A suggestion…

Friends,
It would be quite helpful if you could take a print out of the  address, directions and FAQ and get it along with you to the convention.
 Here is the link to the print out:
MAS 2007
See you at MAS !

2008 Anyone?

Pune did a fantastic job, Chennai is doing likewise. You think you have the chops to hold the event of the year for members of the IRFCA community? Then showcase your cities potential. Here’s what you need to do – Prepare a pitch/presentation/whatever with the following

Infrastructure – Convention Halls, Budget Hotels, Food etc;
Ballpark figure of [...]

What’s on your desk?

Yes, it’s the IRFCA calendar!! Thanks to Poochivenkat and all the people who sent in their photos, the calendar is finally ready. The printers will be churning out copies over the next week. Here’s a sample from one page.

 Looks good, doesn’t it! If you missed out on ordering it, don’t fret. We’ll take orders at [...]

Wish You All A Happy New Year

My best wishes to all delegates of MAS 2007.
We had a brief meeting last year…well on 31-12-2006 .
Not many updates except that the accomodation window is closed.
Most of the discussion was on tying up loose ends.
Attached here is a picture of the meet…Two people might need introduction. The gentleman with the cap is Mr. [...]

Listen Carefully!

Hours spent IM’ing each other, calling potential speakers and having occasional disagreements. These are the things one goes through when putting together what is arguably the most important part of the convention – the speaker and sessions lineup. So without further ado here’s the list of who and what you will be listening to. Apologies [...]

Schwag

Yes, the t-shirt idea is truly dead and buried. As Ranga mentioned in an earlier post, the ridiculously low numbers in our order made it extremely difficult to shop around. For those of whose paid up early expecting a brand new and shiny shirt to show around, we are sorry. But there is a silver [...]

Full House!

It took me longer than expected to post this. But sheer laziness combined by work pressures put me off. But here is an update: We have received all the payments and guess what, all those registered have paid up.
Bharat Moro landed at Chennai last Saturday and five of us met at my home. We [...]

We had their share of ghee too…

The meeting took place last Sunday as planned. The only unplanned situation was that except Sridhar and Adwaith, everyone else had prior engagements. But the pongal cooked nevertheless. And we made the most slurpy and delicious pongal for three utlizing all the ghee stocked up for a full house. Hmmm. I wonder if Adwaith had [...]

Contemplating Pongal this time…

The next meeting is proposed on Sunday, November 25, 2006. My place again. This time, I am considering pongal as the star dish. I must stock up some ghee, moong dal and cashew nuts. If it continues to rain, piping hot pongal would be THE thing to eat.
Today, I am going to Madurai. To [...]

Recipe for delicious vegetable upma

Last Sunday, Sridhar Joshi called. Meeting at Gowri Shankar’s place. Poochi and Aravind also arrived. In Gowri’s cramped room we discussed and discussed….lot of things; amongst them a few issues regarding the Convention too. Yes…it is quite difficult to focus. Rail fans have so much to talk! Gowri treated us to some excellent pakodas and [...]