We had a party recently on 23^rd November 2007.  It was an evening party arranged by our Director Mrs. Maitrayee Sinharoy.  The party was held at Dakshin Kolkata Sansad Club.  In Bengali “Dakshin”  means south as it is located at Deshapriya Park in Kolkata which is near Gariahat.  We went to the party at 6 p.m. after our morning shift work.  The afternoon shift of mine being changed to morning shift and the night shift will be held as usual for those whose duties are in night!  Anyway..we went to the club.  It is a nice and a lovely place to be in.  The club is a big one with beautiful swimming pool, bars, tennis courts with bright lights overhead shining like the bright sun in the sky!  Each playground fenced high above so that no balls could hit passerby.  Large number of trees are planted to make the club be in close touch with nature!  The club is filled with members from rich class and the last time we had party I met Tollywood actor Indrajeet there.  He is a guy all the Bengalis know and he has a nice figure, tall and handsome.  He has a nice built body as he regularly works out in Dakshin Kolkata Sansad club (we call the club as DKS) gymnasium.  The club has restaurants over the park and the round tables placed at regular intervals look really great with old and young people chatting and passing some time and relaxing after a hard routine life! 

Our party started around 6 p.m. and Sabyasachi Mukherjee came and brought the music players with him.  He connected them and songs of Hollywood and Bollywood started playing one by one and the employees of Infovision came one by one. Our company arranged a lot of games that included Passing the Buck, Queen of Sheeba, etc. 

In the game called “passing the buck” we were asked to sit in a circle in chairs and asked to pass the big round packet.  The music started playing and our Quality Analyst Salim Sakir acted as a DJ and he stopped the music and the person holding the packet at the time of the music being stopped should do something as instructed in the tiny slip of paper.  Sometimes he is asked to act like a baby, sometimes sing in mother tongue, sometimes move out of the group, sometimes dance and sing, etc.  It is fun to play this game and it gives you a belly laugh as you see sometime getting nervous in the acting.  In my turn, I was asked to sing a song in mother tongue.  I sang “Alo amar alo” (light my light) a song by Rabindranath Tagore.  I play this music in my synthesizer or keyboard.  So it is easier for me to sing 2 or 3 lines.  I got a prize also, a cup.  The cup is made of steel with plastic handle with the name of our company “Infovision” being printed on it.

Queen of Sheeba is the next game.  Mr. Sakir spoke, “ who has white handkerchief?”  The person who has a white handkerchief should go.  I also had one but I reacted slow so I could not get the prize, another guy got it.  Anyway Mr. Sakir told clean the handkerchief and bring as it has already changed its color as I am carrying it since 6 0’clock in the morning.  He has a sense of humor.  This is the first time I realized and smiled.  Then he said, “shirt with white stripes.”  I instantly raised my hand and got the prize.  I feel lucky my aunt gave me the t-shirt a few days ago.  Anyway in Queen of Sheeba I got 1 prize. 

There was individual performance and a guy who recently joined our company named Devang gave a musical flavor by singing Bollywood songs and all of us cheered him and from our requests he sang one after another songs.  I felt that a song can win heart so easily!  I can play music but I cannot sing well, I felt that’s why singers are so popular than any other musicians.  They can win heart by the melodious voice!  A nice voice in this world is worth a million you know that when you hear a nice voice in radio, you feel happy and refreshed! 

We had a lucky draw and my number 15 seemed unlucky and so I could not get prize for that.  At the beginning of the party, we were told to estimate the weight of a packet and each of us estimated and wrote the weight and our name beside it.  I estimated the weight s 2 kg 500 g while the actual weight is 1 kg 326 g.  Actually the weight was estimated by an employee of our company and he estimated astonishingly well and guessed it to be 1 kg 300 g.  We were all astonished.

We had our dinner around 8 p.m. and our menu consisted of papad, fried rice, chicken, fish fry, torka, tandoori roti, ice cream.  We had our dinner and then we had the dance party finally.  We danced till 9 p.m. and finally we returned home with a fresh, happy, tension free, and joyful mind.