With the undersea cables getting cut, the India's internet's bandwidth had crippled into half.
Pity me, thought of some downloads to be done since tonight is the month end and some 150 mb data is left for download in my data one broad band account.
Struggling thru the slow internet.
Lesson - Should have used up my internet usage a few days before, to fight away the 11th hour sickness.
Yeah, its another gala time at friend's wedding reception.
What - Its Mohan Babu weds Kavitha
Their wedding had happened at Jayamkondam on 27 Jan and the reception took place at Alagappa Thirumana Mandapam on the evening of 28 Jan in Cuddalore.
Its my family with the mapillai kudumbam.
This is Palani and family. Palani has to his credits the wonderful party maker. A wow to him.
The purchase team of my company with the mapillai. In the photo are Gnanavel and Venkatesh.
The Engineering team with the mapillai..
Hey beauty
What is your name?
Abhi
What is your father's name?
Venkatesh Kumar
What is your mother's name?
Mahadevi
It seems somebody has asked mapillai Do you know Veera Pandia Kattabomman?
We had a hard time to make our mapillai to smile before the camera.
Palani took some successful efforts in bringing some smile on mapillai's face
The journey started at my place - Cuddalore bus stand at about 5.00 a.m. on 18th Jan'08. I have to travel from Cuddalore to Asiana Hotel via Pondicherry through the ECR road. Its a 3.5 Hours journey.
But on reaching Pondicherry I was drawn aback by the news that the ECR road was closed due to an accident. The journey resulted in a roundabout one adding an hour and a half to my trip...
Ofcourse reached the place by 10.00 a.m.
Yeah Here it is...
The welcome team at the venue.
The way the event was organised is highly systematic, with the badges given to participants having their individual names neatly printed in it. As I skipped to register my name at the proto site, I missed to get the pretty badge. Dumb me..
Here goes the agenda of the technology track. Pity me had I reached in time, I might not have missed the initial juices.
A talk going on the Track Two - Technology & Trends, If I remember right, the talk is about Facebook et la.
People sticking on to the talks.
After a while I moved on to other hall where Business Track was going on. Surprised to see the hall is overflowing, with some people even standing and hearing to the speaker.
Another speaker giving out his talk at the Business track.
Finally I got settled for Vishal Gondal's talk titled "From Nothing to Something - The Experience"
He is the brain behind the portal Indiagames.com. His talk was quite catchy.
He shared his business experience with the audience.
Here it goes...
He started his games business and initially there were few takers for it. A Pepsi factory was nearby his office and he wanted to demonstrate his product to the General Manager of the factory. After pleading with the Pepsi fellow he got their nod to make the demo. So was the time that there were no CDs and one has to rely on floppies for transferring his memory crunching files. He took his whole set up of his desktop PC to the Pepsi factory and gave a demo to the people there.
The game is a simple one in which the player pounces on a virtual Pepsi bottle on the monitor. The response from the folks were overwhelming with the HR people of Pepsi suggesting the game to spruce up the morality of their sales persons. Vishal started tasting success in his business.
Another mention is that he got a call from PricewaterhouseCoopers the name which he had not even heard of then. Since he had thought that they are the people in water business, he turned down the conversation.
In the meantime his office then witnessed a first of its kind "People with Suit and Tie " visiting them, those were the people from Pricewaterhousecoopers. It is the first time that people wearing ties have set foot to to his office which made news among the people around.
Some interesting quotes...
He: Any one here paid money for attending this event?
Then one person raised his hand.
Hey, just for attending this conference you are paying money. No. He stresses that knowledge should be gained without spending money. A good ideology.
His ideology of successful business - JUGAD the management mantra. Want to know what is that, just google the word JUGAD, he tells us.
"For coming to this conference do you really need to wear Coat, Suit and a Boot ??" he asks funnily.
Although his talk has ended people were hesitant to go away.
This is Karthik, doing MBA @ Great Lakes Institute of Managment. I saw him at the venue when Vishal Gondal's talk was going on.
About this guy...
I met him first at the Podwords way back in the month of June 2007 at Tidel Park in Chennai. Then I was starting this blog and trying different combination of names on Karthik's Laptop PC. A talk between me and Karthik suggesting to add the word cool to my name clicked to the birth of this blog.
Way back in school days I remember studying in physics class that there is a formula to find how many images appear between two mirrors, it relates the angle between the mirrors, If you know please let me know it.
Bit sleepy as of now, Oh much more interesting happenings at the event, too long article to go by, am splitting this into 4, shall write the rest in the near future,
short break, until then good bye..,
Its festival time.
Pongal celebrations started with little ones in my neighboring house doing a kolam depicting the Mattu (Cow) Pongal. This kolam was drawn by Miss.Prianka my neighbour who is studying VI standard
The firing up of the traditional stove to start the festive event.
With fire going up we were waiting for the milk to boil out and push off to the brim of the utensil.
Yep, the festive treat captured on my mobile camera.
Happy Pongal wishes.
The event - Proto.in
Where - Asiana Hotel (Phone - 044-67411000)
Dates: January 18th, 19th 2008
Location - Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai
What is this?
Its a premier event in which startup companies and the alike showcase their products, technologies and companies to a selected gathering of investors, VCs, et la...
This event is happening twice every year and so far happening in Chennai. Of course this event is bound to sail across cities other than Chennai in the future.
Here is the agenda of the event.
Related articles.
by Dr Rao, Adviser-Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India
Update (14 Jan): Direction to the venue using Yahoo Maps is here (Thank you Siddhi)
Update (17 Jan) : Agenda updated with the latest one.
To Tata Inc,
You have just introduced the world's cheapest car.
Yes its India's pride. You have made a revolution in the car industry.
Your dream product is really a special gift to the middle class Indians.
In spite of increasing input costs you have stood by your promise of 1 Lakh Rupees.
I salute you.
BUT
The already congested roads in the Indian metros will surely witness an explosive growth of car population.
Your competitors are bound to follow your business logic..,
Are you doing good to our country's poor roads?
Should the morality of daily office goers be injured with increased journey time?
Why the car makers are making the traffic poorer ?
This same country had well planned cities called Harappa and Mohenjodaro that too 4000 years ago which had even a well planned drainage.
But today our country is heading for a more heart burn to the road users.
Why not the country make the roads richer ?
It was an excitement for me to know that one of the photos I took on my 2MP Mobile Phone Camera has got featured on the Yahoo Developer Network.
A mention on my pipescamp review at the Y! site tells that its a "Play-by-play" of the event.
coOL!!
Seems that many of the Yahooligans had feast on reading my pipescamp review
The organizers have really put in great efforts in churning this world's first ever unconference on Yahoopipes into a success.
Thank you Mr.Matt McAlister of Yahoo Developer Network & everyone for making pipescamp a brilliant one.
