Bonjour to all our passionate NZYSI blog readers!

If you all remember my last blog was some time ago, now by popular demand I’m back.
if you didn’t know NZKYSI’s Lights out party was held on friday the 12th, it was held at the Chicane club in ponsonby.
Since we are heading to the end of our term we thought we would give back and organize something that has not been done yet, and i think we achieved that, with a nice comfortable crow, i think people enjoyed themselves. I took up the task to DJ and be photographer rather juxtapose if u ask me, no complains yet so dats great, pictures are on the FB site and if u remember me taking a photo of u and it aint up on FB let me know and i can get it for you,

V.P checking out for what will is the last blog of the 09/10 committee.

Peace
Vinesh

P.S. since this was the last event organised for the 09/10 committee, this will also be the last blog for the 09/10 committee.

Hey all, it’s me again…doing a blog post once again… umm well there is really nothing to talk about this time around except party is this Friday march 12th! so be there or your a square. its at chicane bar in ponsonby.

In community news the ‘married vs single’ cricket series ended with the married winning 2-0.

So if ya’ll don’t mind i think i will finished this blog with some inspirational words to keep you going though the week

“Be like a postage stamp & stick to something untill you get there!” – Reverend Run (from Run DMC of course)

Till next time,
Rayneil Narsey
NZKYSI Secretary
9th March 2009

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening; whatever the case may be, im back for my first blog of 0 10, 2010 or twentyten. So just a short blog this time (not because i cant be bothered, i couldnt make it long if i tried ^_^), well anyway, so theres not much happening on my side for the upcoming ‘YOUTH party’ mainly because its an eighteen plus party so theres not much to do and dnt know many older than me people. The ‘elders’ of the commitee are still getting more people to come, but yes for the under age commitee members its pretty much watching grass grow. Our last meeting was supposed to be a short 1 hour meeting, pft yea right, it carried on for at atleast another hour. But we did conclude in the last week that the yuwak mandal was to help fund the auckland khatri team in the upcoming gujurati soccer tournament in hamilton; man our auckland team better win! hehe. Sooo, that’s it for me for another few weeks. {^<>^} tweet! quack!
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Pavan Kalyan Out!

So.. my first blog of 0-10…and it has been a long time. Firstly there is nowhere near as much happening this year as there was last year since these few months are the ending period of our first term. Especially since one third of our committee are freshman at college this year and probably be encountering an increase work load compared to their high school days and have less time to do the NZKYSI charity work. We had a meeting last weekend and set out our plans for the remainder of the term which are very modest at best. Most committee members are proposing that the Lights Out YOUTH PARTY be our final event for this term. This is going to be an Youth but R18 event at Chicane bar…I haven’t been there and most ppl who know me will know it’s not my type of place so don’t ask me too much about the event but vini tells me it’s pretty tight so if you have any questions ask vini.jones@gmail.com …what I do know is that there will be subsidised booze ..Like pretty cheap booze or so they say in the meeting to convince me this event is a good idea. hmm now maybe i’m offering too much opinion ,I hope those comments didn’t just breach the unwritten constitution of the blog… There will be some pretty kool finger food and I assure you it won’t be the usual Indian samosa’s and gulab jamoon stuff like Dave’s party.

In the community news front this week, the singles lost by 7 runs to the married in the first of a 3 match married verses single cricket series which was held last Sunday.

Ok enough blabber from me,
Till next time,
Rayneil Narsey
Secretary

P.S. flight of the concord’s season 1 episode 1 for those of you slow ppl thinking: “who is this Dave and which party of his was this” i think know him.

Well now this is the official first blog of 2010, cool ay?
Yesterday we had our very first meeting after like 6 weeks and it was also the first meeting of 2010, it was quite a short meeting and not too productive.
But with great hospitality as usual in all of our meetings.
As you heard in our last blog there was word of a possible tekken night/ come hang out…
This night couldn’t happen due to lack of hall availability in January but don’t worry, we have another much better, in my opinion, get together being planned than the tekken night.
If this get together goes ahead which I really hope it does, it will happen in the next couple of months and is definitely one to look forward to.
Other than that there’s not much else to say though like 5 of the committee members are still on holiday and for 4 of us its our first year of uni… We’re growing up. Hopefully this means more maturity of the committee but if not then well that’s ok.

Yeahhh that sums everything up.

Thanks for reading,
Shanesh Ranchhod.
Committee Member

9th February 2009

I heard today (and not for the first time let me add before you think I’m an ignorant person, who learns of the news 6 months after it happens) that NZ plans to join the space race by the end of the year the announcements came a year ago but a lot of progress has been made and they should be going soon also kinda new news and I have to include this because it’s a YOUTH society blog Buzz Lightyear and YES L-i-g-h-t-y-e-a-r not Aldrin a few weeks ago got back to earth after spending more than a year in space (they took the action figure with them to the space station just a year ago).

Just like Buzz Lightyear who is to many of us a childhood hero, NZKYSI is also making such progress…. maybe not going to space and back but moving forward. This weekend we had another meeting with more cakes, soft drinks, discussion, debates and progress. News in the top of the agenda this week was after weeks we have got our accounts audited and are about to file them this week. Yippee I thought this would never happen…every single meeting to date there had been the discussion accounts are going to be prepared soon …prepared soon and never prepared but finally the fat lady has sung and they are done.

On the Christmas party side we have confirmed our menu and desserts….and boy! do they sound good…Vini “Blew the budget” on this one to quote our Secretary of the Treasury Nikesh Lal. In addition to dessert I have made sure we all have French vanilla ice cream with our deserts as well, because come on isn’t vanilla ice cream just a failed attempt at making French vanilla.
Apart from that not much happened this week this is especially so because of exams, me and Nikesh finished our exams this week (although Nikesh is now caught up in the $2 shop catering to the Christmas rush) and the other boys who do NCEA are about to start their exams and Jav is busy with the Christmas rush at his work.

Well till next time,

Ray
Secretary General
15th November 2009

A wise man once said or more specifically Lao Tzu once said “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. I think the journey of preparing for the NZKYSI Christmas party will be a thousand miles long but we have taken more than one step already. So far I think we have walked around about 285 miles or 460 Km’s for all you metric system fans out there. Why 285 miles you ask and not 300? because if I said 300 then it would be to obvious that I made the number up but more seriously 285 because 50% of the work actually happens on the night and the other 50% of work that needs to happen before the night is about half done. These few weeks were going on ticket sales and confirming the food menu at the moment because that’s the only thing that really needs to be done this far out…deco and stocking up of the alcohol etc etc will be all last minute stuff that will probably go down a week or few days before the event.

The only other thing we are really working on right now is the physical and administrative preparation of the cricket team. this week official positions were given with Team Captain going to: Chetan Solanki, Vice-Captain: Shayneil Narsey, Coach: Vinesh Kumar (aka V.P.), Team Manager: Raju Kapadia , Tour Manager: Bhavin Kumar, Team Doctor: Dr Prashant Kalyan and Team Attorney: Nick Malarao. While I wouldn’t be able to stand the tortures activity of sitting in the sun watching people play cricket or playing, shay tells me trainings are going well and the team is moulding really well. The admin side has been coming along well, NZKYSI are running a raffle to fundraise for the cricket trip to ozzy (hmm maybe that’s not how you spell the country…meh) to quote Rishi’s blog post from a few weeks back “we have a lot of smooth talkers in our committee. So if you ever need anything to be sold you know who to call” and smooth talking is exactly what we’ve been doing, Tickets have been selling like hotcakes the printing press can’t event keep up, I wouldn’t go into any more detail in case I breach the unwritten or imaginary (depending on who you ask) “constitution of the blog”. Make sure you don’t miss out on a ticket …if you need one just call Shay on 021-2-SHAY-10 or Nikesh on 0211488223 and they will smooth talk you a ticket.

Anyway I better get back to my work.

till next time,

Rayneil Narsey
Secretary General
9th November 2009

Well I’m here again in this same spot, on this same chair, in this same room writing yet another blog post for our brilliant involuntary committee. Well not too much happening from my ‘outside the box’ perspective but from those who have a sort of view that seems to catch everything, notice the background work has been intense with many confirmed or pending guests as I’m sure you all know about our latest event, The Christmas party which this organisation is going toward. And all seems to be going well with this long strenuous process which, I must say is being very well compressed into the allocated time frame. ). Christmas party seems to be the only thing driving the committee’s will at the moment with budgets and what not (again probing ‘the imaginary constitution of the blog’) although many other things still are pondered at the back of their sophisticated intellect. For example the ‘Auckland Assassins’ sponsorship for gear, to get them all the way to Melbourne to for their chance to shine……..and represent our community and the hidden talents. All of the loose ends will hopefully and most undoubtedly be tied up at the next meeting (quotes for various parts of this event and decoration and other stuff necessary) giving us a straight shot to think clearly about the next event to entice the community in a social gathering, this is to be suspected as an ice rink (well actually it’s confirmed) and pending to be booked although actually I think it might all ready be booked but I can’t remember as age is catching up to me. The ice rink, well that’s definitely going to be something new to some of our community and great fun. We decided that we best get a private booking and that’s what has been done so all these professionals don’t laugh at us when we fall down, and let’s be honest we’re all probably going to fall over.

Anyway, something I found very controversial was the fact that we are tracking down an auditor who seems to be on the run, somewhere in India (duh duh duh………duh).

Well that’s it from me.
Farewell to you faithful community,
Bhavish
Committee Member
2nd November 2009

Aight, well hello hello our fellow and very loyal readers of the NZKYSI blog. So like, for once we didn’t have a meeting on a weekend, instead we had one on Friday, just to let you all know…. In case you are wondering, well it was committee member Pavan’s birthday on Friday, so Happy Birthday Pavan. And today is Vice President Vinesh Kumar’s birthday, so Happy Birthday to you too Vinesh. Well what to say what to say…… So let me update y’all on what’s been happening over the past week since you were last updated, long time eh?
Well I feel rather important as I have been allocated the job of booking a bin for our upcoming Christmas party, well at least I think I have. And other than that other members are trying to carry out their allocated tasks which they were handed, it being Lights, Food, Dessert, Decoration and anything of that like.
Well like this Christmas party has been mentioned in like the last 7 or so blog posts, this is to build up hype and we all are just so excited about it I guess XD.
In other happenings, a few months earlier we received from the Melbourne Kshatriya Society an invitation to the world T20 cricket tournment, which will be held in Melbourne late Jan. We have decide to accept the invite and are sending the finest sportsmen in Auckland to collect the shiny silverware hehe. Is that exciting or what?
There has also been mention of a Khatri picnic day or something of that sort, taking place sometime over summer so that’s another day to keep free and yes more info will be brought to you soon enough.

Well that’s it for this week our loyal fans of our famous blog.

Exams are coming up for High School and University students so good luck to all.

Peace Blood.
Shanesh Ranchhod.
Committee Member.
25/10/2009.

Sup people, it’s Pavan here for the 15th Yawak Mandal blog. 5:27 – I’m here live at the Lynnfield rec for the Mamna night and we’ve done pretty much everything from setting up tables and chairs to putting up the raffle prize table. It’s going quite well so far, the older folks are cooking the mamnas while small groups of people are arriving every so often. A few guys tried one or two of them while Ray decided to grab a couple of raw mamnas “before they’re all cooked” because he supposedly thinks they taste better, but I’m not one to question him on that because I’ve never tried it.

On other news we had some technical difficulties on the mic from shays famous iphone (some mic app), (not blaming the iphone), it was Rays wiring skills which I fixed by simply clicking a single wire together but that’s all good and sorted so I’ll catch you later when there’s more happening.

Hey, I’m back and it is about 8:17. The night has gone according to plan so far, and i have just finished my first shift cleaning the hota (skewers) – man what a hassle, that stuff was disguuuuuuusting ^_^. After all the work me and several other youngsters, we had barely done half! So brb, i’ll “refresh” what’s happening when i can.

Phew! Man it’s heating up, finally it’s 10:09 and I’ve got some time off to myself. All went well and we’ve just finished the main presentation for the day, I’m so buggered. I just noticed how packed it is, yes we did sell out and I think also oversold haha. Anyway the nights pretty cruisy right now, well inside at least, i bet it’s the opposite behind the scenes.

Well i guess the conclusion is next so:Yea i think it was a big success, I think you guys should come to the upcoming Christmas party, which we are all expecting big things from (hint-especially the Christmas tree) won’t say much more about that, but I’m sure every one of our events will be an improvement of the previous.

btw (by the way) This was brought to you by my IPod touch. hehe.

So thanks, and CYA.

Pavan Kalyan
Committee member
10th October 2009

Greetings and Salutations to all the Kshatriya community from a youthful spirit of the Yuwak Mandal. For those who have been wondering about the Yuwak Mandal and whether we still exist, well we do and we just had another meeting [which was, in my opinion, too long] with quite disappointing service(mostly food) from the biggest critic, V.P Vinesh Kumar . Most of our meeting session was devoted to preparing for the two rather big events (Mamna night & Christmas Night) that will occur in a relatively quick succession compared to the usual time between most major events. Mamna night is theoretically ready but not yet literally ready as obviously we cannot go setup the hall days or weeks before. The main issue not solved was probably the music playlist with no one to keen in using their portable devices. So with that almost out of the way most of the attention was turned to the upcoming Christmas party, and to be honest most of the research wasn’t the best especially from a few categories that I shall not name to save them from publicised mockery (one of them might have been me, although I hope not). We’re preparing a heap of cool things to make it one of the best Christmas parties ever, using everything from deluxe Santa suits and little elf helpers to 8 foot Christmas trees’(and so much more). Vinesh has allegedly finished the Christmas party tickets, when we aksed him on his progress he replied “ I’ve done it but I just have to add the information.” Which begs the question what else do you put on it?!?

In other news the ‘Auckland Assasins’ (Cricket team going to Melbourne for Kshatriya world cup) have approached us for funding for the cricket gear going to be used and we will look into this appeal. Although this has been made much more difficult by the fact that the two main members from the Auckland Assasins just happen to bbe the two most influential people in the Yuwak Mandal. Wll i’m going to stop brooding on this topic as it is probably breaking the ‘imaginary constitution of the blog’ that has been put into order.(Oh no I might be a criminal…). Well that’s about it from me, time to transform and roll out.

Until next time my fellow citizens,
Cheerio,

Bhavish
Committee Member
4th October 2009

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