All of Diyas, Mithai, Parties, Friends n Family at Diwali

Diwali is always special...... We meet up with friends relative and most of all.... do loads of fun stuff with Daksayani.... :)

We made this really colourful rangoli outside the house......

Soon we were joined by the neighbour's kids, Simran and Armaan...... We did both the traditional hard work way and the easy short cut way of using stencils....

Then in the evening we went for puja to Mall rd.... it was such a sublime atmosphere.....

My totally fav person in the WWW....... whole wide world......

That's Poser INC at Mall rd.... Sadhika, Neha Didi, Nikhil, Veena didi, Ciona, Mini Didi and Mala Chachi.

The kids had a total blast Ciona and Gunjan.....

The parshad for Diwali was made by my soul partner for desserts, Vibha, we even dream the same stufffffffff..... Cooking for over 300+ people..... It was just so so so so yummy that I still can't stop droolllllling over the yummy pasta......

There was fusilli pasta[loaded with Olived n Mushrooms..... my absolute favs.....],The sauce was smooth, tangy and had just the right amt of spice..... Chocolate Eclair from Modern Bazzar and chips....... her spice mix was the show stealer.... yeah I did sneak some for later.... .

The Hyderabad Diwali was brighter this time with chetan arround in India after so long..... Grandparents had lovely time with Nivritti and Chetan.

Partied with the office gang aswell...... The party's theme was 'Tauba Tera Jalwa'.... and what 'J-A-L-W-A' there was.... so much that it's censored on my blog..... what happens at the party, stays at the party..... ;)

The rangoli's made by both teams in office were fantastic..... so much hard work... all made worthwhile by the twinkled eyes which were full of wonder looking at these......

That's Rozy[part of the 99acres sales team] getting the 'We Value You' award at work.... Then there's Amit n Bhaskar [My Product team], n Gunjan our energetic party animal n Amrita[Amit's wife]

We got back Diya shaped mithai as parshad from babaji in Mall rd...... They looked so pretty and were totally d-e-l-i-s-h.... Am not a great fan of mithai but these..... They were out of the world......

Diwali, The festival of lights.......

Festival of Lights ~ Diwali

This Diwali was truly blessed for me.... The darkness of ignorance has to go....

That's Daksyani with the wonderful things she made in school.

We had yummylicious parshad.

With Upma mom ~ our inspiration as a follower, Neha didi ~ The most awesome cookie, Veena didi ~ The one behind my bangle craze, Miss Mini ~ My Matching partner {Yayyyy... mummy beat u to it this time also :-)}

Posers INC.... Need I say more, Sadhika, Sonal, Geetika n me.

Meri Phuljhari......

Awesome 3somes, Nikhil, Sonal, Ronaq, Daksayani, Chachi n me.

The naughty babies... Gunjan, Daksayani and Khyati hugging my boyfriend Abhishek.

That's all of us.... Dadaji, Mom, Mala chachi, Tushar, Sheena, Daksayani, Vivek chacha and Geeta chachi.That's the Hyderabadi Diwali with Nani, Nana, Mamu and Nivritti.

Safai, Decoration, Puja, Cards, Shopping and Video chats thru skype... :-)

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.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

That's Vineet.

From Shine n Shimmer - Evening

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]