Office Deewali Party 2006

It all started in the spur of a moment within Marconi conference room on Wednesday evening, and we all were seen engrossed brainstorming deepawali entertainment ideas for Friday. We tried to contact few restaurants but were unable to get a good deal, and then Sai chipped in to help us and we booked Abhiruchi – Indian restaurant on Rt 27 in Franklin Park. After reaching consensus especially on the dessert, we gave a go ahead to Sai to confirm the restaurant…
Saturday was drizzling all day…but the trees were in full bloom…looks like this week is the peak fall weekend here in enchanting Jersey. After the delicious sumptuous food, we had a round of antakshari. Did I mention Nimish’s homemade pista ice-cream. That was superb. The appetizers were tempting and the proof is that Dharmesh was seen eating only appetizers for lunch!
Well the ladies team had to decide for some time on the antakshari ground rules before the designated umpire (Shyamala) took over, and flapped the checkered flag by asking the men’s team to start with ‘Ma’…the leads in the men’s team were Ranjan, Anjan, Vinod, Dharmesh, Satish and Dev. The fairer sex had some very good song selections, especially from Madhavi, Soma, Aparna, Rikta, and Sudha…and after some arduous competition, the ladies team was declared the winner…but who cares when we all hard so much fun!