New Year celebrations at ibm ace

 

  Hi guys !!!

One more year has born. One more for the road as they say.. One more year to look forward to.. this year most of u acemates where miles away from home and probably had a wonderful new year celebration at your places. I'm sure u people will still be having fond memories of welcoming 98 at ace. I was really wondering whether this year they will have a celebration especially since us smart guys are not there anymore! So it came as a pleasant surprise for me when smitha called me at my office to convey our raman sir's invitation to the new year party.

  We all gathered at the seminar hall by 4 o' clock. Now it was sunoop's turn to bring the juke box. The 'star attraction' of the day was soju and his 'chalus'. He made an on-the-fly performance which he called monoact as per the special request of raman sir .And then there was this gift exchange program with u'r new year friends. Do u know what it is? The previous day every one took a chit from a lot which contained the names of everybody there. The person whose name is written on the chit becomes the new year friend of the person who takes that chit. At the party the compere will call out our names one by one and we have to announce the name of our new year friend. Then the 'friend' comes and gracefully accepts the gift and opens it and shows it to the crowd(at that time everybody dutifully claps and makes all sorts of comments which will also have a bearing on the giver, receiver and the type, size ,appearance etc.. of the gift so received. cute eh???)

Then there were these songs and dance performed by an assortment of people(the usual rituals!!). Sunoop made us shiver(which of course traversed down our respective spines) with his 'cover' version of Brian Adams song "cuts like a knife" .Sunoop and Jayachandran(do u know these days he is popularly(?) known as java-chandran?)conducted dump charades and thampola. By the way do u guys still remember Praveen sir? He made a surprise visit at the party and made a not so successful effort to sing. He later attributed his inability to remember the lyrics to his continued absence from the motherland and may be also due to his constant interaction with the language of those 'arabs'!!

By the way wouldn't u be a little eager to find out what gifts some of them got?

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