Work Hard and…

...party hard.

Today it was outdoor quarterly update meeting or Department Update Meeting (in short called DUM). It offered me change from the routine busy schedule and was my first team outing. There was lunch, followed by meeting with discussion abt target & milestones achieved in this quarter and plans & updates for the next quarter & the roadmap ahead. Then there were department wide recognitions, out of seven who got the awards, four were from my group. ‘Cheers for them’

But the best part of the day were the team events. The theme of the events was based on one of my favorite movie ‘Sholay’. The attendees were divided at random in four groups. So, each group had around 19-20 members. Each team had to decide upon a name based on the characters in the movie and a nice punchline based on that name. My team’s name was “Dhanno”. For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, a small info, “Dhanno” is the name of the horse which pulls actress Hema Malini’s Tonga (Horse cart). And the punchline was “Bhaag Dhanno bhaag, sabse tej bhaag” i.e., “Run Dhanno Run, fastest and ahead of all” ;-).

Lots and lots of rounds were there. The round which I liked :-) was called ‘PERCEPTION’. In this eleven different sounds were played on audio, some of them were like a lady shrilling ‘nahiiiiiiiiiii………’ means “Oh, NO”. So, now it’s your perception how you interpret it. You can think of a lady who just saw her boyfriend with another girl. Or, think of a female, who has just now seen a cockroach. I don’t know how the heck some of the ladies get afraid by cockroaches? Probably the same way as some males get afraid seeing the dogs ;-)

As a team we had to recognize the sounds, keep track of all of them and then weave a story around those, such that all sounds are covered. Each opponent team has to look for flaw in the way story is linked & then ask one question to point out the loophole which the acting team had to defend by the answer. As soon as the organizer played the last sound, I told my team, I have an idea & have framed the story. I framed a story based on department’s success & competitors saying ‘Nahiiiiiiii’ as compared to monotonous hero-heroine based stories of other teams.
Now, time for a little self-praise. ;-)
All were surprised by my spontaneity & creativity. We all enacted the same story & our story was the best. No team was able to point a flaw, they had to think for extra time but then also they couldn’t. Our team was simply the best. If you are not ready to believe, scores will tell you. When all the teams had points in negative (Ya u guessed it right, there was negative marking also), our team scored 425 points.
So, by now you know that our team won. Each of us got beautiful milk mug as the gift.

Enjoyed the wonderful team event.