Best/Worst/Funniest Awards

Damn you for making me reminisce, Sam!

Best Moment

It has to be shooting the movie…  spending a day kissing Dobi while dressed as a soldier – you can’t go wrong with that really!  And then dressing up as a rather dashing Navy Captain which meant I could recreate the scene where Richard Gere picks up his lady and walks off into the sunset with any obliging young lady.  I want to be a movie star!  …again!

A close second has to be when, a few days after arriving in Panchkula, I was getting ready to go to Manali and got talking to Kent, who I hadn’t really spoke to that much beforehand, and told him that I was really looking forward to going away for the weekend.  When he asked why, I promptly told him that it was because I wouldn’t have to see his ugly face while I was away.  And so it was that a friendship was born based upon friendly insults from Kent, and honest insults on my part (just kidding Kent…)

Worst Moment

Having random things stolen from my room, and my first bike, Agnes, taken for a joy ride, abused and then returned as a complete wreck.  Only to be repaired and stolen a couple of weeks afterwards.  Or maybe it was getting my second bike stolen.  I also heard rumours that my third bike was stolen as I left the country…

Funniest Moment

Salvador is better at telling this story, but I’ll have a go anyway…

It all happened during one of the traditional RMS trainee’s Saturday Chats between myself, Vladan, Salvador, Marian and Arno/Parno.

During his time in India, Arno developed an evil personality at RMS, Parno, owing to some confusion between pork and porn (that’s another story though…)  and we were talking rubbish about that during a group MSN chat, when we started to wonder why Marian was being so quiet (this was his first time joining in the conversation)  So we guessed that it was because the evil Parno spirits (at this stage I’d like to point out that we were working Saturdays, and so even the slightest distraction became amusing…)  had infected him.

I think it’s also worthwhile to note at this point that Marian’s keyboard was quite temperamental, and only some of the keys worked – a problem he had raised a couple of times before, but of course being in India, nothing was done about.

So when Marian tried to defend himself, all that he could say was a clearly demonically possessed “hshffmmwinf”  or something along those lines…  and now I can get around to the Funniest Moment bit…

This garbled comment was enough to crack me up, but I was managing to control my laughter - until I heard Vladan laughing out loud way over at the other end of the office.  The laughter was still pretty much under control until I looked over my shoulder to see what state Salvador was in.  At this point Salvador also looked over at me, in pretty much the same state I was and once eye contact was made we were both pushed over the edge into uncontrollable laughter.  Salvador was beyond control now, so thought it would be best if he left the office and seek solitude in the toilets to calm himself down.  Only to make himself laugh even more with the realisation that his attempts to suppress his laughter resulted in some rather dubious groaning sounds coming from the toilet cubicle…

And so he had to leave the toilets which weren’t helping his situation and leave the building completely for a cigarette break.  Only now as he was struggling to control his laughing, the owner of the company happened to walk past and ask him how he was doing…

Salvador’s description, and acting out what happened, when he finally returned to the office rounded off the whole event nicely, ensuring that no work would be completed for the rest of the day as we kept falling back into laughter about it all.

And I know the post is already quiet long now anyway, but I also need to mention my close second…  when during a horror movie, The Grudge, Benjamin managed to recreate the ‘scary’ noise that had been used throughout the movie, during one of the tense scenes by slurping the remains of his drink through his straw…  that in itself slaughtered me, but Johanna’s persistent confusion about why me and Ben were laughing meant that my face hurt from laughing way into the journey back from Fun Republic.