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Announcements Announcements… This is what I have made out of this blog space. This has become like the poor walls of Chennai where different political party and cinema posters are posted.Posters which shout out to the poor denizens of this city to go watch movies or to attend a party meeting. Some posters which never escape your eye are the ones which advertise for Moolam(Piles) and this particular poster has a list of other male genital related diseases which can be cured.
Well I am really a blah blah writer who lacks focus and makes spelling and grammatical mistakes. (Hey Why am I going off tangents…) Habit I suppose.
So The Indiblogger’s meet is happening this Sunday.(Finally) the meet which has been proposed by Lemonade, sponsored by Microsoft, and organized by the Indiblogger Team is supposed to bring bloggers together so that they can interact exchange notes, have lots of fun and ofcourse make friends.
I was questioned a few days back by a septic…oops sceptic about the relevance of blogs and why do people need to blog. Is it not a waste of time and energy which
could probably be used for more useful activities. Should not the younger generation be going out and interacting and meeting people instead of blogging. I just had this to tell him,
Me – Why do people need education?
Him - To gain knowledge, to make money later.
Me – Those, are very interesting answers if and only if
you are talking to someone who is painfully stupid.
Him – What do you Mean?
Me – Because of the simple fact that you need none of those to have a life. And it makes me sad that you would be so ignorant.
Him – Explain please…
Me – If you think knowledge is got through education then it is a big NO. Experience is Knowledge and life is a sum of your experiences Going through life everyday, falling down, jumping with joy, being sad, loving someone dearly, hating someone fiercely. All these will add up to a life. So that when you have to leave this world, you will be a fulfilled man.
Him – So how is education related to blogging?
Me – It is related and you have to experience it. But you being an professor can’t explain why people get educated.And it is your bread and butter and jam and cheese. Why do I have to explain about the relevance of blogs and why people need to blog. Some things simply can’t be explained for example If I tell someone that doing a 180kmph in my car is an exhilarating experience, how would he/she know what I wanna convey unless he/she has had a similar experience. So If you don’t understand something please don’t question it’s relevance and why the younger generation needs to do it. Try to Experience it. And you will simply be overwhelmed Life is very simple and things like generation gap which causes you to ask irrelevant questions is because you are scared of change. You want your children to do the same things you did. Because you think life is some kind of formula…
The person was actually stunned and did not know what to say. I was stunned and all I could say was “Excuse me, could you put these posters up please.” And all he did was nodded his head and gave me a big smile. I hope the posters did not end up in the trash can. Because it was the Indiblogger Posters announcing the meet. WIll update once I go there and check it out.
Also the 8th Chennai Photowalk has been announced by Selective Amnesia. It is an interesting route, it’s happening in the evening starting 1700hrs and it is happening on two Sundays the 15th and the 22nd of June. So come loaded with your cameras and the one with the oldest digital camera will get a special gift from me. If you are interested in taking part please leave a comment.
The Indiblogger.in logo has been grabbed from the Indiblogger Website.
FIRE AND FORGET – An Evening of Jazz
Post Concert : Fire and Forget is about how the British Fire missiles and then forget about them. Really awesome music for these war filled times. It is a known fact that the French are not really fond of the British. He even has a song which is titled “Messieurs les anglais, tirez les premiers” (Hey english men, you fire first) This is what Napoleon had to say while fighting the numerous wars with the British.
In the End : He did what every true artist does “Left the audience wanting for more.”
Julien Lourau – Saxaphone
Eric Lohrer – Guitar
Sylvain Daniel – Double Bass
Garcia Bruno – Drums
Bojan Z – Keyboard
The BIG Sunday Walk
Walking by itself is something I sincerely hate, but given good company or a camera or good music I can walk for hours together.
I know I overdid the walk. But what’s life without some whims and fancies. I now have about 200 photos from the walk. Which I enjoyed a lot.
Afterall I am a man of limited means.
“Customer (S)Care” The Funny “Nano Short” Play
About 3 Weeks back my A2 Level Teacher Mme Gisele at Alliance Francaise de Madras
told that we as a class have to do something for the Fete de l’ete (The Summer Festival) at the AFM. So the class decided to do a play and I for reasons beyond my control and understanding wrote a rough play in English. (It was so rough that I actually scraped my elbow while writing it. Read Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 and Page 4 of the play – English Version ) Anyways… We managed to translate that to French with the help of Mme Gisele of course and went on to decide who would play which part.
This was what we decided.
Customer 1 Siddarth
Customer 2 Catherine
The Security Guard The Pseudonym,(Yeah that’s me people)
The Manager InbaShekhar
The Service Representative Gomati Shankar
We had tonnes of fun practising for the play. Though after 3 days of getting our lines, the intonation and placement right we figured out that the play just lasted for 2mins and 15 seconds. So while I asked people to slow their dialogue delivery Siddarth came up with “French is a Fast Language” though I was bursting to tell “Well but we ain’t French, are we?” I did not because Siddarth is the kid of the class and damn near brilliant.(He did get on my nerves once though by going yippity yippity yap.) So we added some lines and worked some more till we were quite satisfied with the end result. We were going to take centre stage for exactly 3 minutes on The D – Day.
So we enacted the play at around 1815 hrs on Friday the 16th at the Alliance Francaise Open Air Theater, to the background score of Chennai Traffic on College Road and with failed microphones. It lasted somewhere in the vicinity of 3 minutes. And we got some of Catherine’s friends to hold the Title board for us. Thanks Kiddos. As usual I forgot to get their names…
Well I should say we were indeed lucky. We breezed in and out of centre stage, our audience was primarily kids, and I don’t think anyone understood us. We were all happy that we were not treated to rotten eggs and tomatoes. Though no one clapped for us either.
Click Here to watch a voiceless us chatting away to glory.
The Seventh Chennai Photowalk The Photos
Dilip has some really good Pictures of them.
Am Still figuring out Flickr Options!!!
Group Picture Courtesy Kunal Daswani
Thanks to Bitter Scotch for pointing out “The lack of courtesy”
The Seventh Chennai Photowalk
The next Chennai Photowalk is happening on May 11th 2008 and the news is it starts at 0600hrs. The Route is from Mylapore’s Kapaleshwarar Temple to The Basilica of National Shrine of St. Thomas(Santhome Church!!!).
The Original Invitation from the guy with Selective Amnesia can be accessed here.
The walk is tonnes of fun. So wanna join, just be there. No joining fees, no club membership needed, no cameras needed(though if you bring a digital camera thats older than my Olympus I will buy you breakfast at Saravana Bhavan) just turn up at 0600Hrs on Sunday Morning.
For the Previous Photowalk Photos Click Here
Conditions Apply for the Oldest Digital Camera Contest. Just Leave a Comment if you’d like to participate.
Is It really Bye Bye Hoardings?
The 6th Chennai Photowalk – The Photos
Click Here for the News Article in Deccan Chronicle
Coming Up : What!!!! I can’t take pictures of my City?
6th Chennai Photowalk _ Starting on OMR
I kept reading about Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan from so many blogs and I have been reading his posts for about 3 Weeks now.And I do indeed find them very interesting. So when he called this month to take up our cameras and then go crazy on Old Mahabalipuram Road Starting at Madhya Kailash, I decided I gotta be doing this.
So I will be walking the walk and clicking the clicks. A Sunday that’s gonna be spent well…
It is on April 13th 2008 starts at 0800hrs as of now. I will be there on time. What about you?
To Read Chandroo ‘s post announcing the Photowalk Click Here
Meet You All there…
