Flickpic - mooh pe smile daal

It is like catching some fresh air in a bottle and closing the lid. You would have observed in your morning walks that you can feel your lungs when you take in fresh air..ahem, I have not seen many sunrises myself. Actually, the last time I saw a sunrise was in Kanyakumari 2 years ago. The last time I saw a sunset was a year and half ago…at Haji Ali. Working at Central European Time has its downsides, you know. Back to the bottle now. This blog is an attempt to bottle such fresh air. Guess it will feel good later to open the lid once in a while to get a whiff of pure air.

The occasion was the launch of ‘FLICKPIC’ movie club. This is an initiative from apna PGDSM-MIT INFRACOM. It is a well thought out name for the movie club. In fact it is a good idea to submit this service/name idea in the marketing assignment that is due tomorrow! But there is a team of 8 entrepreneurial people…Manas Western Winds, Rahul RJ45, Navneet, Sonaal, Pradeep Baldi, Ankur Zoshi, Amit Kumar and Nitin Kumar who own the patent for it and rightly so. FlickPic is the fruit of the collective enthu and creativity of these InfraCommers.

4pm. O.R group work done. Time to down dip chaai. Some of my journo classmates tell me that the latest buzzword is ‘double chaai’, though. Not a chance. We made a beeline to the audi instead. The curiosity and excitement were palpable. If we had a popcorn stall in front of audi, we could have made enough dough to wash off water issues in girls hostel..heheeee. If wishes were caramel and cheese…yummy. Prof. Sunil Rai, Prof. Aditi, Prof. Mona, Prof. Nikhil Agarwal graced the occasion. Lakshmi M’am, Dipali M’am and Vanita M’am joined us soon.

Navneet, as cheerful as ever, welcomed the gathering and requested Prof. Rai to speak a few words. Prof. Rai addressed the gathering in his inimitable style. The curtains came up. The credits rolled. A finely made flash movie thanked our faculty for their encouragement and support.

The movie started. ‘Pirates of the Silicon Valley’. It was about Apple computers taking on the Big Blue. Steve Jobs and pal Woz making it big in an industry where CEOs asked ‘of what use is computer to ordinary people?’. It was about Bill Gates making big bucks right under the nose of Steve Jobs. It was probably a one movie distillation of a hundred documentaries on entrepreneurial drive and biz strategy. If you are here to move from cubicle to conference rooms and today made up your mind to move from classroom to audi, this movie was for you.

For those of you who couldn’t make it…well, guys.. looking forward to catch you all during FlickPic’s next flick.

It’s all about bottle and fresh air. Watch this space.

c u soon,

ganga