The party and its aftermath...
9th July 2007
“C’mon lets go! Its time for the party, otherwise we would get late. Let’s form the team first and remember, one who is lucky to be in my team has already won the game”
With these comments from a braggart, everybody started to gear up for the party on Wednesday 4th July at around 6:30 pm. Since this was the first office party and many people had just joined company, there was a lot of excitement for this long awaited party. The venue decided was one of the best possible in Bangalore. What can be better than party at a 7 star hotel-Leela palace. It was decided that for the first party we will do two things BOWLing and BEERing. After a lucky draw, 5 teams of two players each were formed and bet money of 1000 was decided for the winner with each player contributing 100.Let me also mention the names which were decided for each team after this party.
Shashank and Deepesh - iWinners (a name which needs no explanations as would be clear later)
Ravi and Virendra - i1 (a name which was decided after much brainstorming by Ravisan, I wonder what sort of brainstorming was it)
Kunal and Brijesh - iKill2win (a name which came out of the great mind of you know who)
Animesh and Tejaswi - iBinze (a name from our techi guy)
Harish and Yuvendra - iCon (a name which suits these CONS)
At around 6:45 we left for the venue. It was torturous ride through a chaotic traffic. But sight of Leela Palace and excitement generated for the party made it all vanish. It started with a game of snooker between two teams-iWinners and iBinze where our dear braggart lost. Kunal and Brijesh were the first to start BEERing while watching the game. Brijesh was soon drunk enough (just in one glass of beer) to forget all the rules of snooker. Shashank and Deepesh won the snooker game. Animesh also tried to teach JKsan the art of Snookering (shouldn’t forget to mention, after loosing a game himself). While Harish, Virendra and Yuvendra joined the BEER club, Ravi and Brijesh decided to go for a game of air hockey. Brijesh came out as a winner with score of 5 as against 3 of Ravi. Soon afterwards everybody headed for bowling. This was the game where all the bet money was placed. So everyone started with lot of enthu.
After two three rounds it was clear that competition is more or less between three teams -iWinners, iBinze and iKill2win.But in the end iWinners came out as winners once again and our poor old braggart lost once again. Shashank came out as a star performer with 138 points.
During the game members were also served lot of energizers like chicken this, chicken that etc. It seemed Ravi and Shashank were the once spending maximum energy and therefore gobbling most of the energizers. People who don’t eat non-veg were almost left out with only CORN served to them. After all this, members collected outside the Leela Palace and started boasting for next fight and abused bowling as a trivial game. All this seemed endless until the doorkeeper asked us to leave (as we were blocking the entrance).This forced all of us to leave for home.
This party also taught lessons to many members. For example Yuvendra learnt a lesson that you have to wear bowling shoes while Bowling, our dear braggart realized that there is no point in boasting when you actually don’t know how to play the game and last but not the least the three musketeers realized that you got to give the money placed on bet or else it is cut from your salary.
Overall it was an amazing night which left many cherished moments. It also gave new- comers insight into the fun side of iRunway (especially when masterji is giving you work all the time). Now when battle has already started, most members are now waiting for next fight to take place. Harish, Yuvendra, Ravi and Tejaswi are the ones who are really eager to restore their lost pride. And with declaration of trophy for overall champions, everything seems to be much more interesting now.
Let me end with some of the suggestions mentioned by the members for the next party. Most of the members are willing to play games like football, badminton this time and they call it “Real Games”(that is mainly because of hope to win there after loosing in a trivial game like bowling). Going to disco is another thing most of the members would like to do. Especially Brijesh seems to be very excited about this. I wonder whether he is excited about disc or the girls. And last suggestion is that next time party should be held on Friday and arrangements should me made for something stuffier to eat specially for vegetarians.
“C’mon lets go! Its time for the party, otherwise we would get late. Let’s form the team first and remember, one who is lucky to be in my team has already won the game”
With these comments from a braggart, everybody started to gear up for the party on Wednesday 4th July at around 6:30 pm. Since this was the first office party and many people had just joined company, there was a lot of excitement for this long awaited party. The venue decided was one of the best possible in Bangalore. What can be better than party at a 7 star hotel-Leela palace. It was decided that for the first party we will do two things BOWLing and BEERing. After a lucky draw, 5 teams of two players each were formed and bet money of 1000 was decided for the winner with each player contributing 100.Let me also mention the names which were decided for each team after this party.
Shashank and Deepesh - iWinners (a name which needs no explanations as would be clear later)
Ravi and Virendra - i1 (a name which was decided after much brainstorming by Ravisan, I wonder what sort of brainstorming was it)
Kunal and Brijesh - iKill2win (a name which came out of the great mind of you know who)
Animesh and Tejaswi - iBinze (a name from our techi guy)
Harish and Yuvendra - iCon (a name which suits these CONS)
At around 6:45 we left for the venue. It was torturous ride through a chaotic traffic. But sight of Leela Palace and excitement generated for the party made it all vanish. It started with a game of snooker between two teams-iWinners and iBinze where our dear braggart lost. Kunal and Brijesh were the first to start BEERing while watching the game. Brijesh was soon drunk enough (just in one glass of beer) to forget all the rules of snooker. Shashank and Deepesh won the snooker game. Animesh also tried to teach JKsan the art of Snookering (shouldn’t forget to mention, after loosing a game himself). While Harish, Virendra and Yuvendra joined the BEER club, Ravi and Brijesh decided to go for a game of air hockey. Brijesh came out as a winner with score of 5 as against 3 of Ravi. Soon afterwards everybody headed for bowling. This was the game where all the bet money was placed. So everyone started with lot of enthu.
After two three rounds it was clear that competition is more or less between three teams -iWinners, iBinze and iKill2win.But in the end iWinners came out as winners once again and our poor old braggart lost once again. Shashank came out as a star performer with 138 points.
During the game members were also served lot of energizers like chicken this, chicken that etc. It seemed Ravi and Shashank were the once spending maximum energy and therefore gobbling most of the energizers. People who don’t eat non-veg were almost left out with only CORN served to them. After all this, members collected outside the Leela Palace and started boasting for next fight and abused bowling as a trivial game. All this seemed endless until the doorkeeper asked us to leave (as we were blocking the entrance).This forced all of us to leave for home.
This party also taught lessons to many members. For example Yuvendra learnt a lesson that you have to wear bowling shoes while Bowling, our dear braggart realized that there is no point in boasting when you actually don’t know how to play the game and last but not the least the three musketeers realized that you got to give the money placed on bet or else it is cut from your salary.
Overall it was an amazing night which left many cherished moments. It also gave new- comers insight into the fun side of iRunway (especially when masterji is giving you work all the time). Now when battle has already started, most members are now waiting for next fight to take place. Harish, Yuvendra, Ravi and Tejaswi are the ones who are really eager to restore their lost pride. And with declaration of trophy for overall champions, everything seems to be much more interesting now.
Let me end with some of the suggestions mentioned by the members for the next party. Most of the members are willing to play games like football, badminton this time and they call it “Real Games”(that is mainly because of hope to win there after loosing in a trivial game like bowling). Going to disco is another thing most of the members would like to do. Especially Brijesh seems to be very excited about this. I wonder whether he is excited about disc or the girls. And last suggestion is that next time party should be held on Friday and arrangements should me made for something stuffier to eat specially for vegetarians.
Post by: Deepesh Hiran
Comments by other members
Harish
Wednesday was a blast. Had loads of fun bowling. And here is a suggestion, if you want to improve your bowling skills then Booze. Although we did not come up as winners, but it was a good game overall. Next party can be in a disc or “Field Sports” like football should be played. Next time iCons will come with a blast.
Yuvendra
The amazing Wednesday evening left many memorable moments to cherish by the close… the battle against the ‘sucking’ traffic to get to Leela notwithstanding. The iCons demonstrated their ability to not only compete on new surfaces, rather beat the ‘self proclaimed’ veteran players :). Though we did not win this first battle, we fought like true iCons in the rather unfamiliar territory of ‘bowling’!! We are on… to win the next
Battle… and of course the “WAR”. Bring ‘em on... we are iCon!!
Next time try to organize a football match or even better is a badminton match of doubles…..hire a indoor baddy court for a day and play like round robin league……..it will be really exciting. And of course iCons will win that tournament…Yohhhhh!!!
Kunal
It was an evening that started with a harrowing bike ride through the chaotic traffic of Bangalore city. We somehow managed to reach Leela Palace alive only to find that there was no provision of any “real” games. I mean pool, bowling, air hockey - do people call them games?
Thankfully there was beer for company and we managed to derive some pleasure from the crushing defeat of iBinze- the team that was bragging the most and making the maximum noise. We had the bowling competition next and there was more pleasure given another crushing defeat for iBinze. iWinners were the winners of the evening in the true sense of the word having won both bowling and pool. We discovered some hidden talents- people who’d never played bowling before came out on top. Lesson learned- It takes a single game to discover the player inside you!
Next event: Any "real" game
Brijesh
It was awesome party but lacked more games as pool, air-hockey, video games etc…. this led to a biased result in favor of some “bowling geeks”. It was a poorly managed, ill-informed show… anyhow enjoyed the fun of it… Waiting for a better party next time….
Include at least 2 different games!! ( bowling ruled out )…
Sankar
Awesome dood san!! it was a gr8 evening for all of us. It is a great thing that we have sweat it out for the general championship trophy through out the year. We quote Linkin Park's song - Points of Authority
"Forfeit the game, before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame, puts your name to shame
Cover up your face, you can't run the race
The pace is too fast, you just won't last. "
Virendra
Wednesday's log overdue party was real fun. I teamed up with Ravi. Initially I was just observing many bragsters bragging about a game alien to me. Finally the game began had a lot of blast and beer(that was the best part) . But the game that looked so simple at first sight was not that easy for me. But had a lot of fun and considering this to the first party at iRunway i think the fun quotient will head north in coming fridays.
Finally one closing statement " I hate mediocricity thats why the Rank :) "
Ya finally after long deliberations with Ravi, we came up with name of the team "iONE".
These were my 4-5 lines but after we win next time, I fear you will have to bear my 40-50 lines.
Wednesday's log overdue party was real fun. I teamed up with Ravi. Initially I was just observing many bragsters bragging about a game alien to me. Finally the game began had a lot of blast and beer(that was the best part) . But the game that looked so simple at first sight was not that easy for me. But had a lot of fun and considering this to the first party at iRunway i think the fun quotient will head north in coming fridays.
Finally one closing statement " I hate mediocricity thats why the Rank :) "
Ya finally after long deliberations with Ravi, we came up with name of the team "iONE".
These were my 4-5 lines but after we win next time, I fear you will have to bear my 40-50 lines.
