Team Outing

Everybody was excited about the plan to go
on a team lunch and outing.
Two reasons:
1. Will get to know people better.
2. Will not have to spend a penny

The fact that the outing is on one fine Friday
makes it even better :-)

The day before the outing, there was a "serious" discussion
within the team. The topic : Activites during the outing.

Sush made a big mistake by inviting Anith and me
for the discussion. It was a virtual discussion using the
internal chat engine. What was going along as a nice n
serious discussion among Sush, Vi and Siva
turned out to be a 'roll on the floor' comedy show.
Suggestions like ice hockey and water polo came in.
Somebody suggested that we can go to the resort
all the way walking. At least, we wont get stuck in the HR traffic!
I could hear Sush's giggles the moment I hit the
'Enter' button... Finally she took the smart decision to
wind up the discussion, since it was going in 5 different directions..

The venue is a Resort.
Named Ramee Guestline.
Its about 15km from EC, along the HR.
The plan was to start from our office (K2) in van,
go to EC, pick up the CAD team from there and
to proceed to the resort. Thanks to Satish, the
transportation, resort booking and umpteen other
things were done in smart and trouble-free manner.

The van came at K2 at 11.30AM.
Anith and me went to check the van. Checking
essentially means, whether there are 4 tyres, whether
there are any seats inside etc... Found everything ok.

The team got into the van at sharp 12PM.
The onward journey was all fun..
Anthakshari ruled the van.
Sheel had good collection of old Hindi songs.
Vi was equally good. Sush had numbers like
Ramaiyya Vasta Vayya.. Siva chipped in with some
numbers now and then. Venkat played the role of the
referee, making sure the fights dont go into manhandling
(or womanhandling)
:-S

HR was rather less crowded. So we reached EC by 12.35.
CAD team stepped in. A round of introduction, and off
we started to the resort.

In the resort at 1PM.
No time wasting.. Straight to the lunch table :-)
Some minor re-alignment of tables and voila! it became
the perfect round table for the lunch..
(Well, it wasnt really round ok?!!)

Had a round of introduction at the table too..
Sandeep Kumar and Anand Mathew were not present in
the van for the first round of introduction...
Then to food.. We spent more than an hour on this
'activity'

Post lunch was activity time.
Cricket, football, volleyball and what not!
Everybody seemed to be an expert in every game.

The game session under the hot sun was tiring..
Under the shades, during the resting time, jokes were
exchanged.. Roll-on-the floor was repeated again..
:-)

Tea time.. 4 to 4.30.
More discussions..
A peep into the pool..

And we decided to pack up.
Anith observed that if we start at 5, we may possibly
and optimistically reach K2 at 7, considering the traffic
on HR at that time. Everybody nodded.

Back to van.
Back to Anthakshari.
More songs.. More fun..

The CAD team bid adiue at EC.
Back to ground Zero at 5.35PM. Much early than expected!

A wonderful trip.. and a wonderful team!
Proud to be part of this fun loving , enthusiastic team.

Tail
1. How to reach the resort ?
The resort is about 30km from EC towards Hosur
For information about the resort, here is the Phone Number
+91-8110-20430/1/2/3/4