When a reason for celebration comes, can Vinovians be kept away from rejoicing? And so the occasion, rather the excuse for celebration came wrapped up the in the form of afresh, anew and promising New Year, 2012.  The Party Organizers – Western Yodhas concentrated all their efforts in throwing the most memorable New Year bash for Vinove family and they were successful in meeting everyone’s anxiety.

New Year celebration was out rightly held in “Game Of Legends, Sports Bar” in Rajouri Garden, a place which offered different indoor games like Dart, Pool, Chess, Carom, Golf etc. along with beats of DJ and fun of Bar.  The party gained pace in the mid noon of 21st January, 12. Hookah, Beverages, Snacks & up-beat music was warming up ice breaker of the crowd.

To a watcher’s delight, everyone was engaged in their own pattern of enjoyment.  People played different games and danced till the very last ounce of energy left in their system. Another highlighted part of the celebration was mouth watering food along with alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages. The glittering clicks of camera, the intoxicating aroma of alcohol and Hookah, the laid back pool players and the “Energetic – Beyond – Words” bunch of dancers; have shown that Vinovians work hard and even party harder !!! We boogied, we ate, we got high (ah, well if not all, then the most of us did).  No one was willing to stray away from the fun and frolics to go back home.

It was the day of joy & celebration of achievements.  Above all, each Vinovian cherished the bond of belongingness developed in all these years of working together.  New year celebration was actually a winsome treat for all Vinovian with one goal of being a Family with undying perseverance to achieve unrivaled standards of performance excellence.

“The more you praise and celebrate in your life, the more there is in life to celebrate” and thus all the Vinovians fervently gathered together to celebrate the 7^th year completion of Vinove on 10^th September’ 11 at Pacific Asia Banquet. Like the previous year, all our houses “Uttak Ke Puttar, Eastern Tigers, Southern Surmas & Western Yodhas” took the charge of hosting and managing the event & left everyone mesmerized with their thoughtful planning and execution of the event.

Guests were welcomed by Ms. Bhavna Gupta, HR Manager at Vinove and then she invited the Director of the Company, Mr. Parvesh Aggarwal to address the gathering and share his feelings on the success of 7^th year completion of Vinove. With pride and joy in his eyes, Mr. Parvesh Aggarwal congratulated everyone for being a part of this success.  After his brief and energetic presentation about the past seven years of the company, he proclaimed that the seventh year had been the most successful and flourishing in the history of Vinove. His words resonated with the sentiments of everyone present as they gave him a rapturous applause. When Mr. Aggarwal left the stage, he promised one and all “an enchanting and memorable evening”.

The promise was well kept as the hosts; the talented Vinovians “Manjeet Singh and Satbir Singh” took over the proceedings and created ripples of laughter in the hall with their witty remarks and fantastic sense of humor. Various staff members displayed their talents in the form of singing, dancing, acting etc. and entertained the audience.

The Fresh Talent of Vinove also displayed their flair as they performed a highly motivating skit on stage. The courage with which they presented themselves in front of the audience was commendable. As the freshers entertained the audience, the seasoned employees weren’t left far behind. They delivered a skit addressing the social issue of corruption, urging one and all to fight against the demon of corruption. Huge sentiments built up when the team of Operation Managers performed a skit and lauded the Delivery Head “Mr. Mohit Malik” to be one of the finest Delivery Head they have ever seen.

The highly electric and energetic performance by the professional Bhangra Group marked the crescendo of the evening.  The enthusiasm and the energy levels of the audience couldn’t be contained later and everyone jumped on the dance floor like a storm & danced their hearts out. The ecstasy and euphoria exuded on the dance floor was unmatchable. It was as if everyone was waiting for a chance to express their sense of pride, achievement and joy.

However the celebrations shouldn’t make us complacent.  There has to be zeal to achieve great heights of success. Over the past seven years, Vinove has garnered immense global recognition and growth through constant learning and innovations. For a company, to deal with the changing environment & achieve the set goals; it is required to change and rejuvenate itself with the changing times and Vinove is all set to change now. As a first step towards this change, the current logo of Vinove which has been an integral part of Vinove right from its inception will retire and make way for a new logo chosen from various designs. The new logo aptly represents the modern contemporary bold and strong look yet maintaining the authenticity and simplicity.

The 7^th year’s completion celebration of Vinove was a huge success fostering further ties and the sense of belongingness amongst the employees. They laughed, cried, enjoyed and danced together, attaining the new levels of camaraderie and harmony.  Vinovians will always fondly remember the celebration with a smile on their faces.

After the “Vinove sports league 2011” hosted by Vinove on 12 February 2011, Western Yodhas took over the charge for holding fun events in Vinove for the next couple of months. So, the first event was Holi celebration. It was a small get together held in company premises but after a couple of weeks Western Yodhas announced yet another fun event i.e. Picnic. But how come picnic in summer? Well, that was the perfect time to beat the heat this summer, so the picnic spot decided was Fun ‘N’ Food village ( Amusement+Water Park).
As temperature was rising, it was time for some splash and fun. The day, the announcement for Picnic was made, everybody was filled with excitement, making their own plans and many more. It was held on 16th April 2011 as the most awaited picnic @ Fun ‘N’ Food Village.

Finally the day came and the Vinovians made way for the venue. All Vinovians were ready to board the bus that were to take them to the picnic spot i.e. Fun ‘N’ Food Village. Well, all these arrangements had already been made by Sandy and Manjeet. Sandy had reached the venue in order to check the arrangements. As soon as we entered the venue, all the Vinovians headed straightaway to the cafeteria for the breakfast. Once, we were through with the breakfast, without any delay all moved to the water park where they enjoyed themselves to the hilt. All were excited and very hastily they changed and moved to the water park. The water slides, lazy river were crowded with the Vinovians and with the general public as well. After that we all enjoyed together in the wave pool and swayed to the music and had a blast. This is not all. Meeta and Komal from HR department won the rain dance competition.

The merriment had to take a break, for what is a picnic without the eats. A sumptuous lunch was followed by enjoying the variety of rides in the amusement park. We also had loads of chit chat at the lunch table. Few people didn’t like the rides so there were other things to keep them busy. They played cards, flying disk and many more. After taking rides, majority of us took part in game i.e. the sack race. The winner of sack race was Avinash Kumar Mishra.

Like all good things have to come to an end, so it was time to click loads of photographs and make the day memorable. At the end of the day, the wide smiles of all the Vinovians portrayed their feelings, that they had truly enjoyed a fun filled Saturday. These in- house activities, fun events like party, picnic have become an indispensable part of Vinove family. A big thanks to Western Yodhas, Parvesh Sir, Bhavna and all the Vinovians for such a rolling and fun filled Picnic.

Like the arrival of spring season which signifies the warmness of atmosphere has started and  enlightened all the living beings in earth to bloom out with joyous spirit again. Similarly, Vinove has  also arrived its realm to organize sports league which brings warmness and togetherness of employee’s spirits. As sports is a remarkable obsession of mankind since immemorial time, sports event is  no doubt, not only a great entertainment source for the entire community but solely brings a much needed break from the daily busy schedules. Its an event of joy to show the colors, zeal and how supportive each and everyone is towards such  a lively organization.

Last year, Vinove organized a sports event which was a phenomenal success, extremely promising and was encouraging for all of our employees who actively participated in the “Vinove Sports League 2010”. Vinove has been imparting a potential and quality services to its client’s as well as providing opportunities to its employees to participate in different sports events.

Once again, this time Vinove organized “Vinove sports league 2011” on February,12th, 2011 to drive out the hidden talent of sports that embedded within each enthusiastic employee. With the starting of the event, the first game to kick off was the cricket match between ‘Vinove 11′ and ‘Pixelcrayons 11′  in which ‘Vinove 11′ won the match with few runs ahead and honored with the glittering award of ‘Cricket Winners 2011’.  Vinove 11 began with the batting first, then followed by the ‘Pixelcrayons 11′. Indeed, all the players from both the teams contributed with high spirit which even raised the excitement of the audiences, who were not involved in any part of the team, to such a great extent of shouting, getting thrilled and cheering. It was like a cricket world cup being held in our Vinove within.

Besides this exciting game we also had tournaments like Skipping, Badminton, Football and Tug of War participated by our four teams – Uttar ke Puttar, Eastern Tigers, Western Yodhas and Southern Surmas. The tournaments of football and tug of war were held between two teams which were led by the combination of two teams into one team, that is  Uttar ke Puttar and  Southern Surmas as one team whereas the other team is made  Eastern Tigers and Western Yodhas  as one. In tug of war, team of Eastern Tigers and Western Yodhas was defeated by the team of Uttar ke Puttar and  Southern Surmas.

The active participants of these games apart from the cricket also took home the accolades and gold medals with many greetings from the peers side. After the closure of the games, a good refreshment program was followed to fresh up all the employees again, revive with fun and enjoyment through the day.

The scenario of sports event reflected so much of nostalgic about the period of childhood and produced our yearns for those loving moments to come back in our lives. But with this organization of “Vinove sports league 2011”, Vinove have implanted and fulfilled again in our hearts successfully that those precious moments have never gone far away from us. Further, it has made us realized that we still have the same energy, excitement and the aura of love though the time changes.

In fact, it was not the matter of who win and lose but its all about togetherness, sharing happiness and bringing the sense of oneness.

After a remarkable celebration of annual day, Diwali and Christmas, everybody was excited to have a great fun on the New Year celebration. But there was a question in everybody’s mind- what is going to happen this time? We were sure that party management team ‘Southern Surmas’ have planned for the New Year celebration and this time also they are going to do something different. The first cracker of excitement was that this time, Vinove family is going to rock the floor in Disc. The Southern Surmas team had scheduled the New Year party on 15th January 2011 at Lava Restro Disc.

Initially, this party was going to be celebrated on New Year Eve but as there cannot be any compromises with professional work, so, it was postponed. But being postponed, it still was one of the most interesting and memorable party at Vinove.

On the event day the Vinove family met together at Lava Restro Disc to rock the floor. As everybody entered the disc, there was truly an awesome feeling as we all were waiting for this moment for the last couple of weeks. Some disco fans, the moment they entered the disc, started rock and roll with the beats of DJ.

Ladies were waiting for their favorite songs to be played by DJ while most of the gentlemen were waiting for the call ‘Bar is open’. Both the parties didn’t have to wait for long as within a few moments, the ladies were on the floor with their favorite song and most of the gents were flocking their favorite place.

For more than two hours, Vinovians showed their dancing skills and rocked the floor. But the Party management team ‘Southern Surmas’ had some other planned activities to make the event more enchanting. So, the DJ had to stop there for a moment. One of the activities of the day was a dance competition among the new joiners of Vinove, but it was not a usual dance competition as the competitors had to dance together and with the beats only. At the moment beats stopped, they had to stop. Similarly, there were other interesting activities which truly added flavor in the dance party.

Once the party management team ‘Southern Surmas’ was done with all their activities, everybody came on the floor and again rocked it. This time there was a continuous dance on the floor for more than 3 hours. When everybody got tired, we decided to have lunch.

So, this was how Vinove family celebrated and enjoyed the New Year party. Southern Surmas, with the help of other staff, had really made this New Year celebration one of the most interesting and memorable day of Vinovians’ life.

Fill the Heart with the oil of love. Place in it the wick of single-pointed mind.Light it with the Knowledge of Truth and remove the darkness of ignorance around you. Just as one lamp can light many lamps; let each youth kindle this Light in many hearts.’

The festival of Diwali is one of the auspicious day when people enjoy to the fullest with great joy and pump and exchange different gifts to convey festive wishes, love, care and regards to their near and dear ones. Diwali brings lots of light and happiness with it and each one of us was enthralled for the celebration for this festival.

This time Eastern Tigers took the charge for holding Diwali celebration in Vinove. Not only the eastern tigers but other staff members were putting their best efforts to make this occasion memorable.  Different kind of activities were performed on that day. In the morning of 4th November, everyone was busy in their work and it looked like a normal day but as soon as the clock hit 2 O’ clock, the arrangement s for Diwali celebrations got started.

In the afternoon, House Eastern Tigers made an announcement to decorate the respective departments and the best decorated department will be awarded some special Diwali Gift. To make this occasion memorable eastern tigers decided to organize a small party and some fun events. On this occasion everybody decorated their respective cubicles, therefore, the office premises were also decorated by the staff members and some of the most creative people took initiative to make the Rangoli with different colors.

As everything was scheduled earlier, we used our Office Terrace for whole event. In the evening, everybody was asked to gather on office’s terrace and the event started at sharp 5 pm. To make this party more exciting and enjoyable for all, games like Hoopla, Strike the pyramid and balloon shooting were arranged. One more event named as Luck Check-o-Meter was also there and there was a special gift for the winners of these games. Most of the members of Vinove family participated, played games and enjoyed a lot. But Diwali without sweets? How can this be possible? so for this, food stalls were also available.

Moreover, there were many others who prepared a skit whose motive was to deliver a social message: “SAY NO TO CRACKERS” and the effort made by them were really appreciable. After skit, Tambola was played by many and some of them won also. But that was not all, there was still something left for more fun and that was Dhole Wales.

This is how Diwali was celebrated in Vinove but the most important thing was the CSR activity. As Vinove family is involved in CSR program and donates for noble causes round the year.  The company is actively working in the areas like education, health, skill development, fulfilling needs of poor, empowerment of weaker sections of the society, etc. To serve this purpose, this time, some of them visited Kriti (a school for mentally and physically challenged kids) and planned to donate things like special equipments and books meant for their special needs. After knowing their needs we bought things (like Educational Toys and Games, T Pulley Set, Elbow Crutches 1 Pair, Hard Collar) and donated to them. Everyone made contribution for this noble cause so as to make the most auspicious festive occasion really special for them.

A tagline is a combination of few words which expresses your aspiration as well as your dedication towards your business. Now Vinove has emerged with its new tagline which briefly explains the motive behind running this organization. Yes the letters in bold above simply comprises of three words, but the idea behind these three words are far more than it. “We Mean IT” not only shows the level of devotion which its employees provide for it, but it also represents the amount of hardwork and the kind of bonding which we have regarding our organization. With a sole objective to provide a “value” to our clients, Vinove has emerged as an indefatigable organization and there is still a long way to go.

The interesting part is how we selected this tagline? So to answer this, the Director of our company Mr. Parvesh Aggrawal asked all the employees to dig into the deep level of their creativity and suggest some options for this. We got some of the most creative thoughts in front of us in form of 90 taglines, out of which two were considered by our elite management. The one was from our very own Mr. Boss while the other tagline was suggested by Amit Sharma. Now the question was, which one will suit the best? So, to end up with this dilemma our management thought it better to be democratic and we had a voting for both the taglines.

On the grand day of our Annual day celebration, the winner was announced and he was; Amit Sharma, who suggested this tagline. He expressed his thoughts behind selecting this tagline and felt honored to provide something valuable to the organization which will be a part of it for years.

“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are Vinovians, we create the dreams”

The day, the announcement for 6th annual day celebration was made, everybody was excited with a sole question in their minds; What new thing will they see this time. This time the hosts were Uttat Ke Puttar and they decided 25 sept as the date for the carnival in Pacific Asia at Netaji Subhash Place. The house-in-charge Uttar Ke Puttar was busy in making their best efforts to make this occasion memorable for everyone. There were many events decided by them among which the ragging-cum-group dance of “fuchhas” (freshers) which comes under “AA-MIL-GA-MATE” was kept as a surprise. Everyone was informed about the timings and dress code for both males and females and the most interesting dress code was set for our fuchhas; A black Pant with white shirt, which was same as the dress of the waiters of that venue where the event was going to take place and the only thing which gave some relief to our freshers was a red tie to make them look little different from the waiters.

Finally the day came for the celebration and Manish and Sanjeev Singh were already there to look for the arrangements made by the management of the venue. The celebration began with our best jolly hosts; Kiran, Prashant and Manish. First turn was of our FUCHHAS to give everyone an astonishing group dance which was based on some of the most morose bollywood track which was fun to watch. The event moved on with some of the charming tracks by our emerging singers of the nation (ofcourse working in Vinove) including; Sanjeev Singh, Bhawna Malik and Robbins, and no doubt they added flavor to the party. Another hilarious part was a skit performed by Amit, Robbins, Romesha, Shaily, Rajeev, Abid and Shantanu. Prashant did the mimicry of some of the evergreen bollywood actors. The “Sher-e-Azam” of Vinove; Vivek Awasthi presented some of the best situational “Shers” and made the event feel proud of its occurrence.

The events were put a full stop by sprinkling the Champaign and food and drinks were opened simultaneously. But no one was bothered about the food and they hit the DJ floor too hard which will be remembered by everyone who was present there. As everybody enjoyed the scrumptious food and drink, they also shared their personal moments along with each other’s family members. But as you know, “At every party there are two kinds of people — those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.” Some left early while others enjoyed until the end.

After all, it was the time to celebrate 6 years of success and nobody missed any chance to enjoy this memorable moment at their fullest. We Vinovians, as a family, are with each other in every happy as well as difficult time and this is what makes us believe in achieving whatever we think of.

After the rocking party hosted by Western Yodhas @Toast, Uttar Ke Puttar(UKP) took over the charge for holding fun events in Vinove for the next couple of weeks. So, the first event was held to celebrate our India’s 64th Independence Day. Vinove celebrated Independence Day on 13th August 2010.

Independence Day Theme Prepared by UKPs

Uttar ke Puttar started preparing for this event 3-4 days earlier. They underwent long (long!) brainstorming sessions to decide upon the kind of activities to be performed on that day. The team captain also shooted a mail to everybody to come in a dress code which should have Saffron, white or green in it, or a combination of these three colors. This mail made every body stretch their head to think whether they have such a dress in their wardrobe or not.

That was not all by UKPs. When we entered into the office in the morning, the office was already decorated with balloons and small flags. Everybody came well dressed as expected by our event organizers. Apart from UKPs, even other house members had done few preparations from their end as well.  The Eastern Tigers team members were wearing ‘Tiranga’ wrist band and all Southern Surmas pinned up ‘Tiranga‘ batch on their dresses. Though that cannot be called huge efforts but sometimes, even small things matter a lot.

Finally, the time arrived for which every Vinovian was waiting for. Everybody was asked to gather on the second floor and the event started at 4:30 pm. Our very own, Kiran Bisht, was the representative host from UKP. She requested everyone to stand along with their respective house members. Then, she explained about the different rounds of fun activities. All the teams were required to select one representative who would participate on behalf of his team members. In the first round, all the representatives were made to stand in the front  and asked to speak something on the eve of Independence Day. Out of all representatives, Kapil Singh(Vinove’s most humorous character) stole the limelight. He spoke very well and nicely highlighted the hidden meaning of freedom in the modern world.

The second round was quiz round. UKPs had prepared one video clip for each house related to India’s history and cultural background. Each team was asked three questions on the basis of the video clips shown. It was just an absolute fun for each team answering all that questions when the opposition parties(other team members) were prompting wrong answers. Some were finding the answers on Google on the spot (Cheaters! You need to read newspaper daily and improve on general knowledge). Never mind! After all it was just for fun sake.

At the end, came the turn of the event organizer i.e. Uttar ke Puttars. To everybody’s amaze, they answered all the three questions correctly and declared to be the winner of  game. Impatient and full of jealousy, the rest of the Vinovians, started yelling by calling them ‘Cheaters’. Everybody was having a good time and some were busy passing comments on other house members. The situation was made under control somehow.. Parvesh Aggarwal, Director of the Company, member of Western Yodhas(Oops..The Loser team!), concluded the talk by saying, “We are satisfied with what we got..atleast we have not cheated in the game”. But still the commenting, defending and the laughter sessions were full on. With all masti, excitement and Dhamaal, the event came to an end.

Film abhi baki hai dost…No event is complete without some refreshments. And to keep this tradition alive, there was a small snacks party which everybody enjoyed a lot. At last everybody returned to their desks to finish up the pending work, with memories of the celebrations in their hearts.

These kinds of fun events actually act as great stress busters, mind refreshers and break the monotonous chain of work, work and work. I think all corporate should make these fun activities a part of their culture. This will automatically work in favor of organization’s stress management endeavors.

“Can’t hardly wait…
to raise the toast with taste.
Dancing to the tune,
would be the Vinovians’ cocoon.”

The first two weeks after the announcement for the Fun Event were the most difficult days. Undoubtedly, they were filled with excitement to dance and drink hard. Western Yodhas had announced a Dance Party on the July 24th , 2010 as a part of the Fun Event @ Toast in Rajouri. The date had already been postponed for a week and that added fuel to the fire.

Nevertheless, the day came and the Vinovians made way for the venue. Manjeet and Sandy, had already reached the venue in order to check the arrangements. We, all were warmly welcomed by Toast’s management. The moment we entered, for a minute, we entered into a state of trance because of the elegance of the ambiance. The dim lightning that was prominent enough to add on to the look and feel of a lounge. After a couple of moments, we realised that we are not here to rest when the silence was broken by the rocking welcome of our hosts, the Western Yodhas.

“Aa-mil-ga-mate,” the culture at Vinove to celebrate joining of the new members in the Vinove Family called for the double celebration. This time, our creative ‘keedas’ made the “fuchas” mimic Shakti Kapoor, Hema Malini, Amol Palekar, Gabbar, and every character they could think of. To the best of our expectations, everyone performed really well and even to the worst of their extent. Then, the call opened the bar and the floor as well, and everyone just made a bash towards it.”

There was everything… for all our alcoholic and non-alcoholic jawans! Some rushed to the bar to get their drinks, while some were rocking to the tune. Meanwhile, there was an announcement for the paper dance where our five “hanson ke jode” in their full zeest tried their level best, but Sweety and Venkatesh was the last couple to be on the floor. Each and every couple was mesmerised by the music and the proximity they shared. Then, came the real-time teaser where Western Yodhas have had decided the most weirdest titles one can ever think of.

“Vinove Dada” for our Bossy Boss (I am sure, this would be an another title from my side ; Talli Hua/i to Vivek Avasthi and our dearest HR- Bhavna (Zoinx…). There is still more…. One Pack Man to Sanjiv Singh (and I guess… that would surely have been a one-man nomination) and X-ray man to our little Chandresh.”

And, there again, loads of dancing, drinking and enjoying, and why not… when you are with your colleagues with the spirit of knowing each other well. And, I am pretty sure, we went so high in the wake of dancing and masti, that we did not want the music to stop. However, we had to stop and move ahead for lunch, and had a loads of chit-chat at the lunch table as well. We clicked loads of photographs and made the day memorable.

And, this is the most happening thing about this office that we find or more appropriately, create events for one or the other get together. These in-house activities, Fun Event have become an indispensable part of the Vinove family and a big thanks to Western Yodhas, Parvesh Sir, Bhavna, and all the Vinovians for such a rolling and swaying party.