment of my life in this post.
Here goes the sequence of events:
We go to the venue dressed completely in formals [ first time i went in complete formals to the university] the scheduled time for the commencement of the event was 6 PM Local Time, but we were so excited that i and a bunch of like minded were there in the lobby of the auditorium at 5 Pm.
First Look: One of the security officials asks me "Are you here to meet Dr. APJ ?" i was so excited since it was an hour early and the place looked deserted with only cops settting up their metal detectors and various security arrangements in place, I enquired back skeptically " Has he come already " the reply was affirmative and with in No time the head of the security officials Echoes back into his Communicator "Lobby Clear" and elevator door opens and I saw impeccably dressed as ever, in black suit with shining white hair just like his wisdom; in uniquely combed style, beaky nosed Dr. APJ waving at us !!!! i alerted my friends "Hey See there". That was the first look at the "Missile Man of India" -I skipped a hear beat.
I was replaying the moment in my memory for a few minutes and then the security team were all set to allow us into the auditorium and i was the first to enter the auditorium [proof to your right]
The ceremony kicked off with the packed auditorium in the meticulous fashion as ever as if some one has programmed it with no bugs.
If you have time you can have a look at the ceremony video which is the courtesy of NTU website.
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