Of Shrishti, Pre-departure and Proto.in
admin July 27th, 2008
First of all i repent for skipping the early morning ultimate frisbee games for some petty reasons. During the first few months when i started playing i never missed play and it was really refreshing and more than that it was great fun. In the past few months random work, late night sleep coupled with laziness stopped me from going to the beach/ground and the end result is i suck at the game now. Neglecting all these i was pretty excited when there was a announcement about a tournament being held in Bangalore. Ganesh said he was also coming and so i readily put my name in the list. The Chennai Ultimate Frisbee gumbal is a super cool one with all over enthu people and time will fly off like the disc in their company.
The tournament happened during the first week of July and the previous week i also got my visa stamped, so i was very much relieved. The tournament happened in a remote place near Bangalore and we started in the early morning and after grueling for about ten hours on unimaginable roads we finally reached the destination. Hat games, sleeping in the tent, late night talks, good food, the nail biting game between chennai and Bangalore, travel convos and many more. The two days was fun filled and i really loved being in the CUF gang. I got to speak with people who i haven’t interacted much and i felt good.
Check out the photos of Camp Shrishti HERE
Was back from the tourney and the preparations for the summer edition of Proto.in was in full swing. Had some productive meetings in Vijay’s office and those ones really were of good help. A few of us from the team started to Delhi a couple of days before the event to carry on the ground work. The event went off well, thanks to the amazing guys from Delhi who of great help. We stayed at a place called Heritage near IIT Delhi and it was really amazing. This was the first time peeps from Knowledge Foundation got to stay and work together and it was good fun and lot of lessons learnt. Met some very nice people like Shivaas, Piyush and they were with us throughout the event. Apparently Shivaas is also gonna be some where near Virginia and we have planned to meet up some time. It is always good to keep in touch with guys who have the entrepreneurial spirit running in their blood!
I loved Delhi a lot and the city is full of life (at least in parts!). At the end of the first there was a Proto.in Alumni Dinner and after it got over, good guy Shiv from Viewspaper took us to the India Gate. It was around 12 in the night and it was a splendid experience. We has Chuski near India gate and walked on the Raj Path! Shiv had a good knowledge about Delhi and he briefed us as and when some landmark passed. One funny thing is that the place where we stayed was inside a colony and the entire colony which spread about a few kilometers was locked! Every entry to the colony was locked except one. You cannot walk in after 10 o clock in the night. On the other hand there were families happily sitting and chatting near the India Gate at 1 AM!
The next day was when the presentations happened and it went on pretty smooth. After the tiring day it was all random talks in the rooms and i didn’t remember when i fell asleep. The next day we went to a place called Delhi Haat. The place had food stalls from all the states and we had a sumptuous lunch there. All this time we had this guy called VC Karthik along with us and he has a amazing sense of humor. He will keep the place lively with all his stories. We still had a few hours for our flight back to Chennai and so me, ravi and kau decided to travel by the Delhi Metro. We took an auto to CP and then went in the Metro. Impressive! Then we walked around the Parliament, Rashtrapathi bhavan and it was a short and good one. Nothing can beat the in flight conversations because that is when you get bored to the core. Vijay was at his best throwing up crazy ideas and i added on. After some time we decided sleeping would be a much better option!
Overall a pretty good month and more than that feels good to blog. One more week to depart and i still haven’t got the mind set. Still lots of pending work. Hope i complete all those before i leave!! I have decided to blog regularly from now on and this time i guess i will stick to it! Looking forward to see the good old times of blogging everything i do!