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Monday, April 26, 2004

Posted 8:46 AM by Anurag

Packed Weekend

Friday: Nice start of the weekend.
Friday evening started off with the participation in The Hindu BusinessLine Quiz at the Hotel Gateway (Residency Road). My team partner was Nimish Adani (IIML). Ryze sponsored our participation. The only problem was that due to some miscommunication on Hindu's part, we reached late for the quiz. I reached at the question number 11 of prelims round, my partner arrived at Q #16, and the quiz ended at Q#21! Didn't make it to final round (6 finalist teams). Sat through the whole quiz. It was a lot of fun. The quiz master Suresh Kumar was lacking in enthusiasm, though. Here are some of the questions:

Prelims round:
* Which was the first Asian IT company to reach 1b$ revenues?
* Which is the company ranked number 2 in Fortune 500
* Name the product that connects Art Fry and the Bible.
* Which global pharma company was taken over by Ranbaxy recently?
* From which city does Park Avenue range of products gets its name?
* Who coined the term "Knowledge Workers"?
* Who wrote "Purple Cow"?
* Whose company's logo is a Prancing Horse?
* Which computer company is headqartered in Round Rock, Texas?
* Which company was started by Anil Mulchandani in 1978?
* Who is the current president of Nasscom?
Mains Round
* What is Greenwashing?
* Who has named his consultancy company the Z Group?
* Laurin and Klement! What of those?
* What or which incident, according to David Sarnoff, was a turning point in his career, as well as that of the radio medium?
* What's Intravenous Level in marketing jargon?
* In which corporate organisation does Virender Sehwag work?.
* Of which product is Mysore Paints and Varnishes the sole producer?
* What is a Zombie computer?
* What line was voted as The Advertising Line of The Century a few years back?

Went to CrossWord with friends after the quiz. Was having a discussion with Tarun about the book "The Alchemist" when he suddenly disappeared for a minute and returned with a copy of this Paulo Coelho classic as a gift for me! Rounded off the evening with dinner at Chandni Chowk.

Saturday: The Networking Day.
Met a friend for Andhra lunch at Status (bang opposite IIMB). In the afternoon, met up with a wanna-be entrepreneur, Deepak. A product of EDI, Mallik is a very nice guy. Had a nice discussion about some of the great ideas he has. In the evening, went to The Forum mall with a friend where she shopped like crazy. Later, spent the evening hogging at The Hungry Buddha and Cafe coffee day, both near The Forum and opposite Raheja Arcade.

Sunday: The Full-of-energy day.
Got up at 0700 to go RC flying (Aeromodels flying) with a friend of mine, N. Adarsh. Went to his home where loaded up a chopper (Raptor) and a fixed-wing craft (Red Baron) in his car and took off for the field at Hoskote. Usual flying spot is Jakkur aerodrome, but due to the recent Cessna crash there (in which south Indian actress Soundarya got killed), we chose Hoskote which is 30 kms from Bangalore on Old Madras Road. Robbie joined us at NKGEF. Apart from Aeromodeling, Robbie is also doing his regular CPL (Commercial Pilot License) at Hyderabad. Once at Hoskote, the aeromodeling enthusiasts gang was present in strength! Suman, Suresh, and Anchal were there with their aircrafts. Suman was trying his hand on relatively new chopper and he was pretty good at it. But when Adarsh flew his Raptor, it was magical! The way he took off, the acceleration and the speed was wow! Even as we were flying the Raptor, Robbie's fixed winger was taking off and within a few seconds of take-off we heard a thud sound: Robbie's plane had crashed. It had nosedived into, fortunately, the muddy ground. The wing was smashed totally and the fuel tank was ruptured. Apparently, the elevators had stopped responding and thats what led to the crash. Then Suresh started his fixed-wing plane. For expertise reasons, Adarsh started its take-off and within seconds of take-off, this one nosedived too and crashed into hard ground. This crash was real bad. I saw it splitting into pieces when it hit the ground. The whole front was gone, propeller and works. Engine was thrown a few feet away. Later, while picking up the wreckage we realized that it was the same problem as in the first crash! Something had to be done about the elevators. After a lot of checks and thoughts, Adarsh started his fixed winger: Red Baron 007. Now, this one flew like a dream! We had it in air for like 20 mins. And then refueled it and again did it for similar amount of time. Adarsh did loops, rolls, hammer and stuff! I also tried my hands at the controls for a while and it was quite a feeling controlling a flying bird :) Came back by 1300 and saw Adarsh's other models (including a fantastic Mustang!) at his home. Watched some "True Lies" for the sake of his fantastic JVC hometheater's fantabulous audio!

In the evening, my best bud Niraj was coming to town. So, me, Jai, Chadda, and Niraj met up at The Leela at around 1700. Loafed around at Barista, and the Cha Bar till 2000 and then dropped Niraj off at the airport for his 2040 flight. It was so nice catching up with him after a long time :)

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