Tablers and Circlers, On 17th April we had our second business meet of the month at Cine City Hotel, Kodambakkam. We had a distinguished guest present there along with our Area Chairman Tr Sakthi Vel Raja. Raju Radha was the chrter chairman of Sri Lanka Rt 1, He was also the founder member of Sri Lankan Tables. He was also the host for MKRT 181 when we had our Lunch Meet with Sri Lanka RT 1 earlier this year. It was a great experience being at Sri Lanka and he was a great Host. Chairman Mukesh prsented Ravi Radha with a small token of appreciation for the same.
Tablers and Circlers A report on the BIKERS DAY OUT from Tr Venky chairman of 82. MKRT 181 had two particpants in Tr Bhavesh and Tr Hamir . Have a look at the snaps and then the report.
This mantra that I picked up from a road sign in the hills on the old Chennai to Bangalore highway, (NH 45) manifested itself in many ways on April 5th, 2009. “I haven’t ridden a bike in so long, I don’t have a bike, it’s just too hot, how will I wake up early on a Sunday morning”, etc are just some of the many questions (read excuses) that came flying across when Area 2’s first ever Bikers Day Out was announced, about 15 days before the actual event. Madras Central Round Table (MCRT) 82 who masterminded and executed the event as their third Inter Table activity, provided answers to most of the questions put forth by the desirous. With the support of Royal Enfield, MCRT 82 were able to arrange for 8 motorcycles for Area 2 tablers to ride while the rest chose to bring along their own steeds. For the first time in my relatively short stint in tabling, I was shocked to see 92% attendance of the pre-registrations and more importantly, every one of them reporting sharp at 6.45am at the venue. All of us at MCRT 82 would like to thank individually all the participants who took the effort to turn up on time and helped make the day special. Giving us company were friends of Tr. Sivaramakrishnan (Area Track Day & Treasure Hunt Convenor, MCRT 94) in their exotic imports. The display was ogle worthy and comprised Tr. Siva’s own Harley Davidson V-Rod, a Yamaha Warrior, a couple of Honda CBRs and MCRT 94 Chairman Neville’s Yamaha FZR. The agenda was simple – a pure ‘Boys’ day out. No families, just the men and their bikes. We were to drive down the scenic East Coast Road upto the point where it meets the Old Mahabalipuram Road, hit a Farm and engage in fulfilling gastronomic cravings and indulge in some ‘activity’. What ensued was beyond most people’s imagination. Having travelled about 45 minutes down the East Coast Road, time that included a couple of breaks for regrouping, KD, who was our Ride Leader from Royal Enfield suggested a path off the main road leading to the sea. Thick white sand greeted our Biker Boys as they virtually waded and paddled their way through. It was a good example of off road biking, and left most of our tablers out of breath. The ride through till the farm was uneventful. Good long roads, relatively low traffic and great rides saw us reach ‘The Farm’ by about 10am. A delectable spread of farm fresh food including Stuffed parathas and dosas with lip smacking accompaniments saw the tablers spend good amount of time refueling their selves. Fresh tender coconut water from the original fruit was the beverage of choice for the day. After breakfast, some chose to leave to attend to Sunday “family commitments” while others hung around to venture to the last leg of Bikers Day Out – the litmus test. The 70 acre farm has its own forest and two water bodies. The shallower of the two were chosen to test the water biking abilities of our tablers! They rode through rough terrain of sand and grass and plunged into a feet deep pool of water and slush, true biker style! Not one casualty reported and colgate-esque grins all around. Other activities included the Bikers trying to pick up cans of aerated water while riding. Tr. Uttam (RT 159) and Tr. Hamir (RT 181) excelled at this. Now we were all acquainted of our tablers’ abilities at grabbing cans but this enthusiasm for non alcoholic beverage was encouraging! We capped off an absolutely marvelous day on the roads (and off it!) by about half past noon and rode back to where we started from – the Royal Enfield Brand Store. Customary greetings were exchanged and everyone moved on to the rigours of their prosaic everyday lives. The response received has been encouraging. Most bikers asked for the event to be organized on a more regular basis. Some even wanted a slightly more elaborate ride spread over two days. A few plans seem to have hit the drawing board - you will hear from us as and when the same materializes. MCRT 82 would once again like to thank all the tablers who participated for turning up on time and in promised numbers, Royal Enfield and KD for the technical and logistic support and the team at The Farm who put together a great breakfast and offered us a venue which gave vent to our innate biking skills. Gratitude is also due to everyone involved who ensured that MCRT 82’s promise of safer roads was upheld with everyone turning up with helmets and avoiding any form of inebriating beverage through the course of the event. Just another day towards fulfilling MCRT 82’s promise of Miles Together.
Tablers and Circlers, The Dj war held on 29th March 2009 by MKRT 181 has got great publicity not only in Area 2 but also by Todays Indian Express. Go through the news paper cutting below...
Tablers and Circlers, Here are the results of the most amazing of AREA 2 which happened on the 29th of MARCH 2009 at LEXUS- Hotel Benzz Park. There were totally 225 registrations from AREA 2 and anybody and everybody enjoyed the event throughly. It was a dream come true for the participants as they got to be to the other side of the DJ console where they could play the music they liked and they wanted to hear. The evenet started at around 3pm and went on to around 9 pm. MKRT 181 also launched thier second magazine of the year. Tr Vinay was pinned the GMLF pin on the same day by RTI prez- Tr Pranay Trivedi, RTI President Elect Tr Himanshu Area 2 Chairman and Chairman elect Tr Sakthi and Tr Prabhat were also present for the event.
Have a look at the photos and then go on to read the results....
Champion of mixes _ sunil,162 Runners up - Parag,123 BEST Dancing table - 162, BEST Dancing couple- Subash and his wife - 162, Glorius twinklers- 100, Fellowship AWARD- 162 and 100 Best dressed Lady - Nancy, table 3 Head bangers/most gutsy DJ - Brajesh - 159 Special award of recognittion to only lady Dj - Cr.Nanavati- 123 225 registrtation and 24 participants Event started 3pm and ended 8.45 pm
Tablers and Circlers, The Most Happening Event of Area 2 is here. DJ war presented by MKRT 181. Just 3 days to go. 29th March 2009 2 pm onwards at LEXUS - Hotel Benzz Park T Nagar. "WILL U BE THERE TO SHOW US THEWY U MIX" Early Bird Prizes Beer on the house Snacks on the house Be there to be a part of it......
Tablers and Circlers, MCRT 162 had thier intertable event Area 2 Idol at the ACCORD metropolitan hotel on the 22nd March 2009. MKRT 181 had three particpants for the event, they were CR Bhavana, Tr Vinay and Tr Manish. Tr Manish who sang for the first time gave his best shot, Tr Vinay and Cr Bhavana were the runners up in the best male and female singer category. They were also the winners in the Duet Category. MKRT 181 also won its 5th consecutive fellowship award inthe area in various intertable events.
The snaps follow to show you how much fun we had....
Tr Gaurav and Cr Deepa had thier Lunch meet on the 22nd of March at ZARA's. For the first time a pub had allowed a family affair to happen there. Everybody had a rocking time withthe shooters flowing around. U can also see the Chairman and Vice Chairman 2009-2010 of MKRT 181 doing thier Dostana Act. Have a look at the pics....
Chairman Mukesh all of a sudden decided to make us 181's beat the heat during a week day i.e. on Wednesday the 18th of March by playing a prank to make people come for a fellowship. He sent us a message " All please come to Blend,Taj Mount Rd @ 9.30 pm today for a surprise". This was taken pretty seriously by quite a few of us event though we knew he was pulling a fast one. There were 8 tablers and 7 ladies who were there for this fellowship and they were Vinay and Sweta , Sunil and Eesha , Rahul and Bhavna , Kaval and Sonu , Lankesh and Suba , Ganesh and Jenny , Bhavesh and Neeta , Chairman Mukesh and our Area HT Sanjay Ramaswami. We had a ball of a time with Riviera Wine going down our throats along with some good house music buzzing in our ears. The ladies as usual were naughty and the pictures will prove that statement and the men as usual busy in getting ragged by them...
The night started of at around 10pm and ended only at around 2 am on 19th of March'09 at Taj Mount Road. We had a few visiting tablers to the same venue like Tr.Suman from table 42 and a few others from Table 30. We were @ Blend till about 12.15 pm and then continued fellowship at the Coffee shop there with wine and dinner. The icing on the cake this day was how Sunil managed to lay his hands on 2 full plates of various kinds of desert free of cost for all of us... Sindhi Seth he proved him self to be ... LOL !
I think this kind of fellowship was long due and Chairman made it happen.... Chak De !!!!!
Tablers and Circlers The Most Awaited event of Area 2 presented by MKRT 181 is on the 29th March 2009 at Lexus, Hotel Benzz Park Tnagar. BE THERE OR NOWHERE... SHOW US THE WAY U MIX....
Tablers and Circlers, MKRT 181 participated in 159's Spice soccer at YMCA nandanam on the 15th March 2009 where we won the best fellowship table and the best dressed table awards. 5 Tablers and one twr played the Mens soccer event and 6 circlers played the Ladies Handball event. Both teh teams lost but not without giving a tough fight to its opponents. Have a look at the photos...
Tablers and Circlers Please find the Dj War Rules Registrations are open Send in your registrations to Ch Mukesh Sinha at 181muku@gmail.com on or before 25th March 2009. ONLY ^ DAYS TO GO
Tablers and Circlers, MKRT 181 presents DJ WAR on the 29th MARCH 09 at LEXUS (HOTEL BENZZ PARK) from 2 pm Sharp The rules will Follow Area 2 - Are U ready to Mix
Tablers and Circlers, MKRT 181 rocked MCRT 82's annual Intertable competition. 181 had two teams one consisting of Tr Vinay, Cr Shweta and Cr Shubha, and the other team was Tr Manish, Tr Sunil and me Tr Hamir Sampat. Both the teams reached the final round of 5 tables but the first team ladies had gone off to celebrate womens day and they were not there to compete in the finals. The Other team were the runners up after MMRT 95. But we knights won the fellowship award with the maximum registrations. Chak De... Have a look at the snaps
Tablers, On the 4th of March 2009 we had our 19th for the year and 124th meeting for 181 in Our Tr Lankesh's Hotel - CIne City Hotel. We were Honoured by having Area Chairmen of two Areas present for the meeting. We Hadour own Area Chairman Tr Sakthivel Raja and Area 4 Chairman Tr Zishan Ali visiting us. Chairman Tr Mukesh exchanged pins and Flags with Tr Zishan. Area Chairman and AHT Sanjay Ramaswamy pinned Tr Zishan ali with the area pin. Later on we moved to the Karoke Bar of the hotel "Studio 8" where till Tr Lankesh pushed us out and reminded that Tr Zishan has a flight back the same morning we danced and Rocked the dance floor. Tr Zishan showed his skills of balancing,striping and dancing to 181ers.
Mkrt 181 rocked throughout the area in Mcrt 162's swim meet inter table competition where we won the fellowship award and our circlers beat us in the race of medals, Cr Shubha won 3 medals and Tr Sunil won silver for Splash and he also recd Rs 2500 for his superb dive.
MKRT 181 had the bhoomi pooja of thier SSA project in Lady wellingdon School for 6 Classrooms in the Presence of Area Chairman Tr Sakthivel Raja and Nst Elect Tr Ashwini Hemdev. Other Tablers from the area were Tr K J Santosh from MCRT 162
Tablers and Circlers, MMRT 95's Top Gun one of the most happening events of Area 2 was held on the 25th of Jan 2009. This event was right after our hrd cum fellowship at the Adventure Zone which was reported earlier. We were tired and poofed out but we still made it. The tablers volleyball team reached the quarter finals but then lost out to 82. The First lady beat all the ladies to reach the finals of the under 70kg arm wrestling competition where it was a all bihar final and Cr Vineeta lost to Avc Prabhat's wife. The beer guzzling competition which is a event made for 181ers was once again won By Defending Champ Tr Bhavesh who finished a 750 ml chilled beer bottle in under 10 seconds followed closesy by runner up Tr Rajiv Shah who finished in 13 seconds
What a fellowship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right from the start at assembly point,Tabler Kaval's house, the fun started & continued till we came back the next day. There were 21 tablers & circlers with 8 twinklers. A convoy of cars headed to Adventure Zone where we were welcomed by Major Roy with a briefing session & a welcome drink, after which we moved our gear into the tents to freshen up for the night. The Knights moved into one tent & Circlers into another.
The bar was set up on the lawn where as usual the Knights started assembling as soon as possible. The evening started with Chairman forcing everyone to gulp wine. As soon as Major Roy's men set up the born fire the bar shifted towards that side and we indulged in a game of truth or dare. Actually it was all Dare no truth. The nite heated up more coz of the Dare instead of the born fire as we had our VC Sunil & my co-convener Bhavesh showing us a few Kamasutra poses..........with clothes on; Tr Manish teaching Tr. Kawal to dance on Mithunda steps, Crs demonstrating a threesome......with women u dirty minds. A Tr. enacting a pregnant woman in labour, Tr. Amit riding an imaginary scooter & then pretending as a pole while Tr. Kaval did a pole dance followed by a few more dares was Tr.Bhavesh again who enlightened the tablers on the sizes of bras that would fit the respective tablers.....check out the pics guys! Some of the high spirits in the knights started becoming low & they decided to call it a nite while the rest of the high spirits started getting higher as the nite progressed some of the tablers did their usual antics. Finally we were asked to go back to the tents & sleep. We did go back to the tents & the party continued there till God knows how long with Kawal's ipod going full blast. We also woke up all the low spirited tablers with high spirits & as usual the "tanni" never stopped flowing.
In spite of the hangovers everyone was up and ready for the activities the next morning. We were split into two teams named Knight Rockers & Knight Shockers. Rockers started off with rappelling while the Shockers simultaneously started the 50 feet high rock climb (which was later inter changed after an hour). It was excellent team work and a bonding experience among the team as well as the opposite team as help, motivation, advice & concern was given to overcome fear and fatigue. The surprise elements of the whole programme was cirlcer Sarika completing the whole climb, Tr. Rahul rappelling with his ligament tear and his super lazer eyes ( which is as usual for any activity) Crs Bhavana, Sweta, Tr. Manish overcame their fear of heights by rappelling. The biggest surprise was the blue pill guy (Viagra) who was unable to rock climb to even 5 feet but was excellent in rappelling. Notably two guys who scored highest for their teams respectively was Tr Ganesh of Shockers & Tr. Sameer of Rockers which was expected. Since everyone was in full steam, without taking a break we went on to the last activity which was the Obstacle Course.
After lunch and a refreshing bath some tablers & circlers went to the shooting range to try their hands on some targets, most of them im sure were thinking that they were killing the Mumbai terrorists. I am told that everyone had a blast & Cr. Jaya scored the highest points.
After all four activities the Rockers were leading from start to finish. This activity enlightened all of us to overcome hurdles created by our own minds and help each other professionally, in tabling and personally. Everyone has it in them to do all this but we saw this turn to reality during these two days.
Later some of the tablers and circlers went on to attend "Top Gun"
