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I was talking to a good friend and fellow blogger who happens to be a girl and…
Me: So wasup?
She: Nothing much. Some stupid virus got into my lappy. Am formatting everything.
Me: Oh! You would have done porn! All these porn sites are full of viruses!
She: Ada paavi! I dont do porn da!
Me: Oh yeah?
She: See. I know there are viruses in porn sites. That’s why I don’t download any.
Me: Oh. So you watch porn. But do not download.
She: I.. Er…
Me: Gotcha. End of debate.
Heights I go to ensure that the person at the other end of the chat is irritated!
Both me and Mayank were equally jobless and……..
me: dude!
Mayank: i’m no dude
me: then?
Mayank: I’m Mayank
me: heh? ok buddy
Mayank: no buddy. Mayank!
me: ok pal!
Mayank: no pal! Mayank
me: ok chum!
Mayank: You suck!
A lazy Sunday started with a message from my cousin, Gopi that he was visiting us. Great! Now there is ritual in our place. When someone announces his/her arrival, we start cleaning our place. Thats when we actually clean our home! And if someone comes unannounced, its at their own risk! So a couple of hours of cleaning and it was already 1 pm. Gopi came and we soon left for Citi Centre. An hour at Landmark and about half an hour at Coffee Day later, I started. I picked up Shillika on the way to the Hotel. Update: The next few lines were removed due to requests by the person concerned.
We arrived at Hotel Dee Cee Manor a few minutes past four. We walked in to find a few Photowalkers, Varun, Arvind aka Pseudonym, Sudhamshu already there. Then Chandru, Vatsan, Sandhya and Dhruva walked in. The first half of the proceedings was boring, esp the introduction part and the ‘one minute of fame’ though the later saw lot of wisecracks from the audience. Then it was dinner time and time to network. Had a chat with Kribs about podcasting. Met interesting people like Joel, Naveen, Rohit and Jackie. At one point of time, I even cursed Gapp as I found myself sitting between X and Y!
It was then the jigs round where the organizers read out random comments from random blogs and the blog owner does a jig. it was actually funny to see bloggers of all shapes and sizes doing jigs! Then there was a skit by The Rebelz which had the audience in splits with their jabs at people ranging from Balaiyah to Vijay Mallya. Then there was the skit by the Indibloggers Team. At the last was the occasion everyone was waiting for - the T Shirts! 
Most of the people had left by then and the remaining people had a quick snap with a few of the organizers. Most of the bloggers who attended the meet found the proceedings boring and this is probably because Chennai has seen lots of such events like BarCamp, BlogCamp and of course the Chennai Photowalk where most of the people are bloggers! Still, the IndiBloggers Team deserves a pat on the back for organising such an event.
From left (clockwise) Dont know the first two peeps’ name, Arvind, Myself, Varun, Joel, Naveen (the guy who got owned last week!) Rohit, Murali, Jackie (she is Naveen’s owner!) Sandhya Rajan and the girl whose name also i dont know.
We then pushed Rohit’s car whose front wheel was stuck in the parking lot and it was then the drive to the deserted Marina beach with Pseudonym where we spent around 20 minutes before heading back home.
Lessons I learnt today:
1) Networking in Chennai means meeting the same people again and again as the same folks turn up for all meets.
2) In Chennai, girls blog; babes dont! 
3) Never offer to pick up any girl you know up! Especially, if she is doing third year VissCom in MOP Vaishnav College!
Update at 6:10, 9th June: More posts about the event can be read here.
It was the first day in college and we were waiting for the classes to start with a great anticipation when we saw this school boy trotting around. We assumed him to be a brother of one of the people joining college that day.
He turned out to be a guy in our batch!
Further discreet inquiries revealed him to be one Prashanth, joining Computer Science in our college.
Now, as a rule, Mechanical peeps could never get along with Computer Science peeps in my college - esp CS staff. Sparks flew on the first day itself when a CS staff got snubbed by one of my class guys. He resigned the next day!
Coming to our ’subject’, we had always nurtured the thought of catching this Prashanth guy and ragging the hell out of him. Sounded fun! But some so called good samaritans in my class were against this as he was after all in our batch.
He was soon forgotten as our focus shifted from the CS guys to IT/ECE girls. Yes. CS girls in my batch are shit. No. Shit is better! It after all is a natural fertilizer!
Now, I have been in contact with our subject for the past few weeks and he turned out to be a worse KVK than I had encountered in my class!
We were chatting in Gtalk a few weeks back and he was like
Macha! I want to get into a good Ad agency da.
Some days later.
Hey, Will I get into Star Group?
Then.
Dude! I want to learn SEO!
Time passes.
Narain, I have registered for a course in affiliate marketing da!
And again.
Hey, I want to learn php and css da. Can you suggest some books?
Today morning.
Dude, I stumbled upon a book today morning on Advanced Hydraulics. Is there any way I can get into Ford Motors by reading the book?
Me: &^$&*^*@#
Update at 5:10 PM:
He came to know about one of my friends, Shillika and immediately fell for her! He has not even seen her! He just likes the name! Sheesh!
Update at 11:45 PM, 2nd june
Dei, suggest me a good camera da. I want to learn photography.
Me: Dei… Unakellam Manasaatchiye Illaya da….. *%#^$@
Update at 09:18 AM, 3rd june
I was in convo with Prashanth in Gtalk and he was referring to this post.
Uleadin: Macha… See… I want to be versatile da. I’m just trying to do everything I can do with my physical limitations.
Me: Oh! Is that why you haven’t had sex till now?
Uleadin: &%$#*@
Its good to be back to blogosphere after a small hiatus.
I have moved my blog from wordpress.com to my own webspace. This move is mainly for experimenting with wordpress and some gethu ! So dont be surprised to see ads here as I may place them to take care of my hosting needs.
Also I have joined work at findnearyou.com and am enjoying work. The working hours are long and I am even working at home in the night (And if both of you are reading this, take the hint Mr. Ram and Mr. Seshadri! :D) and as result I may not update this blog regularly.
I know most of you would be secretly happy (some openly) due to prospects of reading less shit from now on.
Right now, revamped the About page and scouting for a good theme - 3 column and minimal. Tell me if you come across one.
There was a blog war starting brewing me and PSP but things got sorted out. Cha. I was expecting something big to happen! Anyway, PSP is going to Anna Nagar tomorrow for some entrance examination. The real motive though is that the boutique next to his examination centre belongs to Esha’s mom! He has even promised to tonsure his head at Tirupati if he manages to catch a glimpse of his mamiyar! Now what do I say? Pervert or hopeless!
Met more interesting people in the last week. Ram, Seshasdri (Both are my bosses) Ravi, Sivakumar and Sandhya. Ravi and Sivakumar are the techie guys in findnearyou.com and we have been working together for quite some time on the findnearyou blogs. Sandhya is a blogger who blogs at findnearyou.com and is the second person next to Shillika whom I have promised to take to A R Rahman’s studios. Only if they find out I dont even know his studio’s address. Yeeps!
Finally I went to college to collect my course completion certificate and met my college friends. We sat on the stone benches beneath the famous Mechanical Marathadi and it was good to relive the older times - pulling everybody’s legs- esp Sanjay and PSP, cracking wisecracks, the good old mokkais (We were shouting so much that we had to evicted from the campus!) and having heated arguments over cricket - today’s argument being who will emerge winner in the DLF IPL? Many supported CSK while there were some Rajasthan Royals fans(remember mine is a merchant college! :D) However my take is that the ultimate winner of the DLF IPL is Lalit Modi! I wont be surprised if acquires a Porshe by the end of the season.
And he has been happily flirting with Preity Zinta all along! While the whole of India stomach burnt.
Clear winner!
Anyway, I have lost all my blogrolled links in the transfer. I remember most of the links I visit. Incase, I forget one or two, just remind me. Also, people who have blogrolled me as sathyanarain.wordpress.com, kindly edit the link to sathyanarain.com.
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25 years of TCP/IP!
Cant even imagine what would have happened if this thing had never been invented?
Bosky and Srivatsan wanted me to write about the Pipes Camp in my blog. I didn’t as I couldn’t find the time to log in and post an entry.
But here’s a post-camp blog entry!
No hard feelings Bosky!
Yes! I love Google!
Type my name - Sathyanarain in the Google search box and hit return and lo!
Seven of the ten results on the first page are my blogs and websites!
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