| LJ-Meet: Saturday, 19th of April, 2008 |
[Apr. 11th, 2008|10:12 pm] |
Hi ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) cyberabad!
You've probably been wondering how the scene has been stagnating of late, and ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) psychog and rajini_priya just called me up to kick some energy into this silence.
Here's a (now rare) opportunity for you all to pull up your socks and recharge the atmosphere with your presence in the community. An LJ-Meet has been scheduled I say! :o)
rajini_priya is in town and an LJ-cyberabad-Meet in her honour will be hosted.
Details are hereunder:
Date: 19th April, 2008.
Time: 1700 Hours (5:00 pm).
Venue: Mocha (click this to view a map of the region). -Road Number 7, Banjara Hills. *
Damages: As usual, we go Dutch. You pay for what you consume (yes, we do give credit sometimes, but don't count on it!!)
Who all will show up:
rajni_priya
psychog
catchmanblue
vandyvandana
fortunatecave
pinak (in soul spirit only)
subtle_blues (in soul only)
 me and whoever else manages to drop in. :o) Confirmations in the comments will be duly added to this list.
Please Note: If you don't receive an SMS intimation regarding this post before the meet actually takes place, please make sure you update me with your current cellular phone numbers at the soonest so you don't end up missing another meet.
( Format for Mobile Number Update )
Contact: me @ +91-98-666-11-266
Contact: psychog @ +91-98-853-77-469 |
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| Lounge Reco-F-Lounge |
[Mar. 15th, 2008|07:33 pm] |
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Cyberabaadis...Red and I finally discovered the elusive F-Tv Lounge in Kondapur...It's in the lane opposite to the TCS building going towards the Kondapur T-junction.
My experience in the F-Bar has been ok as far as the booze is concerned (that too I suspect was because I was already under) but awful when it came to the music and the DJ. But Hitech City boasts no decent pubs, let alone lounges, so we were both kind of looking forward to the F-Lounge.
Anyhow, the relationship manager there, Saida, sent across the promotional pix to me asap so you all are spared looking at the ones I took today.
Check it out, tis good. The food set us back by around 600 and with booze it'll definitely be 1k but as an occasional haunt it's good to go!
But my personal advice is to give it a miss on Sundays...I have feeling that the IT hordes descend there with their offspring in tow and that's enough to curb the buzz that a Sunday afternoon cocktail brings.
Cheers! |
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| lj meet !!!!!!! |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|07:52 am] |
Dudes.....,dudesses of lj Cyberabad......:).............
Might I take this moment to specially ask each of you to service Thy fraternity by being present at the lj meet II, circa MMVIII, at the ah so beloved Mocha on the day of the Disathairne, the VIII day of the III month, from XVII hours onwards....... |
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| Hi - any cyberabadees on SL? |
[Feb. 3rd, 2008|08:35 pm] |
I havent posted in a long time here.
I was wondering if any of you are on secondlife?
if you are - please let me know. |
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| FilmCamp.TV 1:1 Filmmaking Workshop in Cyberabad - Rescheduled to 17th Feb |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|02:45 pm] |
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Hi Guys, I'm going to be in Hyd on 17th February with my FilmCamp.TV colleagues. You didn't know I started a startup called FilmCamp.TV, right? Read on!
FilmCamp.TV is a community of independent filmmakers that don’t pay lip-service to our love for cinema. We believe in making unique cinema rather than talking or dreaming about it. We also believe that one only gets better at filmmaking by keeping at it - honing the writing, preparing for the shoot and investing in the edit.
We are in Hyderabad, on Sunday, 17th February, 2008 with a 1:1 Filmmaking workshop where YOU make YOUR one minute film in a day.
More information about the workshop is here.
Registration Open - Limited Seats!
To Register mail us your • Name & • Phone number to direct@filmcamp.TV or Call us on 0-92434 22797 (Raghu) or 0-99013 04972 (Hari)
See ya there guys! :)
Hrish Thota (Dhempe)
www.filmcamp.tv |
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| Pics of LJ Meet |
[Dec. 31st, 2007|11:17 pm] |
Pics of Sunday’s LJ meet can be found here. There are very few of them though (seven, to be precise).
People who turned up (I hope I got the LJ ids right):And before I forget, wish you all a very Happy New Year 2008. |
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| ISB Admits - Class of '09 & LJ Meet |
[Dec. 25th, 2007|09:30 pm] |
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It's been a while since I've posted here.
I'm wondering if anyone on this community has been admitted into the Indian School of Business(ISB) for the Class of 2009 which begins in April 2008. I've been offered admission for this term and would be great if fellow admits could sync up.
I'd like to meet up everyone on this community sometime over the next 2 weeks. I'll be leaving Hyderabad around Jan 15th for a 3 month break before joining in April 08. Do hope we can have a meet sometime. |
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| Movie Review-Athidhi |
[Dec. 24th, 2007|02:00 pm] |
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Red and I got roped into watching Athidhi last Saturday. And 2 minutes into the movie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning crept into my mind-with a twist..."How do I loathe thee?Let me count the ways."
The movie was pathetic to say the least! Mahesh Babu has a weird pitch to his voice and his acting skills are yet to kick in.
Amrita Rao deserved to be slapped upside her tiny head for acting in this movie. SHE HAD NO ROLE to speak of.
She cried, clung and then spoke in a ghostly tone, reminiscent of the House of Ramseys.
Ashish Vidyarthi has fallen on bad days indeed, when he will take up a role which has him in dreadlocks and in need of a orthodontist urgently! He hissed, he spit, he shook his manes trying to summon up the forces of evil and all for naught.
The villian Kaiser (Murali Sharma), clearly in a Janus-like role, clings onto the hype that in order to play a psychopath one must laugh uproarious when being evil and have nervous muscular tics... DSM time people!!
Mahesh Babu may have had chocolatey good looks but now chubby cheeks rule the roost and a head of hair that made me itch to get my shears.
The songs are boring, the dance sequences are dull and unimaginative and the lead pair dance like they have fireants climbing up their legs.
The worst part of the movie? Malaika Arora. Who in the world asked that woman to prance around and jiggle her protruding booty like a 2-bit hooker?
Opinion- Give it a miss. It's 2 thumbs down and more! |
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| Life Skills & Counseling anyone? |
[Dec. 21st, 2007|02:12 am] |
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Where have all the followers gone?
Well, here's something some of you might be interested in. It's a course (for those among us who have been in search of one) That's skewed toward the psychological geniuses and dreamers of Hyderabad.
I'm not sure how many of you are interested in this, but I remember someone making a post a long long time ago regarding Courses in Counseling et al. It's also quite likely that it is of relevant interest to many more among the community..
If it's piqued your interest, click the thumbnail below for a larger (albeit much clearer) image of what's on offer.
....and guys, get posting! |
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| Spy camera on a hill |
[Dec. 20th, 2007|04:20 am] |
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 Hyderabad gets its own version of the eye-in-the-sky, a set of 4 spy cameras, according to this Hindu article.
"The uniqueness of the system is its capability to view images during the night and the face of a person or number of a vehicle as far as six km. The cameras also help to view and record images till a distance of 15 km."
The cameras are pointed at the city from atop a building at the edge of the city and remotely controlled via an IP circuit. Fancy technology indeed, but there is no mention of accountability in all that journalistic prose. As a society we need to grow a healthy distrust of all things "big-brotherish" to remain free and democratic. The lesser we question institutional safeguards, the more the chances become that there will exist none.
The guardians of the law have a duty to keep the city safe, but there is also a question of ensuring that the technology will not be misused. How does this prevent the creation of a very powerful voyeur cam? Are we sanctioning the creation of unlimited copies of camera recordings to be collected and stored? Who will have access to these recordings? Our laws that protect your right to private phone conversations were certainly not created at a time when such fancy technology could be envisaged. Whither are the debates that should drive this decision? There are important questions to be answered before the city plonks down serious cash that could just as well be used to pave the roads on my morning commute to make it a little less worse.
[Update: Popular mechanics has a really nice story on this general phenomenon] |
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| Lj Meet Again!!!!!!!!! |
[Nov. 29th, 2007|10:53 am] |
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Hi ya...all of you....:)....
This meet should go down as the first requested one out of a Corporate Fortress!!!......With the whole of Electronic Surveillance and all, I thus take the audacity to Call for an Lj meet..., at ahem...., the oh so dearest Mocha....:)....4.30 pm, this Sunday....the 2nd of Dec...
and yeah...this shall also be the cripiest and the shortest meet request...coz I gotta hit back work.....:)..... |
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| lj meet!!!!.... |
[Nov. 1st, 2007|03:01 pm] |
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Wel....time again is ripe indeed for me to call for an lj meet..., just figured out that the last meet we have had was way some time back....
Lj Cyberabad...is going barren for a lot of time now..., we need more meets...more blogging activity too....,
just about time to call in for more requests...lets just hope it rings in with this request 'call for an lj meet posty'.....
lj cyberabad meet..., at our customary location-Mocha, Banjara Hills.
3rd Nov-Saturday.!!!!....5 pm onwards.....
See you all there folks..... |
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| Dentist recommendations |
[Oct. 6th, 2007|06:30 pm] |
I'd like to see a Dentist, is there a local favorite?
Update: I am looking for someone located less than a few kms from anywhere around Rd #1, Banjara Hills.
i.e. Banjara hills / Punjagutta / Khairatabad / ... |
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| Bhuvanagiri |
[Sep. 27th, 2007|03:54 am] |
Hey!
I am not sure how to add a link or post the same stuff on here...but i just wrote about the bhuvanagiri fort outside hyderabad...its beautiful and anybody who is into monuments should check it out...
sanjana |
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| botanical garden |
[Sep. 26th, 2007|01:52 pm] |
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I finally went to the Kothaguda Botanical Garden yesterday to check out the scenery and see if there's actually anything there to write about.
Yes there is. Plenty of it and most of it criticism! The place is badly in need of a proper upkeep. The hedges are overflowing onto the paved walkways, there is no decipherable map that tells you where you are and how you can go where you want to go.
There's a single, solitary, sad-looking duck which paddled about dolefully and generally was not in the mood to pose for photos.
The only people who are getting the complete mileage of the place are the 20-odd (and I mean odd) couples I saw in the foliage here and there. Some were majorly in 80's hindi filmi mode and were taking pix while the lady swung by the creeper of a tree, posed on a bridge and while the guy tried to vainly hunt for a rose to pin onto his lady's hair.
All in all it was a trip I could have avoided but the initiative for such a large spread in a place which has H20 crisis occasionally is a good one. |
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| lj meet folks!!!....... |
[Sep. 20th, 2007|07:47 am] |
Hola folks of Cyberabad lj.....
Hope I didnt sound like a lousy pot-bellied politician there....:).....
Hmmm., just figured out from all the previous 'Call for lj meet' posts that was a speactator attending all the meets, without calling for any...., soo...wanted to take the matters unto my own hands...:)....and make things happen......
Its always good to be making a debut...,and a debut of this sort s always good....So, without creting much ado nd not delaying it any further.... let me just get down to the business of things....
Folks....LJ meet at our customary de-reguer location,.....:)....
Mocha on Road No.12, Banjara Hills......Saturday, 22nd of the Septemeber, 5.00 PM.......
We were in the processing of updating our lj cyberabad database, with discussions of sending out personal invites through text messages being sent to all the rocking lj' ers of Cyberabad...., (idea courtesy- Jim and Psychog, lj meet at le cafe latte, bombing day, cyberabad).....woud however not be able to do such a kind of a thing this time around tho....:)......
P.S. This is my debut meet request if i can put that way...:)....so just hoping enough junta turn out....:)...with th presupposed assumption of the rain gods not playing any havoc..., and the miscreants not upto any mischief on the weekend....:)....... |
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| Twin Blasts in Hyderabad! |
[Aug. 26th, 2007|11:20 am] |
TRAGIC
Hope everyone of yer family , friends and relatives are fine, safe and sound!
We had to call of our meet lj meet mid way! |
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| [LJ-Meet Pics] Cyberabad (code: 20070728) |
[Aug. 9th, 2007|11:14 pm] |
Pics from the LJ-Meet (Code:LJ-Cyb-20070728) are finally up and alive!
Ref: link
Extended Info:
Primary Location: CCD (Ashok Bhupal Chambers, Opposite Anand Theatre, Sec'bad)
Secondary Location: Vacs (Thirumalgherry - Secunderabad)
Code: LJ-Cyb-20070728
Guys who showed up (In order of appearance):
angiasaa
santosh_t_reddy
catchmanblue
shishira
Trivya:
As to what was discussed, let's leave that for the uninitiated to ponder. :o)
As for the pics, There are very few, and not everyone figures in them.
Pics from cyberabad LJ-Meet conducted on the 28'th of July, 2007 are now available!!
If you like clicking thumbnails to go to picture pages, click this picture!
(Click the image below to go to the Official cyberabad Pic-Page)
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angiasaa's cam
Kaydeeyoh! |
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