Strange Impressions...

Apparently, two women are very impressed with Chella. (The use of the present tense is because we beleive they still are.)

The incident that led to this impression happened just as Chella, carrying two brooms, alighted from the bus that transported the Rage Day revelers back to office. Seeing him balancing, not one but two long handled brooms one women sighed to the other "What a responsible husband... buying broom sticks for the house and all!" The other women, we're told, nodded, all cloudy eyed.

The picture above might tell a different tale, but it came in the mail along with the story.

Lull at Work

Mallika and Swati took the swords for design and copy respectively. Admittedly it was a lull week what with all the Rage Day preparations in full swing the week through. Everyone was busy practicing and polishing their individual parts in the skits to be enacted.

That’s Mallika, first from the left with the rest of the ‘Angles’, above.

And that’s Swati there with the cloth covering her head, below.

The Coming Together

We met today as a bigger team. There were three members from ground floor who joined us. One was still on his way to office since he'd just arrived that morning from home. He gave us all banana chips as testimony. Yum! Would that be a weekly ritual?

We're still to decide what format this extended MMM (Monday Morning Meeting) would take largely because 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' function differently. That's partly because the clients we handle are different. Ugh! Did that sound convincing? Well, it's like this - there really is a fundamental difference in the functioning of the two floors attributed largely to the kind of work flows and priorities dictated by projects, assignments, whatever you'd like to call it. So Ranjit wanted things to be a step at a time for 'ground' floor.

They would be observers to begin with, learning how the process works. 'The Process' isn't much really. Each Monday, you submit your best effort of the previous week to compete for the Sword of Honour. If you win it, you get to keep it and display it at your desk for a week. Sound's simple doesn't it?

Ranjit, the Big Man 'downstairs'.

Jaikumar.

Shobana. She made a submission too.

Sornavel.

Is it appropriate to say welcome everyone? In anycase, welcome aboard. Each of you will only enrich the whole meeting thing, that's for sure. That's Sampath with the Sword for Design. Some good work for Australia.

Do We Have Enough Chairs?

We're having additions to the Monday Morning Meeting. To begin with, for the past one-year, we've been a group of creatives from what was tentatively called the Citi Team. (The Citi Team did more than just Citibank work, mind you). Now we'll be including the creatives from 'downstairs'.

Smack you lips people. Here's opportunity for some healthy competition that can only do each one of us a world of good.

We meet this Monday as a bigger team.

Mo's Wakow

The arrogance

of success

is to think

that what you did

yesterday

will be sufficient

for tomorrow.

William Pollard.

Mirror, Mirror...

No posts for quite some time now. Won't someone ask why? Nevermind. We're back. Mallika takes the sword for design this week, the first for this year - yes, we're a year old now - for work she'd done for Australia.

We did decide that we'd look back and do a bit of "soul searching, hand-wringing and preaching". (Preaching?) But no, we've moved on. Is it because we do know that we've come quite far this past year? Or, God forbid, is it a smug metaphorical shrug to what's been and done with? There aren't no mirrors to tell us, but perhaps our well wishers will.

Meanwhile, here's to another good year.