t was going to be a good time..i thought..while on my way back to my room frm office..sometime like 9 am in the morning after a long evening and night on thursday...on friday evening was scheduled the "antyakshari" where our team had qualified for the finals...now i reached my room...after watching the india-nbang. match, having food and the other chores, i went to bed..somewhere like 11...i thot i had some 5 hrs. before the cab would arrive and i wud leave for the office as the event shall commence at 6..but i was not geeting any sleep...after 40-45 mins. of "turning" on the bed, i decided to call the cab there and then and finish my pending work before the event starts and leave early from the office instead...so i reached...to my utter surprise, my team-lead was still on his seat after 20 hrs. he had arrived in the office....that inspired me and i started to feel less sleepy(this is one dreaded week in the office from 18-25 of a month when its all work and some sleep)....it was 25..and a friday.i fnished my pending work in an hour and then was free for the event almost....i went to my tem-mate for the game and enquired if he had made any preparations...we both smiled at each other....so in lieu of the rounds that were to be staged, we decided that we cud work on the video-clipping round where we were intended to identify a song while the sound was muted...i wet back, opened "youtube" and started watching the classics- dev anand, kishore, rafi and all....as these are the standard themes .....at 6 we started for the venue..in the midst i performed a generous act..:)...i found a debit card on the stair-case...we decided to hand it over later to the concerned department and headed for the venue straight....only that while i opened the main-entrance door, 2 girls asked us "we had misplaced a debit card somewhere.u guys have an idea.?"..i said "yaa..is this it..?",...yes.thanks!!! ... ok...they wud have seen us taking it from the other side of te glass partition....and its all up to them to think as they please of my antics of keeping it in my pocket in a hurry..:).anyways..digression...i reached the venue...the organisers were very enthusiastic...some had adorned saree, befitting a wedding instead..:)....we sat ...1 round..a regional song round...my team-mate being a kannadiga, did the honors...another team sang that very popular and melodious song from a recent movie which I hear while in cab on the fm....i really like the melody..althogh dun understand a single word(because there is no madi, the only word i understand)...my teammate told it was a blockbuster movie which released some time back..and re-wrote the records allover...then followed the real chaos..our anchor was so keen on showcasing his own voice that it triggered a total chaos of a show...there were supposed to be 4 buzzer rounds...first they tried the buzzers, then the hands, then names and what not..but nothing worked...how wud it, when there were 9 teams and one judge, who was supposed to sing the required song to ask the question, entertain the crowds and identify which team rose the hands first..and thet too when the songs were all too familiar and none tok more than a second to identify....as u wud anticipate, i say that he was unfair towards our team..:)....he ignored or may be din see when we raised hands....even the crowds supported us...and then when we had no hopes of landing ny of the 3 places, we decided to make a good show of it...it was a buzzer round as always...to identify the song based on the video-clip....he played a song...even before the clip started, I hit the buzzer...perhaps that was the only way he cud take note of us..then I sang that hilarious number frm amar-akbar-anthony.."taiyyab ali pyar ka dushman hai-hai..."...there were no prizes to decipher who the taiyyab-ali was...and to relieve all doubts, i pointed while singing towards our beloved anchor...all in good spirits..the audience responded and it was fun...3 deserving teams won as obvious....and we left the venue after some relief from work-life...for another final slogging of the month as it was the start of 25 in usa..our client site...and we had to deliver the goods then....
