AE News 2009 - 2 - Anglo-Eastern Group

“Fancy dress” onboard
“Morning Haruka”
On the eve of Indian Independence Day
celebrations, the MV Morning Haruka’s
crew organized a fancy dress party.
It was a delight to see the offi cers and crew
coming out to party, in fl ying colours and
brilliant ideas, abundant with creativity &
enthusiasm!. They mesmerized everyone
with their stupendous performances, while
displaying their disguises.
announced ‘winners’ by the Honorable Judges -
1st - ‘The Mummy’ - Cdt. Atul Satre.
2nd - ‘Old man’ - E/Off Vipin Kaushik.
3rd - ‘Rajnikant’ - 4/E Sunilkumar Varma
Dandu.
The winners were rewarded with monetary
prizes and Certifi cates, and all of us - with
memories to treasure!!
Capt. Vishal Varshney
After rigorous tests, the following were Master, MT Morning Haruka
(from left to right) 2/Off Anant Batra as ‘Dr. Batra’; A/Mstr Ashwani Kumar as ‘Modern Gabbar’; Capt. Vishal
Varshney as ‘Jilleilahi Akbar’; C/E Anant Thankappan as ‘Nuclear Scientist’; C/O Shrikant Mamgain (sitting) as
‘Lagaan waala Bhuwan’; 4/E Sunilkumar Varma Dandu as ‘Rajnikant’; E/Off Vipin Kaushik as ‘Old man’;
APOR Rajesh Chauhan as ‘Indian Cricket Fan’; STSM Apurba Maity as ‘Indira Gandhi’; 3/E Mithra Charimanda
as ‘Sadhu’; O/S Khan as ‘Father Anthony Gonzalvez’; Oiler Thakorbhai Tandel as ‘Fisherman’; TRPM Vasupilli
as ‘Mad Man’; A/B Vinay as ‘Adimanav’; Cdt. Atul Satre as ‘The Mummy’
Indoor Karting for Antwerp offi ce staff
As seen in the Group photo below, last
November 27, colleagues at the Antwerp
AESM offi ce recently tried their hand at
“karting” – as a team building event and to
get to know each other a bit better outside
of normal offi ce expectations.
We had a nice evening and after the ‘warming’
round, qualifi cations and then the fi nals.
Fastest on the track was Dimitri Liedts of
the technical department, and no, we did
not let him win because of his last name.
Second place was taken by Bart
Meulemeester from Accounts department
and on third place we had Marc Stordiau,
again from technical department. First
girl at the fi nish was Lai Lai Lau from QA
department in a 5th position.
For those of you who may not know what
Karting is, there is a second photo.
Indoor karting, is where you have
to compete against each other in
small race cars on an indoor track.
We all got a boiler suit, gloves and
a helmet for safety reasons. It starts
with a warming up round (6 minutes
Anglo-Eastern
win Super 10s
Tournament
Christmas was extra joyous this year as a
proud and happy Anglo-Eastern cricket team
won this year’s Hong Kong Shippers Super
10s Tournament.
Captained by Suvendu Mohanty, Anglo-
Eastern topped the table in the Round Robin
league in a strong fi eld which included a
number of shipping companies such as New
Asia, CCE and MSC.
Then on Christmas Day, the team went on to
win the fi nal – beating MSC in the fi nal of the
Hong Kong Shippers Super 10s 2009 Cricket
Tournament.
The winning team - taking the Honours for this
year’s Hong Kong Shippers Super 10s Tournament
The group photo of the Antwerp offi ce
staff and the indoor ‘Kart’ racing track
to get used to to know the track
and get to used), then there is
a qualifi cation to see who has
the fastest lap. And then fi nally
you have the race.
After the race we all enjoyed
a nice buffet.
16 No.2, 2009