Forward Planning

The IPL will be done and dusted with at the end of this month. The Indian cricket team will be happily sent off and I will (hopefully) have a month (atleast) of quiet around here. Time then to do all that I missed doing all these months:

1) Take that much-needed vacation and go to some place nice and cool to just relax and unwind

2) Swimming: There is a lovely pool in my complex. Might as well check it out and learn to swim while I am at it. :)

3) Start playing tennis again with Mulls - the weekends under lights (can't wait!)

4) Read 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. That has been on the shelf for years!

5) Buy some painting supplies and draw some. I know I miss it terribly and would just love to paint all over again.

6) Read up about new recipes and experiment a bit. I loved doing that briefly this month - could make it a weekly routine in June

7) Finish that home-shopping that I started earlier this month.

That's about it for now I guess. It will be great if I could get started on these. I will consider this space hugely inspirational! :)

And now I tag Pavitra to pen down her list of things to do in June.

Got a Job!

And after some interviews CNN IBN decides to take me in so that I could be a part of their TV 18 family.
I am happy (really happy). Delhi is where I will be heading, staying for a year. Don't know what's happening
after that.

A job finally. It looked like that is what I was doing all along in ACJ. Practically living here.
Sleepless nights. Empty stomach. Hunger. Editing. Voicing over. Scripting. Producing. Did I say Editing. I
mean lots of editing! Shooting... What am I complaing.. I loved it all!! I probably never spent so much time with
my parents this year... But I know I made many friends. People I am never going to forget, few of whom I am
going to continue working with...

Ahem... don't know what's in store for me. But I'm surely ready for it.

That's all of ACJ 2006 - Broadcast, New Media and Print. Me - 1st row sitting, 7 from left.





it's almost there... time to take on the world... future broadcasters of India!

Love thy Job

So I made the cover of the Metroving page of the New Media website Digantik ;)

I have to thank Mangala (for taking the pic and more importantly) highlighting the difficulties that journalists undergo in transport.

But don't get me wrong. I am in no way complaining because this is what I love to do. Grab a requisition, write it and get it signed by the instructor, grab the video cameras and the tripod, check if everything is in order, cue the tape, record a blank, pack it all and get out on the road, haggle with the ever-persevering auto drivers, reach destination, shoot the story and all the while white-balance each shot (thanks Amanda :)), catch a rick, work on the script while your on the way, write out the link and the headline, get out at college, sign out the camera (or face the wrath of Solanki sir), get into an edit room (if there is one that's free), digitise the tape and start editing...

I love it all. Who am I kidding! It does get tiring. But that is all part of the 'package'

P.S - the editing procedure would probably take up another post ;)

First Term Nostalgia

The first term in college is where we were all together - the print, the broadcast and the new media. We produced our own show, designed our own website, presented seminars. We did a bunch of things together. I would never forget the day before our Key Issues presentation. We stayed in college working on the power point presenation, loading the pictures and working out our points. I was pushedout at midnight because I was one of the speakers. I will never fail to thank Ridhi, Ruchi and Rashmi, who satyed in college till 5:00 the next morning and worked on the presentation. Andwe did a great job. Our broadcast show was a few laughs but at the end of it, we made sure we learned a lot and had fun too.




That is a picture of our group at the end of the show. All smiles.