WHEN CHENNAI HAD ITS BIGGEST BLOGGERS’ MEET…

When Chennai had its biggest bloggers meet …

Ascendas slightly trembled in its foundations due to the presence of a bunch of 25 over-enthusiastic bloggers!

An area called Anna Nagar was officially ousted from the city of Chennai

Engineering got termed the best way to end up with jobs of auto-drivers and sweepers!

Women bloggers made their presence felt and changed tides and made sure they turned up in a good number!

And I ended up with the list of URLs to be posted!

:)

What started at 3 in the afternoon of an exceptionally sultry day in the normally humid Chennai city in the now-well known Ascendas Food Court(The place ROCKS in font size infinity!), turned out to be THE Chennai Bloggers’ Meet till date!

It was super fun, lots of talk[yeah yeah Praveen… I DID contribute a lot to the talk! X( ], LOTS of taking one another’s asses ;) and a bit of ‘blog gyan’ passed on to ill-informed junta(Me! Me! Me! :D ) by the kings ‘n’ geeks of blogworld! Imagine if all that was spread over a tasty cold cup of the yummiest of lime-teas(Lime Tea Sparkler) I’ve had in my life! Ah… I couldn’t have asked for more!

The whole meet turned out one BIG surprise for me! I met, after ten whole years, an old classmate of mine who actually remembered the elastic-strap-hat I used to wear way back in my first standard!!! It truly was an oh-my-God-that-isn’t-YOU-is-it-?-Its-AGES-since-we-last-met moment man! Raghuveer- was super seeing u there pal! :)

I was actually pretty concerned about what people were gonna do after Praveen’s ‘kind’ advice to all bloggers attending the meet, but thankfully no one got along a wad of cotton and Sheky apparently ‘forgot’ his[hmph X( ]!

On the whole it REALLY was THE BEST BLOGGERS MEET I’ve been to![ I wish Vani had been there… Aw Pisa… You SHOULD have come!!! :”( ] And though none of the four people who told me they would mostly turn up- Murali[endhan anbu anna! X( ], Charan, Karthik Murali and ‘Whiny’ Arvind –never came, it still saw me enjoying to the maximum! One…no…two things I was glad of- One-Praveen and Harish did not come and two-Pravenn and Harish did not come! He he… ;) I was spared from the tortures equivalent to being strung up on a cutting rusted metal wire by your tongue from the top corner of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!!! :D Habba!!!

Well… Now for what my duty calls attention to- The list of URLs…

Here goes-in the particular order of your scribbles on my notepad…

Bhargav Ramesh (One funny fellow… Had me clutching my stomach and laughing all through!!! )
tsunamispeaks.blogspot.com

Anush Krishnan(I CANNOT forget the sparrow story!!! He he…)
theraytracer.blogspot.com

Jammy(Was thrilled to meet one of my favourite bloggers… He’s simply too hilarious)
ouchmytoe.redifffblogs.com

KausikRam(namma Mark Issuak Thaan… :D Camera vechchu banda pannindrundaar,sir )
chaosbudha.blogspot.com

Raghuveeran(my old classmate!!! )
virtualveeran.blogspot.com

Vinayak(was totally enjoying himself but a li’l quietly)
excreation.blogspot.com

Balakumarmuthu(a quiet person…or did we not give you a spare moment to talk?!)
i5bala.blogspot.com

Ramanujam(namma pettai ivan!)
ramanujamp.blogspot.com

Kartik(one more of the funny fellows!)
kraktik.blogspot.com

Ganesh A.P.P(beware of the Sagaro card! ;) )
gapp.wordpress.com

Sharique(‘had a blog posted on his tee’, as Jammy remarked!!!)
shaarique.blogspot.com

Aishwarya Rao(a very sweet and nice person! Enga area thaan!!)
aishwaryarao.blogspot.com

Kartik Kannan(The unofficial ‘spammer’ of blogsville! :D )
katchucrap.blogspot.com
kartik.sulekha.com

Kiruba Shankar (King Kribs… Do I need to say any more? :) )
kiruba.com

S(h)ekar (treat-kudukaama escape ayittaru namma sir! Grr…. Iru iru… naanga 99 times vandhu spam panrom un blog-la! Yihaahaaa… *evil grin* >:D )
shekys.blogspot.com

Katheeja(An architect in the making… was delighted to see someone so enthu about architecture!)
poisonivy88.livejournal.com

Hamsini(I was delighted to meet her!!! She’s one fun-party! Coca-cola voda jollu…ahem…water supply ivanga thaan panraango! He he!!!)

hamdamn.livejournal.com

Nina(Quietly observed the proceedings and started opening out only towards the end…)
duffilled.blogspot.com

Varun Rajan( He found great satisfacshunnnnnn in the meet ;) )
ibanti.blogspot.com

Rekha Rajan(Jammy’s wife and blogger…constantly supervising Jammy! :D )
rekhs.rediffblogs.com

Rahul Maniyar(not very talkative but not too quiet! )
hunkydorylife.blogspot.com

The three other Mesdames who had to leave early-Please leave your URLs here…

It was fantastic meeting you all and I really have no words to describe how much I enjoyed the whole time I was there, more than what the above 719 words could convey! And thank you all for the fun time! Those who couldn’t make it- You sure missed something good! Yeah yeah, there were the ‘dips’ in conversation but then that was fun too-counting silence!

So ppl- I promise you to drop by soon at your nest in blogsville! Till then- tata bye bye and take care!

However long you stayed, it was a great exchange of ideas, thoughts and vetti talks.And for the last ones to leave, well, it all ended with KOKA!!! ;)