Two Day residential Seminar.....

Here comes my view and review on the Two Day residential Seminar conducted by the SIRC jointly with Hyderabad Chapter of the ICSI on 16th & 17th April 2010 at Alankrita Resorts....

First things first..the drawbacks of the programme as i always find so many...the programme was ill-planned..the information about the seminar was sent hardly a week before, the Annual participation scheme members were not sure of any concession (this was later clarified just 20 hours before the seminar), the sponsorship details was not informed properly...

all this mess landed into hardly 25 delegates for the seminar...too less a number compared to the earlier seminar at the same venue...which was attended by over 200 delegates.

Coming to the programme....at the inaugural session, i was called on stage to light the lamp along with Dr Chandratre...(author of over 25 books, 1000 articles, etc etc).....a honour that will remain with me forever.....

post lunch, when the first technical session started, people were dozing off...though the speaker was interesting, the hall was too big and the power supply was very poor. this led into break in the flow of subject to the speaker...and the volume of PA system had to be adjusted constantly to avoid blowing the ear drums of the delegates.

the day closed with a tea break..heard there was a cultural evening..God knows who attended it at 7 PM...out of some 25 delegates...some 10 had left along with me..so probably the cultural evening was attended by the SIRC members only...

the next day had even lesser delegates as most of them lost interest on the first day itself....the first technical session started an hour late..but still, Mr Pasupati kumar, CFO of Delloitte impressed the members with his awesome insight into the subject ....his style of taking through the session was excellent and his session was naturally overshot by 40 minutes...then came Mr M R Gopinath, a PCS from Bangalore..his quick wit and one liners and his constant digs at women made the session live and interesting

the last session was by Mr Vikas Khare...who appeared boring..without any wit or delegate participation..it was one sided talk from the speaker and as the session was running out of time...he had to wind up..probably his entry was at wrong timing, otherwise..the sessionw as excellent and he had made a point to mail his rpesentation to all participants...which is well appreciated.

the seminar came to an end with a awesome lunch.....

AFM 2010

The Annual Fellowship meet (AFM) of the Hyderabad Chapter of the ICSI...a platform where the new committee members are introduced and the past ones are felicitated. i was overjoyed when i got permission to attend the meet . the meet was meant to be attended with family....but somehow, i got to go alone.

the AFM for the year 2010 was organised at Sailing boat club near Tank Bund. the venue was a scenic beauty with Tank bund at the far end....lighting on the necklace road...and the lush green lawn outside the meeting room. i went there with many hopes...expectations to be a part of the fun games there. the room was decorated with loads of balloons, light music at the background..kids running everywhere.......members of the Institute split into groups chit chatting.

the meet was attended by top notch CS including the DHR, PVS, PS Sastry, Av Syamala, Ahalada Rao, S V Suryanarayana, A V Syamala, Jagannatham...etc


Now about the actual programme...if you want to understand the importance of an elevated wooden plank for the artists to perform (also called the stage)...attend this programme....if you want to understand the importance of clarity in PA systems (also called mikes) ..attend this programme...if you want to understand the importance of hosting/ organising ....this programme is a must to attend....why is it sooo impritant?

the lack of stage...really was a big flop...the artists were mixed up with the DJ guys..and the backstage supporters. the audience were confused between the performers and the supporters. the mikes were of poor quality which added to the flop show....the people at the far end the hall were unable to understand or seewhat was going on at the head of the meeting hall.

Now comes the dance show by the students, which was supposed to be the hilarious video of the year (posted by Youtube)...but the performers and audience being on the same plane (without a stage) the dance became a mourning show.. the performers 9who were actually supposed not to give expressions, which is a part of the comedy)) appeared to be dumb people...who move their hands and legs .

the skit by the students, though had imitations from Dharm Paaji and Sunny deol...was flop show again ..coz of poor mike quality and lack of platform. the audience were like commenting..what is happening there?? are they talking to themselves or performing anything??

then comes simple quiz from the host, who was literally inaudible and the kids surrounding him answered all questions by peeping into the questionnaire itself....no point in quiz..the lady accompanying the host was so slow ..that she took her own sweet time to pass on the mike to people who were actually trying to answer....still, they managed to get answers from one or two from audience..surpassing all the kids. The next game was find your partner.....the members were toooo lazy (or disinterested may be) to find their partners from the slips given.....the host had to help each one find their partner..and he had a tough time to gather them on the stage..request them to participate...train them to dance to the music by DJ.....

then comes our new chairman..who has an awesome authoritative voice...to calm the dance floor for the felicitation to happen. the felicitations......was a cake cutting programme....which was surrounded by kids again and other members having a gala time chit chatting with each other. Then there was dinner...which was tasting good...but the space was tooo less to accommodate the people. ..thats all ...after this dinner...i left the meeting...without knowing why i was there.......