One Night @ CG

"It's going to be a long night". That's what I wrote on my office communicator to a colleague after going through the email in my inbox. The email was marked important and was signed off by my project manager. The body has the bold marking in blue: "We need to finish of all our pending work before we close off for the day". In short, brace yourself for... A NIGHT-OUT. My first one in my four years of professional career. Though my work clock had somedays stretched to a max of 2AM in the night but a night-out was sort of folklore for me. But now as I sit in-front of the computer and try to punch in my laptop keys; and try to re-live the moments, I sum the moments with one word... FUN!!!.

Its almost been a year that I have started working on this project and the journey been pathetic, friendly, disheartening, fun, frolic, dejection & heart-warming.. A rainbow of all human emotions. As the project comes to closing, it seems like it was a life within a life. 15th October 2011 - The product we been developing for over a year or so will hit the commercial floor. The night before could not have been more eventful. There were two extremities.. people crunching the binary codes into the computer memory and people having fun and some switching between these two extremities. I happen to be in the later category.

I worked, helped my friends finish off their work, rented my system to a colleague (Jay) for the night and joined the gang to have fun. What fun could you have in office? We went for dinner in a herd, had a nice time at the dinner table cracking jokes about this or that, him or her. We ogled at the beautiful gals who happen to be there. Walked a distance after dinner for a smoke. Back in office cubicle, you tube videos ruled. Saumya with his old classics, Anwar with modern bollywood beats, Surajit with his early morning bhajans, Narshima with his Telegu hits. People sleeping on floors to people sleeping on tables. A chain mail of pranks. Discussions about everything but work. Late night snacking to early morning tea. Everyone was tired but then everyone had the fun.

A year back, when I joined the project and was getting introduced to the new faces there was more apprehension on my mind than anything else. Now as I sit within that group and laugh out aloud; those faces  have already become a part of my life.