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On 08^th Sep I had the privilege of attending a bloggers’ meet organised by Blogadda and HP printers




















at FatCat restaurant in Andheri, to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Blogadda.

I reached in time and was warmly welcomed by Harish and his team from Blogadda.

Soon after, the introductions began and I loved the way it was anchored by Sagarika the livewire from

Blogadda who kept everyone in good humour with her wit. Five adjectives were flashed on the screen to describe the HP printer and we were asked to weave at least one of them to describe ourselves in a single 

sentence. The smartest was by Nelton D’Souza who won an HP printer!

This was followed by a brief spiel by Mr.Ghosh on why the HP printer is the best thing that happened to 

mankind!

Despite the tremendous advances in digital technology, the feel of your work, be it photography, a poem or a story, is felt so much better when you see and hold it on paper than on a flat screen. Hence, despite ecological concerns, I would still like to have a printout of my favorite work.

We were all given a chance to discuss our blogging concerns and how to take it to the next level. Lot of ideas were thrown around and it was generally agreed that as bloggers we do have a certain responsibility towards our readers who we should never take for granted and  strive to give our best always. Corinne also pointed out that one should be sincere in one’s efforts not only in blogging but also while reading and commenting on other blogs.

All this talk had made us hungry and we were served some delicious snacks. The snacks at FatCat were 

good and the service excellent!

All the bloggers were now asked to form into 3 teams to play Jenga on 3 tables. This was the time needed 

for the organisers to decide upon the various prize winners for the meet.

There were prizes of gift hampers given away for the most number of tweets during the meet, the funniest picture tweeted of the meet, the most colourful personality of the meet and many others. It was almost a gift fest though I did not win any as was busy capturing the happening moments of the meet to share with you guys! No regrets! 

Had a fun time meeting up with old blogger friends and made some new blogger friends too and of course an 8GB Flash drive gifted by HP to each one of us! 

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After weeks of excitement building up, the day finally arrived! Yes the 5^th anniversary celebrations of Indiblogger! And what better way to do it than to have a Nokia App Tasting event, hosted by Vikas Khanna and Rajiv Makhni the two masters of gastronomy and technology, at the Taj Lands End Hotel in Mumbai!

More than 200 bloggers from all over Mumbai and neighbouring cities were assembled to make this evening a very special one.

It was kicked off by a spirited “HURRHURR” war cry by the dedicated Indiblogger team, pumping their 

fists and motivating all at the event to do the same!

It was then time for the charming Tech Guru Rajiv Makhni and the ever so humble Michelin starred 

Masterchef extraordinaire Vikas Khanna to hold centre stage and keep the bloggers enthralled for the next couple of hours with their witty tete-a-tetes and quizzes.

They started off by calling bloggers onstage, based on varying criteria like the youngest blogger, oldest blogger and so on for introductions and giving away prizes to the wittiest.

This was followed by a demonstration of ‘How to slice onions easily’ by Vikas Khanna and 4 food bloggers were invited onstage to participate in a contest to slice the onions as demonstrated and the best ‘slicer’ was awarded a prize.

And then Rajiv Khanna charmed all bloggers to express their love for technology by making them kiss their cellphones!  This set the grounds for ‘apptasting’ a term coined to experience some wonderful applications that can be used in daily life on one’s Nokia phone. Rajiv Khanna presented a few new apps that are bound to be very popular!  The one that I loved was ‘City Lens’ which will ensure one is never lost for anything, anywhere!  One just has to activate this app and point the phone in any direction and it will display all the different facilities available in that direction like restaurants, clubs, hospitals etc., with links for phone numbers and directions to get there! Nokia also announced that within a couple of weeks all Nokia users will be able to request for creation of apps that they feel would be useful and Nokia would work on it to develop and present the requested apps to the world! If that is not user friendly what is!

By this time all the bloggers were charged up for a quiz that was announced which would have 4 couples 

comprising of foodies and techies. The quiz was fun with the humour injected into the proceedings by the wonderful hosts. The questions that could not be answered by the participants were passed on to the audience which ensured a healthy participation of the audience at all times!

Like all good things this evening too had to end and it did with a cake being cut to celebrate the 5th 

anniversary of Indiblogger.

Dinner was announced and on the way to the dining area, lovely Indiblogger Tshirts were given away to all the participants.

The bar was open and so was the buffet! Over drinks and dinner a lot of new friends and contacts were

established, apart from meeting up with bloggers that one had interacted in the virtual world.  There was a lot of bonhomie, good cheer and photography sessions with the celebrity anchors who were ever obliging.

Thank you Indiblogger and Nokia for a wonderful apptasting event! 

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