Monday, May 19, 2008

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Indus Tuesday

First there was darkness and then came light
Then came humans and then came hip humans who turned off the lights.

Indus Tuesday tag line is the rather ambitions Meet, Mingle and Network. Now with such a tagline you would assume they would pick a place that statisfies their ethos. But then again maybe I am a bit naive.

Meet - The place they choose to host this event was called Home NYC. If I was Batman or a cave dweller I would be at home. But being a normal homo sapiens this place was not a place to meet.

Mingle - How does one mingle in the dark and loud place. Someone please advise me? Really, am looking for anything that would help me. It is like asking people to mingle on the top of Everest. Just because the place is cool and hip doesn't make it a mingle happy place.

Network - The only networking happened near the food table and bar mainly by accident rather than intelligent design.

So to all you social organisers out there think about this for a moment. How about a nice bar to network, which facilitates conversation. This is NYC and if you tell me there is not good bars to host networking events then either your are not trying hard enough or just too lazy.

Will I go again? Probably with friends but I may actually just stay home. All I would need to do is go to the basement/cellar of my house, turn off the lights, crank up the music and guess what I might have more fun that I did on Indus Tuesday.

PS - Indus was the name of one of the earliest human civilization and if they had the changes to see someone like this group took their name, they would actually sue us for fraud and misrepresentation.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Blind Date

Last night, my good friend Cupcake was telling me how she knew this girl how was set up on a blind date by her "then" close friend. The date went OK. Now you are wondering what a waste of post. Wait there is more to come which will make all you so called dates from hell seem tame.

Ater the date they took a lisuerally stroll when the friend asked her date where he actually lived. He told her he currently lived in the corner of X Street and Y Avenue. They walked to the corner and as she was wondering which building he lived in, he proceeded to take here round the corner and pointed to a box and said "This is where I live". She was set up with a homeless man. I would have loved to see the expression on her face.

I am unable to fathom which friend would such a thing. And not before you ask, it was not April 1 or some kind of practical joke.