Alumni Meet - Chennai 2008

Take a look at the pictures taken on the alumni day here.If you like to read my experience on that day continue reading.

After a couple of postponements and amidst confusions this year's alumni meet was conducted successfully by the management and faculty members in chennai yesterday.Thank God, finally we have one such thing called "Alumni" which was only in myths.

I was literally puzzled before going to the meet, as i don't have any idea about what we are going to do on that day there!.As they informed earlier registration will be only for those who have invitation, only little people showed up.We can't blame management for that as they need some numbers to do the arrangements clean.On seeing all the seniors and juniors every one was so exited.Thanks to management for not making this meet as a formal one with some chief guests etc.It was a great opportunity to see some of the seniors i never heard off. Even though they were in very great levels of this society there was no way to learn and get inspired from them.What a shame!

I went there at 10 AM just to see 10 alumna's with the faculties as time moves on people started pouring in ,that's the so called Indian Mentality right?.Around 11 AM the meeting was started with about 40-50 members.After the addressing of principal and secretary alumna's last year vice president HariHaraSudan(2006 Mech) addressed the members.President Ganesh(2006 Mech) was not there as he went to Delhi for his official work.Then all were asked to introduce themselves.Microphone was first given to gals and most of them came forward and introduced,but as usual boys played the hide and seek game.Only about 20 men(no more boys) introduced themselves i guess.

After that some alumna's were asked to represent their batch and talk whatever they felt in the altar.Angel(1999) started the proceedings with some emotional touch.She talked about our college culture and how it helped in her career to achieve the heights,she is a manager in IBM.Antony(1999) continued after that,he talked about how desperate he was to start a alumnae association and why it failed.Then comes balaji(2001) ,he talked about how was pissed off while he came to know about the meet in the last minute.He asked why we didn't used the media to spread awareness about the meet even we have lot of friend in the media circle. He was very emotional and given some valuable suggestions to the management.

After that lot of peoples from each batch talked on various issues they found with the college.forgive me,i don't remember all their names so i skip this(if some one remember all their names and what they talked please comment here).There was an break in between for lunch.Around this time the auditorium was filled up(150 members i guess).After lunch there was a fun event with balloons and music.After that elections for this year's office bearers were held and Antony(1999) was unanimously selected as President and Daniel(2006) was selected as Vice President of SACOE Alumni.

Good to see our principal was so polite to listen to the complaints and take notes of them.He promised to conduct meets in Chennai or B'lore every year.Hope it will happen as such.As time ran off they limited the number of peoples from 2006 batch and i feel sorry for 2007 batch as no one was allowed to talk.As it was the first time there were some glitches in the event organization, but overall it was such a big effort to gather this number of peoples.Hats off to the team which organized this.

Cheers
David