CT writes:
FOOD: Samaye Bajee was excellent combination of typical cultural foods. Chhoyelaa -- hmmmm -- my mouth waters even now, so tasty. Bara was the next best in the Samaye Bajee. Rest items of the Samaye Bajee were also far good in taste and combination. Missing was the Ailaa.
The dinner was also very tasty. Aalu-tama, Khasiko masu, Saag were the best I liked. Some were little too hot, I was not able to figure out, what was actually hot, but I noticed I was sweating a bit due to hot taste in the end of dinner. The deserts were fine too. Foods were plenty in supply, well managed to serve everybody, no-complain from anybody I heard there. I saw everybody quite happy.
The only trouble was seen during coffee break as the hot water was running out too frequent. Score: 9.9 out of 10 for the food
PROGRAM: Inaugural session was fine. All speakers were time conscious but they took little more time than they should. Speeches were balanced and appealing to audience. Participants were little too few but that is not the problem of organizers. People want less BHASAN which is understandable. The program was a little longer than planned but it did not make people bored. Score 8.5 out of 10 for the inaugural session
Cultural session: Discussion part: It was started late than scheduled. There was a time constraint to finish this program by 6:00 PM as the participant from Nepal had to catch their bus for return trip. Moderator seemed a bit nervous but he managed the program run smooth. Speakers were time conscious and were speaking within the boundary of given topics. The program did not get time for open floor discussion, so the excited audience hearing the thoughts of panelists did not get opportunity to speak out. Some of them seemed a bit frustrated too. Score 6.0 out of 10 for the discussion session
Entertainment part: Due to squeeze of discussion session, the entertainment session was started in time. The musical arrangement, sound system and instruments were excellent. No background echo in the hall, no recursive noise, no ear-buzzing teet-taaats. The program announcers did excellent job. No unnecessary delays in the episode. The program was having excellent combination of songs, dances and performance. Everybody did very good job there. Participants of the song and dance competition were performing above the expectation of audience. The audience were voting the performers judging on their performance. Due to their excellent performance, the audience were having trouble to decide which one to vote. I saw people voting many of them, crossing out and again voting to a different one, discussing and debating which one has performed better in the hall. The hall was totally packed and all of the audience did not get chairs to sit.
Score 9.99 out of 10 for the entertainment session.
OVERALL: The program was really very nice one, well-managed, balanced and a perfect combination of good food, entertainment and opportunity to share ideas and make new friends. I understand such a nice program would not be possible without hard effort of the organizers and their well-wishers. I appreciate their effort. I wish to attend similar programs more frequent if possible.
