Yuletide Carol Singing!!!

Ok all you anxious people out there, here is the latest on the happenning in my office these past few days...with monthend and year end behind us...we had nothing better to do with our time and hence decided to venture into here before unknown and untapped pockets of latent talent that is hiding in the finance family (you see there is tremendous stress on the fact that we are like an extended family and a close knit bunch, the only thing left is to sing "We are family" before starting work each morning, you know, something on the lines of assembly at school, where we sang praises of the lord, country and school (Yes, my school (smirk, smirk) has a School Anthem, and I still remember it by heart)...

As it is Christmas Time, we decided to sing Carols, the smart ones promptly went on leave, the rest (read EL, myself and a few other unfortunates) "volunteered" to sing and the organiser went off to get the requisite approvals. By the time we did get the approvals it was Monday,22nd December and we just had a day and half to "practice" the shrieks and howls...

Monday, 22nd December 2008, around 8.p.m

We had a practice session, with El in the lead trying her level best to keep the singers in tune...honest we were really bad, there we were seven on us singing in seven different tunes...what with valiant El trying to keep the tempo with her Soprano like voice (she was part of the Church Choir), Saby lending the much needed tenor like voice, the rest of us sounding somewhere between bleating lambs and sandpaper being rubbed roughly on a hard coarse surface...half way into the session Saby doubled over and gave into a fit of uncontrollable laughter...We then decided to stick to the easy ones like, Jingle Bells, Santa Claus is coming to town, We wish you a merry Christmas...after another hour or so of lack lustre singing the group decided to call it a day. We tried to do some damage control by sweet talking V (the organiser) that we should restrict the singing only to the Finance Department, why expose ourselves to the ridicule that will be very liberally laid on us in other departments???, W looked so forlorn, he was like I will never be able to go to the Cafeteria, people will snigger and whisper "Yes, thats him, the Carol Singer", he was also worrying that his stud image will take a beating...But it was too late...V has already dropped a mail to All that a Carol Singing group will be coming to their areas!!! To say that none of us slept Monday night is an understatment....

Tuesday, 23rd December 2008

I tried to sneak out of singing by feigning a stomach pain, El promptly went to facilities and brought me a Digene for my poor stomach!!!...with a "what are friends for"...Yeah right...we had another practice session, the gods were kind to us and we were reinforced by some more people, somehow when there is a large group singing, it does not sound like noise!!!...also with the guitar accompanying us this time it was not sounding half as bad...people who heard us practicing also gave us their inputs and so finally around 5.30 in the evening after donning our Santa caps we were ready to give our first live performance...we tested our singing skills on the Finance Department and were greeted by "Bravos", "Fantastic", "Once More", "Best Hai" etc etc...we sidled up a few of the loudest cheerers and took them with us the rest of the department (Our own Cheering Squad)...after singing at the Corporate Area, KS, Ops and Cafeteria we returned to our desks !!!

Since I have not been able to get my hands on the recording of us singing, please go to this link, it is the nearest sound to us singing!!!

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=a9SO0xQ6aTw

Enjoi!!!