20th is Final!

Announcements on the Annual Function

After much dithering and delay, January 20, 2018 has been finalized as the date for staging the Annual Function (ref post of December 28) of Big Laaf. The venue and timings remain unchanged.
Making the announcement this morning, Shekhawat urged everyone to come up with their guest list for the occasion. “We will have to arrange biryani boxes for them as well,” he explained. “Both veg and non-veg will be served. Please specify your requirement at the earliest. I shall be making the collections from tomorrow.

Angad Singh exercising 

For members, there will be no charges on the biryani boxes.”
Yusuf Rassiwala also appealed to members to bring their families and friends along on 20th evening. “As you know, the function is being mounted on a big scale,” he said. “For the first time, a stage is being erected. It will be an evening of fun and entertainment, song and dance, music and drama… Let us ensure that there is not a single chair empty in the audience.”
Clearly, Kiran Prakash has had to do a good deal of running around in the past two days (since his return from the U.S.) to revise the permissions from various authorities. This is the third time that the date of the function has been changed – from December 16 to December 23, then to January 13 and now to January 20.
Earlier in the morning, a decision was taken to keep all exuberance and expressions of joy in check as today happened to be the death anniversary of Angad Singh’s wife. (Trust Bihari Milwani to remind us; here too he gets the date spot on!) He lost her on January 5 last year. So as a mark of respect to the departed soul, we refrained from all laughter and instead, contained ourselves to the silent exercises.

Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
My thanks to all members of Big Laaf for sharing my grief. This gesture has endeared you all to me and my family.