By me, about me.

This post is part of The Chennai Bloggers Club’s Six-Word Memoir Tag. By the way for people who are wondering what a Six-Word Memoir Tag is, wiki says:

   "Six-Word Memoirs is a project founded by the U.S.-based online storytelling magazine Smith Magazine. Like that publication, Six-Word Memoirs seek to provide a platform for storytelling in all its forms."

According to smith magazine it is a place for story telling. Everyone has a story and what better way to express it in just 6 words?

Well i believe the Six-Word Memoir + the elevator style talk would be the key mantras to impress people in the first meet!.. :D

                     

ok , Here is the Six-Word Memoir about me.

                            The Eclecticist who is always optimistic.

Now I pass on this tag to sriram acharya who blogs at  http://mypradoxicalparadise.wordpress.com/. His posts reflect a great deal on what he is passionate about.

Hyatt-Indiblogger Meet

    We always wait for the indiblogger to put up a meet in Chennai, and crave for the meets as it comes once or twice in a year and none of the Chennai bloggers want to miss this special meet, where we get to interact with the fellow blogger friends and socialise with the other bloggers. This is a perfect platform for us to put forth our blogs to a large number of people.

 And such a special meet did happen and it was organised by "ambi pur". As soon as the poster was put up in the indiblogger site regarding the meet, i booked the seat and informed all my dear friends regarding the same. The thought of meeting so many people after so long is exciting isnt it? . And the icing on the cake was it was organised in Hyatt, and who would want to miss a chance to visit that!? :)

I reached the place quite early along with my blogger friends and was glad to see the others who had arrived much earlier to us. There were "hi-hello" greetings sessions in the lobby where all the bloggers were made to gather till  the registrations began. There were around 230 + bloggers who had come for the meet.Much bigger crowd than the previous meets and i am sure the "ambi pur" organisers would have been happier.:)

We were greeted warmly as usual by the indiblogger family and once the registration formalities were over we took our seats. As soon as the host took hold of his wand i.e the mike it started showering gifts and free movie passes and rocks.. And ya how could i forget the lovely cold single french fry that i got as the gift.:) Well all these were given for a "check-Ur-luck" game where selected participants had to  choose a number from 1-11 and whatever was written behind the chit was given as a gift :)

After the heavy flow of gifts, there was an introduction session or 60 seconds to fame which was a platform to bring in more viewers to the blog and also to portray yourself. :) The Best part is there were gifts even during this season.

After the heavy flow of gifts we were given the sumptuous meal comprising of  the starters,main course and the yummy deserts and some photo shoots with friends. This was the time where we had a surprise behind the screens. We were blindfolded and weremade to sit in a car and were made to smell the amazing fragrance of the ambi pur which was placed in the car which "smelled like the first drop of rain that falls on the lush green grass". So fresh and nice amidst the hangings shoes, half eaten pizzas, old socks and many other things.

After this  amazing smelling experience we were made to tweet about the same and the best tweet won a Galaxy S4. Incredible,but people like me who did not have twitter were sad about this and there came the news that we could also win the super phone by blogging about our experience in the amazing meet.:)

then came the technical info about the ambi pur product and how it works. Well it is always fun to know extra info and share it with friends and get the "she-knows-more;' tag and the session really helped to acquire some extra knowledge.

the last part of the meet was the stage show or adzap, where the bloggers were grouped accourding to the flavours of the ambi pur freshner contents that were given to us. There were five groups and each had to enact a play and the best play which was ours (the smelly movie 4) won the prize.:)

The others plays were office romance,a malayalam movie,rajini style and a imitation of the kounder mani senthil play. Last but not the lest we got the awesome indiblogger and ambi pur tea shirts and ofcourse the photo session.

Well that day was a perfect day with yummy food and friends and stage show and loads and loads of gifts.!!:)

Sow Early, Reap later!

     Travelling is always fun. We meet different people from different walks of life, and each seem to have an unique story. Here is one such person I met in train and the story was worth sharing.

I met neha on my way to Mumbai. And she seemed to be a  bright girl from a well to do family. But after speaking to her did I come to know the real situation of her family.

Her Father was a very rich man when neha was in her school days. In her 3rd class ,When nobody knew what a pocket money was, she was given hundred rupees everyday so that she could get the stuffs that she needed. Nehas father took pride in his wealth and did not bother to save even a penny and spent lavishly. The situation at home worried Nehas mother about the future.

And when Neha reached her class 4, her class teacher told them about a scheme for students called “SANCHAYIKA“ which was introduced by the government of india as a piggy bank scheme where

students could save a little amount every year or every month,and the saved amount would be given to them when they passed out of the school.

Neha was very happy about the scheme and beaming with joy went and told her father about this and her father, did not even listen to her properly and laughed at her . That was when her mother asked her to save all her pocket money in that scheme and told that she could use the money in the future.

Few years later destiny started playing its game on nehas family, and her father steadily started losing all his wealth and was left with nothing. When neha completed her schooling with 96% and had to join engineering in the nearby city, she had to pay 1lakh rupees and her father was very upset thinking that his daughter will not be able to join the course that she deserved because of the lack of money.

It was then the money that she had saved in the “SANCHAYIKA“ scheme came to her rescue and her school gave her 1.5 lakh rupees along with her mark sheet. Nehas father was proud of his daughter for what she had done when she was a kid and also for teaching him the lesson of saving.

                               “one who sows the seed early ,reaps the fruit later”

I have made this blog post an entery in  Colgate moral of the story contest