Tech Expo '08

Well... lot of hard work, and we are finally through. This was the second year in succession when I was handling a booth of our project at the annual Tech Expo. Here we present the technologies that we use in office to the BU as well as to the grads who have been recruited to join next year. So a real good variety of target audience. Its tiring, talking for so long when you are not actually a talker types. I was assisted by Sneha who was not even part of my project. She is really enthusiastic girl. But I was somehow showing signs of fatigue at the end of it. And as I am really bad at faking, it was visible on my face. That might have driven some of the people away from our booth. Nevertheless it was overall a good effort.

After that we had a party at The Grand Hyatt. It was a good break because we were really sick and tired of Marriott pool side party. And food there was getting more and more insipid. I, along with the grads, started our commute in a bus which was actually meant for the visitors. Kind of grabbed empty seats in there. I finally found someone on the floor who has similar taste in sitcoms as me. Before this, I was kind of having hard time getting along with him because of his sarcasm. More so because he was really being derogatory remarks towards Sneha, and as she is a good girl, she was just smiling and ignoring it instead of getting back at him. I actually suspected if there was something going on between them because I haven't really seen a girl taking such poignant remarks nicely unless and until she is smitten. So I was feeling a little uncomfortable being my rude self with him, with the fear of hurting someone. But once I made sure that there was nothing like that, we kind of hit off well as sarcasm really turns me on.

At Hyatt, we had a open air place booked which is generally used for corporate parties. It had small fountains in the middle. It was covered by really tall walls on the two side. In the front, there was water flowing along the wall to give a waterfall sort of feeling. And the side opposite to that was the entrance, but just behind that was the actual hotel building. So the place was kind of giving me Jallianwala Bagh feeling. Certainly not meant for a claustrophobic person.

Finally they had spotted a non-dry day for Tech Expo. The only VJTI soul recruited this year was looking completely lost, understandably so. He was in a kind of dilemma with Microsoft offer in his hand. But I think I did quite a good job in promoting my company. Will soon come to know if he actually joins us or not. All in all, the event was pretty good. As usual, I feasted on soups, salads and desserts keeping the main course aside.

After this, coming home was a sort of Herculean task, thanks to the traffic at 12 o'clock in the night. We were stuck at domestic airport signal for about 45 minutes and the rickshaw guy kind of gave an intimation that he won't have enough gas to make it all the way. So changed the rick on the highway and finally made it home in a couple of hours after starting the journey.

P.S: Today is my couple of friends birthday. I am trying to call them, but none of them are picking up the phone. I am so mad at them!