Enigma 3.0-Day 2

Written by: Wardaa Imran Sheikh
Photo Credits: Saifoo Khan Studios & Jaffris Photography

When the management team and participants went to sleep on 23rd January, they had no idea they would be waking up to an unplanned,

unpredictable, and potentially dangerous city conditions, where several groups had called for a strike and with every educational institution shut off in the city, the organizers had to, agonizingly, call the second day off. There was a lot of chaos as the organizing team fought to plan a program flow that would enable them to do the impossible- pulling off a four day event in just three days! It was a nightmare for any event to be squeezed and crushed into 3 days instead of 4, but when you have an amazing program designer like Tayyaba Naksh, the impossible is possible! With a thousand revisions of the plan, the event was finally tailored to 3 days and the second day(25th January) started off with a bang, with events running at the speed of lightening, rounds being simultaneously held, with everyone trying to pull their events off in the shortened time, with badminton, FIFA'14 and basketball starting off at 9 in the morning along with step up participants displaying their tremendous talent to the blaring music, the auditorium was more alive than ever! Enigma was kicking off the second day with a lot of style and the participants felt the energy in the very air at IBA. The second pool of events included the dramatic musicals that were the main theme of Vignette that day, the incredible short films of Cinemania, the heated parliamentary debates, along with cricket and throw ball. The participants were exhausted by 6PM and were all ready for the second social event: the event with music and refreshment formally known as "Nocturnal Wonderland"; doesn't that sound gooood!

So, with the participants and management team all set in the 8 buses that took off from IBA that evening, they arrived in style to Royal Rodale where they were taken to the rooftop and the dance party was officially in full swing. A ginormous dance floor flooded with colored neon lights, a well-renowned DJ with the unbearable habit of using curse words in an attempt to showcase his "DJ-ness" the crowd was hooting to the music and moving their bodies to the beat. The whole hotel echoed with the music of the rooftop dance party and the scrams of delights of the crowd at the songs of their choice. The party went on till late;even Pakistan's very own Asim Azhar was seen partying in the Enigma crowd with his official photographer Ifrah Humayun but they wrapped it up in good time and had everyone back in the buses. The bus ride back to IBA was not less of a party for the participants and teamsters;they sang songs, and screamed the lyrics out loud all the way to IBA. The dance party is Enigma's own tradition and the management team managed to keep the legacy intact by having one of the best dance parties of Enigma to date, according to one of the participants.

All in all, they managed to pull off Day 2 beautifully despite the fact that the much-awaited Zoe Viccaji concert was cancelled due to the hostile city conditions and now the participants had one last social to look forward to.. The beach trip, which will be insightfully covered by Inside IBA.