A Lot to write II - A team outing

Well Well Well .. the friday which all of us were awaiting for last two weeks came ... It was official .. we will be going for a team building exercise ... a working holiday .. a day away from my desktop .. a day to refresh yourself from the routine work ... a day to make new freinds (really there were a few people whom I didnt knew the name) .So here was it .. Friday morning .. I woke up at 6:30 AM thanks to my colleague (mahesh) who gave me a wake up call without which I would have ne'er made up to office . I reached office way to ealy from the usual and we started from there at around 8:30 for the resort.BTW I forgot , we were going to Wonder Valley resort( it is somewhere on Bannerghatta road , somewhere because I still dont know how to go there)...But the resort was gr8 ... right in the middle of barren land with some trees umbrelling the area ... a pond on one side to give the much required cool breeze in the sunny afternoon ... .The resort can be said as close to nature with 0 artificial constructions .
As part of team building exercise,we were divided into 5 groups .. we were to perform various activites and gain points .To begin with we named our Group "KHUFIA" the term being marketed by Pepsi foods but the concept was different "We find hidden talent"
We started with what can be called an Item number and that was really a makeover of any comedy serial coming nowadays in TV . The theme taken from any James Bond Movie( Mr bond accomponied by two gorgeous ladies) .. and later enacted by 3 guys .That was the real twist in the skit and was lauded by everyone.
After this we moved to the serious business of getting points for our group.The First activity was to catch baloon .. This may be termed as a mistake as the activity was not that rewarding and we didnt checked this fact before hand.Nevertheless we proceeded with the activity but managed only 3k points .Our next task was group skipping .. we had to make a group of 12 people skip the rope and that also together ... after all the technique analysis, strategy formation etc we still were not able to increase the count ."1 minute left " came the voice of Lata(who was co-ordinating this activity ).We gave it a final try and incidentally the best and we came out with 14 jumps ... that moved our scores to a huge 31k points and we were elated ... that was a huge jump and moral booster for us.But we were not going after games like crazy .. we were doing it a leisurely pace and were enjoying what ever we did...
There was another activity "Ladder climbing " for which the rules were wrongly stated to us and opted out from it.For the same activity the rules were relaxed for another group .The new rules turned out to be a cake walk for them and they finished it in less 30 min ...
Anyways, we moved to our third activity "The Catapult" ..we were suppose to make moving canon which would be used to throw ball at the enemy ... that was pretty interesting as I didnt remembered when I did such kinda activity before .. (probably at the time of my induction in Oracle when I had gone for team building).The activity was well handled by our team and there were not many surprises for us .. we had made a prototype design on paper and then went on to implement it ... so far so good ...
This was our final activity as we had by this time achieved what we had targetted for (in terms of points) .The final was to be a kinda signof session to summarise what has been done ,what was learned and how this will help us in our work ... and again a wittly scripted speech(thanks to all of us in the group) was delivered which bursted everyone into laughter

Well it was the end of friday and that is how the cookie crumbles...

BTW India Won the second test by defeating Pakistan by 193 runs .. India 1-0 up in the series ..Three Cheers Hip Hip Hurray !!! Hip Hip Hurray !!! Hip Hip Hurray!!!

Signing off