Two days of 'ESCAPE 2009'

A question to the audience, ‘THE PEN THE WORLD PREFERS’ is the tag line of which company, and apt came the reply from Yashin 'REYNOLDS' in the corporate fun fest – ESCAPE-2009 Mega event for corporates held on 5th & 6th December, 2009 .. Thus began the winning spree for OPI'ns in 'ESCAPE 2009' a Rotary club of Kochi Initiative.

Having reached the venue in the morning on the first day, after being in office till 4 am on Saturday morning, S&C team members were waiting for the solo song of OPI participants to start, in the fourth floor and there was Prabhu and Yashin, to support Susan in the Young mangers Contest in the second floor.

Keeping the spirits soaring at the beautiful venue in three different floors of IMA HALL, Behind International Stadium, Kaloor, Kochi, there was no looking back…


We were the runner ups , with Susan beating candidates after candidates, in four rounds and winning the best Manager award in Puli-Young managers contest. For this she was competing with thirty other Managers, in four rounds, which included a “sales pitch” and the grueling questions from the Judges and anyone from the audience, with a Pulse meter constantly measuring pulse of the participants to ensure that Young Manager was really calm and cool.

The near perfect rendition of latest hit songs by Revathy and Deepu in Solo Kuyil – Male and female Solo singing competition fetched the First Runner up prize amongst almost Forty six participants.



Strength of a chain is determined by its weakest link. Team work, enthusiasm, hardwork, determination and spirit made all the links equally strong in Kuyil Melam-Group Song. The Eight member Music group echoing the same tune without missing a beat headed by Biju V R singing an ever popular Onam Song. Eight member 'Dappan Kooth' Group Dance team led by Siyad Baker performing in total sync to walk away with another first announced to the whole Corp-festers, the hallmark of OPI team-work in action.Thus both the teams grabbed the first place in the respective events.

We had even showcased our talents in AdZap, and the beautiful Anthakshari having reached till finals, which had six rounds:
.First three normal song round for each language namely, Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil,
.Fourth was the matchmaking round, where in a song from one film was sung, the participants had to identify, the movie, and sing other songs from the same movie.
.Fifth was the Anupalavi round, wherein second para of the song was sung by the host, and the participants had to sing the first para.
.Sixth round was the background music round.

Having put to practice the faith that good is the greatest enemy of excellence winning had become a habit for OPI participants till the end and OPI grabbed the overall championship trophy.




Avinash was rocking and was the hearthrob of the day....

There were many ads, promotions and sales, of which one thing that I really liked was something, we could sing with:




But for the support and valuable inputs from the Management, nothing could have been possible.



Three cheers to S&C Kochi team for all their hard work and effort, especially to Jisha and Arun who were tied to the venue for two days of their happy weekend, and all others who were there to support, encourage, and help the participants, and to those who had worked hard for this, but could not make up for the event on the day....At the Venue OPI had the huge “ground support” provided by the young energetic OPI crowd who came in huge numbers on both the days to support their colleagues...Especially may be becuase they were missing the Bonwikk which was around this time last year....



Well I liked this quote, can you please identify, and name the person?