I've never organized a small picnic at school or after school be it with anyone. My friends do the job and I just had fun joining them.
The real organizer amongst us was Ranjith. He'd make the plans, convey it to everyone, make arrangements (food, vehicles, and whatever necessary), and just inform us the time when we kicked off the trip. We've been roaming around right after class 12, together as a team. But I've always been with him when he made arrangements or organized atleast a small trip to another city (bcos the other usual picnic spots were all within our hometown - the finest place on earth, as we'd say). Its not difficult to recollect the days when we planned for a tour and sketched it out at some of our homes for hours and some even days to go for Kalikesam or Kovalam or even maybe Thirparappu. Then, there were several changes sometimes until the time we departed. I usually got harsh scolds from Ranjith for being me and being late ;-). Even the Gods couldn't help it! For some of us to meet at some point, we had to call up multiple times to every person involved.
It din't happen now - 12 years after organizing our first trip. Maybe we grew older. But it wouldn't have changed pattern if all of us were still in the same place as before. Now that all of us in different locations and two among us working overseas, we had every possible way to get in contact unlike before. Eagerness took the show forward and Connectivity played the key role. I never even thought I'd manage this well or even organize it to some extent and then leave the rest to the guys. And I was burdened with work for a long period until now. Some interesting steps took me forward and it would be Thilak who asked me to take the move. I thought I'd do it for the guys without anyone asking me to do it. The houseboat trip was an idea that came off Ranjith and it was his mails that made the entire subject interesting. Then Thilak made it start by getting me the address and asking me to have a talk with the agent and enquire on it. I could meet them one afternoon and after discussion when I could know all what was involved in the trip, I really got deeper into it. Then all our inboxes had mails every day with replies from everyone. I wished we'd some online page where we could scribble our ideas and share all these info and the next person can reply to it. I'l have to kick Jishin for that only being a dream. Putting off the dream, we continued mailing until everything including vehicles and timings were finalized. But still its amazing to know that this whole program was organized online through mails, with everyone at a different location, not many meeting in person, holding talks, and so on. Makes me feel we've grown technologically taller, wireless broader, and relatively stronger than ever.
But this could make me believe again - Teamwork Works
Hope we carry on the same spirit with more progressive ideas for all our future programs.
It would be only from Ranjith that I learnt the way of organizing a trip and every step that involved to make it happen. All my thanks to Chingam :-) at this point in time, for making me an organizer though not better than him.
A Lazy man is just a step away from being a hardworker. He just has to wake up!!! Trying to keep awake :-)
