People who are in the chennai active blog circle who meet often and do lot of crazy stuff will definitely be knowing TUD aka The Under Dawg aka Dinesh (His numerous other girl friends call him by different names based on the situation and also convenience). For others here is a formal intro…TUD just passed out of college (MCC-flooded with hot chics!). He did his PG in Mass communication there and got a job with IndiaInteracts where he currently hugs hot malayalam chicks and drives stylish motor bikes in the name of doing Entertainment shows. He also finds the job very challenging and hectic.

In spite of his ‘tight’ hot chick hugging schedule TUD promptly comes for RTFF and other event organizer meets. It was during last week that a halo started appearing behind our hero’s head. During RTFF-2, TUD met a hawt chick and had that ‘first sight’ feeling with something gushing from the tip of his toe to the top of his head. Then two days later hero meets the girl again at some press meet and feels that life keeps going and Venus is trying to convey him some message and starts penathifying something in his blog. Hero concludes that if he meets the girl for the third time then this is it!(Knowing that SHE will be coming for the Podworks meet and he will be meeting her there, Kedi Bugger;)

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On sunday afternoon people were having conversations in groups and Sagaro did an ultimate comedy. He narrated the TUD’s optimism theory and love story to the guy who came with TUD’s crush without realising. I was laughing like anything and half way something struck him ….
S: U came with that girl right????
S: R u her boy friend?!?!?
Guy: Jus a friend!
S: Oooo…K

Intially we thought TUD got pissed off and will thanni adichi kupara paduthufy but he feels that it has got stronger and has started singing Munbe vaa and looping Unnale unnale in his player.

Kalakara Machi!!!

MMS(Mobile Monday on a sunday) happened this weekend and i reached the venue a late by half an hour. The sessions were not that great at least not in the lines in which i expected. Except for a few hitches it went off well. Hats off to Varum krishnan who was the key behind the first version.

After MOMO, we had our lunch at Tiffanys and headed to the CCD. People started coming in one after the other and the we pulled all the chairs tables and created a chaos. 34 peeps for a organizers meet! Even chennai bloggers meet didn’t see such a crowd. It was not like too many cooks spoil the broth but many notable decisions were taken in the two hour meet and many people contributed their ideas.

TUD-”the” man was at his full pace during the podworks meet. Every time i take the photos and pass it to Ganesh and he efficiently does this Photo essay with all the witty comments. Thanks to him.

Check out the photos of MOMO and Podworks meet.

MOMO Chennai is happening this weekend at IIT Madras.

After that there is a organizers meet for Podworks-The podcasting workshop to be held on June 9 and 10. Some new exciting people are to join the organisers team. It’s gonna be fun.

Why is chennai the blogging capital of India? This was the topic for the Group discussion which we had before the Rooftop Film Festival. It was for a CNN IBN show and was supposed to start at 6 PM an hour before the RTFF starts. On that day around 10 of my classmates came to my house and we were sitting and chatting the whole day inside my room. We had our farewell on Monday and my team was supposed to give some variety entertainment during the farewell evening. So on that day we decided to write the script and do some rehearsals so that we don’t screw up on the stage. Time went on and on and we were sitting idle doing nothing.

In the afternoon Ganesh called and asked me to come early to Siddharth’s place as there was some shoot by CNN IBN. I thought it was about RTFF and decided to leave at around 5 from my home so that i can reach RA puram by 6. Me and Mahesh also had to edit the movie which we had shot as a farewell gift to our seniors. It just covered various places in my college and we guys decided to add some humorous dialogues and complete it before the evening. It was a perfect piece and it would be great to look at a video of your college years down the lane. But things got fucked up really bad.

Incidentally i was ill when the video was shot and said i will help with editing and stuff. We then paid Rs.150 for processing the tape and when i put the DVD in the drive….What the fuck!!! I think one of the assholes who shot the video was doing something with the other hand….the video got screwed up and was shaky in all the places. We lost hope of editing it.

Coming back….i was late again and my friend dropped me in RA puram and the worst part was i was a few buildings near sid’s place and searched for it for 20 minutes. At last i reached his place and fortunately the shoot didn’t start. We set the mattresses and the cameras were on and we started.

The discussion was very lull ….Take a look here to know what happened there. (I don’t have the patience to write about it….Initially i thought of writing about it but got diverted and am now blabbering something else)

It happened again and at the same place too! Sid once again let his amazing roof for all the movie freaks to have RTFF edition 2. Even though it clashed with the finals of the world cup the turnout was pretty good. I felt it was not as good as the first edition because i slept for a few hours this time. Thanks to the boring movies and also the low spirit!

I saw Good night good luck and the other movies i saw only in parts. Most of the time we were sitting behind and having some random conversations and at other times i slept. The best part of the fest was the Tamil dubbed version of Kung Fu Hustle which we saw for some half hour during dawn. Fucking Hilarious!!!! Unfortunately we had to stop it

Sagaro’s Photo essay

The New Indian express carried a very good article on RTFF. Thanks to all those who took the initiative. It is definitely going to go places.

Searching for porn on the net is acceptable and even mallu porn is ok and it is a renown fact that it will lead to thalaivar’s blog .
Even the most vettiest of all will not search for a tag like this
That too who the fuck navigates till the fifth page and comes to my blog.(Twice!!)

PS: Sagaro has slipped to the second page for that valuable search tag and this text anchoring is my seo gift for him

This is gonna be amazing fun and hell lot of adventure. After all the planning the dates for the Big race are fixed.
The Plan
* Each team consists of two members
* Each person is allowed Rs. 1000 and a back pack.
* Participants are allowed to carry extra money, but are not encouraged to use it unless they are in some deep trouble.
* Remotest village in a state is a must visit.
* Farther the distance of travel from starting point more the fun.

You can beg,borrow, steal and do anything during the trip to live and cover your travel expenses. Right now me,sagaro,sathish and Gitu will be doing it. Some others have also shown interest in joining the big race. Right now i haven’t thought of the possible ways but am sure they will pop up as we move. Do throw me your views.
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I will also be doing a cycle expedition to Pondicherry in the first week of May.(Making the best use of study holidays). Mostly it will be Me and Ganesh. We may be joined by Kausik( Don’t know if he is alive though,long time since i saw him). Saw the pictures of Auroville and hopefully if things go on well we may stay there for a day.
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I went to the air show this weekend. We had the TKF meet this sunday and it went on till 3 o clock. So i went to my friends place near by and went to marina around 4:30. It was damn crowded. Police estimated that there were around 4 lakh people in the entire stretch. Few moments before it started Siddharth came there. He brought two SLR Nikon D70 cameras. Wow! it is amazing to hold the SLR camera and take the pictures. The one which belonged to his father had those high end accessories and lenses (It stretched more than a feet!) and we took some close up shots of the maneuvers. Although i screwed up a little in the starting, later i also took a few good shots.

Check out more pictures of the air show HERE

I was bored and sneaked into the kitchen. I have always loved trying to cook and end up doing something new! There was this Gulab Jamun mix lying in the shelf. Something to keep me occupied for the next hour. I read the instructions and starting mixing the dough. I heated oil and meanwhile i made the sugar syrup on the other burner. 40 minutes and i had those amazing master pieces in that large container. Unfortunately i forgot to take a photograph and all the guests were treated with the jamuns and i had to content myself with this picture. For all those peeps, it turned out very well and tasted excellent.

My model exams got over last week and due to some cancellations we have to write one exam after ten days. This time it was very worse. They made us sit for the entire 3 hours. A student can never get a more cruel punishment! Even if u sleep they will pull you out and ask you write the exam again. So blabber anything because the person who corrects knows zilch. Same story as before. I used the word Fuck six times in my software engineering paper. I love doing this! I dont want to bore you people writing it again. For those who don’t know what i do in my model exam, here are two posts which i love.
–Oru “PEN”in kathai-Part 2
–Oru ‘PEN’in kathai

A few memorable days this week. Yesterday was Mahesh’s birthday and we enjoyed a lot. 11 people having lunch at good friend Rajesh’s house, man its damn good fun. His mother showed great hospitality and cooking food for 11 college boys is not an easy job!
Then we went to the beach and cut the cake singing happy birthday at the top of our voices making everybody turn. Cash smashing, butt kicks( almost everyone got for some reason or other), hot bhajjis, sugarcane juice drinking contests…. amazing day.
Then we wet singer Naresh Iyer in the beach and took pictures with him. Very cool guy. He provided the perfect ending for the day!

Maravattai has got a good write up of the days happenings.

Bangalore Barcamp was good and so was bangalore. Although it was not that great as i imagined, it was great fun amidst the amazing IIM-B campus.We seven people from the TKF boarded the late night train to Bangalore and the sad part was we didn’t book our tickets together and we were split up in groups(lesson to be learnt next time). I went to my brothers place in Indira Nagar from the station and refreshed and started to IIM-B. Very good turn out, almost 350 people were there to attend BCB3. Some of the sessions which i attended were really good and i didn’t attend most of the sessions especially on the first day.

Registration was pretty good and fast. The name sticker sucked. On the first day, I tore 5 of those and only the 6th one i was able to stick on my t shirt. The second day fortunately the first one clicked!

IIM-B campus- Superb!!More than that the sandwiches which they sell at the 24 hour canteen are really tasty. That too for 15 bucks it is dead cheap.

Then there was an intro in the auditorium for which i was late. Some how the unconference mood was not there. Don’t know the reason, just because it was conducted in an educational institution or the way in which it was conducted.

I attended two sessions in the mobile sector of which “Active mobs” was very nice. Hope they bring it on to Chennai. Then we went to the lunch and some good networking happened in the canteen.

The best of all which i enjoyed was the photography session which me, ganesh and Gitu had. After lunch we went to the UFO tower(one hawt place in IIM-B) and clicked some amazing pictures. We didn’t climb the iron ladder to reach the top as we had our lunch just before and also it was steep.


Ganesh taking a picture of us from the bottom.

The self-timer shot.

The dry leaves…. I loved the sound when we walked on it.

The open discussion in the lawn between the chennai and the bangalore team to decide the venue for Proto.in

The paper wiki!

After the first day, few people played Quake and this was when so thought straight-Sagaro told that every time he visited Bangalore he never missed going to NASA-the gay pub.

We went to a nearby restaurent to have the dinner and i left early. The second day i attended some sessions and discussions. Good gyaan! The one by Lawrence from Creative Commons was incredible. People even continued it over lunch.

Things learnt from two days in Bangalore
-Bangalore is one cheri place nothing much different from chennai.
-The money which i spent travelling inside Blr for two days was more than what i spent for my to and fro chennai-blr train fare.
-8 out of ten people in Bangalore work in the software field, out of which 7 people drink and smoke.
-You can get alcohol every 100 meters in almost all roads in blr.
-Traffic sucks and so does the local transport.
- Auto walahs cheat be it bangalore or chennai.

Overall a memorable experience and also attending the camp made me think a lot about my future. Hope i hit the best decision soon.

We had the college day and the inter department culturals on Monday. The college day was the best fun i had in my college till now. We performed in the variety entertainment and the whole college was roaring with laughter. Although we prepared it on the day before it turned out very well. Excellent performance by Kudi and boopi, we deserved the first prize but internal politics. Same thing happened in the quiz, the scores were tabulated improperly and we got the third place only.

In the evening there was a performance by the famous local troupe Lakshman Shruthi. They played some of the latest kuthu songs and everybody danced for the whole three hours. even some of the staff members joined us!. Totally exhausted. Everybody(padips, pazhams et al) danced and gummi adhichified. One of the most innovative bands, the drummer moved into the crowd and played the famous “En aasai mythiliye” drum beats. Simply awesome! Then there was this small girl who sang cheena thaana standing on the back of the bike which moved around the bustling crowd.

It was around 10PM when we started from the college. I had a severe headache after all the dancing and koothu. I felt like emptying the contents of my head( Don’t ask if there is anything inside). Finally reached home at 11:30. For five consecutive days i was at home jus for 2-3 hours except my sleeping time.(RTFF, culturals, preparations,campus placements). It all ended well.

This weekend i am going to Bangalore to attend the BarCamp in IIM-B. I am going along with Ganesh and few others from The knowledge Foundation. I am greatly expecting to attend the event. Thanks to the hype about IIM-B given by him, it is adding more fuel. I missed the chennai barcamp last year and people say it was the best. Also have my model exams starting on Monday. Dont know how i am going to go to college on Monday after coming early in the morning. I still don’t know what exam i have on Monday. Who cares!

I suppose atleast 300 of the 500+ registered folks will turn up and i am looking forward to those networking and knowledge sharing sessions.