Niggling Concerns

Shanti Singh (ext rt) also wants to opt out of the picnic

Campaigning for Woman of the Year-2016

While some members are busy ‘doing time-pass’ on the February 25 voting for the Woman of the Year-2016, another section of the Club is gearing for the picnic at Royal Hills resort, scheduled two days later. Shekhawat is having a tough time keeping the flock together as six members have already opted out and some more, according to him, are likely to follow.
“Unless there are at least 30 members in the group, we shall have to scrap the picnic,” he declared today. “There is no point taking a smaller group because it would deprive us of the group discount we had negotiated. Moreover, the per-head cost would shoot up. And I do not want to collect any more money from anybody. It would simply not be worth the expense.”
The picnic has been postponed twice – the first time due to prior bookings by a Nigerian group on February 13 and subsequently, by a group of school children for the February 20 weekend. February 27 came up as the next available date, but that instantly cost us the two bookings of Lt Col Angad Singh. He’d be leaving for Mohali the day after tomorrow.
Thereafter, Manisha Kolhe excused herself citing her daughter’s school exams and before long, another two bookings were lost when Srichand Arora backed out because of personal reasons. “At this rate, I doubt if we shall ever make it,” said Shekhawat, convinced that the picnic is jinxed from the outset. He however, conceded that there cannot be a better time to drop into the resort and take a dip in the luxurious swimming pool there, given the current weather conditions.
Meanwhile, on the voting front, there appears to be a deceptive calm as most contenders for the Woman of the Year trophy are holding their cards close to the chest. Only Bhaswati Bose and Kajal Babani (and to an extent Mallika Kagzi and Mumtaz Jahan) are campaigning openly, much to everybody’s amusement. The rest have chosen to wait and watch, obviously saving their best for the last.
Lt Col Angad Singh (Retd):
Picnics are the spice of life. We certainly feel unhappy as we will miss the opportunity to spend time in the outing with the Club fraternity.