Joy of Giving Week centered around Oct 2nd just squared me!!
thought that ,this week shall be a reviving event for YV that is now dormant.
Had invited the SPOCS of the so called active colleges,and as expected,all our efforts negated.Same people over and over again.
Whatso ever,It was the 3rd of OCt and in the JGW calender,we were to conduct an event called BREAM BIG in a n orphanage.There were 16 YV vols that day,and trust 16 then sounded a real big number.We supposedly had a strong base of 400 volunteers and of those 16 volunteers seemed really a mamoth number!
The day was pretty well done with,met some new and weird people,had seen how kids were orphaned and lots of other stuff,besides.
It was 4th of Oct.We were much late to begin the preparations for KArmaYoga Seva Mela.I personally felt,this Mela would be the right platform that has spurred up at the right moment-Thought this would help our YV vols to be back in action and with our project of EHL going statewide,this would be a great place for publicity and to an extent for fundraising.
Myself and Avinash took this Mela,to our hearts and charted out plans and events for the 2 day Mela.For once,we felt the cruch of manpower and the time was jus tickin away.No biggie to guide us,no Buddie to help us.All we had were-Geetha,Avinsh,Aishu,Sai,Kaivalaya and Rohit.
That evening,we got our action points ready-brochures for EHL,Brochures for YV,pamphlets,banners,acknowledgement for sponsorships,videos,presentations,posters,pull up stands.. to showcase our concept and eatery stuff,what to place,what not to place,how to place and lots of other stuff.
4th night was a busy night,a tiring one too...
Had to prepare the brochures apart from the training module that was assigned to me.
Done with my bit of work for the brochures and training,waiting for perusal by the biggies!
Time just swayed to 5th morning and that was the only working day before the Mela.
Damn that!
Avinash was out of his home since 5 in the morning,attended the gate classes and there he was with me at EHL for the preparations for the mela.Poor chap!nfact to get candid to put things straight,whatever work was being assigned,bw it to anybody was finally being executed by Geetha and Avinash.:((
I was still waiting for the approval for the brochures,the only mode of our publicity for the Mela.and after a day's long wait...it came at 9:00 pm when all the printers and DTP guyz were off to celebrate Dushera.
A busily sick and a tiring day.i hated it for any reason.Nothing on eart had materialised.Damn Damn Damn!!!
And the next day was Dushera.
Everyone on earth (may be) celebrating the festival,with i and avinash connected on fone,through mails through out the day.And here i was cursing myself for having taken up this venture.I was so discouraged by a statement"We are investing so much,will we get enough out of it"This grounded me completely.All the little hope to do it,also got crumpled.
I was apprehensive,nervous,skeptical,afraid,jittery and lots more.
//..What if this wouldnt be a successful venture,i would be screwed,people will criticize and blame me no end.....//
was what was running in my mind more than a 100 times a second.
I cried! I prayed,Christ!Let me succeed!
All of sudden,this Mela became more important to me than my only sister's only marriage!
Everything else seemed so small then.Deep inside,i was praying,Mela to succeed,whatever has been invested,should be at least recovered,if not running in profits.With fingers crossed,slided into sleep to wake up to the D-Day!
That was 7th Morning.All soft copies for the printing ready.The inauguration was to begin at 11:00 a.m. and we fools thought that we would be able to make up for the event before the inauguration.I had called up the designer to come at 8:00 in the morn and like a sincere student he did.But,fate plays it all,the power went off!Shucks!!
Why should i always be the target of those weird moments!Sob!Sobb!sobb!!!
By the time,we were ready with all are stationery to decorate our stall,it was one n half hr past the inauguration and we missed out the best of the best moments.
The moment we stepped into the club,i was greeted by my DAD.I cut a bloody sorry figure in front him.Guilt was just biting me off.I hate that moment.FISH!
Beyond these dirt moments rested some busy moments in the stall.Although we missed out on the Chief guest visiting our stall,we did have a good number of people visiting our stall.And the whole of the rest of the day,i had been talking talking and talking...so that says it all,that we did have good number of people visiting our stall.
But then again,it was again just 6 of us there!I wished if few more friends were there with me.
Day 1 of the Mela closed.It was close to my satisfaction levels.SO no regrets as of the first day.
It was 8th Oct,the second and the last day of the mela.
It was the day,not of the NGOs,but of the directors and CEOs of the NGOs.And there stood my stall third from the dias,with jus vols.
Chandu,my CEO,had promised me that he would make it up to the stall.Infact Charan also had promised to come.I was more than happy to hear that.Time just went by and none of them turned up.I then became pretty sure,they wouldnt!
I had seen all the stalls graced by their CEOs and directors.And my stall was looking orphaned.:(((
I hate the Nirmaan stall for the very reason that it was being manned by the CEO himself....:X
It was really depressing,no frenz of YV,no Charan,no vikram,no mayur,no goverdhan,no nagesh,none!
I was feeling everything that i shouldnt.
And there was a surprize...!!Ishaan and sowmi had come!
WOW!!!
Luved it!!:)))
And thankfully,to drive me out of this sickening thought came some gentleman,who found some interest in YV and wanted to know.When i was deep lost,explaining him wt we are,i suddenly saw Chandu coming to the stall!
OMG!!
I just Exclaimed.....Chandu!!!
Unbelievable,Chandu had come,my CEO had come.I stopped briefing up about my org,went jaunty and hugged Chandu!:)))
I dinno wt i was doing.I donno wt Chandu z gonna think about me.....but all i knew was,i wanted my CEO to be there with me,grace our stall ...and there he was.
Chandu...You came and my excitement and energy was boosted my manifolds.Thanx Chandu.But then,i missed Charan!
Ha....a great,busy day.For 2 complete days i did wt i love the most.I talked,Talked and Talked!:P
All in all....the Mela was successful to me personally!
Special thanx to Avinash,Aishu,Kaivalya,Rohit,Sai, and Shwetha..to have made this event successful!Thanx guyz.More than the Mela,it was the time we shared after the the mela that can never be forgotten.
Thanx JGW to have given the opportunity to have had so many experinces.Thanx so much!
Joy of Giving Week had given me the real JOY!!!
thought that ,this week shall be a reviving event for YV that is now dormant.
Had invited the SPOCS of the so called active colleges,and as expected,all our efforts negated.Same people over and over again.
Whatso ever,It was the 3rd of OCt and in the JGW calender,we were to conduct an event called BREAM BIG in a n orphanage.There were 16 YV vols that day,and trust 16 then sounded a real big number.We supposedly had a strong base of 400 volunteers and of those 16 volunteers seemed really a mamoth number!
The day was pretty well done with,met some new and weird people,had seen how kids were orphaned and lots of other stuff,besides.
It was 4th of Oct.We were much late to begin the preparations for KArmaYoga Seva Mela.I personally felt,this Mela would be the right platform that has spurred up at the right moment-Thought this would help our YV vols to be back in action and with our project of EHL going statewide,this would be a great place for publicity and to an extent for fundraising.
Myself and Avinash took this Mela,to our hearts and charted out plans and events for the 2 day Mela.For once,we felt the cruch of manpower and the time was jus tickin away.No biggie to guide us,no Buddie to help us.All we had were-Geetha,Avinsh,Aishu,Sai,Kaivalaya and Rohit.
That evening,we got our action points ready-brochures for EHL,Brochures for YV,pamphlets,banners,acknowledgement for sponsorships,videos,presentations,posters,pull up stands.. to showcase our concept and eatery stuff,what to place,what not to place,how to place and lots of other stuff.
4th night was a busy night,a tiring one too...
Had to prepare the brochures apart from the training module that was assigned to me.
Done with my bit of work for the brochures and training,waiting for perusal by the biggies!
Time just swayed to 5th morning and that was the only working day before the Mela.
Damn that!
Avinash was out of his home since 5 in the morning,attended the gate classes and there he was with me at EHL for the preparations for the mela.Poor chap!nfact to get candid to put things straight,whatever work was being assigned,bw it to anybody was finally being executed by Geetha and Avinash.:((
I was still waiting for the approval for the brochures,the only mode of our publicity for the Mela.and after a day's long wait...it came at 9:00 pm when all the printers and DTP guyz were off to celebrate Dushera.
A busily sick and a tiring day.i hated it for any reason.Nothing on eart had materialised.Damn Damn Damn!!!
And the next day was Dushera.
Everyone on earth (may be) celebrating the festival,with i and avinash connected on fone,through mails through out the day.And here i was cursing myself for having taken up this venture.I was so discouraged by a statement"We are investing so much,will we get enough out of it"This grounded me completely.All the little hope to do it,also got crumpled.
I was apprehensive,nervous,skeptical,afraid,jittery and lots more.
//..What if this wouldnt be a successful venture,i would be screwed,people will criticize and blame me no end.....//
was what was running in my mind more than a 100 times a second.
I cried! I prayed,Christ!Let me succeed!
All of sudden,this Mela became more important to me than my only sister's only marriage!
Everything else seemed so small then.Deep inside,i was praying,Mela to succeed,whatever has been invested,should be at least recovered,if not running in profits.With fingers crossed,slided into sleep to wake up to the D-Day!
That was 7th Morning.All soft copies for the printing ready.The inauguration was to begin at 11:00 a.m. and we fools thought that we would be able to make up for the event before the inauguration.I had called up the designer to come at 8:00 in the morn and like a sincere student he did.But,fate plays it all,the power went off!Shucks!!
Why should i always be the target of those weird moments!Sob!Sobb!sobb!!!
By the time,we were ready with all are stationery to decorate our stall,it was one n half hr past the inauguration and we missed out the best of the best moments.
The moment we stepped into the club,i was greeted by my DAD.I cut a bloody sorry figure in front him.Guilt was just biting me off.I hate that moment.FISH!
Beyond these dirt moments rested some busy moments in the stall.Although we missed out on the Chief guest visiting our stall,we did have a good number of people visiting our stall.And the whole of the rest of the day,i had been talking talking and talking...so that says it all,that we did have good number of people visiting our stall.
But then again,it was again just 6 of us there!I wished if few more friends were there with me.
Day 1 of the Mela closed.It was close to my satisfaction levels.SO no regrets as of the first day.
It was 8th Oct,the second and the last day of the mela.
It was the day,not of the NGOs,but of the directors and CEOs of the NGOs.And there stood my stall third from the dias,with jus vols.
Chandu,my CEO,had promised me that he would make it up to the stall.Infact Charan also had promised to come.I was more than happy to hear that.Time just went by and none of them turned up.I then became pretty sure,they wouldnt!
I had seen all the stalls graced by their CEOs and directors.And my stall was looking orphaned.:(((
I hate the Nirmaan stall for the very reason that it was being manned by the CEO himself....:X
It was really depressing,no frenz of YV,no Charan,no vikram,no mayur,no goverdhan,no nagesh,none!
I was feeling everything that i shouldnt.
And there was a surprize...!!Ishaan and sowmi had come!
WOW!!!
Luved it!!:)))
And thankfully,to drive me out of this sickening thought came some gentleman,who found some interest in YV and wanted to know.When i was deep lost,explaining him wt we are,i suddenly saw Chandu coming to the stall!
OMG!!
I just Exclaimed.....Chandu!!!
Unbelievable,Chandu had come,my CEO had come.I stopped briefing up about my org,went jaunty and hugged Chandu!:)))
I dinno wt i was doing.I donno wt Chandu z gonna think about me.....but all i knew was,i wanted my CEO to be there with me,grace our stall ...and there he was.
Chandu...You came and my excitement and energy was boosted my manifolds.Thanx Chandu.But then,i missed Charan!
Ha....a great,busy day.For 2 complete days i did wt i love the most.I talked,Talked and Talked!:P
All in all....the Mela was successful to me personally!
Special thanx to Avinash,Aishu,Kaivalya,Rohit,Sai, and Shwetha..to have made this event successful!Thanx guyz.More than the Mela,it was the time we shared after the the mela that can never be forgotten.
Thanx JGW to have given the opportunity to have had so many experinces.Thanx so much!
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