The 'Quarter' Awards

Quarter => January 7, 2005 - April 22, 2005

MOST OFTEN HEARD COMMENT OF THE QUARTER
Smart boy; What the hell! - Sweta, Bahut kuch seekhne ko mil raha hai - Sittu

LONGEST PAID CELLPHONE CALL OF THE QUARTER
55' 56'' - Mayukh (from Bombay), closely followed by 50' 10'' - Soumya (local call), days before he realised that HUTCH had been charging his 'free unlimited local calls' since March!

PERSON-I-LOVED-TO-HATE OF THE QUARTER
Ashwin Hiremath

SMS BARRAGE OF THE QUARTER
Goraksh Bedarkar; Kavita Chawdary & Harshwardhan Agrawal

CONTROVERSY OF THE QUARTER
Obscene postings on the bitmca02 group by 'ankeshbit02'

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE QUARTER
The hunt for the person responsible for the above incident involving simultaneous investigations in Bangalore, Calcutta, Delhi & Bombay. Perpetrator nailed in a day!

NICE GUYS OF THE QUARTER
Rama Rao, Goraksh Bedarkar, Riyaaz, Abhishek Jain

SOFT SPOKEN GUY OF THE QUARTER
Sushant Devatha

BEST ALCOHOL RELATED COMMENT OF THE QUARTER
'Kya karta hai.....daaru peeta hai?' - Ravi, closely followed by 'This is heaven' - Sid (answering the question 'What is this?' asked by Vipin regarding a bottle of RS)

WRESTLING FANATIC OF THE QUARTER, no make that THE wrestling fanatic!
Vipin Ravindran

MOST-LISTENED-TO SONG OF THE QUARTER
Wo Lamhe Remix (Zeher, by Atif Aslam), closely followed by Batter Up (Country Grammar, by Nelly)

LIFE-OF-THE-ODC OF THE QUARTER
Anjani Kumar Jha

NICKNAMES OF THE QUARTER
Setting, By Far

VERBAL ABUSER OF THE QUARTER
Pritish Mohanty

WEBSITES OF THE QUARTER
emp3world.com; centova.net; musclecarclub.com; blogger.com

FIRST-TIME-EVER OF THE QUARTER
Tequilas at Styx Pub

MEETING PLACE OF THE QUARTER
Forum Mall

LIVE SOUND OF THE QUARTER
Porsche 911 at the Forum Mall

REGRET OF THE QUARTER
No stipend by WIPRO during training

ILLEGAL ACT OF THE QUARTER
Sid caught smoking on the TATA-ALLEPEY Express

UNDERACHIEVERS OF THE QUARTER
Indian Cricket Team

PERSON-WHO-TURNED-OUT-TO-BE-DIFFERENT-FROM-WHAT-I-HAD-THOUGHT OF THE QUARTER
Sweta Raj

and finally, COINCIDENCE OF THE QUARTER, or is it the coincidence of the year?
Sweta, Sid, Sittu & me getting calls for training TOGETHER at Bangalore. The best possible people at the best possible location. Howzzat?