"hello world" and MSEC93 2007 reunion

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On 29 Dec 2007, batchmates of 1989-1993 batch B.E students from MSEC college met @ MGM beach resort. It was fun to meet old friends (few after 10 years or so!). About 59 folks promised to attend the reunion, but 45 folks actually turned -- not bad -- better than our electoral promises ;-)

Random tidbits/gossips from the reunion:

• Kudos to Dakshinamoorthy alias brisk, Rajesh alias Thalapathi ("cashier") and Ramaswamy alias Kabali for making reunion arrangements and making it successful. Oru periya Oh pOduvOm!.
  
  
• Srinivasan ("baccha") and Sivakumar ("Poos") visited from the middle east just to attend the reunion. Marubadium oru Oh pOduvOm!
  
  
• We played the following visuals. You need Java plugin to view these. Hey, I work for Sun :-)
  
  
  
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    http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/asunraj/73971
    
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    http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/asunraj/73965
    
  
  We played the above two on big screen. For good effect, play "saroja sAmAn nikkAlo" and "tippu tippu tippu kumaru" songs in the background respectively. I removed the audio to reduce download time.
  
  
• Thanks to A. Subramanian for the nice video from the US. We played it on big screen.
  
  
• C. Balaji ("pluto man") brought a big cake and mixture! He runs a bakery shop. He told Hariharan ("biscuit chittapa") about his business, but told him to visit his home and not the shop ;-)
  
  
• There were games for the kids and the grown ups. The "bachelors" (the ones who didn't come with the family) played an interesting game :-) You may want to wait for more pictures from Ramaswamy. Hope you have seen the ones he sent already.
  
  
• One of the Vijay TV "kalakkapovadu yaru" champions performed mimicry. It was nice except for the loud voice at times. Issue with the amplifier/speaker system? "Operator" Alagarsamy would have helped there :-) Also, I think we missed our "yezzar" to cheer up the performer :-)
  
  
• There was a photo session. Ramesh ("boochi") said "yevalavu neram than moocha izhuthu nikkiradu? sikkiram yedunkka photova". Later after seeing the photo, he said "hmm.. thoppai theriyududa" :-) :-).
  
  
• Many felt Selvakani ("pakkiri") changed a lot in appearance. At least 2 guys asked me "yeruda adu?"
  
  
• It was nice to see Selvakani ("pakkiri") and Shyam Sundar ("ranpa") baby sitting their little ones :-)
  
  
• T. Balamurugan ("lustivi alias SSR") did sing few lines. He works for the tsunami rehabilitation project.
  
  
• M. Selvaraju ("doubt raj") is teaching. May his doubts help the students!
  
  
• Kumaravel becomes "S R Vel" now. But, we can still call him with his "real" name :-)
  
  
• K. Baskar ("kelads") appeared to be young - because of dye may be? :-) He is planning to do PhD. Wow! That is the second PhD interest I am hearing. T. Srikkanth is the other one who has completed PhD. Anyone else? My personal Oh to you.
  
  
• Rajasekar ("nila") recalled his first year home sick days.
  
  
• Wives were asked to tell the "real" name of their husbands :-) Almost all of them did! May be the presentation earlier helped them.
  
  
• Abdul Kadher G ("akkar") mentioned about doing a bit more useful than just meeting, eating and playing. He wants to have discussions on professional aspect too. Others too expressed similar thoughts. I think we may start by creating LinkedIn records (if not there already) and linking among ourselves.
  
  
• Ramesh Kumar ("topper") quietly discussed about open source, cygwin, ubuntu, MPlayer etc. You know why he was topper.
  
  
• As usual, we discussed about next reunion - Chennai or Coimbatore? once in 2 years or 3 years? etc. As usual, I don't think any specific decision was reached :-) I think we will fire fight and decide later - to have it in Chennai :-)?.