Here am I, writing for the second time in a week. The week which just went by was a rather interesting and eventful one and hence deserves a dedicated post. The events which made it such are enumerated below in chronological order:
It started on Monday (as most weeks do), which involved me spending the day in my office in a sleep deprived state. However, Monday was special because among other things, it was involved me being appraised of the fact that I was given an award at work. This news couldn't have come at a better time. Maybe that last statement needs further explanation, but I can't reveal more at this moment...
Tuesday was nice because we had a lovely team lunch at 'All Stir Fry' in E-Square. The good thing about this was not only the scrumptious meal but also the fact that our entire team interacted with each other in a totally informal atmosphere and had fun together, something which is not usual in the 'multinational corporate culture' normally seen in my company.
Wednesday was different too, again detailed reasons as to why, mustn't be made public.
Thursday was definitely among the better days I have had in the whole year, and apart from the excellent Dandiya event in my office (to which the previous post is dedicated), it was also the day of the week in which I managed to get the maximum work done.
Friday and Saturday were different, since we had a training session in my company. The topic of the training session was 'Ethical Hacking', which is an interesting topic. One thing about this activity deserving mention is that the trainer himself was quite 'entertaining', to say the least!
Sunday morning was spent in a boring but necessary exercise, the afternoon was spent getting some well deserved rest, while the evening was spent meeting up with various sets of friends, some of them after a long time!
Here is me finishing the wonderful week off with a post summarizing its various events. Hope, the weeks that follow continue to be this exciting :)
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Dandiya Again!
This year, due to certain circumstances brought about by my own doing, I missed out on the Dandiya programme organized in my society on both days. However, I was given another chance to club sticks when my company decided to organize a Dandiya evening on the 25th of October. Initially, I was quite skeptical about how the event would turn out, especially with regard to participation, since the environment in my organization is reasonably formal.
However, when I saw the way some people had come dressed in the morning, I realized that - well there is a fun side to all those grim intellectuals too and in the afternoon when I saw the way the preparations for the event were underway, I was certain that the evening had a lot in store.
The 'ethnic' attire worn by me included a kurta (which I changed into earlier in the evening) worn over my jeans and a set of mojari's bought from Udaipur. After completing my work for the day I headed off toward the cafeteria. I reached there just as the music was starting. I was astonished to see such a lot of beautiful people there since I didn't know so much beauty existed within my workplace :)
Well, here I was playing Dandiya again this year, initially with my colleague friend Ritesh, then joined by a couple of other colleagues, then joined by some more till we had a nice big group of around 8-10 people. Then on it was one and a half hour of continuous and fast dance and sheer enjoyment arising from dancing to the beats of the excellent music being played by the live band! The good thing about Dandiya is that its reasonably simple and even people who aren't accomplished dancers (like me) can appear to do a decent job of ... well 'dancing'. The last half an hour saw the band playing disco hits like Bhool Bhulaiya which had us abandoning our sticks and dancing 'freestyle' for a while.
Not normally a party type guy, I really enjoyed this one, mainly because of the fact that this was one party without the stench of alcohol, unsocial behavior of some intoxicated by it or any unpleasant cigarette smoke. Also, I find a good refreshment in expressive art forms like dancing and singing. (I must add, that I am an amateur at both.)
All in all, I had a wonderful time at this event thanks to the excellent work done by the organizers, great music played by the band and the splendid company of fellow colleagues in my group!
However, when I saw the way some people had come dressed in the morning, I realized that - well there is a fun side to all those grim intellectuals too and in the afternoon when I saw the way the preparations for the event were underway, I was certain that the evening had a lot in store.
The 'ethnic' attire worn by me included a kurta (which I changed into earlier in the evening) worn over my jeans and a set of mojari's bought from Udaipur. After completing my work for the day I headed off toward the cafeteria. I reached there just as the music was starting. I was astonished to see such a lot of beautiful people there since I didn't know so much beauty existed within my workplace :)
Well, here I was playing Dandiya again this year, initially with my colleague friend Ritesh, then joined by a couple of other colleagues, then joined by some more till we had a nice big group of around 8-10 people. Then on it was one and a half hour of continuous and fast dance and sheer enjoyment arising from dancing to the beats of the excellent music being played by the live band! The good thing about Dandiya is that its reasonably simple and even people who aren't accomplished dancers (like me) can appear to do a decent job of ... well 'dancing'. The last half an hour saw the band playing disco hits like Bhool Bhulaiya which had us abandoning our sticks and dancing 'freestyle' for a while.
Not normally a party type guy, I really enjoyed this one, mainly because of the fact that this was one party without the stench of alcohol, unsocial behavior of some intoxicated by it or any unpleasant cigarette smoke. Also, I find a good refreshment in expressive art forms like dancing and singing. (I must add, that I am an amateur at both.)
All in all, I had a wonderful time at this event thanks to the excellent work done by the organizers, great music played by the band and the splendid company of fellow colleagues in my group!
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