July 22, 2022 (Mermaid Resorts & Banquets)
It's 5.30 in the morning I have never woken up this early without any alarm. I called video-called my mother. She picked up we talked some random bullshit. After talking I met these two girls in the hotel lobby. I am these girls were south Indian. I am sorry I forget one of her names. Another was Darshini. I used those icebreakers to talk to them. I gave a nickname to Darshshi "Tamil Teri Adaah" (which means I don't know Tamil).
I took bath and came out of my room. I don't remember but 3-4 people came and we decided to play cricket. We played I met some more people. We won the toss, we decided to bat first. we lost. second match it was the win-to-bat rule again we lost. but I met. Lalit Bedi, who was a state player two things I remember about our conversation was I went next to him and shook his hand and asked him, "Acha aap ho unfiltered wale Lalit Bedi, bahoot tareef suni hai aapki" (you are lalit Bedi from the unfiltered group, I have heard a lot good things about you)
"kis se sun li?" (who told you?)
"Munna Bhiyaa"
Everyone started laughing.
I met a lot of people there.
Siddhant Mahajan (Man who had chappal type blue shoes, he had long hair and I got to know he's my birthday twin.)
Sagar Shah
Ravi Teja (He came in a dhoti to play cricket)
Anant (a guy from Muzaffarnagar)
Yash Shroff
I am sorry I am not able to recall more names if any volunteer was playing and I haven't written his name. Kindly leave a comment. I'll surely put your name.
Again, I took bath.
So, I reached the training hall after having my breakfast. Someone in yellow tee took attendance, he was a fair guy and had a baby-like face. There were three people, two ladies, and one gentleman. Volunteers were talking and it was chaotic. Then this lady took the mic in hand, She announced, "Kindly remain silent, I am your master trainer Pratibha Gupta."
Hum kiski sunne wale hai.
I met this guy in a Denim shirt, and he asked me, "Tum Prodigy ho?" (are you prodigy?)
"Han" (yes) I replied
"Saurabh"
"unfiltered wale" (you're from unfiltered)
we had a convo I don't remember.
Start of training. Mr. Tamizharasan introduced himself. and gave some instructions, you are not going to sit.
In starting he taught some dance steps. We followed him, he called two volunteers to dance on the stage. These guys started dancing on lungi dance. Then instructions were simple once you've done You have to go and bring some other volunteer. And this baby-like guy who took my attendance grabbed my hand and sent me to the stage, and on the other side Sagar Shah was dancing next to me and I was clueless about how to dance. I just went off-stage and grabbed someone else. Now they played a Punjabi song. and boom everyone was on stage. Have a look at the video.
and Darvesh made everyone dance with his bhangra, that Sardar. whenever he used to come to me. My brain starts to play the song in my head ♫Chitti jaave na jaave sandesha Sajan Gaya kis desh, toote dil di jag bhi nahi sunta na hi sune Darvesh♪♪
Song is ♫♫Chhil Gaye Naina♫♫
We shifted all the chairs. instructions were we had to make a human circle. then every second person in the circle will get in the circle and make an inner circle. I was in the inner circle now we have to shake hands, tell about our native, and give a compliment to the person in the outer circle next to us and then move the circle anticlockwise and repeat the drill. The rule is simple I will hug use the word Darling and rather than a formal handshake ill use a hand hug. All I remember is there was a guy Ashwin who gave me a great compliment, "Your confidence level is amazing. You started a conversation with darling. I was stunned."
Then we played Charades Telephone, I fucked up in that.
Then Mr. Tamizharasan gave us some chits mine was a plate. I had to find something which pairs with me in the group. Then we had to make a group of plates. Then last we had to make a group of all the twenty things available in we started making the group. then we managed to find 19 then I saw the last thing it was David. We made managed to get 20 people. then David ran and the guys also ran behind him. We got 17 people. We failed to get 20 people in the group. Mr. Tamizharasan gave us three people.
We have to make a team name, team logo, and a tagline on the chart.
"Blunders, Kaisa Naam hai?" (how about naming our team as Blunders) I asked
"Blunder Masters"
"Copied! from Samay Raina," I replied
"Khoobsurat Blunders" a northeastern guy after looking at my tee
"Who is good at drawing?" I asked in team
Two guys raised hands
"First tell me your names?"
"Prabhat"
"Ak Gautam"
You guys go and draw
"But banana kya hai?" (what are we going to draw)
"It's up to you. You are the artist."
"Let's keep it simple. write KB that's it."
"Listen KB ke beech main blunders ki notation likh lio" (write notation in KB)
"Great Idea"
"Who is a creative writer?"
that northeastern guy raised his hand.
"What's your name?"
"Benedict."
"think of a tagline. you can take help from as many volunteers you can but DO NOT COPY FROM THE INTERNET"
"done"
"Guys who are free go and heckle other teams."
"Bhai Kaise Hoga?" (how to do that?) a guy asked
"Tu Gujarat se hai." (you are from Gujarat?)
"han tumhe kaise pata?" (How do you know that?)
"Accent Bro. I judge people. Come with me"
I gave them an example of how to sled!!
I started searching notations for the logo but as were low on time we wrote scholars mate, checkmate backrank Et cetera to save our time.
After Rejecting two suggestions from Ben we went for Every GM was once a BM.
other teams were Dark Knight, Che Chess and last I don't remember.
We went to give the presentation on stage. I took the mic I was anxious on stage. I was on stage after 2 years probably that was the reason for my anxiety.
I started "The name of our team is Khoobuurat Blunders. which means beautiful blunder, khoobsurat is an Urdu word that means beautiful. and the idea behind that my tee. The first blunder that happened to us was there is no girl in our team. anyone wants to join?"
No one replied
I continued "Our team doesn't have people like Sagar Shah. there is one who copied a full company name and here is another who copied a full-fledged tagline"
Prabhat took the mic as my anxiety was increasing.
He did it well then we went for lunch.
Dhamo was talking to a girl in the restaurant.
I interrupted them," kya Abhi se future-planing" (you started future-planning from now itself.)
"This is the first and last time, I am telling you don't interrupt me in a serious conversation."
then I started talking to another group with whom I was playing cricket in the morning.
A chubby girl was sitting with them. I asked
"Tu Kahan se hai?" (where are you from?)
"I am a Punjaban, used to live in Noida now live in Delhi." the chubby girl replied
"Oye Hybrid, Delhi main Kahan se?"
"Ashok Park Main"
"Kasam se! I used to live in Punjabi Bagh" (seriously? I used to live in Punjabi Bagh)
"Phhir toh tu mera bhai Hua" (then you are my brother!)
"Ab samajh Aaya Delhi main sab Bancho Bancho kyu kehte rehte hai" (i can't translate this)
She busted her laugh
"Hatt, I am Ekta"
"I am Shivansh. You can call me Jan-e-Mann"
"No need"
"Then I will call you Jan-e-Mann"
after that, we had a good conversation
Now I was going back to training after lunch. I saw that baby-looking guy, "oye what's your name?"
"Gurumoorthy" baby looking guy replied
"You are Gurumoorthy, you should know how to reply on WhatsApp."
"When you texted me?"
"20th"
"I was working late at night. Around 3 AM"
"Sorry, I missed your message"
"It's okay you will miss me after the event."
"Yeah Sure"
I went to the training hall. Now we have to think of three meanings of conflict and write in on paper and start discussing them with others and make a list of three on which you both agree.
I discussed it with someone. Our words were Pasoori, disagreements, and different perspectives. Pasoori was mine other than that I don't care. Now we have to discuss this with the group of two. I saw Introvert in one of the pairs we discussed. and everyone agreed on Pasoori. Now the group of four will have to discuss. I went to the group of Dhamo. He was not agreeing with Pasoori. after getting irritated he ran. Then Abhijeet U and I started discussing Pasoori. He named me Pasoori. Post that even I don't remember whether we agree or disagree. Then we went to the group of Gurumoorthy where he was not agreeing with anyone. In the end, everyone ran from the room including me. and Gurumoorthy was named Oxford.
After coming out of the training hall. I played a game of Chess with Gaurav Yadav in which he destroyed me. Then went to play cricket.
went to have my dinner @ 7.30. To meet more people and break some more ice and came back at @10.30PM
Sagar, I apologize from the bottom of my heart I was just trying to be funny. If it hurts you I am genuinely sorry.
That's it for today. Keep reading my blog. I will upload the next vlog soon. This is me Shivansh signing off.
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