Off late some of our esteemed batchmates have been feeling extremely nostalgic and have been desperately trying to get in touch by resorting to all sorts of extreme activities. One of these people, a smart and shrewd wannabe entrepreneur decided to do something and he picked up his copy of Smriti, typed out the mail-IDs in a spreadsheet and supposedly created a database. Then he copy-pasted these names into the 'TO' field in Gmail. After this, he composed an e-mail embedded with emotions, hit the 'SEND' button and waited.
Lots of us who were fed up of leading a monotonous work life felt this as a welcome change but before we began to reply, interesting things happened. Unfortunately not all of us wanted to be a part of this "great" idea and so a few wanted to be off the list. I never even bothered to reply to the mail even though I did not miss reading each and every new addition to the chain.
Some nice dialogues from the chain are worthy to be noted. Most of them have been edited for brevity and none of the names have been mentioned here. Only the person responsible to initiate the chain has been referred here by the pseudonym "entrepreneur" as a token of respect for his splendid efforts.
This is just a refresher course to those who already have read the mails.
"I dunno anyone in this list. Please take me off!"
"I am not the person you want. Please take me off!" - Ha ha, the entrepreneur really "took it" big time.
"Its fun to watch the dynamics of this thread." - I guess there were a lot of people like me who enjoyed this free entertainment.
This particular conversation is one of my favourites:
X: I hate chain mails. This thing sucks.
Y: I second X. Please take me off the list.
Z: We are not here by choice man! (Z sounded as if he was stranded on some remote Pacific island)
The best one was Aadi's reply praising the entrepreneur for his great social networking skills. Then someone suggested the "Mute Conversation" feature of Gmail and some debate went on about it pros and cons.
But there were a lot who actually replied with a lot of warmth and hearily thanked the entrepreneur.
For example -
"Great work man. Keep it up. Let the thread continue , great to have the feel generated again of being from NITK..." - Unfortunately for him, not all liked to have that "feel generated" again.
All this has somehow made us revisit those good old memories and so I guess the entrepreneur deserves some credit for making an honest attempt for getting in touch again. At least people will now remember him for two reasons- one of them is of course, this chain mail and the other one is... Guess? Yeah right - its Eeeebiz.
:)
Lots of us who were fed up of leading a monotonous work life felt this as a welcome change but before we began to reply, interesting things happened. Unfortunately not all of us wanted to be a part of this "great" idea and so a few wanted to be off the list. I never even bothered to reply to the mail even though I did not miss reading each and every new addition to the chain.
Some nice dialogues from the chain are worthy to be noted. Most of them have been edited for brevity and none of the names have been mentioned here. Only the person responsible to initiate the chain has been referred here by the pseudonym "entrepreneur" as a token of respect for his splendid efforts.
This is just a refresher course to those who already have read the mails.
"I dunno anyone in this list. Please take me off!"
"I am not the person you want. Please take me off!" - Ha ha, the entrepreneur really "took it" big time.
"Its fun to watch the dynamics of this thread." - I guess there were a lot of people like me who enjoyed this free entertainment.
This particular conversation is one of my favourites:
X: I hate chain mails. This thing sucks.
Y: I second X. Please take me off the list.
Z: We are not here by choice man! (Z sounded as if he was stranded on some remote Pacific island)
The best one was Aadi's reply praising the entrepreneur for his great social networking skills. Then someone suggested the "Mute Conversation" feature of Gmail and some debate went on about it pros and cons.
But there were a lot who actually replied with a lot of warmth and hearily thanked the entrepreneur.
For example -
"Great work man. Keep it up. Let the thread continue , great to have the feel generated again of being from NITK..." - Unfortunately for him, not all liked to have that "feel generated" again.
All this has somehow made us revisit those good old memories and so I guess the entrepreneur deserves some credit for making an honest attempt for getting in touch again. At least people will now remember him for two reasons- one of them is of course, this chain mail and the other one is... Guess? Yeah right - its Eeeebiz.
:)
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13 comments:
Ya man it was indeed a good chain of Emotions,Blabber,initiation and Zeal.( decipher maadi ).Its ok man, he has done something though many did not turn out and prefer to read
tugel prakari kasaley??
@Anon (Chandru):
What a complex cryptic code for our good old E-BIZ! Nice one man. :)
loved the " remote pacific island " thingy !!!!!
Guess 10-15 of us are better off ther only....
@Orangehulk: Reminds me of LOST. I guess our e-biz guy can play the part of Jack. Dunno who would fit for Kate's role though. :)
ONLY GOD can save these people
"I am not the person you want. Please take me off!"
was actually not the intended NITK student/passout, the ID had a letter misplaced. And if you did notice the "dynamics" of the thread, the person who made the first anti-lets-all-get-together-and-make-out reply was the said non-nitk-arbit-victim-person and people gladly took sides and opposed Mr.Red-wani. So there's some curtain raiser if you were looking for one.
Peace.
P.S.Kitta kasalre?
There. I hope i put enough anonymity into this comment.
@Anonymous:
Thanks for all the clarifications man. I guess I had overlooked these issues before. :)
Even though you have acted fairly anonymous, the Konkani comment that you added actually rings a bell and I have a hunch. :)
Anyways, that should not be a problem. Thanks again.
boy!!my email ID wasnt there in smriti CD...i was saved [:)]
awesome light u have thrown on enter-pre-never's (what ever that means ) efforts... he hasnt stopped dude.. he is makin a great career for himself.. But i have off late heard a lot of good comments - he has started indulging in loads of social services :) ( S0 - see - all )...
but his videos have started ranking damn high on youtube.com - just type his name rest follows.. :) the ENTER-PRE-NEVER..
@Anon: Happened to see "An Inspirational Talk By Lalwani" - http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=umCYANnCwIs&feature=related
Some e-biz minion of his (who is dreaming to make big money inspired by all the stories) must have posted it and of course it is ranking very high ,135 views till date - quite a good number of people must have been "inspired" among this 135 or he himself must have repeatedly seen it to increase the count.
Let me not comment on his social service activities because most of us are very well aware of it. :)
Let me quote from his video, I remember he had told the same dialogue to me a year back - "If you want to be extraordinary, first try to be ordinary and then put an 'extra' in front of it.". One of the most corniest statements that I have ever come across.
P.S: Watching that video has given me so much ideas. Feel like writing a dedicated post describing how it "inspired" me but unfortunately most of the readers are already criticizing me for giving the wannabe entrepreneur too much of unwanted publicity and so I have decided against it. Time for some new stuff.
Lalwani the entrepreneur certainly has things aplenty on his mind. :)
As you rightly summed it up- the NITK community will associate the two things in his name, E-Biz and Chain Mail.
And amidst all this, I know he is busy creating the third plan. [:)]
I observed one thing though.
Most of the people who welcomed this email-chain, lets-keep-in-touch were students studying abroad. It gets lonely I guess.
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