Roller Coaster May-June!

The last two months have been exhilarating. What with a roller coaster time I had.

• Became best friends with a Prof.
• Made a design prototype of a page-turner along with a friend of mine, Balu.

The prototype being engineered at CAD lab

• Applied for a provisional patent for the same
• Got my passport finally
• Visited UK for a product design show

At the Coffee House, Brunel Univ

• Met a good friend at UK
• Bridged old broken relationships.. err friendships

• Most good friends ventured into the industry for the very first time for their internships - Ugri, Shammo, Shatto, Ayush, Karthik, Aniket etc
• A few others went abroad for their interns - Shruti, Varun etc
• Seniors, who were the bestest of friends got placed at reputed companies - Caesar, CB, Cycle, Ankita, BC, Gigs, Anand etc
• A fair few of them made it to the IIMs - Naresh, Pico, Deepu etc
• Some of them are off to the US for higher studies - Dharik (Purdue)...
  

• Finally ventured into entrepreneurship - got my hands deep and dirty
• Started-up on a venture called Lypas along with best buddies Chinmay, Aniket, Sanjay and Hrishikesh

Lypus team at work at CIIE. Sanjay and Aniket are online!

• Read-up a lot of tech-blogs to get a hang of the internet and the mobile domain, falling in love with Google Reader all over again
  
• Launched the website for the company www.lypas.com, co-designed the website with Chinmay and co-authored the content with Aniket
• Came to IIM Ahmedabad for iAccelerator, a dream that materialised a tad too early, all because of a freak co-incidence and 'being at the right place at the right time with the right people around'CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad

• Got to interact with a lot of brilliant people - entrepreneurs and industrialist
• Being mentored by two awesome individuals - Freeman Murray, a man worth $110 Mn, who founded and sold two software companies and the man behind the '8080' port that we use.
• Tarun Dua, who is in his own words is a 'Linux Enthusiast' and a brilliant tech-blogger, who understands the internet domain very well.
  
• Aditi, our one-woman force for iA here at CIIE has been the "Conti-woman "arranging for mentorship sessions by who's-who of India.
• Got to know the secrets behind companies like naukri.com, makemytrip.com, mouthshut.com, zoho.com and many many more from the horse's mouth
• Visited Delhi on my first 'business trip'With Aniket; Metro in Delhi. After our first 'Business Trip',

we spent the night sleeping at the airport

• Planned the largest student initiative in the country, the technical festival of IIT Madras - Shaastra 2008
• Lead a bunch of enthusiastic individuals as part of the sponsorship and the PR team along with Aniket and Hemanth
  
• As a team, contacted more than 400 leading companies in India. A truly remarkable feat
• Dreamt big golden dreams
• Roped in corporate biggies for a never-before sponsorship amount
• Understood the nuances of leading a team and 'HR Management' hands-on
  

• Personally, been very stable for the better part of the last two months apart from the occasional bout of 'lows'
• Been talking about and planning the future course of life of a dear friend - marriage and relationship
• Scary enough, been talking to another friend about the concept of marriage and relationship quite often
• A very dear friend and a idol-of-sorts is actually getting married this July 12th at Delhi. Here's wishing him a very happy married life! And ya, he is off to Lancaster Univ for an MBA after his marriage. Cheers bro!