Tasks Cut Out

Club registration papers under finalization

For some time now, the Club has been witnessing a flurry of activity on two different fronts: one, for registering Big Laaf as a ‘society’/ ‘charitable trust’; and the other geared towards organising a tour of Kerala from February 10 to 17, 2014.
On the registration front, club president Srichand Arora has his task clearly cut out while he finalizes the documentation as per the advice of a chartered accountancy firm specially appointed for the purpose. He has office bearers Jagmohan Papneja (secretary) and Monthi Serrao (treasurer) to assist him while Harish Wadhwa and Bose Babu are providing the necessary backroom support. But by and large, this is a one-man initiative and Arora has many sleepless nights still to go before he is able to tie all loose ends and submit the papers for registration.
On the Kerala Tour front, Hari Singh Shekhawat is spearheading the operations -- right from drawing up the itinerary, booking rail and air tickets to-and-fro, finalizing the passenger manifest, collecting cash from group members and so on. A tour operator brought in by Naseem Khan

Accounts on Kerala trip under scrutiny 

(of the yoga group) will take charge of hotel bookings and local travel in Kerala. As of now, 44 intrepid travel bugs have joined Shekhawat’s merry bandwagon and they will be taken around Kochi, Munnar, Thekkady, Allepey and Kumarakom over seven days and six nights.
So far so good. But what nobody can get over is the sight of Shekhawat, every morning dressed in regulation khaki half-pants with seven pockets. In one pocket he keeps the passenger list; in the second he has a list of people who owe him money; in the third is a printout of ‘statement of accounts’; in the fourth is a handwritten sheet with numbers and squiggles which he can only decipher; in the fifth is a beautiful black-and-white calculator he never uses; in the sixth is small spiral bound notebook with a 3-D picture of a car on the cover; and in the seventh he keeps an assortment of pencils, a pen, eraser, rubber bands and ball-pen refills along with his cell-phone. If these were not enough, he has a case clipped firmly to his belt for his spectacles and in an inner 'secret' pocket, there is a bundle of currency notes, neatly wrapped in a polythene packet.
Indeed, this man is a 'walking-talking office' personified!
Srichand Arora:
It’s not my, but the efforts of our dearest Mr Bose and Mr Harish who are targeting their shot for registration of the club and for that my shoulder is used. Am I correct, dear Harish and Bose?
Harish Wadhwa:
* Hum toh aapke shagird hain, Arora saab. Hukm mere aaka!
* Nice to see Big Laaf blogging again. Monster is back... I mean the Blog Monster!!! LOL
Big Laaf:
You are absolutely correct, Arora sa'ab! Now that your shoulder is healed, why not put it to use?