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