MKRT 181 Valentine Dinner Meet By Tr Vinay and Cr Sweta - 200th Meeting of MKRT 181

Tablers and Circlers,

Tr Vinay and Cr Sweta Grandhi have one of the Best and Different Dinner Socials every time. This Time it was the Valentine Bash on 11th February Coinciding with Cr Sweta Birthday. It was Also The 200th Meeting of MKRT 181

Read More for a Report By Tr Vinay and Cr Sweta


HEART THROB 200

The Heart Throb 200 hosted by us was the 200th meeting of Madras Knights Round Table 181 celebrated on the 11th of Feb 2012 with a backdrop of Valentines Day. The promotion related to this party started from the end of 2011 with a special event & group created for this event in Face Book. There were weekly & daily reminders about the party & what they can expect at the party. Guests were given enough lead-time for not only blocking their calendars but also not to plan or not allow any one else plan a party clashing with this party that night. This was a night planned in such a way that during the party the guests invited had an opportunity to go back in to flash back to their teens or love life’s. The theme of the night was “ Your 1st date “ & the dress code to compliment the theme was “ Dress to impress “. We had about 100 plus guests out of which 99% were old, current & brand new from the tabling fraternity of Chennai. We had about 75 guests from other tables in Chennai and about 35 of our own 181 family & all for sure adhered to the code ☺ . The venue for this night was a beautiful beach house called “Fern Breeze” @ Uthandi off East Coast Road, Chennai with nice landscaping along with a nice pool. The party set up was both in door & out door. The ambiance & dressing of the night was suitably done with a lot of red light and suitable props to compliment the theme.

The entry of our esteemed guests was planned very different. About 50 meters away from the gate of this beach house the valet parking guys stopped guests cars and requested them to board an Auto Rickshaw specially modified for this romantic night & ride, which was topless, painted red and also which played a welcome message a recording on the audio system of the auto during their 30 second journey to the gate of the venue from the valet stop. Once they got off & opened the gate the guests had to walk on a red carpet leading them to another Auto parked with a side profile all dressed up and had a white wall background behind it waiting to be used for a photo shoot by a professional cameraman. This cameraman was always on a stand by ready to click how many ever pictures each couple or individual or a group wanted with this Love Auto.

After the photo shoot at the photo corner the guest had a choice to go right which was the landscaped garden of the beach house or left in to the house indoors to the dance floor and the main bar. The landscaped garden was used in two parts - one had the live food counters along the corners, and big round tables where groups of friends could sit and eat and a small bar set up was also there to quench the thirsty as they were out doors enjoying. The 2nd part of the garden had small round tables individually dressed up to seat individual couples who wanted their space away from the crowd and enjoy the moment for them selves. The out door party had a live duo band with a professional play back singer & highly qualified keyboardist entertaining the people in the garden with some romantic English & Hindi numbers. Requests were entertained and some dedications made.

The 200th meeting was conducted on the terrace of the building where there was a separate set up for a meeting with dedicated audio & furniture and lights. The Chief Guest of the day was the Vice president of Round Table India 2011-12 Tr.Vineet Parikh who specifically flew in for this event from Ahmedabad. The meeting agenda mainly focused on the release of the 200th meeting pin specially designed to commemorate this 200th landmark meeting of MKRT 181 and the time @ “Any other Matter”. Vice President RT India Tr.Vineet and the Area 2 Chairman Tr.Sandilya Venkatesh launched the pin. The 200th meeting cake was cut by the past chairmen of 181 & a few Square legs of Area 2 present at the meeting were asked to come forward & open the champagne bottle. At any other matter we had quite a few of the guests come forward & had good things to say to 181 & a few words of advice to help us move forward further. During the meeting on the terrace where all the men were engaged the ladies were being entertained at the Garden by the duo band with some scintillating singing (so was the feed back)…

As soon as the meeting was wound up all the men got down to the garden & every one had some time to fix their drinks & catch up casually with people around. Later all guests were asked to step indoors where there was a cake cut for the hostess of the evening my wife Sweta as it was her birthday too this day. Following this personal moment I performed a dedication dance to my wife which was a surprise performance supported by professional dancers to a medley mixed number, which hopefully entertained my wife and the crowd, observing (So I hoped!). I definitely know for sure I amused a few, entertained a few, made a few jealous, & made a few go WOW!!! & Also made a few think what the “F” is this guy up to??? ☺ LOL !!!. After this performance the Visual DJ kick started the night by opening the dance floor for all the guests. After a couple of dances the guests were again asked to step out to witness a 6 minute synchronized dance performance by a group of 6 professional dancers from the S Dance company of Chennai in the water inside the swimming pool at the garden. This was a first time experience for many including the dancers & it was definitely worth an attempt because many appreciated it. After this final performance many guests started eating and many moved to the dance floor inside. Here on the DJ inside took over totally and the guests enjoyed dancing away through the night grooving to various genres of music & had some finger licking yummy food catered by Uncle Sam’s kitchen one of the biggies in the industry. The bar at this party was also tended by the best in town and was busy from the start to finish with a variety of spirits which flowed enough to get people high on them out of which the memorable ones were the strawberry Jello shots & various other kinds of shots that moved around. This party had a dedicated shots counter to keep shots moving around through out the party.

The party went ON till the wee hours and completely shut at around 3.30am. It was an amazing experience to plan this party right from the concept to execution. The people who attended this party made every minute spent behind planning and executing this party worthy. The best thing about this party is the post party feed back which we have got from all the guests. This has made us feel delighted to have hosted this night for friends. The icing on the cake is that the pictures taken by many people at the party especially the ones with the Auto have been made as their profile pictures in various social networking Internet platforms…

So finally I can confidently vouch that the HEART THROB 200 party ROCKED Together in Friendship in typical known 181 style & it was a pleasure for Sweta & me to host it. Thank you!


GLMF Tr.Vinay Grandhi

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Reported By
Hamir Sampat
MKRT 181
Blog Convener 2011-2012

Madras Knights Round Table 181 Bhoomi Poojan for 4 Classroom Project

Tablers and Circlers,

MKRT 181 the youngest Table of AREA 2 continuing their efforts in Projects had a Bhoomi Poojan for a 4 Classroom Project at their Long Term Project School Siragu School, Avadi,
181ers have already built 9 Classroom over here in the last 5 years and have taken up the First Floor Block Also which have 4 Classrooms and A computer Room Block also .
This will benefit nearly 400 Students. Chairman Tr Vinay and Project Convenrs Tr Balaji and Tr Rajeshwar have promised to complete it as soon as Posiible
Area Vice Chairman Tr Gitesh was also Present for the Bhoomi Poojan

The School also Celebrated The Republic Day with the Tablers and Circlers to showcase their Talents in various forms of Art and Karate.

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Hamir Sampat
BLOG CONVENER
MKRT 181

Fellowships at MKRT 181

Tablers and Circlers ,

MKRT 181 had two fellowships this month

The First one was Tr Rajeshwar and Cr Divyaa's Social

It was quite different and innovative as they had their social at their house. It was really a great bonding time for MKRT 181 as other than the regular socials as the 181ers interacted between themselves.

Thanks to Rajeshwar and Divyaa for this.

The Second fellowship was on Christmas EVE
The tablers brought in christmas at the newly opened Hilton roof top
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Christmas Fellowship Week End

The family of 181 kick started the Christmas week end by chilling out at the most popular roof top terrace lounge in Chennai at the Hilton Hotel called Q BAR… Most of the guys were coming here for the first time and it was extreme bliss of an experience for them. The never before cold breeze in Chennai , the quality of music , the ambience and most of all enjoying the company of each other was the point to be noted… We all partied till about 1am and rushed back home to take some good rest for a day long fellowship the following day which is going to be with the family of Table 159 playing a 20-20 crick match accompanied with some fun fare activities for the twinklers and the ladies of both the tables with some pot luck lunch @ the YMCA grounds…

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Reported By
Hamir Sampat
Blog Convener
MKRT 181

MKRT 181 RTI WEEK 4, 5 , 6 and 7th Day Activity Reports

Tablers and Circlers,

MKRT 181 Chairman Vinay, Community Service Convener Tablers, Circlers and Twinklers present the Report for the Beautiful work done for the Round Table India week 4th,5th,6th and 7th Day Activities

It feels so good to see the smiles on the faces for whom we have done the community services

Read on for a report by Chairman Tr Vinay Grandhi

4th Day of RTI week of MKRT 181

Today the 17th of Nov 2011 we Knights funded a one months supply of Pedia sure a food supplement for 70 children taken care by CAN STOP a cancer support wing of Sundaram Foundation. It is our privilege for us to be able to provide the first and the last meal of the day for these children for a month. May God have them live their hope…

5th day of the RTI week of MKRT 181

This 18th of Nov, which is the 5th day of the RTI week, 200 plus inmates of Sri Matha Trust blessed the families of MKRT 181 by praying for us because we sponsored their breakfast. Sri Matha trust is a registered Charitable Institution and itsobjects are to help the poor and the sick in the society belonging to all caste, creed and religion. At the request of the Cancer Institute Chennai, right from Aug 2000 this trust runs Mohandevi Hirachand Nahar Rajasthani Dharamsala in the old Cancer Institute premises at Adyar Chennai that takes care of the needy cancer patients who cannot afford treatment.

6th Day of the RTI week of MKRT 181

Today the 19th of Nov we Kights contributed did 2 services of contributing bed sheets to the needy.

We contributed 26 bed sheets for other wise challenged children with Autism at KRUPA a home supported by Aim for Seva trust in Chennai. We handed over these bed sheets at the trusts admin office. Our visit to the office was definitely an eye opener about this organisation for the kind of vast support they are extending towards children’s education, betterment and up keep through out India almost like our organisation but here they not only build schools by seeking help they also educate and they also run student homes.
We knights contributed 18 bed sheets to a War widows welfare association named “NIMMADHI” an old age home that has 16 war widows mostly from World War 2 and two-ex service men. It is really sad to see and understand the lack of support they have from the society. We 181rs have visited this place for the first time and for sure left with an said promise them that we will further do our best and give what is needed by them ASAP to our capacities. It was so nice to see these old people having such a broad smile on there faces… Again thanks to this movement Round Table that we are able to reach such needy and be one small reason for the smile on their face

7th Day of the RTI week of MKRT 181

On 20th Nov we Knights did our 7th and final day of community services coinciding with the RTI week which this year for us was from the 14th to 20th of Nov. Today we supported a Govt. home for children called ‘Annai Sathiya illam’ near Central Railway station in Chennai supported by Smile foundation. This home mainly has girl children right from 1st standard to 12th standard and some college students too. We knights contributed today as a start Rs.5000 worth stationary mainly benefiting the girl children in the higher classes. We Knights did this contribution under the new initiative which we started today which is the ‘Save a Girl Child’ in association with Suyam Charitable trust headed by Mrs.Uma Muthuraman whom we are associated for the last 7 years. Today the children at this home were celebrating children’s day as 14th Nov was a Monday this yr and hence we also distributed biscuit packets to them. it was again a blessing to see so many broad smiles today on the faces of so many children

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Hamir Sampat
MKRT 181
BLOG CONVENER

Madras Knights Round Table RTI week Day 3 Activity

Tablers and Circlers,

Tablers of MKRT 181 had their activity for the 3rd Consecutive day in their chosen Round Table India Week

Small things count big in lives of these Kids

Smiles on the faces can make your day

Heres the Report by Chairman Vinay Grandhi

On 16th Nov the 3rd day of the RTI week we knights sponsored a dinner for about 400 plus children mostly orphans at the Ramakrishna Ashram in Chennai. The best part of this was we being exposed to some mind sooting prayers before dinner and then having dinner. It was an eye opener reminding us about our strong Indian culture and traditions. A good learning for our twinklers with a smile on their faces….

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Hamir Sampat
Blog Convener
MKRT 181

MKRT 181 RTI WEEK DAY 2 Activity

Tablers and Circlers

MKRT 181 had their second consecutive day for RTI week on 15th November 2011

Heres A report by Chairman Tr Vinay

Day 2 of RTI week 11-12 of MKRT 181


Today the 15th of Nov the day two of the RTI week we knights of table 181 contributed a bore well to a school called Swami Dayananda Rotary Primary & Nursery school situated at Kalpakkam 9 kms from Mahabalipuram at Kadalur Village just off ECR . This school is mainly supporting the children from the fishermen community and that too most of them who suffered the effects of Tsunami. This school has classes from LKG to 5th standard and they are following the state syllabus. There are 305 children studying here. The school children performed some entertainment program for us and also spoke about a few Indian leaders of the past and present. Our first time visit to this school was definitely worth and for sure has made us start to think whether we should support this school further. The best good thing about this school was that hey have maintained it very well. The smile on the kids faces today will go a long way for us who visited the school.

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Hamir Sampat
Blog Convener
MKRT 181

Twinklers Day out with Table 3 FOR DIWALI FELLOWSHIP

Tablers and Circlers,

Twinklers o MKRT 181 had a field day with Fellow twinklers of Table 3 and Circlers of Table 3 and MKRt 181 at a diwali Fellowship

Read on for a report by Twinkler Convener Tr Ram Swaroop

A report on Twinklers Diwali fellowship with MMLC 4 an LC of Table MMRT 3

This Diwali the twinklers had absolute fun in the joint fellowship organized by MMLC 4 on October 22,2011 at the Wonderyears Playschool. The ladies of Table 3 invited us ladies of 181 as guests, and we all got to meet and bond with them. Nine ladies and 12 children attended this event. There were lots of activities organized like greeting card making, toran making, pot and diya painting, mehendi and host of other activities. A shadow puppet play was also organized based on Ramayana, the children understood the significance of Diwali. There was some lip smacking food cooked by the ladies of MMLC 4.
We gave some chocolates, and goodies to all the kids as a token of appreciation from 181.

Written by The First Lady of 181, Sweta Grandhi


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LMF Tr.Ram
Twinkler Convener 2011-12
MKRT 181

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MKRT 181

Madras Knights Round Table 181 RTI week Day 1

Friends,

Tablers of MKRT 181 had their activities for the first day of the designated RTI week

Heres a report by Chairman Tr Vinay on the same

Day 1 of the community service of RTI week of MKRT 181 of 2011-12
On 14th of Nov which is the Children's Day Madras Knights started the RTI week for 2011-12 by donating a lot of things to Siragu school run by Suyam charitable trust. 181r's have built 9 class rooms in the past for this school and have decided after 3 yrs of gap that we will build a few more class rooms starting this year. Since today 14th was a working day and because of some last minute planning we 181'rs could not make it to the school for the morning Children's day function which was already planned by the school. Instead we made sure that our presence was not missed by donating some goodies this day which will directly benefit the children of the school. Todays activity which was coordinated and donated by the table are -
1. Sponsored a scrumptious special lunch for over 200 children.
2. 800 plus square feet of roofing material to cover the common utility areas of the school.
3. Two 1000 plus PMPO watts music systems for schools recreation rooms and hostel room.
4. One Hi 8 Video camera & one digital photo camera
5. Books for Siragu's library - A full series of How & Why books, A whole series of children's Encyclopedia books, A whole series of quiz books, A whole series of fairy tale books and many more other novels for kids.
6. Clothes for children and teachers.
7. Also initiated a pick up vehicle going to all 181'rs houses from this day onwards for a few days collecting similar useful things….
Since we missed the morning session principal of the school Mrs.Geetha came along with 8 students i.e. one child representing each class from classes 1 to 8 came to one of our tablets house.Here we donated all the above things mentioned. They were extremely excited seeing the books and the electronics they were getting. Each of them told what they wanted to become in the future and it was an eye opener to some of our twinklers of our table who were sitting along with them. Over all I think the day ended well with broad smiles on these few children's shining faces…

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Hamir Sampat
BLOG convener
MKRT 181

MKRT 181 Dinner Social by Tr Rahul and Bhawana

Tablers and Circlers


This Months Dinner Meeting was by Tr Rahul And Cr Bhawana
A Excellent Theme of Cowboy and CowGirls

A really great evening spent with Friends

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Reported By
Hamir Sampat
Blog Convener
MKRT 181

October Fellowship at MKRT 181

Tablers and Circlers,

MKRT 181 a Fellowship table has had many fellowships this year already. This one was in october

Read more by a Report by Chairman Vinay

181's first fellowship of Oct 2011 kick started on the 13th Oct 2011 at Javed's Kebabs & Curries a new restaurant on Khadar Nawaj Khan Rd ,Chennai. This Restaurant is new and is going to open on the 22nd of Oct 2011.Yesterday we had an trial run of a few items of their menu exclusively for our table. It was an experience definitely because for many of us were for the first time given a sheet of paper with all the items being served for dinner asking questions against each dish being served with our opinion to be marked under - " Great , Average and Bad and Suggestions". Yeah 181'rs showed their critic side of them genuinely at least for the reason for the treat given :) ... There were total 10 tablers,9 ladies and 7 twinklers...








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Hamir Sampat
MKRT 181
Blog COnvener

Twinklers of MKRT 181 once again with CSK PLAYERS

Tablers and Circlers,

The Twinkler Convener of MKRT 181 Tr Ram is Scoring Boundary after another with fellowships for Twinklers Back to Back
Heres another fellowship for the cricket crazy twinklers with Chennai Super King Players

Heres What Tr Ram Says

Meeting Team CSK again on Saturday, October 1st 2011

Twinklers had another encounter with team CSK this evening at the Madras Cricket Club from 4:45pm to 6:45pm. Four Twinklers had a blast and were excited beyond imagination to meet with Team CSK. Twinker Karan Sampath on his B'day mustered up courage and talked to all the members and got Birthday wishes from all of them. In fact Ashwin was disappointed that Karan did not share his B'day cake with him. Suresh Raina made Twinkler Tanvi's day for sure. I could not believe that she was in tears after meeting and talking with him. She took almost 3 to 4 minutes to breath normally. The water bottle Twinkler Tanvi is drinking water from is a gift from Suresh Raina. Please see the photos to see their excitement and share their happiness.

LMF Tr. Ram
Twinkler Convener
MKRT 181, Area 2

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Hamir Sampat
MKRT 181
Blog Convener

Twinklers Fellowships at MKRT 181 with Latest Tabler Tr Ram as Twinkler Convener

Tablers and Circlers,
Im Sure the Kids of MKRt 181 are going bonkers over there latest Twinkler Convener Tr Ram who happens to be the Last Inductee of MKRT 181 but still has made it point to do something for the Kids Immediately.
Heres A report on the Twinkler activities in the Last One week.

MKRT 181 Twinklers 1st Fellowship 2011-12


Who said fellowships are only for Tablers?

MKRT 181 Twinklers had a blast at the movies on Friday, Sept. 23rd at
Escape. Nine twinklers, two tablers and three ladies made it. They
all watched "ZooKeeper". They munched on popcorn and also fed popcorn
to the seats and the floor. It was non-stop bonding amongst the twinklers
(like in the photos) right from when they saw each other. I think
they just enjoyed being with each other

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Fellowship 2 For the Twinklers




Reported by
Hamir Sampat
MKRT 181
Blog Convener

MKRT 181's 1st Community Service for the year with Lions Club Of Pettah

Tablers and Circlers,

MKRT 181 had its 1st Community Service Project for the year 2011-2012. This was a joint initiative between MKRT 181 and LIons Club of Pettah, Sri Lanka. It was also a Part of our International Relations which are on with Lions club of Pettah for the last Four Years.

Read on for A report by Ipc Tr Mahesh,


Knights , we had our first joint International community service for the yr 2011-12 @ Chennai on the 27th Sept with Lions Club of Pettah, Colombo ( Srilanka )
We had Governor from Lions Club of Pettah , Area Convenors and Tablers from Round table Area 2 present on this momentous day. Highlights of todays meeting is given below

• 25 free Cataract surgeries to the needy done at a cost of Rs.50,000/- by Dr.Lankesh and his team @ Dr.Lankesh Eye Hospital.
• They were 15 members in which there were members of Lions Club of Pettah, Srilanka in addition we had one District Governor and one of their National board member was present amongst the 15 Lions there.
• Representing Roundtable we had
o from MKRT 181 - Secy Tr.Amith, IPC & Community service convener Tr.Mahesh Dutia, Projects convener Tr. Rajeshwar Paani, Publicity/Editor & Twinkler convener Tr.Ram Swaroop & Chairman Tr.Vinay Grandhi.
o From Area Board - AST Tr.Hari Balaji, Area Project conveners Tr.Sanjay Goyal & Tr.Suman Voora.
• A token commitment of Rs.10,181/- in cash was given to the President of Lions Club of Pettah for a future community service at Colombo by MKRT 181.
• Appreciation of the members about the relationship amongst both the organization beyond across borders from 2008.
• Speeches by the President & Projects convener of Lions Club of Pettah. Speech by the Lions District Governor. Speeches by Chairman Vinay , AST Hari Balaji and Area Project convener Tr.Sanjay Goyal. Speech by Dr.Lankesh.
• Exchange of pins, flags and mementos happened.


Post meeting, pleasantries where exchange with the delegates and the tablers who have promised to come up some good community services and fellowships which goes beyond boundaries. This certainly reasonates with the themes, for MKRT181 which is “Together in Friendship” and for Lions Club of Pettah which is “Service Beyond Boundaries”.

Thanks tablers of 181 who made it inspite of their commitments. Also Dr Lanky did a phenomenal job in getting this event organized.

Reported By
Hamir Sampat
MKRT 181
BLOG CONVENER