Office Promotion Party - Vivanta by Taj - Fisherman's Cove

The year 2013 had begun with a lot of uncertainties. People were worried about how long would our project MedImmune hold on to its fort after AstraZeneca had decided to merge IT operations of both Medi and AZ.

But the team and all its team members nevertheless gave their best shot and were rewarded by the higher management with a slew of promotions.

The 7 lucky ones were:

•     Rathnaraj
•     Lekshmi Priya
•     Sairam
•     Kiruthika
•     Amalraj
•     Ram Narendran
•     Sarvana Balaji

So they got promoted and get to change their signatures while the rest of us had to be satisfied with just the hike…not fair…

It’s our sovereign duty to make these privileged few regret the fact that they got promoted in the first place…..

How do you make them regret without making it obvious to them…..

Of Course, plan for a party…..feed the goat….before you slaughter it…..

which in our case is….let them feed the team……and then let them get slaughtered by the bill

Taj Fisherman's Cove

The venue was the luxurious resort of the Taj group in Chennai.

The beach with its outcroppings of rocks made it one of the best beaches I have seen in Chennai

The clean waters  and the absence of crowds made each of us connect with nature after a long time.

The beach was strewn with pristine white seashells instead of the litter which is so common in Chennai. However the seashells  made walking on the beach a tough task.

  

Time for some history lessons my friends. The above image is a plaque commemorating the rich history of this area.

Cricket is not a game in India. It is a religion and we boys are religious.

The boys ready to start with a game of hard fought cricket.

Girls can never be far behind us boys. Here are the girls of our team, playing a mixture, of handball, football and volley ball all rolled into one :)

Unfortunately a six hit by one of the MedImmune Tendulkars, caused our ball to be lost in the dense undergrowth surrounding the beach.

Cricket had to be abandoned midway after this. However my team had won the first match courtsey a last ball 4 by who else but me :) :) 

The team back in the dressing room...hmmm the huts :)

Having a cuppa of piping hot coffee and tea along with snacks. We really need the energy before we plunged into the team games soon afterwards.

Two of our Middleware team stalwarts, Sanjay and Dhana overlooking the arrangements of snacks. 

Games committee coordinators Lekshmi Priya and Sridhar checking the last minute details and preparing for the team building games.

Lakshmi seems to be warning her team, "listen guys I am the only lady in this games team, so you better give me chances to play otherwise........"

That's my team comprising of Joseph, Uma, Sanjay, Suganthi and me of course, waiting for Sridhar to explain the rules of the game before we begin.

One of the other teams comprising of Moyeesan, Suganthi, Ram, Saravanan and Rajesh. They seem ready to fight it out to win the games.

Team 3 comprising of Cynthia, Amal, Sridhar, Sarvanan and Sairam. Amal seems to be laughing his guts out....wonder what the joke was :)

 

Don't ask me what in God's name is Suhas trying to explain here .......My guess is some form of wild Jhinga La La dance :P

 

That's Rajesh motivating his team with a stern talk. Guys am gonna explain this once and you better understand. Otherwise you guys are going to get the hell from me......We have to win this game no matter what happens....Give it your best shot....nay..give it your winning shot

 

To all those people who do not understand what Raj seems to be saying.....here's my translation........
"Look everyone....Is it a bird....Is it a plane....nooooo....Its Superman...flying past Chennai......"

Cynthia explaining her long term strategy about Project profitability and Utilization ratio viz a viz the project
to a bewildered looking Suhas 

 

 












 


How can we leave Cynthia out of all this fun :) :)

So here are Cynthia's words paraphrased......

"Every one...look at me..I am going to explain some important management concepts...

Srinam...I hope you are clicking my pictures....

Allright....our project is taking a hit because of all these new client policies...

Project Pyramid needs to be aligned based on the organizational mandates....."

At the end of all the talk.....

Sairam seems to be having a nervous smile....not quiet sure...if he understood the words.....

Joseph is too excited to understand any of this....and 

Suhas....seems to be wondering aloud...."Ehhhh!!!! Pyramids are in Egypt right...Is our base location moving to Egypt"

Now its the turn of SB....Are you asking...what is this....Well my guess...this is a new dance form comprising of the dance moves of Rajnikant, MGR and Vijaykant all rolled into one :)

The best game of the lot...a hilarious version of Blind mans buff.... with used of words like......

"Aailye, Maayile, Kilyie, Aayieo...Eeiyuo...Aaloo..Bonda "

 All of the above being codewords for different directions....

This was a game you had to play to enjoy...I am not able to do justice to the game by writing about it :)

 

Team MedImmune

But as all good things come to end, our wonderful evening out had to come to an end. I am sure each one of us enjoyed the outing a lot and would love to have many more such parties in the future.

Kudos to Raj for the extensive planning in choosing the five star venue which was the Taj Groups Fisherman's Cove resort in Chennai.

Kudos to the games committee consisting of the affable Sridhar and ever smiling Lekshmi who had meticulously planned some great team games for all of us.

Kudos to our manager, Cynthia for getting the requisite permissions from the higher bosses so that the team could take off post lunch on a working day.

Kudos to the gr8 country called US of A for celebrating its Independence on 4th of July which allowed the team to have a relaxing day.

Kudos to all the members of Team MedImmune who participated so enthusiastically in the party and the games.

Kudos to our 7 generous patrons who forked out 35000 bucks for this extravaganza.

Last but not the least kudos to the blogger, Maverick, who took the day off to write this blog post :)

As always mentioned in all my posts containing images of other people....here's the warning.....

"All the images and comments have been pre-approved by Rajnikant Sir.....so you cannot raise objections"