A trip to techvista @ chennai ..

I am trying to focus only on techvista in this post. Will write another one on "racha" happened in the trip :) ..

As many of you know, ppl were notified just 3 days ahead of the event. So, we had to come up with new ways of reaching chennai :D .. Techvista was on Oct 1st and we started for chennai on Sep 30th morning :)) .. the plan was hyd -> vijayawada -> chennai.. I expected the bus journey to be bit boring where ppl wud like to sleep but it went the other way .. Had a lot of fun playing DumbC where a movie called "kondapalli raja"( a telugu movie) was guessed by showing avinesh :)) ( he is called konda :P) .. reached Vij. station and here is whr Bava (pradeep rajiv) showed his true colors :P .. he dressed like a school boy and behaved in the same fashion 2 :P .. boarded the train to chennai, played dumbC again and reached the city @3:30 AM in the morning, not the best of times to reach a relatively unfamiliar city :) ( I know the places but not the language :D ) ..

We had a "morning" walk arnd the station to find out an ultimate ( I am trying to be sarcastic here) staying place called "geetalayam" .. tht place cant be forgotten for a long time .. a lot of events tuk place thr, whr the receptionist's logic redefines Physics and questions Faraday's n Newton's laws to its core .. freshened up and reached CTC (chennai trade center) @guindy on time..

courtesy: Bhanu kiran's cam

Have to say tht the crowd in any of the events @ hyd will behave in a much dignified way .. pre-lunch session consisted of a few talks followed by a doubt session. By the time, tht session is done, long queues were formed at every counter .. joined a relatively smaller queue but due to some awesome event management, stayed at the same place in the queue for 1/2 hr :)) .. by the time we sighted fud, it was almost at the bottom of the vessels ..

The talks were awesome and there were some really big names @ the event like hopcroft, shafi goldwasser, Shree nayar, etc...

courtesy: chetan's cam

There were some awards presented to "best posters" present in the event. 5 fellowships have been awarded to different grad students. After the concluding talk, we came out with "tired" faces :D ..