Applibase decided to celebrate the coming of the new year a couple of days in advance. In the evening of 30th Dec 2005 the (small) crowd assemebled in our conference room for the festivities… What we got was absolutely simply amazing.
Preethi and Asha were the perpetrators and the crime was giving us hours of fun. The plot involved getting us in the same room (something that is incredibly hard to achieve) and put us head to head in a tournament. The tournament involved skill, determination, hunger(I know u guys are laughing) and pain too.
Asha and Preethi were not a part of the competitors and that left just Pramod, Prasad, Theju, Shruthi, Anant, Vidya, Musavir, Varma and I. The draws were done before the start of each event and the first match was between Theju and Prasad
Players: Theju v/s Prasad
Event: Matching music tapes with their boxes
Result: Prasad wins 1-0
The one minute timeline for these events turned out really little for this specific match. Prasad managed to find one matching set while Theju was left empty handed (Ironically half the tapes belonged to Theju :)) )
The Winner
The Loser
Players: Shruthi v/s Musavir
Event: Marking consecutive numbers on a sheet of paper with jumbled numbers.
Result: Musavir wins 3-2
The game sounded simple yet there was so much complication. Shruthi listened to Pramod’s advice and went on a marking spree marking every single number on the sheet. That would have been great but there was never enough time to mark em all and Shruthi was left high and dry by the final bell. Musavir managed to find 1,2 and 3 and beat Shruthi’s 1 and 2 (not to mention a decent no of 34,87,35,96,56,12 ect.)
Shruthi tries marking everything on the paper
Musavir gets one extra in the game of numbers.
Shruthi giving her piece of mind for Pramod’s humble advice ;-)
Players: Anant v/s Pramod
Event: Lighting and Blowing off a candle.
Result: Anant won 47-42
This was the closest match of the day and Had it not been for the short moment where Pramod had to take a new match the score would have been much closer. The fun part was the comments passed by Shruthi who was still angry with Pramod and is always angry with Anant…
Anant and Pramod
Blowing Candles
This left Vidya, Varma and me. The one remaining from us 3 would play a lucky loser. Verma turned out to be the one to play the lucky loser and Vidya and I were set to compete in the next event
Players: Vidya v/s Me
Event: Cake eating Contest.
Result: Yours Truly won 4-3.5
We all expected a Cake eating contest and Intrestingly my least favourite contest was what I had to be a part of. A pair of Delicious Pineapple pastries were laid in front of us and we were instructed to not use our hands. The event started and all I wanted was to finish ahead of Vidya and after eating 2 pieces slowed my pace to just be ahead of her. It worked and I won by half a piece.
Cake Eating Contest.
The gutton with his work :))
Players: Varma v/s Vidya (Lucky Loser)
Event: Pick up 2 Rs coins from a heap of 1 and 2 Rs coins
Result: Varma wins 9-5
This one was a blindfolded one. They had to dig into a heap of coins and pick up all the 2 Rs coins and create a stack of it. Varma did a smart job and felt the change in feel of the coins and managed a decent stack of 9 coins. Vidya also managed 9 coins but ended up picking two 1 Rs coins.
Search for coins…
Players: Anant v/s Prasad
Event: Carrying Grapes from one bowl to another with a spoon in the mouth
Result: Anant wins 4-3
Anant was really good at picking up the grape and Prasad more consistent delivering it to its place. Anants margin of victory could have been much better save his habit of dropping grapes half way there. He must have droped like 3 or 4 of them.
Playful Anant
The Contest.
Players: Musavir v/s Me
Event: Carrying Cotton balls from one bowl to another with a spoon and blindfolded
Result: I won 12-10
The whole time I was Blind folded I had no idea if I had got a single cotton ball across, so it was quiet a surprise that I found a whole bunch of them in the bowl. Video evidence later showed I had picked up a bunch of them very early and dropped it on route to the destination. Musavir was consistently delivering 2 or 3 but I had one luckly break with like 7 or them that sealed the victory.
Me Blindfolded…
Musavir Blindfolded…
Players: Varma v/s Musavir(Lucky Loser)
Event: [Semi Final] Carry Peas using only a straw
Result: I won 8-3
Varma was on the run immediately from the start and managed to leave Musavir high and dry. The margin of victory in the end was pretty large.
Players: Anant v/s Me
Event: [Semi Final] Pick Chillies from a bowl using only a straw
Result: Anant won 4-3
The event started and Anant picked up the lead immediately, after being prompted by Varma I switched to holding the straw almost at the end giving me grip. The end result was close and Anant had won picking one more chilly
Anant was quick and precise
Me and Chillies dont match :P
Players: Anant v/s Varma
Event: [FINAL]Roll an apple using only your mouth over a book and back.
Result: Anant won 7-1
Anant dominated this one with Varma struggling from the start. Varma managed to get the apple across but dropped it very often causing the point not to be counted. Anant was more consistent and picked up the prize.
Victorious Anant
Anant’s Prize “The Pen is mightier than the Keyboard” :P
We then moved on to Group games. This particular one involved stacking up a set of baloons within the alloted time. The teams were Pramod, Anant, Musavir and Asha(Team 1) Theju, Prasad and Vidya (Team 2) and Preethi, Shruthi, Varma and me(Team 3). The time limit was 20 min.
Team 2 won the event with a pretty large stack, Team 3 came in second with a stack just a couple of inches short and Team 1… well they participated :))
The Winning Stack
Varma with the Runners up stack
Team 2 with their prize.
The next was a round of a game simply called “QUESTIONS”. Its pretty simple, a group of people form a circle and ask a question to their neighbour in a clockwise fashion. The person being asked the question must not answer or hesitate (s)he must ask their neighbour another question pretty simultaneously. The questions must not repeat and they must not be derived from other questions. The last person who is not eliminated is the winner.
Some cool eliminations from the event:
Pramod to Varma “Do you like applibase?” (Varma replied ‘yes’)
Pramod to Preethi “Do you have any boyfriends?” (Preethi did not reply and hesitated before asking the question)
Pramod to Theju “Does KDE rule?” (Theju lost concentration)
Me to Pramod “Is Anant good at Warcraft?” (Pramod replied “NO”)
Some good ones but did not cause elimination
Anant to Me “Do you think I will get killed this year?” (I did not get eliminated but he was clearly poining towards Shruthi)
Shruthi to Anant “Do you dig your nose?”
It was finally Anant and Me remaining and I asked “Where is Europe in the map?” and he did not reply and I won (finally :) )
There was no prize for that event but then we did the random prize thing. Each of us paid 2 bucks and got a random gift each. Guess we all won something :).
Finally, the event was really fun and I want to thank Preethi and Asha for making it so much fun… Thank you girls :), here is to a beautiful year at Applibase :)
And finally the Pic of the Day:
This moment made my year :)