Helloa Bloggy's

Christmas is back... of course! The best time i had was back at school. My Choir and stuff... coolest things. Miss them lots.

Well.... Good News... I finally read, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince!! I cried for Dumbledore. Couldn't help it... his was such a majestic, wise and awesome character to look up to... feels kinda hard, for he will not be coming in the next book!!

Well.... things are going fine!

Made a programme on adoption for this week. Envisioned a programme on Christmas celebrations for the next week. 

Planning to attend the St. Louis schools celebs. Well.... lets see, i have to first visit the field and ask for permission. Okay Bloggy's Make Merry..... until next!!

Alls Well and so Mee is back!!!

Helloa to meri Blogger's Park :)

Some Glad News (jus for me... ha ha):

1. Vivek Oberoi's new movie "Home Delivery" has released ( i don care whether it hits or flicks or watever) . I am glad is has hit the screen!!

2. Bill Gates in Chennai!!! My heart thumps three times three greater than ever... A man whom we read abt almost at least once a month on a minimum scale at Home India?!? FABULOUS...

I was jus watching this progm on NDTV... Infosys Technologies Mr. Narayan Murthy and Mr. Bill Gates were on this wonderful show with Mr.Pranoy Roy... AWESOME

3. Lots more!!! (lazy to type... ha ha)

Other News

The Rains.... Personally i have enjoyed the rains... but i understand and see the sufferings of my hundreds of bro's and sis's ... That was cos of the Depression "Baaz" and the earlier nameless ones. The Depression "Fanoos" is predicted for today..... lets see?!!

Back again as ever!

Yes, this is MEE back again... One look at my blog after so long, and i jus felt like typin somethin. My new semester has begun... actually a lot of change has taken over me.. i have started feelin REAL wierd abt life at large..Time is flying fast.. REALLY!

And between last time i blogged and now... there has been a complete change in my perception abt everythin.. i will talk abt it some time later cos rite now i am forced to go ahead with my assignment work to be submitted tomorrow. This one is abt protocols...

Gateway '05 - A National level short film competition!!!

My long absence from the blogosphere is accounted to this. Well... it is the very first time my Department of Media Sciences, College of Engineering, Giundy, Anna University is conducting such an event. This would now follow every year.

Combined Effort:
There was no dearth in helping hands. Gateway '05 was a grand success because of the help and participation of all the members of the Society of Media Sciences. Almost everyone were doing something or the other.

Exposure:
To me and a few others this experience was definetely very enriching and purposeful. We managed to bring out a publication titled " Media and Disaster ". It was a great moment for all of us when this book was released. We also had a seminar on the same title following the release.

Some of the eminent media persons who contributed their expertise to our book are as follows:

1.T. S. Subramanian,

Senior Assistant Editor, Frontline, Chennai

2.Alok Verma,

Executive Producer, TV Today Network Limited, Delhi

3.N.S. Issac, Deputy Director General, AIR, Delhi.

4.K.P.Sunil,

Vice President, Jaya News, Chennai.

5.Vijay Grover, Chief of Bureau,

Zee News, Chennai.

The other contributors are:

6.Dr. R. Sreedher

Director, EM2RC, Anna University, Chennai.

7.Dr. K. Banumathi,

Co - ordinator,

Hindu Media Resource Centre,

MSSRF, Chennai.

8. S.Shanthi,

Lecturer, Department of Media Sciences,

Anna University, Chennai.

9.R. Subramani,

Lecturer,

Department of Media Sciences,

Anna University, Chennai.

Myself along with 2 other friends were the STUDENT EDITORS of the book!!!

Celebration:
Now its time for celebration as we have seen weeks of "real" hard-work, which has to a great extent resulted in the successful completion of the Gateway Awards '05.

Indian New Year

This year started on a sad note, Tsunami having created an unforgettable havoc within a matter of ten minutes, leaving thousands in a trauma, difficult to overcome.

Today I sit at a comfortable position at home typing letters to form words, but I know around the world at some parts there is untold suffering going on. But yes… just like we cope with things and always try to go on with life… the days go by… fast, REAL fast, at least in my life…. so much has already happened.

Unity – World Over

One real happy thing is the whole world getting together TO HELP. Isn’t this what we need… a simple thing… for all to live with peace… the whole world would be happy!!! And We … The People – closer, friendly and happy – without despair.

The Tsunami Minutes

I had a personal story of the Tsunami, I was not at stake… but five of my cousins and my dear uncle were. They had gone to this wonderful beach surrounded by fishermen hamlets near our place, played running and catching with the waves, getting themselves completely drenched.

This was happening for nearly 2 hours, when my uncle called out to them saying that it was getting late for breakfast (he actually thought of his sister, one of my aunts cutting Cauliflower to make breakfast. This had happened before they started out to the beach). 

In order to go home soon and please my aunt, my uncle who was on his morning walk pulled and persuaded my cousins out of the waters and told them to dry themselves. They took this opportunity to play Frisbee. Now they were about 10 feet away from the shore and standing in a circle. Luckily, the youngest of my cousins who was facing the sea found the wave suddenly rising differently. Shouting “Daddy Daddy”, he started running. 

My uncle immediately called out to my cousins and told them to run towards home!!!. When these people were running they turned back once and lo!!… the waters were just touching their feet. A boat on beach was chasing them from behind and they saw huts in the fishermen hamlets being washed away. They just ran, ran and ran till they reached home. 

Puffing and panting my cousin called me. He said that the waters were just rising and coming into land, “something like The Day After Tomorrow movie. We are evacuating and coming to your house”, he said. Initially, we thought it to be something to do with global warming.

Fate – Did I miss something I could have experienced?

On that fateful day actually I was supposed to go to the beach with my cousins… but as usual I had slept late not even bothering about the morning earthquake. Then my other cousin who was also to go along with me to the beach and myself felt it was too late to go ahead with plans and we where ironically discussing about Global Warming and how people don’t bother to sit and care nature. 

Well… this was when I got my cousins call and then followed flash news in TV, which became headlines and world headlines.