Thursday, January 17, 2008

Blog Camp Pune June 2007

Check out some cool pictures from Blog Camp Pune. It was held at Symbiosis, Pune, India in June 2007.
Rediff.com was the title sponsor of this "unconference".
We also launched our new product rediff blog showcase on this occasion.
Me(Krishna Reddy) and my colleagues Jasmeet Singh, Amol Mujumdar, Gaurav etc attended and presented the showcase.

Krishna Reddy at Blog Camp Pune
In fact, this camp had inspired me for starting this Krish Wonders blog.
I have given my old Art of living blog to Harshal Jadhav for maintaining, so that I can concentrate on this one.
Read Sakshi's blog too

Techfest 2008 at IIT Bombay


Check out this year's (25-27th Jan 2008) Techfest (Asia's Largest Technology Festival) at IIT Bombay.


As usual, it has cool competitions, workshops, lecture series, loads of fun, exhibitions, initiatives, robotics, Barcamp etc.
Enjoy!

This year's speakers:

Monday, January 14, 2008

The Cute Feline Family

Pause the song at the bottom in order to listen to the sound in this video.
Hope to add English subtitles soon :)


Snigdha, Jnanadha, Krishna Reddy and the cats

Monday, January 7, 2008

CAT 2007 results on your mobile exclusively through rediff's short code 57333!!

For the first time, CAT exam results are now available on your mobile phone right where you are!

CAT results are scheduled to be published at 3 pm on Tuesday, 8th Jan 2008.

Admission to the prestigious IIM's and other leading management institutes in India depends on these results, on the basis of which around 5,000 aspirants will be shortlisted for group discussions and personal interviews.

Rediff.com is exclusively publishing CAT 2007 results on sms through its mobile short code 57333.
These results are available by sending the following sms to 57333:
CAT followed by space followed by Your Test Registration no followed by space followed by Your date of birth or application no.
Date of birth should be in DDMMYY format.
So if your CAT registration no is 1234567 and date of birth is 14th Jan 1981 and Application no is 7654321 then
sms
CAT 1234567 140181
or
CAT 1234567 7654321
to 57333.
To know more visit rediff mobile results page at
http://www.rediff.com/mobile/smsservice/India-Exam-Results.html


Confused???
If you need any help in accessing you results, then you can simply send an SMS - ‘CAT’ to 57333.

CAT results are also available on the IIMs' CAT website http://www.catiim.in

Tech shout article says "Going through the entire pre-results anxiety is surely a tough emotion to deal with. And this is worsened further when you log on to the respective site to only find out that either the site crashed or possibly your internet connection is slow or worst of all – it gets disconnected. However, India’s leading internet portal Rediff.com has come up with a service that would make the lives of most MBA aspirants in the country, relatively simpler."

Also see the Times of India article on CAT results.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Hyderabad blues and "celebrations"

On 31st December, I had got up at 5 am (ooops!!!!) to pick up my nieces Snigdha and Jnanadha from Lonavala. Getting up early was not as difficult as I imagined it to be, especially because I got myself woken up by my aunt from Hyderabad through phone!
Not that I had never woken up early but it has always been tough task to rise early.
Well, getting up in "Brahmamuhurt" has always been a dream still unfulfilled.
Ideally every day I would get up at 3:30 am every day, then go for jog, come back and take shower, then do Yoga and then Meditate before I start my daily activities!
Well, that is an ideal situation. In reality, I get up late (don't ask me how late; its embarrassingly late that can't be mentioned here), freshen up and rush to office. Even the combing hair part I do using the mirror in the home lift.
I want to change this but dunno when this will happen!

I went to Dadar to catch a Volvo for Lonavala. No cabbie was ready to come to Dadar at that time probably because its close to my home. In Lonavala I picked up my cute kids, thanked the teacher for taking care of them. She postponed the picnic plans of the rest of the group for one and half hours till I arrived, just to take care of Snigdha and Jnanada probably because I had sms'ed her to keep the children under safe custody in the resort while they leave for sight seeing.
Then we came back to Bombay and cabbed up to my home where we freshened up and went to Heena Solanki's (Henna Solanki) home for lunch.
Till then they did not eat anything other than Lays chips (which I should not have given as they hardly ate anything in lunch later) in the cab . Thank God I found out from my aunt the previous day about her grand kids' food likings. One of them likes orange Lays while the other likes the blue ones.
Well, I took them to Heenaji's home because Snigdha wanted home made food and also I wanted to get her blessings for the kids.

Then I showed them "Jab we met" movie in my laptop. I had specially loaded that movie the previous day as the kids had specifically asked me to get it. So the happy girls wanted not to go anywhere else but to watch the Shahid Kapoor movie. Halfway through the movie I called them to get ready for airport.

Then happened the craziest thing you could ever conceive!
I went to airport to drop them but, upon going there the kids said, "Chinnanna (uncle), you also please come with us to Hyderabad".
They what did I do?
Without a second thought, I walked up to the ticket counter and bought my air ticket on the spot and joined them to celebrate new year in Celebrations food villa in Jubilee hills!
During the flight, Jnani continued to watch the movie while Snigdha kept herself busy in aerial photography.
Their dad (my cousin-in-law) inaugurated a new pub "Black Hole" in the dazzling "Celebrations" on the occasion of the new year celebrations.

zzzzzzz.... sleep time! Rest later :)