Bliss

Brilliant! If I have to say in one word.

Let me begin at the beginning.

Friday the 13th: We all reach the Airport at least 1/2 hour earlier to the check in closing time. Nandita (People call her Nanny, I don’t know why, it means Babysitter :-P) So I’m going to call her Naandi. So she comes late to the check in counter. All of us finished check in and were waiting for the group to assemble so we will pass security check and get in on the plane. Naandi got to the counter 30 seconds late to collect her boarding pass and they were not allowing her to get on the plane. But this is where JetAirways was Awesome!

So Renie was trying to get her to board the same flight and was talking to the lady responsible. I wish I knew her name. After losing a lot of time arguing and requesting we find all of us except Rashmi,  yet to get our security checks. When the lady at the counter realized that its just one girl to board a late flight just because she missed the margin by a minute, she made the calls and made sure Naandi got on that flight! Now that’s what I call an Ace service. Respect JetAirways!

By that time that drama was over, we finished Security checks as the boarding counter was calling out our names and warning us that the flight cannot wait a minute more.  With a lot of running and drama, finally well boarded the flight.

Saturday the 14th: Day started a little late for us. Went to the Venue and made sure everything is working the way we wanted. Trust me the whole day went in that. Some of us might have caught half hour of sleep.

Sunday the Independence day: We were well prepared, went to the venue by 11:00 in the morning. Pre event preparation started and the partners started coming in by then and prepared to connect with the bloggers.

I can safely say Hotel Sea Princes is the best hospitality partner Indiblogger has ever had so far. Ms  Neha, who owns the Hotel addressed the bloggers and welcomed them.

Jet Airways was present at the event too. With out for them our travel to Mumbai meet would have been a nightmare. JetAirways is coming up with a lot of plans for the community and we are thrilled to be associated with them.

Ajay and Sowmya were there representing HP. Ajay gave a presentation. Which was then followed by Big Rock.  They made a mark for them selves among the blogging community. Gul Panag came in during the chart session and also moderated the Battle of the bloggers session.  Very kind and professional she was.

Rest of the meet went as expected and surprisingly we were able to warp all the sessions on time! Kudos to the pretty women at the registration desks giving out Tshirts and handouts etc.

We are so happy that everyone who came for the meet were thrilled that they did not sit this out in their homes and are still making the rest jealous!

Team members present at the meet were: Renie, Anoop, Anwin, BG, Simi, Vineet, Rashmi, Shilpa, Nandita, Edin and Myself.

Team members present in Spirit were: Nafisa and Diana

Thank you everybody for coming and making it the best blogger meet ever!

Oh wait.. forgot to mention the Awesome guy doing the introduction of all the brands. Man was he awesome. That’s the best intro I’ve heard so far! He he…

Here is an interesting test I came across on 10 daily  things. Shouldn’t take more  than 10 secs.. take this test.

I don’t know how many of you noticed that my blog went down temporarily and just got it back up today! Woohoo… I’ve had so many rants.. so many stories… so many articles… so many things went untold. I’m not gonna let that happen again. Here comes the drums.. Here comes the drums…

11th April 2010 was my first day in Hyderabad ever! Seriously, I have never been to Hyderabad before. I was there for the UniverCell Hyderabad IndiBlogger Meet. It was a huge gathering and needless to say that it was a super hit!

Every blogger who is writing a review has used this awesome picture at the beginning of their post. Can’t believe we did not think of this in the earlier meets.  Mostly all the meets end up late and everyone is in a rush to leave, but this time we were able to finish exactly within the schedule. Unfortunately UniverCell’s core team was not able to make it to the meet, but they were prompt in sending their representatives with various mobile phone models  for the Official UniverCell blogger contest. There were some really interesting phones from HTC, Sony, Samsung etc.

As usual, Indiblogger we started the meet with yet another Hitler video. Only this time, Hitler came for the meet but couldn’t stay. That’s a video you can’t miss. Will provide a link once uploaded in Youtube.

I don’t want to bore you on how the meet was because you might already know that it was awesome or you can see that lots of bloggers have already covered the entire event multiple times here.

UniverCell has clearly understood the power of blogging and they have decided to be a part of the community. Whats even better is that they want to engage with the community well and they have huge plans to achieve it. They are running a contest to choose the best mobile blogger to be their “Official UniverCell Blogger“. Beat that!

They had launched their blog http://univercellblog.in in their previous meet at Chennai. Their blog was showcased in this meet too. There were about 8 mobiles on display for bloggers to experience them so that they can go back and write about them to become their official blogger. The Venue was good, it was Fortune Select Manohar and the crowd was awesome but the food was not really that great. I actually didn’t like the combination that was available. Mini Burgers, Dahi Balla and Jamuns.

It would have been awesomer if Ramesh from UniverCell was able to make it to the meet, as “Message from the sponsors” was the only one missing from the agenda. However he was unable to come as his mother was admitted in the hospital. We wish she gets well soon.

Finally, we also managed to take a picture of just the Indiblogger team at the meet once all other photo sessions were over.

I almost forgot, there were quite a few people I saw were willing to work with the Indiblogger team in organizing meets like these and may be more. It was really wonderful to get that kind of support from the bloggers. Indiblogger team is trying exactly that to connect more bloggers with brands like UniverCell and connect both the community and the brands. After all Bloggers are the best evolved marketing force yet!

Interesting things about beers.

A herd of buffaloes can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.