Funthusia

After the much commented first post about my times in Manipal…Here comes the second one.
Manipal Media Students Convention (Day 2):

It began with Kiran “??????” Jonnalagadda…His lecture was what we call in common parlance a “Bouncer”…Either he was talking Hebrew or my mind had become so primitive for that period that I couldn’t recept English. If anyone can give me a brief summary then please do.

Now we had a guy called Nishant Shah,

He began with a dhamaka….

(Shah and Dhamaka are the poorest forms of rhyme we have ever seen…)

He pulled off a reallyy intelligent stunt by calling all laptop users infront…It helped… As for his speech, he said something about False Binaries which I loved when I heard it…but sadly I have forgotten what they mean…So any soul who can tell me what it is, please comment.

Yash Chawla’s presentation was very good…He had a very concept and he had even done a survey in his college…which was really commendable. Now only if he hadn’t used the 99 year old quote of “A glass half empty or half full…”. I would have loved to believe that his was the most unique presentation.

A certain Paranjoy Guha Thakurta made a brilliant speech about intervention of technology in the lives of a journalist. I agree with everything that you said sir…

One of the liked presentations of MMSC was Lawrence Liang’s…I really liked the amount of facts unveiled and the “Woah…” factor of his paper on “Why New Media is not really New…”. On the downside, I think he had stretched certain information to the extent that, even chewing gums would get embarrassed.

So that’s it for this two piece report on MMSC…

During the convention, I also didn’t get the oppurtinity to thank a few people who were really instrumental in making this “Manipal” experience a fruitful and a memorable one.

Anadi : Thanks for reminding me about MMSC’ and most of all answering all the “OMG…It’s so damn obvious” questions of mine. Thanks Man!

Ram: You had commented on a poem(Online at 4:00 am) that I had written…saying that MMSC is for people like me. You may have said the same thing on 200 other blogs but it meant a lot for me. And yeah, thanks for that wonderful intro before my presentation…

Ami: For being my tour-coordinator and yeah for complimenting my blog…Keep reading it…The humor’s developed from 4 years of reading JAM…
Sonali: Thanks for showing me around the college and yeah, for commenting on my last post…And for the LAPTOP…Couldn’t have done my presentation without it…:grin:

Ragamalika: Thanks for making that call and yeah I must add you have the second best voice in India…The best is of a certain guy whose initials are SJ…
Priyam, Anoop, Yash and the other delegates:

Thanks for being such a good company…And special mention of Anoop coz’ he financed my lunch for a day… The 500 bucks scare was really scary though dude…

Joe, Satchi, Pavi, Sonali and everyone else from the Hospitality:

Even though I didn’t have long conversations with y’all I still respect the fact that you people saved me from that journey to the pub…
Venkat:

How can I forget this guy…He was the guy who settled me into my hostel room and was there while I was leaving Ninth Block…Thanks Dude!!

I know I’ve forgotten someone…Please lemme know if that’s you…

Anyways, I see a lot of MICians reading this post coz it’s related to MMSC…My message to them would be to read up a few more stuff on my blog and comment…I am sucker for readers…And I hope MMSC helped me get atleast a few…

No more sequels of this post,

Sameer Jha

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