Monday, December 12, 2005

Apologies

My most sincere aplogies to all those who've been hoping to see some pictures of manori. I know I promised that they'd be ready by sunday....but I haven't been keeping well for the past few days....I'm on my way to recovery and I'll upload the pics as soon as I can.

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Manori Magic

As of this moment, my heart’s filled with mixed emotions…. On one hand I’m so grateful for having the friendship of such wonderful people over the past one month while we were planning Twister 2005 (I’ll post an entry about that later)...And on the other hand....I’m terribly sad that it’s over.....

After what I believe was one of the most exciting, stimulating and enjoyable events ever, we all decided that as organizers, we deserved an outing. So we packed our bags and set off for manori beach near malad for a nice little picnic....

The 12 of us (Anuj, Kartik, Shruti, Preeti, Nazneen, Rushabh, Amit, Harshal, Meenal, Punit, Gaurav and myself) had such an amazing time out there.... We played dodge ball, cricket and even volleyball (although Shruti and I really suck at it) on the beach. We also made a sand castle and we had sooo many ice-golas that I cant even remember....

Shruti’s weird love or rather preference for petrol was enough to keep us entertained ....hhahahaha....and Anuj’s enthusiasm made it so much more enjoyable….One thing that I’ll remember is that I played doctor to Preeti, whose nail was almost detached from her toe......something I guess I should be proud of....

Anyway, the most memorable part of the day for me atleast was watching the sunset from the cliff....God, how invigorating !!!! There’s this thing about sunsets....It always gets me into a reflective mood.... And as I sat on the cliff watching the sky slowly change from a bright yellow shade into tones of purple and orange, I realized how amazing this entire journey has been. When we conceptualized the event “Twister”, I never thought that I’d get so close to those whom I’ve worked with. I still remember the first meeting that I had attended and how formal I was..... and today formality isn’t even an option. This post is dedicated to all my seniors and colleagues who worked meticulously on Twister. Anuj summed it all up in one line....he said “this is one of the defining moments of my life in college”....And I said this to Kartik already that this friendship and this experience will be counted as one of my sweetest memories as a college student.

I still remember our Barista meetings, the late night chat conversations with Shruti and also how annoyed we used to be when Anuj and Preeti always turned up late. I’ll always remember Nazneen for being such an angel and Kartik who’s been such a gentleman. Without Abhishek, I don’t think we could’ve had so much fun.....Even Rushabh and Meenal who really really slogged till the last day....Harshal, Punit, Aarti and Sameer who worked so hard on the Mockstock event.... One image I’ll always remember is that of Sameer and how frustrated he was the day we had to shoot the video and how all that frustration eventually translated into a wide satisfied smile when the video turned out to be so good.

I’ll never ever forget the people I met and the bonds that were created. It’s one memory I’ll always hold on to. Thank you so much for making this sooo special guys !!!!!!!! I love you all