Chennai Tweet-up
Yes atlast after missing the first tweet-up which was held sometime back, I was able to attend this one. Let me list the people who attended the tweet-up. They are:
I was in a fix there whether to write everyone’s real names or not but then I thought twitter handles are way better. I was thinking of putting everyone’s display pictures but decided against that too since I didn’t want to put people’s picture without their permission. So anyways back to the tweetup, sadly I was the last to arrive. I felt kind of dumb about the fact that I didn’t know where Mocha was even though it was near my college and the fact that I am a college dude. The only one I could even remotely recognize was Sathya because of all the pictures that I have seen of his in twitter. As soon as I reached the first thing everyone started commenting was how different I look from my display picture. Narayanan said that I don’t look like a rowdy type guy and neither am I tall (:P cant help that) at least that is what he and others thought after looking at my picture and the real me. When everyone started talking about themselves I didn’t even tell what course I was doing. LOL didn’t find it interesting enough. Balaji really gave us some cool information on what he was working on. I really felt good that labsji was there as Sathya had put it, “ we was honoured he was there with us”. Then Palani talked about himself and actually kept it a bit short. When Ashish’s turn came everyone’s ears were up since everyone wanted to know what happened to his blog and he gave a quite big explaination on what went wrong. We only came to know later how much he earned by blogging and that had all of us in a shock. Perhaps the most interesting introduction was of Narayanan, sounded more or less like some cool CEOs climbing the ranks story where he started out working with MBA guys even before finishing his college. His life story was quite fun to listen to. Then it was Sathya’s chance and we came to know how he ended up at 3i. Then Gayathri talked about what she worked on and where she worked. She works with coding and stuff and Narayanan who was on phone just came to make sure he heard that right (Don’t know why :P).
Narayanan ordered Pasta with white sauce and Pasta with red sauce also something called Vertigo which was a huge piece of chocolate cake or something. Balaji ordered a tropical smoothie, Gayathri ordered hot chocolate and I ordered black forest shake which tasted funny but was still good. We all dug into pasta and Vertigo except Balaji who refrained from eating solid food(I forgot to ask why, my bad). As Narayanan had said the Vertigo was simply brilliant. We then talked about music, musical instruments, @cruisemaniac and @daaku, India TV, Aaj Tak, Bomb Blasts,my ICICI probs and some more stuff. Meanwhile Sathya installed Twittai on Gayathri’s phone and we advised Narayanan to opt for Xperia X1 rather than HTC G1(Android Phone). One funny thing was after ordering her hot chocolate half an hour before me she got it at least 10 minutes after I got mine, which was bad. Palani was the first to leave since he had to go somewhere else for dinner. The second to leave was Balaji. Funny thing was all of us stood up when he was going, guess respect comes from within for some people without knowing. Guess when we heard how much Ashish earned from his blog sent us in a shocked state, everyone was keen to know what he did for it. He was talking something cool that I didn’t listen to properly. As Gayathri had to leave by 11:00 pm train to Bangalore, we finished the tweetup at around 10:00 pm. We walked out Narayanan helped Gayathri get a auto-rickshaw. That reminds me we even discussed about the auto-rickshaw fares and how they charge people here. Then Ashish left in a auto-rickshaw. After that Sathya and Narayanan went together on Narayanan’s bike. Then I walked to Sterling road to catch a auto-rickshaw.
Well that definitely wrapped the whole tweetup. Sorry for the bad image just doodled it in 1 minute.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Cool! Sounds like it was fun. Surprising only 7 twitterers made it. btw, Delhi had a tweetup this weekend too.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I half expected GBot to be a designer/copywriter and was surprised to find out that she was a programmer
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
[...] It was a really nice experience, had a blast, hoping for more tweetups! You can also read up on Karthik’s post on the tweetup. Author: [...]
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
hey you should’ve mentioned about your Dad’s phone call
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
@Arun yeah I had read about the tweetup in Delhi though never saw any pics.
@Naryanan same here I expected a designer not a programmer.
@Sathya
Missed that out on purpose.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Hi Karthik,
It was a pleasure meeting with you. And as mentioned by you I was surprised by your diff between Av pic and real you. ( Oh what a ‘Pal vadiyum Mugam’ unlike the Av pic rightly described rightly as a psuedo-rowdy in making. He ha).
I’m even more thrilled to find the too generous mention about me. Yay!
I did look you up and figured out that you are doing Visual Communication. All the very best to you on that.
Hat tip for the meticulous observations, recollection, and bothering to make a post.
-Balaji S.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
@Balaji
Haha seems everyone is surprised by how I look will make it up next time for sure. You dont have to be thrilled what you were talking there yesterday had us all thrilled if I had missed you then it would be wrong of me.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Interesting! You didnt talk about your stories of Human chains and stuffs ?
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 am
@Reetesh
That like happened just once and I didnt even attend it. Had over slept that day.