Last Friday I got the opportunity of attending my first corporate party ever. The party was organized to celebrate the successful completion of a project. Obviously excited, me readily accepted the invitation and reached the party venue, Nasha – a discotheque cum restaurant near Gurgaon at around 7.30 in the evening. Soon others also joined and we marched in. Reaching inside, we were amused to see the place reserved for us. It was kind of four or five joined Diwans (a kind of large bed). (It was looking as if we were about to witness some ‘Mujra’ or so from the likes of Umrao Jaan or Chandramukhi). Later we realized that it was the most sought after seating plan these days, as one can get quite relaxed and enjoy at the same time. There was a disc floor right next to the room where we were sitting. There were breezers and booze all over the place with each one having at least two drinks at the same time (Free ka maal tha na! J). Being a strict non-drinker, non-smoker I felt slightly out of place. Then started the session of singing and dancing. Being one of my favourite past time, I jumped onto the bandwagon and sang two-three oldies. All were literally ‘Tunn’ and nobody cared to listen to anyone. All were singing (or more appropriately shouting) and swinging and seeing them was a great fun for me (Still I was finding it difficult to refrain them from persuading me for a drink, so during the whole evening I could be seen holding a glass of juice, even when dancing). But overall it was quite an enjoyable experience for me as it gave me an opportunity of meeting some top-brass people and making good P.R. with them. As I’ve already said in one of my earlier post that I am a typical introvert guy, the festivity gave me a chance to break the ice with some of the colleagues. We all burned the dance floor till midnight and after spending all our energy there we finally persuaded ourselves to have dinner and similarly forced ourselves to go to our respective places. (Still, astonished to see that some couples are actually making their way in at that time precisely, 1.15 a.m. A rare sight for me as I am a seedha sadha guy going to bed pretty early). For the first time in my life I entered my house at 1.45 a.m., really scared but since no one was awake so briskly made my way to the room and threw myself to sleep still reciting the words from the song ‘Nach Baliye’ from Bunty aur Babli : 

“Raat yahan pe hoti hi nahi hai

Yeh sadak to soti hi nahi hai

Palko pe chalte hoye bus khwab hai jaagte rehta hai”