Hip Hip, Hurray!!!

We continued the Diwali celebrations during the weekend, with unseen vigour and enthusiasm from all those involved. On Saturday, we held a drawing session for the kids (about 15 in all). Participation from the kids was near to 100%. Every one of them were present at least 10 minutes before the event, making noise and running around playing, creating the right ambience for the session. Not only did the children drew and painted brilliantly, but also marketed their presentations well. They went to all apartments and invited everybody to come and see their paintings! Because of the renewed tactics, some people came down and appreciated the creativity of our kids! Bravo, children!

Same day evening, we held many games for the kids. All games were held at the basement, while the drawing session was in the ground floor open space . There was 'just about' good participation in the event, although it wasn't quite satisfactory. Many people preferred to stay indoors, when their own children enthusiastically joined in all the games. We noticed that some of them, perhaps unable to withstand the noise coming from outside, peeked out of their balconies! All the children, irrespective of their winning the game or not, were presented with small souvenirs. I must tell, you kids rock! Keep up the spirit, all of you!!!

All our complaints about the meekly numbers in which people turned up during the previous days, was more than compensated by our Sunday program. Although, the morning 'Sudoku' introduction and challenge wasn't much different in terms of attendance, the enthusiasm really caught up during the evening and was at its peak at about 6 pm on Sunday. With the lip-smacking food stalls being our star-attraction yesterday, there was no stopping of people's eagerness to join the events. Several times, we felt we should just shove off the games, and have only the food joints. Anyhow, it was almost that! The spirits were just flying high everywhere, or so I felt! I believe, Palm Court has never ever seen this kind of togetherness before, even when we had the dinner get-togethers a few times in the past. All of this happened only because of the support and participation from all of you Palm-Court'ees and those of you who joined us from the Daffodils. Hats-off to Mrs.Shiny & family (from Daffodils) for maintaining their enviably high spirits, all through out. The dosa-stall idea was simply superb and an instant hit! Here is the list of stalls we put up yesterday and their owners:

Dosa: Mrs.Shiny (Daffodils), Mrs.Maya Devadas (107), Mrs.Priya Prakash (G5)
Pani Puri: Mrs.Seema Vinod (G4), Mrs.Shalini Rajendran (101)
Tea stall: Master.Siddharth (105)
Game (dart) stall: Master.Sitanshu (Daffodils)
Payasam: Mrs.Reji Krishnachandran (304)
Pakora: Mr& Mrs.Agarwal and Master.Sushmit (103)
Junk Food & Juice stall: Master.Aravind (G-7)

Thank you all of you for making it such a wonderful event! But, I can't end it here without thanking the seemingly unstoppable, ever-flowing enthusiasm of our new association bearers - Mrs.Sitalakshmi Anand (President) and Mrs.Savitha Hebbar (Secretary)! Now, the next in line to thank is all our guests from the Daffodils for your coming, joining and cheering for the winners! Last, but not least, I wish to thank all our tenants whose participation in all events were amazing, especially the Sunday morning session when, in fact, none other than the tenants came in!

In totality, it was such a huge success that I will be enamored with it for quite sometime to come. I'm sure you all are looking forward to holding similar events in the future. Me too!!

PS: I've posted some photos here of our events. Here are some more taken by Anirban (305, Palm Court) and Umesh (105, Palm Court). If anybody else have have any more photos, please share with me - I can post of all them to the same location.