NO NO we are not going to stop doing events. They will happen at regular intervals as always. As I like to say “Work and Play never stop at Digicorp”!
But I may stop posting it here as I am using our Facebook page extensively now. We have also built a good audience on our official Facebook page and interactions are frequent over there. And sincerely I do not like the delay in updating this blog. Updating Facebook page is much faster and easier.
So from now on I will be updating all latest events and happenings at Digicorp on our Facebook page. I request you all to follow it if you are not doing that already.
Once in a while if the event is huge and deserves its own post, I will do it here.
Fans of Christopher Nolan can instantly identify the movie name from this line!
Yes inspired from the latest hit “Inception”, we thought why don’t we see other impressive movies from him? This guy has made some really great movies so far. Very few directors will have all success stories like him so far.
So “Memento” it was in Movie of the Month at Digicorp!
Memento - Movie a Month at Digicorp
Only die hard movie fans stayed to see this movie and in the end everyone was wondering what just happened!!
Yeah you will have to see it to believe it.
This movie has some serious brains working behind it. It is intriguing till the end.
Next time we need some very light comedy movie to come out of the “Memento” loop
It was the last Saturday of the month and the day to watch a movie together for Digicorp.
Digicorp Microblog was humming with activities from the morning for the selection of movie. I have to admit, last Saturday of month is a day when our Microblog is most active. I don’t have any issues with that. People will learn to share things that way.
Finally we decided on “The Italian Job” vs “Rush Hour” but unfortunately could not get “The Italian Job” DVD from the market and rented “Catch Me If You Can” instead.
For those of you, who have not watched a movie, it is a must watch and based on a true story of a confidence man named “Frank William Abagnale Jr.“.
Movie of the Month at Digicorp
Here is brief description of the movie taken from its wikipedia page.
“Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American crime film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor and Louisiana attorney and parish prosecutor.”
Not to mention we all were amazed by the skills of Mr Abagnale and wished we could have such confidence too . Don’t forget to see Wikipedia page entry of him, you will be even more surprised.
How do you rate this movie? Another master piece from Spielberg?
I have to accept that like all other companies we also start something and then for some weird reason discontinue it. “Movie of the Month” event at Digicorp is no exception.
This is one of the best event in terms enjoyment and requires almost no preparation time and yet for some weird reason we did not do it for six months!
Well I am the one responsible for it and I will make sure it does not happen again without any seeming reason.
So after discussing long list movies on Digicorp Microblog such as:
1) Pursuit of Happiness
2) The Terminal
3) Vertical Limit
4) Vantage Point
5) Hangover
6) Peral Harbor
7) Surrogates
8 ) 2012
We decided on “Meet The Parents” as it is light weight, funny comedy which everyone can enjoy. We don’t want to go home with the heavy heart or action filled mind over the weekend right?
Some of the scenes from this movie has been copied by bollywood hit “Mujse Shaadi Karogi” and we were little upset to see that but anyways that was a good movie too! (all because of wick kid sunny!)
Overall it was a good show and I am sure everyone enjoyed it.
Have you seen “Meet The Parents”? What’s your take on it?
Finally the day had come, the day everyone was waiting for since long (almost 2 years). We all were going for a picnic and excitement was there in the air!
The place was Shanku’s Water Park at Mehsana and we were going to have lot of fun. It is still the best water park of the state and weather on the day was truly on our side.
Everyone was supposed to gather at 7 am in the morning at Digicorp house and slowly but steadily everyone was there.
Instead of going into the office we went away from the office with loud cheers and noises in 2 buses.
One bus was filled up with the all the unmarried boys and the other one had couples and girls. Well the boys thought they had all the fun but mind well we too had lot of it during the journey.
The best thing about the journey was, its duration. It took us only one and half hour to reach the place and that too went by very fast as we played dumb charades in the bus. (I know girls won’t believe this but boys’ team actually won )
And guess what, we reached early at the place and the breakfast was not ready! Great. Anyways it did not take long and we fed our hungry bellies with Tea/Coffee, Sandwiches and Masala Dosa.
After that we played some team building games. Payal and I had selected these games. Couple of games we also played in our last team building activities held at Digicorp House in 2008.
Description of those games are as follow:
1) Do you know me? (15 to 25 mins) – make groups of 12 people
- make them tightly coupled with each other
- ask them to introduce themselves and
- A proud moment in your work or personal life,
- Something most people do not know about you,
- Interviewer’s choice of any question.
• What is your favourite season?
• What colour are your eyes?
• What’s your shoe size?
• What type of shoes are your wearing?
• What’s your favourite colour
• What’s your star sign?
• Which leg do you put into your pants first?
• Which eye do you prefer to wink with?
• Which side of the bed (left or right) do you get out of in the morning?
2) Do you know what I mean? (20 mins) Have a volunteer hold a sheet you have created with different shapes drawn on it. With their back to the group, the volunteer describes the shapes on the paper; everyone else tries to draw the same design based on only the verbal instruction of the volunteer.
How it helps: The group’s pictures will not be exactly the same as the original and some will be really far off. Everyone will be reminded of the importance of communication.
The new ones were:
3) Pictionary
This is a famous board game which is kind of dumb charades but instead of actions you have to explain the word by drawing on a piece of paper. We had to tweak the game little bit for our environment but it was a great fun.
After the games everyone was free to explore the place. Boys played cricket and few of us played memory game. We have to accept that girls have better memory as both the finalists were girls!
After lunch almost every one went in for a dive and enjoyed the water park at fullest. Some were resistant to dive in initially but due to peer pressure they all had to jump in. You see peer pressure works everywhere not only at workplaces!
Instead of a commercial, Digicorpians had to make “Trailers” or “Promos” of the movie name given to them.
We managed to came up with some crazy movie names based on real movie names.
1) Tera Pati Sirf Mera Hai (from Mera Pati Sirf Mera Hai! , I know its a pathetic movie and title but its best for such games)
2) Arjun, the Cheetah (from our favorite Indra, the Tiger!)
3) My name is Thakrey (ok you know this one)
4) 3 Junglees (You know this one too…one of the best movies in recent times)
5) Chaa (Any guesses…….!!!!!!!! well from our own Mr Big B’s “Paa”. I know this is hilarious and this was Kuntal’s idea)
6) Bogus Prem ki Bakwaas Kahani (The name says it all! I guess the actual movie name should have been this)
7) Ram Gopal Verma ki Raakh (After RGV ki Aag only Raakh was left of the distributors )
8 ) Bekaar Raaj (from Sarkaar Raaj)
Each team was given one movie and they had to make a “Trailer” of the movie. The minimum time was 2 minutes and maximum time was 4 minutes.
After almost one hour of preparation everyone was ready and most of them came with brilliant ideas and some of the best performances by individuals.
Event started in the evening and it was about to get dark to videos have not come proper but I guess if you listen to them with full volume you should be able to enjoy them.
Rangoli is one of the most popular art forms in India. It is a form of sandpainting decoration that uses finely ground white powder and colours, and is used commonly outside homes in India.
The term rangoli is derived from words rang (colour) and aavalli (‘coloured creepers’ or ‘row of colours’).
We wanted to have some fun before the Diwali holidays and we did just that in this competition. There were 16 teams consisting of 4-5 persons and almost all teams having one female participant who leads the team.
The theme given for Rangoli was “Shades of Life” and few teams came up with some brilliant stuff. They were given choice of six colors which they were supposed to use in Rangoli.
The tempo started building up from the morning and people started looking at Google for the solution (as expected!). Many came up with the original design also and congratulations to all of them.
To cut the long story short check out some of the Rangolis people came up with.
Here is the slideshow of all the photographs with description in some of them. Don’t forget to check them out.
Do let us know your comments about this wonderful event. Can’t wait to have it next year.
“The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Sanskrit; Nava meaning Nine and Ratri meaning nights. During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Shakti/Devi are worshipped.”
We are proud of all the Digicorpians who participated with great enthusiasm in this event and made it a success. I was thrilled to see the energy levels amongst the dancers. On this day they proved that they can not only code, design or test but they can dance also.
This Saturday we saw “The Pink Panther II” and believe me it was hilarious. (Especially when you see it for the second time )
Movie of the month at Digicorp - The Pink Panther II
Steve Martin is one gem of an actor and Aishwarya Rai is one beautiful actress.
My favorite scene of the movie:
Andy Garica: Vicenzo Roccara Squarcialupi Brancaleone (introducing himself by saying his full name in Italian)
Steve Martin (at the next second): and your name?
ha ha ha….
It was a pleasant end of the month because of the movie and I am already thinking about the next month’s movie. This is becoming addiction for me it seems!
I hope all the Digicorpians are loving it too!
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We have 2 Steve Martin movies out of 3 now! Yes I am big fan of him. (We have to see Cheaper by the Dozen – II and The Pink Panther – II now)
Everybody enjoyed the movie to the fullest and I am already looking forward to the next movie of the month. I am sure everyone agrees!
In fact we have already started getting suggestion for the next movie. One is “CRASH” and other is “Resident Evil – III”. Thanks for the suggestions Aditya and Nachiket. Keep them coming.
. Don’t forget to see Wikipedia page entry of him, you will be even more surprised.
