Table Tennis Tournament - Kick Off

Just had first round of matches today between Cloud XI and 8th Wonder, Cloud XI advanced in Women Singles and Mixed Doubles.

Scores were 

Women Singles (Ekta vs. Yogita): 3-21, 6-21, 7-21

Doubles (Ritesh & Ankit vs. Ajay & Abdullah): 16-21, 10-21, 2-21

Here are some pictures

Diwali Celebrations

21st October and 24th October were special days for Rainmakers as we all celebrated Diwali before the actual holidays.

On 21st October, we organized a Quiz contest in presence of Marty, he was part of Go Green team. It was an interesting event where people were asked questions about two themes

-        Know your peers

-        Ramayana (One of the greatest India Epic)

On Monday, 24th October we started the day with sweets and Diwali wishes, wonderful snacks in afternoon followed by special delicious lunch. Immediately after lunch Aparna announce Diwali gift and everyone welcomed it with big cheers.

Then we had Tambola time, Chitra was hosting the event and everyone played, cheers and shouting for each house and each corner.

What a wonderful day with full of fun, food and masti!

Pictures are coming soon!!!

Rainmakers walked the Ramp

On 22nd Sep, 2011 we organized fashion show at recreation area of our India office. Three themes were decided on which participants were asked to be prepared and walk on the ramp.

- Ethnic

- Formal

- Open (something innovative)

Participants from all 6 teams walked the ramp and made the event a success in-spite of having meeting lined up, midyear appraisals in progress and fire fighting the release targets. Thanks to all Rainmakers from bottom of our Hearts. Especially Rajiv for hosting the event, Ajay for being official photographer and Atif for recording entire event.

Live the moments again, here are some pictures

Event Group official LOGO

We are happy to unveil new official logo of FR Event Group. Thanks to Arvind for the help. 

Event group History & Adieu to old Event group

We started event group way back in 2006 with motivation of building team spirit among employees and also adding fun factor with regular events and celebrations that could be morale booster for employees. Idea was to provide opportunity to all so that everyone can spare some fun time apart from regular work.

Chitra and Rajiv started event group in 2006 and Binay and Kushagra joined in 2010. They did great job of managing all events, celebrations and fun activities till August 2011. In August 2011 we (Ankush, Chris & Jalvin) took over from old event group.

Here is our old event group (Rajiv, Kushagra, Binay & Chitra)

And here we are, new event group (Ankush, Chris & Jalvin)

  

We hope to meet high standards set by old event group and keep up the momentum and fun factor alive among employees. 

Introducing Event Teams

Just realized that it’s important to introduce Event Teams to readers of this blog so that we can correlate all event related posts and score cards with the teams.

We have formed 6 event teams in our office, which is very helpful in building team spirit and adding more fun while having various competitions, games, fun events and official outings.

Below are Event Teams names, tagline, members, team logo and group picture

8^th Wonder Born to Perform

Members: Ankit, Binay, Deepak, Ekta, Gaurav, Gurmeet, Nagesh, Neha, Ritesh, Sanjay, Shiv

Cloud XI We Rain for Good

Members: Abdullah, Ajay, Amit, Atif, Gurpreet, Jitender, Shikha, Varun, Yogesh, Yogita

The Flintstones    It is not the position, but the disposition

Members: Akanksha, Ashutosh, Narender, Pankaj, Priyankar, Sagar, Sweety, Upendra, Varun, Vipin, Yogesh

Go Green   Born green, Living green, Forever Green

Members: Abhinandan, Achal, Ansuman, Aparna, Mohammad, Mukesh, Nitin, Pushpendra, Ratnesh, Sarita, Vipul

Quanta Shine    Competition Unbiased

Members: Deepak, Gaurav, Narender, Navneet, Praveen, Rajiv, Rakesh, Rohit, Shiva, Vandana

Stingers    Team with Renewed Spirit and Determination

Members: Arvind, Chitra, Jatinder, Kushagra, Meghna, Mohan, Mukesh, Nilendu, Saurabh, Tarun

Independence Day celebrations

On 12th August, last working day before Independence Day we organized multiple events around I-Day theme.

We started the day with having tricolour sweets, beautiful office decoration with balloons, tapes and tricolour kites and also put Indian National flag in office reception. After lunch time we started fun time with events. Below were 3 events we scheduled.

Notice Board Decoration

Each team was assigned a notice board and they were asked to decorate their respective notice boards on Independence Day theme. Event team along with our MD evaluated these notice boards based on short speech by event team members on each board.

30 Second speech, to complete a sentence “I am proud to be an Indian, because.....”

Debate: each team was given a topic to debate

Topic I Lok Pal Bill – 8th Wonder (FOR) Go Green (AGAINST)

Topic II Is War the only solution for Indo-Pak Problem – Quanta Shine (FOR) Cloud XI (AGAINST)

 Topic III Free Trade –Stingers (For) The Flintstones (Against)

It was very exciting to see presentations on notice board where each team covered theme patriotism and remembered proud moments of India and also freedom fighters and major contributors. Some poems and burning issues were really interesting and eye opening.

30 second speech was very interesting to listen and we all felt proud to be Indian.

Debate was most interesting part of the day where team fought for the topics given and we as audience get to know many facts and viewpoints. Each comment was applauded by the audience. Question answer session post debate was also interesting part.

We ended the day with declaring scorecard, not much juggling in overall ranking but some good performance put by some team lowered down margin in ranking. So all we can say the competition is at its peak.

Ending this post with score card including I-Day scores and some photographs.

Team	Old Score	Notice Board	Speech	Debate	Total Till Date
8th Wonder	20.00	4.25	3.83	3.07	31.15
Go Green	20.93	3.88	3.92	3.20	31.92
Quanta Shine	19.23	3.50	2.25	3.58	28.56
Cloud XI	15.40	3.50	3.92	3.39	26.21
Flintstones	17.73	3.92	3.25	3.38	28.27
Stingers	18.70	4.00	3.58	3.23	29.51