Team outing

Most of the times on Fridays we all plan out for weekend, for night party, for going to native place and many of us plan how to take rest over the weekend. But last Friday was a bit special, and why should it not be after 2 months of long planning and rescheduling the event three times. People were already given prior information and things were planned well in advance. It was time for Abbott and Pfizer team to go out for their Quarterly team outing. The venue for the same was decided as:- FANTASY GOLF RESORT

Departure was scheduled at around 1.30 PM and fortunately everyone was ready, excited and “Fantasizing” the event. After some add-drop which generally happens in our CALL PLANS the head count was 24 and unfortunately the bus had a capacity to accommodate only 22 J, but somehow we all adjusted and the driver pressed the accelerator. For our journey some hot McD burgers were arranged for all of us with some “Boiling” coke and beer at room temperature (35 degrees C). Slowly and steadily having some normal talks and stopping at couple of places for ice (imagine why?) we proceeded towards our final destination. It was around 2.30 PM when the bus was at the gate of FANTASY GOLF RESORT and some chilled watermelon juice was available to quench our thirsts as we entered. Rohit and Sourav got hold of a bat and a ball and went to their childhood days and same was the case with Elakkiya and Neha who got hold of badminton rackets and shuttle cork.

After some half an hour of gappe we all assembled at volley ball court where all of us got sentimental (more on the mental side) and played such a pathetic game which changed the definition of it. It was not long when the people on my side which was trailing by a big difference got agitated and started sledging. Because of some great effort by Sourav and Ramesh and excellent effort by Rohit (who was on our side) we let our opponents win 3 games in a row to boost up their morale and it was a white wash for Raghu’s team J. Within no time everyone eyed cricket pitch and wanted to test their hands on the same.

Team captains Elakkiya and Neha were asked to select the teams from group of highly talented, inform, hard working cricketers. The ground was set and it was like looking more or less like LAGAAN’s second half where we realized that people don’t even know the rules of the game. Elakkiya won the toss and elected to bat. We saw some great, professional, high class batting performance by Selva who took his team to a score of 150 runs in 10 overs and made the chase even more difficult by bowling two excellent overs. After the end of one innings we were served TEA and good ONION PAKODA’s. From Neha’s team the chase began and a good fight was given by Charchit, Nakul, Rohit, Ramesh and Srikant but still the goal was far out of reach and we declared Selva as MoM (Man of the match). During the match we saw some great fielding efforts by Mohit and Kushal, who dropped 3 catches each. And also some good umpiring by Anandbabu who once said the ball is a No-ball and signaled for wide ball J

After a tiring game of cricket Photographer Indro went ahead and took some snaps which I think he will sell to Google. People were relaxing and suddenly someone planned for Musical Chairs. The enthu level in the team was so much that without wasting a second everyone from Ananya to Suriya was ready. The game was good and it lasted for around half an hour, Rohit won the event. But by that time everyone was really tired. In the meantime Salim and Rishabh were enjoying Vat69 on the rocks at the pool side bar. Our eyes again got wide open when we saw Ice Box in Selva’s hand and it was the bell for the most entertaining part of the day. Yes this time chilled beer and some good Scotch Whiskey was waiting for us.

One after the other we made our pegs and everyone was really having a good time. Soon some excellent peanut masala arrived and then people opened their own heart cans J . The talks began and we focused on each and everyone including our own scotchJ. The count started from 1,2,3,4… and after that all of us lost the count. Many secrets were revealed and we got the mystery behind Champ, S@#$h*l, S!@#l@, S@#t&, M#$%@L$.. And many more. People praised each other, raised toasts for others, talked about their past and discussed about their future. Committed people wanted to come back to live single life and who are still single wanted to have the “assumed” fun of committed life. Married people were against what people like me, Rohit, Raghu and others said and on the contrary we didn’t let anyone open their mouth. Then the topic started who is wrong in a fight at home - male or female, Ami and Vikram came in form and then the discussion took a serious turn when people started talking about personal, professional, and neighbor’s life. Finally we concluded our subject by agreeing on 'nothing can be concluded' as usual. Its a well known inference, but still its fun arriving at the same result by observing, analyzing, discussing same experiments, different experimenters, who suffer at different degrees experimenting differently with the unexperimetable, right?

Last but not the least we were served some really nice dinner and desserts. The food throughout the day was really nice and the hospitality of the staff was also appreciated. The whole planning done by Selva and Raghu deserved a round of applause and we all with our belly’s full boarded the bus. On our return journey we sang some lines from movie Anamika and the song Pyar hummne kis mod pe le aaya.

All said and done, all talks over, all beer cans empty, all of us no doubt really had great fun and will wait for the many more such outings to follow (desires never endJ). Three cheers to Abbott and Pfizer – HIP HIP HURRAY