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India has always amazed with its vast wonders—its diverse cultures, its people, the snow-capped Himalayas. Until recently, I had never considered wildlife as one of these wonders. But a visit to Tadoba National Park, one of India's most densely populated tiger reserves, changed everything.  Over the course of a three-day jungle safari, I came to realize that the natural world, untamed and vibrant, was yet another breathtaking layer of India’s magic. Our journey was unique from the beginning. Without mobile phones, cut off from the outside world, we trusted entirely in the instincts and wisdom of our forest guard. It was a profound experience, riding an open jeep through the dense forest, feeling the pulse of the wilderness as it enveloped us. Each safari felt like a treasure hunt, a careful grid search undertaken by teams scattered across the forest, everyone guessing, converging, trying to piece together clues left by the elusive tigers. One of ...

'Every morning you get up only when your mom screams at top of her voice', 'You join amidst your friends who were laughing after some funny conversation they had ', 'Getting scolding is part of your college life' , 'Always curse yourself and others for doing things in a hurry', 'Had a break up just because you broke the promise you made'. If some of these are part of your life just like mine, you are in a league called The procrastinator.

I hope most of you might have experienced this in your final year of college. All that you hear is placement, training etc. If you happened to get any tips from your seniors or staffs, all they say is "you need to have a right attitude which is very difficult to build", "you should go for some personality development classes". Well if you ask me, I would say it can be easily built and no need for going to any of these classes. Lesson can be learnt from every incident and thing you do in your life. I completely believe that they happen just to teach you some valuable lesson. One such example is Age of Empires(AOE). It’s a strategy game in which most of us fail to understand its valuable lessons. This game has personally changed me and my friends in terms of attitude and approach in life. It may sound insane, but its very true. Ask any AOE player, I bet he would say the same, if not ask him to read this post because he has failed to implement them.  

This was out 13th DreamSpark Event at Mahendra Engineering college, Tiruchengode on 16th April 2010. This event was organized by the CBEUG MSP, Kennedy Singh and Sathya Narayanan. Varma, Ramkrishnan, Krish, Kusumakar, Gopinath, Venkat and Harini were the other MSP who joined them. They pulled off the DreamSpark Yatra amazingly well.  We had more than 250 students in a single hall with a mixture of students coming from various departments like MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical and IT. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be a part of this event.  

  This is a promotional post :D.   Who are we? We are a not-for-profit, UserGroup run by the students and recent graduates, for the students. Its members are interested in Evangelizing Technology , innovation, leadership and management. Not-For-Profit We have a financial and External Relation Process in place where we are able to generate profits and conduct future events with it hence improving the growth of the UserGroup. We are supported by Microsoft, GITCA, Ineta, Leadcap and YUVA Unstoppable. UserGroup We do not represent or encourage participation of any form of government. By the Students, for the Students Our Usergroup provides a platform for the students to experiment and explore their leadership quality and improve the tech-savvy in them so that they have a positive impact on the society by sharing information with their peers. Evangelizing Technology & Innovation The main aim of the Usergroup. We share the knowledge Fruit with peers, p...

  This time we were invited as guests to NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte. We were excited about the idea about going to Mangalore for a DreamSpark Yatra. This event was so hyped up, we decided to make our presence there. We started on the 3 rd April night and we were there on the afternoon of the 4 th April. The climate was boiling hot and it was so irritating. This event was organized by Karthik and Shreyas, MSPs of NMAM institute of Technology, Nitte on 5th April 2010. We had more than 900 students with a mixture of MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical from various years The other chief guests were Dr. N.R. Shetty, President, ISTE Mr. Rohit Bhat, CEO Robosoft Mr. Naren Koduvatt, MD, i-point   The guests were felicitated by the college Principal and HOD Computer Science. They had planned for a full day technical event with a little bit of fun. We started with the regular Microsoft Academic Initiative which included Microsoft...

This tine we were invited as guest speakers at Arunai Engineering College, Thiruvannamalai On 27 th March 2010.   Thiruvannamalai a city 300km from Coimbatore, famous for its Shiva Temple. So this becomes our 8th city and 9 th Dreamspark event. This event was organized by Santhosh the MSP of same college. The way they organized the entire event was commendable. We had more than 300 students with a mixture of MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical The guests were felicitated by the college Principal and HOD Computer Science. We had planned for a full day technical event with a little bit of fun We started with the regular Microsoft Academic Initiative which included Microsoft Student Partner Program, CBEUG - Coimbatore User Group and Dreamsparkyatra. Immediately after that we had a session on the Introduction to the .Net Framework. used my .net framework example. Krish’s session on Windows Mobile followed. A demo of a simple program was shown, the audience...

  The next place Dreamspark yatra was at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathy On 17th March 2010. Sathy or Sathyamangalam is also a small city 80km from Coimbatore. So this becomes our 6th city and 8 th Dreamspark event. This event was organized by Suresh and Siddharth CBEUG MSP of same college. The way they organized the entire event was commendable. We had more than 550 students with a mixture of MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical and even Arts. The guests were felicitated by the college Principal and HOD Computer Science. We had planned for a full day technical event with a little bit of fun We started with the regular Microsoft Academic Initiative which included Microsoft Student Partner Program, CBEUG - Coimbatore User Group and Dreamspark yatra. Then the usual robotics session. The afternoon was a mixture of some techii, non techii and fun stuff. We had a very cool and interactive session by Abhishek suresh on Powerpoint 2010. He expla...

  Ever since CBEUG was formed, we always wanted to conduct an event in Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. Finally it came true on 13 th March 2010. This is the 3 rd DSY in Coimbatore city and 7 th Dreamspark yatra event. This event was organized and coordinated by CBEUG female MSPs, Harini and Vinodhini and of the same college. So far in the history of CBEUG, there were no active female MSPs. But they have proved that they are not like senior female MSPs .The hospitality provided by them and the management was amazing. We had more than 375 students with a mixture of MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical and even Arts. The other chief guests of this event were Kumar Rathnam, Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad Sundar Raman, Ex – President CBEUG Anil Emage, Founder of Leadership Village Wayanad Laila, Founder of Leadership Village Wayanad The guests were felicitated by the college Principal and HOD Computer Science. We had planned...

I would say this event was a major milestone achieved in CBEUG history. Unfortunately i was not able to join the event. This was the biggest DreamSpark Event in India and was conducted at Velalar Engineering College, in Erode, on 7 th March 2010. This is the 5 th city of our DreamSpark Campaign. For the second time we created history. The first event of CBEUG where we addressed an audience strength of 2500. It was an amazing challenge. This event was organized by the CBEUG MSPs, Venkat, Gopinathan, Shiva, Aravindhan, Balaji. The way they organized the entire event was awesome. They had a very short span of time and they were capable of bringing 1200 students from other colleges. They went to individual colleges and invited the students. They also took a small session in the colleges creating interest among the students. They did it without any assistance from any other MSP.They pulled off the DreamSpark Yatra amazingly well. The hospitality provided was good. We had more than...

  This time it was at Muthayammal Engineering College, Rasipuram on 3rd March 2010. This is the 5th city and including this we have covered 3000 students: D. This event was organized by one of the CBEUG MSP at Muthayammal Engg College, Krish Thaiyappan. The way he organized the entire event was commendable. The hospitality provided by him and his management was amazing. We had more than 550 students with a mixture of MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical and even Arts.   We were felicitated by the college Dean, Principal and HOD Computer Science.   We had planned for a full day technical event with a little bit of fun. In parallel to the sessions, we had also planned for Dreamspark yatra pit stop (DY PIT STOP).   This is the brainchild of KrishThaiyappan, MSP from Muthayammal Engg College . DY PIT STOP is nothing but a stall, were all the MSPs other than the one taking sessions, show demos of Windows 7, Boku, Small Basics, Photosynth...

    This was out 4rth DreamSpark Event at Excel Engineering College, in Namakkal, on 27th February 2010. This is the 3rd city of our DreamSpark Campaign This event was organized by the CBEUG MSP, Balaji. The way he organized the entire event was awesome. He did it single handedly without any assistance from any other MSP.He pulled off the DreamSpark Yatra amazingly well. The hospitality provided was good. We had more than 380 students in a single hall with a mixture of students coming from various departments like MCA, Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical and IT. Unfortunately, I couldn’t be a part of this event.

This was the official launch of Dreamspark yatra in India. It was on 23rd Feb 2010.We were glad that it started from Coimbatore. This event was organized by Jibin Varghese and Saraang of the same college. The other chief guests were Mr. Sidharth Prakash, Program Manager, Microsoft Academic Team Mrs. Anusha R Mahesh, Chief Executive, Park Institutions. We had a huge participants of over 1300 including various faculties from different colleges. The technical session was taken by Mr. Sidharth Prakash, who unveiled latest technology from microsoft and explained different aspects of SQL server. After that we had the usual session along with Powerpoint 2010, Project Natal, Small basics, Windows 7, Deep zoom, Virtual PC, were the tech topics disclosed in the event. Student participated in various activities and were provided with goodies and lunch.