Swivel 08 stood to its name. A well received symposium – as usual. Check out snaps and videos of this event here.
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Archive for March, 2008
Posted on March 30th, 2008 in Humor
After the minor accident involving a Kingfisher Airlines plane that skidded on the runway of the Bangalore airport after a dog-hit, Vijay Mallya, Chairman and CEO of Kingfisher Airlines, said: “I am happy that all guests on board our flight are safe. It is most unfortunate that the dog menace at airports in India still [...]
Some creep dropped in the name of A R Rahman and I was drooling even at the thought of Sangarsh 2008 – and it turned out to be a concert by Ranjith, Naresh Iyer and Devan. I had to pacify myself as all these were after all ARR’s finds. The trio were rehearsing Valayapathi Tamizhe [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2008 in Music
How does ARR manage to do all this? Who would have imagined a Qawwali with an electric guitar and a bass guitar? I have tried making music similar to what ARR does and miserably failed always – I end up making tunes that sound as if composed by other ‘famous’ music directors! No wonder he [...]
It was total fun right from the beginning. Rotaract Club of MNM Jain Engineering College had organized the Inter Government School Culturals, Sangamam ’08 in the campus and this fest was attended by around 200 kids from 6 Government Schools(8 were invited) from ECR, Karapakkam, Neelangarai, Perungudi and Sholinganallur. With events such as Group Dance, [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2008 in College
People who dont quite understand the meaning of the title, please take a look at this previous post here. I was sitting with Aishwarya in the Open Air Theatre in college overseeing the work that was being done for our college Rotaract Club’s next project. Aishwarya: So, when are you going to treat us for [...]
Tags: Rotaract Club, Symposium
Swivel is back – in its latest edition as Swivel 08. The last edition was held in 2006 and was enthusiastically lapped up by students all over Tamil Nadu especially the Radio Control techies. RC Cars, the most successful event of last edition is being reincarnated into a tougher event involving both on and off-road [...]
Posted on March 07th, 2008 in Computers
After knowing Mayank for the past few months and reading Ganesh’s blog posts for an equally long period, I decided to give open source a try. After dabbling in gimp, Open Office and a few other software, I decided to give linux a go. And thanks to Mayank who suggested me Ubuntu, I am now [...]