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It’s going to be one awesome weekend. I’m joining a dozen other bloggers passionate about travel for an extended weekend at Coorg. Club Mahindra has been sporty enough to host the entire gang at their resort there.
I’ve never been to Coorg before and the strong passion to visit the place stemmed from the college days. We had a stunningly beautiful girl at my college from this place and I’ve been constantly told that this part the country has the best looking girls. Proof? Try Aishwarya Rai, they tell me. I’m heading there 10 years too late! 
The thing that interests me more is the company of fellow bloggers. Each one of them are interesting in their own right and are passionte about travel. Look forward to fun and bonding. Will link up to the gang on my return.
I’ve been to Club Mahindra’s Munnar resort and even better than the resort is it’s location. If that is any indication, the Coorg one should be something to vie for. Will wait to check out if it stands up to my rather high expectations.
I’m hoping to write a travelogue of my experiences, something that I haven’t done in a while. Now, off to catch the flight.
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For all you aspiring Video Podcasters and Short Film Enthusiasts, please thank your stars for FilmCamp is coming to Town.
FilmCamp is a two day event that’s meant as a platform for independent film makers and podcasters to learn about the process of film making: Direction, Screenplay, Storyboarding, Shooting and Editing. This page has detailed information on the nitty gritties of what you can learn.
It’s an awesome initiative and especially useful for struggling video podcasters like me. I’ve been toying with the idea of getting professional at video podcasting but constrained by many things. I’ve been longing for networking with fellow enthusiasts which prompted us to start the Tinker Meetups. Quite successful and should have seen more editions. FilmCamp is a far more advanced version of it. Take a look at all the press coverages.
The event is on 8th & 9th at Chennai. The exact venue hasn’t been mentioned yet. For me, the dates clash with a travel plan and I’m grinding my teeth. I missed attending both KAMP & FilmCamp Bangalore for personal reasons and would hate to miss the Chennai edition. Should work out an alternative.
Check out www.FilmCamp.TV, especially the page about the founders and you’ll know why it’s really worth it.
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A few days ago, I was invited by Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode to moderate a panel discussion called ‘Brainstorm‘ at their annual technology summit, AIMS 2007. When the invitation came in, I nearly turned it down. It clashed directly with BarCampBangalore, an event that’s cemented on my calendar.
Then I took one look at the list of speakers and that half titled my decision. The other decision that fully turned me in favor was the fact that I could still catch Day 2 of the BarCamp.
It’s looked like a decent compromise until a ticketing goof up put end to my BarCamp plans. But that’s for another post.
From left to right, Yours truly, Lil Mohan (MD, Intel WiMax), Hitesh Oberoi (COO, Naukri.com & Info Edge) and Murugavel Janakiraman (CEO, BharathMatrimony.com).
I had known Muruga very well. In fact, he was on the panel at SearchCamp too. I had heard of Hitesh and had very high respect for him for spearheading Info Edge’s spectacular IPO success. Lil Mohan was a last minute replacement for another panelist but he turned out to be the best amongst the lot.
Everyone listening intently to Muruga talking about his experience in growing BharathMatrimony.com.
The panel discussion was originally supposed to take place at 2:30 PM but my flight got delayed and hence they postponed it to 9:30 in the night. We had a near houseful even that late in the night. That’s the beauty of campus life. Most students crash at around 2:00 in the morning and the night life had just begun.
Quiz: Trace me in the snap above!
Once I had the panel warmed up with my questions, I turned it over to the audience to quiz the panelists. I moved off the stage and started to mingle along with the students, something that I always do as a moderator. A good sign of an active panel discussion is when there are still lots of raised hands for questions even when its well past the end time. Personally, I felt it was a pretty decent show.
I was quite impressed with the Abakus team who pulled off AIMS2007 wonderfully. I wasn’t there long enough to catch the other programs, but from what I could see, it was a thoroughly professional show put in by the team. Kudos, especially to Rahul Gaitonde.
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Two weeks ago, CNN IBN covered the cycling movement in Bangalore and Chennai as part of its Citizen Journalist program. The team came over to Chennai for a day long shoot. The first part of the program has already been aired. Rohini Mohan, the brain behind this series, sent us the web version of the video.
In Chennai, me and a group of folks are on to a ‘Cycle to Work Day’ program where we encourage corporate companies to encourage some of their employees to cycle at least once a month to office. In Bangalore, there’s a team that encourages cycling in general called ‘Cycling Maadi’ (meaning Let’s Cycle).
CNN IBN wants to track these small citizen driven movements over four weeks. This would require us to document our efforts and the progress on handycams by us. Yup, no professional videographers. It’s us and our cameras.
I already played truant. I was supposed to send in my second piece tonight but missed the deadline thanks to a week long trip away from home. Now that I’m back, I hope to quickly catchup. Will let you know how it turns up.
Meanwhile, here’s the first episode of the video.
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Ultimate Frisbee is my latest fave sport. It’s fun, aggressive, energetic and more importantly oozes with sportsmanship and team spirit. Hence its a pity that after training hard over the last few weeks, I had miss out the tournament.
The Hindu wanted to do a story on this new sport and they came over to catch us in action. This was a good opportunity for the folks at Chennai Photography Club to seek out subjects in action. And boy, have they done good or what!
The new logo for the Chennai Ultimate Frisbee. The members came out with different options and the logo was democratically chosen.
That’s Mahendran a.k.a The Diver in action. You can see the Schmidt’s Memorial at the background.
Sukrit does a Yuvraj Singh!
That’s my team, The Reds. Damn! Feel bad for not being part of it.
Game in progress! Fighting it out for the disc. The game is basicially a non-contact sport but at times you can’t help it.
The RedBull girls were there to provide ‘pushti’.
Colorful group indeed!
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