Pongal oh pongal
Today is 'Pongal' or the harvest festival which farmers celebrate and its also the Tamil New Year. Today is also called 'Makara Sankranthi' which is the celebration of the sun entering the northern hemisphere.
I'm 'supposed to be studying' now but somehow just not able to that. Suddenly there are a lot of good shows on TV and there is a lot of pending work on the computer!
Spent most of yesterday outside. Visited a school (NPS) along with Kevin, Sunil and Deepthi (who came late as usual!) and spoke to some 8th graders about the latest trends in Microsoft technologies and showed them some demos and videos that made them go crazy! This was the youngest audience we had ever spoken to and the session went on really well! Contrary to our expectations these young students knew a lot and were well exposed to technology. We were impressed at what they knew at such a young age - many had programmed with C, C++, VB and some even with VB.NET! And these are 8th standard students (12 - 14 years old) mind you!
After the session at NPS we returned to the Microsoft Office to meet Ghana and Sharath. All of us then went to the Microsoft Global Technical Support office and filmed the place and interviewed some foreigners.
Returned home rather late and was too tired to study. Fell asleep after checking my mail and reading a few blogs.
Update: Oops! It was not the Tamil New Year - only the beginning of the Harvest season. The Tamil New Year was a few days before this update - on April 14th.
I'm 'supposed to be studying' now but somehow just not able to that. Suddenly there are a lot of good shows on TV and there is a lot of pending work on the computer!
Spent most of yesterday outside. Visited a school (NPS) along with Kevin, Sunil and Deepthi (who came late as usual!) and spoke to some 8th graders about the latest trends in Microsoft technologies and showed them some demos and videos that made them go crazy! This was the youngest audience we had ever spoken to and the session went on really well! Contrary to our expectations these young students knew a lot and were well exposed to technology. We were impressed at what they knew at such a young age - many had programmed with C, C++, VB and some even with VB.NET! And these are 8th standard students (12 - 14 years old) mind you!
After the session at NPS we returned to the Microsoft Office to meet Ghana and Sharath. All of us then went to the Microsoft Global Technical Support office and filmed the place and interviewed some foreigners.
Returned home rather late and was too tired to study. Fell asleep after checking my mail and reading a few blogs.
Update: Oops! It was not the Tamil New Year - only the beginning of the Harvest season. The Tamil New Year was a few days before this update - on April 14th.
posted by Sabarish @ 1/14/2005 03:03:00 AM
Hi Sabarish
Came to your blog from Blogstreet Street. Your was one of the featured fresh blogs.
One small correction. Jan 14 is just the beginning of the harvest season. Tamil New Year's day is on the April 14th.
Hi,
Thanks for pointing out the error.
Happy Belated New Year to you!
Warm regards,
Sabarish