We are already heading towards the end of 2010… December is round the corner! And time to welcome the New Year -2011

Acceding to the requests of a some of our members this time to celebrate and welcome the New Year together… A Gala New Year eve has been planned and put together for RCCT families and their close friends and relatives. The team New Year- Rajesh Narang, Urmish, Hamsa and Arundhati have come with a great offer so that all of us welcome the New Year with a Big Bang and ‘In Style.’

The team has put together an ALL INCLUSIVE awesome package for RCCT. Here is the package:

Rs 2500 per head (18 years and above)
Rs 1500 per Child (above 10 – below 17 years)
Rs 500 per Child (below 10 years)

This package includes:
Snacks, DJ Music, A Lavish Buffet spread- mixed Veg/Non Veg, A well stocked ‘bar’ with foreign spirits to keep the spirits high and much much more…..

All you have to do is to be there with your near & dear ones at Hotel GRT T Nagar on 31st Dec at 8 pm to welcome the New Year 2011 !!!

The beautiful but threatening weather on Saturday cocooned into a balmy sunny Sunday thanks to the prayers of Rotarians from 4 city clubs…. Chennai Towers, North, Galaxy and Meenambakkam. Perfect setting for a game of cricket at KRMM grounds. As usual RCCTians were on time and in full strength… planned their strategy and practiced enough before the other Clubs ambled in at 10 am. Thanks to the last minute preparations were the winners in game 1…thanks to the efforts of PP.Rtn. Sriram Raju. We won against Meenambakkam comfortably. Thought the man of the match went to Meenambakkam we played well as a team. Great camaraderie on and off the ground followed.

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The next match was between Galaxy and North which witnessed great batting and fireworks on the ground !! 48 runs in 6 overs was the score by North…. The people in the gallery almost wrote of Galaxy….surprise surprise Galaxy won comfortably helped by North’s mediocre bowling and fielding at the time after much drama. Apparently Galaxy is made up of many cricketers of yester years. We had only President Rajie and Spouse Vijayasarathy as ex-cricketers in our team and hence we decided to use the Australian pressure tactics and let Eashwar loose on them …..Much of the psychic pressure was coming from behind the stumps thanks to Eashwar and his encouraging words we know how good they can work on new comers !!

So the finals were cast in stone…RCCT vs RCCG…. Great beginning by Raaj and Vijay….excellent 50 partnership….well almost !! splendid innings by Sriram who literally got carried away running when there were no runs to run for….we amassed 84 in 10 overs…..decent score to defend given that Galaxy were just coming into the second match immediately after their game. It went to the wire…last over 18 runs to win…last ball 3 runs to win and the better team of the day won…..RCCG walked away with the trophy.

It was 1 O clock…we were all fried by the sun by now and needed to get our palms around that cool cool beer and the delicious biriyani. All teams assembled at the Gandhi Nagar Club….great air conditioning and fantastic fellowship. Overall and super Sunday – could have only been better had we won!

But here is to Eashwar, Raaj, Gita, Prithvi, Sabu, Arjun Vijay and everyone else who were a part of this BBC for having given us a great time and kept track and tab of the proceedings so much so that the other Clubs are planning to emulate us with BBC Season 2….and I was like … yeah right !! Emulate RCCT …. Dream on buddy.

It has been decided to have a Movie Nite on 11th Nov
Movie name : Action Replay
Starring : Akshaykumar & Aishwarya
Theatre : ESCAPE at Expess Avenue
Date : 11th Nov
Show Time : Night 10.15pm

One thing is certain on 1st of October for you Folks, that you will be given a chance “with a world beauty and a mechanical man” , but what else can we do other than sit and watch.

So for the benefit of entire RCCT members & family , We have blocked the Movie *” ENDIRAN”* on October ” 1st night show”

Members can get extra tickets for their other friends as well. So please block your date on 1st Oct and wait for the updates.

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Voice of District 3230 season2 event was concluded last evening and the final results are mentioned as below:

MALE – WINNER – RTN SURENDRA MENON (MADRAS SOUTH)

FEMALE – WINNER – LAKSHMI RAJAN (MADRAS CENTRAL)

RUNNERS UP (MALE) – RTN N S RAJAN (TAMBARAM)

RUNNERS UP (FEMALE) – VIDYA SRINIVASAN (MADRAS TEMPL;E CITY)

OTHER AWARDS PRESENTED:

Club that registered FIRST for the event – RC of CHENNAI GALAXY

100th participant registration award – RTN VEENA (RC of MADRAS VADAPALNI)

FELLOWSHIP Trophy – Highest attendance at the event based on % of total strength of Club – CHENNAI AARCH CITY

TOWERS COOL VOICE OF THE DAY – MALE – RTN JAYACHANDRAN – RC OF PERANAMBET

TOWERS COOL VOICE OF THE DAY – FEMALE – SREEMATHY – RC OF EAST RA PURAM

Thanks to all for making this event a grand success !!!

The shuttle tournament organised by RC Vadapalani was held yesterday at Alumni Club.As usual RCCT had good attendence and cheering in full swing…think we would have even got a couple of points by the loud cheering from all sides(literally).

Great playing by Rtns.Ram /Satish / Rajesh Trika/ Raj /Eshwer inspite of recent recovery from chikangunya/ Annet Arjun. Our ever energetic Anns Shobha and Gita were the runners up in the women’s teams losing only to the host club. It was good to see one of our newest annets abhishek , s/o Dr.Sumedha, opting to play as an RCCT annet rather than for the host club.

On the whole ,a sporty Sunday..Congrats to gita / shobha and all the rotarians who came to cheer too even if they were not playing.

I must mention here that Rtn.Satish Jupiter though he had come to play,did not for a moment loose track of being the VOD chairman and was spotted selling dinner coupons everywhere, that his partner was worried he wil leave the game halfway if anyone wanted the coupons. Between Pres Rajie and him, they have sold quite a lot of coupons yesterday.

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It is time to have a movie night out – on 15th July – Thursday
Movie : *Aananthapurathu Veedu ( AAVEE)
Theatre : INOX – City Centre
Show time : 10pm

Thanks to Vijayakumar, Club Service, RCCT