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Well, the good news is now i will be blogging on
My Sun Blog
and you can catch up with me there and get to know all about the latest happenings and emerging trends (read Sun Microsystems Technology) and much more.

Ciao,
Agraj Mangal

SUN shines @ Sankalan 2008

Now thats a biggie for me :-)

Well. the good news is that Ms. Anuradha Sen (my coordinator from SUN) along with Mr. Ajay Ahuja (Learning Services, SUN Microsystems) would be coming to deliver a talk on "Sun Microsystems: Choice, Innovation & Value". This will introduce the participants to Sun Technologies and offerings in terms of products and trainings.
Its great to have their presence with us.
I, as the campus ambassador for Delhi University, would be responsible for managing everything related to it. And am i not happy? (to say the least, i'm excited, anxious, curious, confused, thrilled)...i hope you can see the mixed feelings. :-)
It would be a pleasure to meet such learned ppl and learn from their experience & knowledge. Really waiting for the big day.

Do not miss this opportunity to meet some learned people from the industry and win lots of prizes/certificates/trophies by winning competitions.

For further details on Sankalan 2008, please visit
http://cs.du.ac.in/sankalan

Sankalan 2008 : Compiling Innovations !!

Hello Friends,

I take pride in introducing to you with our annual technical festival, Sankalan 2008, organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. It goes like:

We, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, welcome you to our annual technical festival Sankalan 2008. Sankalan provides a platform for students pursuing IT courses all over India to come together and test their technical and non-technical skills through various events like

• Technical Quiz
• Web Designing
• C++ Programming
• Debugging Challenge
• Overnight Project Designing
• Algorithms etc.

This promotes the enhancement of knowledge through talks and lectures delivered by eminent speakers.
Apart from technical events, there are some non-tech events also like JAM, Turn Court etc are also there to entertain people.
Teams from premier engineering and technological institutes across the country are expected to participate in the festival. Besides, there will be a sizeable gathering comprising of students from various colleges of DU .

Following are the details:

Sankalan 2008......Compiling Innovations
Date : 2 and 3 February 2008
Venue : Conference Centre, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007
Website : http://cs.du.ac.in/sankalan/
Email- id : sankalan2008@gmail.com
Eligibility : MCA/ Msc Comp Sc/ B.Tech/ M.Tech/ B.Sc(H) Comp Sc/ B.Sc(G) Comp Sc/ BCA

We look forward to your participation and welcome you to the event.
We are also open to suggestions and comments. :)
Hope to see you there.

First Visit to Sun's Office, New Delhi

The day before, my mail read "Lets meet tomm at 10 at office" :-) and i was amazed to see 'no' address mentioned. I quickly called up my coordinator and asked her about the plan. And the destination was Munirka.
Now, for those people who do not already know, traveling in Delhi is not an easy job and that too, when you are unaware of the destination :)

So reaching office at 10 was not going to be easy. And i did not wanted to be late in the very first meeting. Always believed in "First impression is the last impression" stuff :p

So i left home at 8.15 and fighting the chilly winter, managed to reach there by 9.20, thanks to my bro (he gave me lift till Moti Bagh)
Well going to Munirka from there, was no big deal and i was getting nervous with each advancing step.

Then followd some pretty good moments of my life. I saw the Sun Microsystems Logo and the board welcoming me at the 5th floor.
Well i reached a lot early before time and my coordinator was not present there (obviously she has more important work to do and is not as free as i m) :-)

But getting a feel of that office was like once-in-a-lifetime experience. Though i sat at reception for a few minutes, my eyes were glued to the interiors(read infrastructure + facilities) of the office and it was really overwhelming to see a cool laptop and an Apple Machine on almost each desk !! Dont know why someone would want to play with two powerful machines at a time.
(even more amazed to know that this is not a development office) Still they need all that stuff...!!
But the staff over there was very friendly. They offered tea/coffee/water 3 or more times to me. and i was beginning to feel happy :-)

Meeting Anuradha Madam (my coordinator) for the first time was a pleasure. She came with another CA (Anwesha) and we had a small meeting, where we discussed about how can we create more awareness in Delhi and about communicating with other CA's.

All in all, it was something i think i will never forget. Its not like that i have not been to other companies before, but none was like this. :)

I hope they will have more meetings in future and i guess i got to meet more people working over there....