We Value You Award - Diwali Party at Work

Diwali is a time for festivities......

We had a blast at the Shimmer n Shine theme party in office. The morning saw rangolis and office decorations in all the buildings....

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

That's Deepali.

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

That's Vibhore.

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

This is the best one...... Sujith, Sharad ko shaam ke venue ka rasta samjha raha hai.... LOL..... dono gum hone wale hain..... :-)

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

Boss in a serious meeting....

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

Which later, we turned into fun....

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

That's Deepthi.

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

That's Anuraag.

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

That's with Bhaskar in the product team's bay.

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

All the king's horses and all the king's men...... Amit, Neeraj, Partha and Bhaskar.

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

With "The Chota Don" ;-)

From Shine n Shimmer - Morning

[click here to view all the morning pictures http://picasaweb.google.co.in/nachiketa.chandra/ShineNShimmerMorning]


In the evening, we had the party. The evening started with the early bird raffle prizes....... Yupp... I won a gift hamper.....
That's Nikhil, me, Partha and Amit.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

All smiles after getting lucky.... Another one to be added under 'Vivek ke camere ka kamal' ;-)

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

Met up with friends from all departments.... That's Sujith and Anant.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

The main event was for 'Item Numbers' and 'Spoofs'. Each team was lead by the department head as the 'Mascot' and had a cheer leading Squad.....

It was a lot of FUN......

The allcheckdeals team got the prize for best item number..... You can see why... ;-)

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

They danced on 'Bhutni ke' from Singh is King.

The Best spoof prize was bagged by the marketing team for doing a Bollywood version of Big Boss...... They were really funny and had us in splits of laughter......
Vinny's Gabbar, Anirban's Mithun, Sachin's Amitabh Bachan, Aakriti's Rakhi Sawant, Sukhpreet's Hema Malini, Archit's Bobby Deol..... Were amazing..... The script was so full of punches, people were rolling with laughter.....

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

That's with Vinny aka.Gabbar.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

Another act which had us hooting for more was by the Shiksha.com sales team....... It was an impersonation of 'Apoorv Kumar', [The HOD], on how their meetings are conducted and some choice words were replaced with the sound ' Tuuuuuuuuuuuuun'...... Get the Drift..... ;-)

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

After which there was an item performed by the NIS team.... yeah... we all knew what to expect...... everyone who had gone for dinner came back...... loud cheering and hooting....

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

After all the entertainment was over, came the 'We Value you Awards'.... yupp..... I got one too.....

I was missing Ayesha [My first real boss]..... So much of this, is because of her.... and a lot of other people too.... [that list is very long... will spare you the dhobi list]

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

That's my current boss, Partha..... [nice guy...]

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

That's Bhaskar.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

That's Gunjan.

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That's Vineet.

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The evening was great fun and very entertaining.


and now with the person, who I really value... Thank you for everything.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

[click here to view all the evening http://picasaweb.google.co.in/nachiketa.chandra/ShineNShimmerEvening]

Daksyani Making Chocolate Fudge Brownies

This time for Diwali, I made Chocolate Fudge Brownies for the near and dear ones. Did one batch with Daksyani....

We had a blast making it together.....









[Click here to see all the pictures with the comments and sequence of events http://picasaweb.google.co.in/nachiketa.chandra/DaksMakingBrownies23oct08]

Nachiketa Chandra's friend says

There are 2 types of people in this world, those who like candle light n then there are those who don't.... ;-)

You Can't Win With Women

Just had to put this out..... :-)

DISCLAIMER: SMART WOMEN WHO NEED A LAUGH AND THOSE MEN WHO THINK THEY CAN HANDLE IT.... ;-) MAY READ ON..... ELSE EXIT NOW!!!!!!!

WIFE VS. HUSBAND
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word.
An earlier discussion had led to an argument andneither of them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, 'Relatives of yours?'
'Yep,' the wife replied, 'in-laws.'

W O R D S
A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day...
30,000 to a man's 15,000.
The wife replied, 'The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men...
The husband then turned to his wife and asked, 'What?'

CREATION
A man said to his wife one day, 'I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.' The wife responded, 'Allow me to explain . God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me;
God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!'

The Silent Treatment
A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, 'Please wake me at 5:00 AM.' He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn't wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, 'It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.'
Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.