Annual Meet: An event to remember

To ensure that the Annual Day Celebration was as grand as never before, the HR team put their full time and enthusiasm to make it on the Big Day. The HR and Facility members, team up with some volunteers, were all prepared to make it a memorable day.

We started the day with a fruit drink, here at our campus and moved to accommodated ourselves in 3 buses waiting to take us on the nearly an hour's journey of 40 Km towards KR Puram.

The Company Outing, on the occasion of our Annual Day on 22nd March, 2014 was held at the Confident Ammon Resort which was an Egyptian themed resort. The mood was set for the same in the previous week's Fun-Friday event, where the HR team brought to us a quiz with the same theme named "Know more about Egypt".

On reaching the venue around 10 am, we were Banded [at wrist] and welcomed with a fruit drink at the venue by the host. Corporate T-shirts to mark the Annual Day were distributed at the venue according to the size requested by the team, who did not waste any time; and quickly changed to it to show the spirit.

Though a bit disappointed with the Smorgasbord Breakfast, things picked up fast as our pretty anchor Natash Rock really rocked the stage with her gift of gap; Shubha with the slide show preparation with which Sameer inspired all of us with his ever green and enthusiastic speech as usual on-time ending with a note of Thanks and farewell bid to Anil, and a quick intro to Shajith.

The much awaited MVP award were announced with the 'Stars': Got to know more about Kapil Sharma and the philanthropist in him. Following which were the Fun awards [or the 'Utterly Serious' awards as you can call them] given to Aditi, Ravi Teja, Jagadesh, Feroz, Padmashree, Ranjeet Mani, Roshan Vinayan, and of course Mr. Sameer Shariff, for his 'Risk'. I wonder who worked out those craziest and weird awards like: The Premjith award, Manmohan Singh award, The one who drives the oldest car, The one who works the longest and what not. It nearly kept us wondering on not just the field of specialization that was recognised but also the awardees.

‘Let’s Break free’ session for the Senior Managers was the best piece ever. Sachin, Shyam, Uday, Jagadesh, Vipin, Anil, Pandit along with Sameer showed us how young they were by heart. I was more than delighted to see the versatile genius and multifaceted personality of our senior team. They gave a wonderful performance showed their mettle specially in the Lungi Dance. Sachin went back to his college days and stole the show with his rocking dance. After that particular session, I could never look at him in the same way as before.

I laughed till my stomach ached or was it because it was time for lunch ? Whatever ! the delectable lunch buffet for both veggies and non-vegetarian was mouth-watering. I got to relish all the wonderful dishes that were served at the event venue.

Post lunch, I explored the little Egypt and had our round of photo session with friends, while a few had a good hand at the golf. The scorching heat of the Sun did not allow for any full match of cricket or volley ball, still some were able to warm up a bit. We slowly moved into the Fun Zone. With the help of the Event Manger we split ourselves into more or less tantamount four Teams: Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow lead by Sameer, Sachin, Shyam Shetty and not sure who lead the other team (sorry ! May be blinded by excitement). It was a great opportunity for each one of us to interact and socialize with all the Impellers and have fun together. Team Games like longest human chain, revamp, cross the bridge, fill the holed pipes, blind hit, and many more to prove the team spirit in us. Although officially the Blue team led by Sameer won; it was 'Team Impelsys' that actually won as said by Rocky-- the event Manager.

Following the energy filled events we were let to enjoy our time with indoor games like carom, tt, tennis, a few plunged in the water like little kids. I wonder if any made use of the gym and spa facilities that were available too. I continued our exploration of the place further along with the Tea/coffee and hot snack at the Pit stop. At the end of the day, completely exhausted, with heavy steps headed back on to our buses which dropped us back at our campus.

Overall it was a experience of Fun and Excitement, which I would like to carry in my hearts and minds for years to come.