Chris Ma, Chris Child

Christmas time,

Time to share our love…

- “Christmas Time”, Back Street Boys

The Christmas tree with its sparkling lights, the silver bells, the golden trumpets, the colorful balls, the big bright stars, the wreath, the Christmas stocking on the wall brings to mind these ever classic lyrics from the famed Back Street Boys Music collection.

‘Chris ma, Chris child’, the HR varsity students said, was the event they were planning for the season and I started humming the tune once again. It was December and it was amidst the busy second semester that was enough to get us all excited. Mother’s love, they say, is the greatest love in all of Earth and sharing such a bond with a friend would be remarkable is what all felt and saying it lived up to it, is an understatement.

The rules and regulations were laid bare. The Chris Mom would be allowed to pick from a lot, a name. He or She would turn out to be his or her Chris Child. Like a real Mom the Chris mom would keep instructing the Chris child and gift them when they accomplish their tasks. The tasks invariably were funny, naughty and in good humor and the best part of all this was the Chris child will not know the identity of his/her Chris Mom until the game ends few days before Christmas. Then the Chris mom reveals his/her identity to the child and they exchange gifts.

The funny tasks ranged from harmless reciting of dialogues from movies during the class and wearing your shirt inside out to the more serious but comical stuff like proposing love to a Boy/Girl. The Dean, as requested by his Chris Mom, came out with a singing performance and the other HODs and professors with their enthusiastic participation enthralled everyone.

It was a great fun time and all tributes go to the HR varsity students, especially Nancy, for pulling this off successfully. Kudos!