WL Meet

Hello,

I address this post, esp. to the Bangalore members of The Writers' Lounge. It has been ages since we had a meet-up and I've been unable to make it to the last two meets properly. What say we meet up again in the first weekend of April? I know very few WL members of Bangalore so this goes to Tan, RJ, Hashan, Vasu, Abhri, Sonu and Meenzie firstly... I donno any other WL Bangalore members, please put up ur hands if any I've missed... sorry! Any other city members coming to Bangalore on that weekend are also welcome to join us! :)

Waiting to hear from you all!

Regards,

Leo.

WL Mumbai Meetup --------- Its Time!!!!!

Hi Guys,
Rohan and I finally came to the conclusion that sum1 had to take da onus of wakin da people from Mumbai from their reverie.....The Writers Lounge celebrated its 1st anniversary and our friends from Chennai and Bangalore (Not to forget "The Vitruvian Boy's" special celebration) came together for the occasion. We boast of one of the higher number of members active on the lounge but still when it comes to meeting up, we hold back.......C'mon guys!!!!
Wakey...........Wakey........Time to get up and get dressed......Lets make dis thing happen!
Please leave your consent in the comments section!
Details are as given below:

WL Mumbai Meet
Location (Tentative): Bandra Reclamation
Date: 26th July 2009.....cant help if da date has u cowering wid fear! :P (Guys from Mumbai wld know wat I mean! ;)

Time: Yet to be decided!



Who's gonna b der????? (Members who have already given der consent)



Rohan

Maverick



Neha, Anurag nd Ilashree: sorry guys cldnt get in tch wid ya on saturday.....bt thanx atleast fr responding to the invite nd expressing interest....means a lot! :)




PS: Plz Dont keep a track of this post for updates! Coz guess wat no one's coming! Cheers! :)


PPS: And guys leave it u now, to plan.......take ur time, adjust ur calendars, take appointments, do evry kinda thing dat can make a 2 hour meet possible! Here's wishing you luck!

TWL meet -GUJUCITY

Remember, remember the 17th of july
writers,friends and lounge.
I see no reason, why The Writer's Lounge
Should ever be forgot.
Remember, remember, the 17th of july
writers,friends and lounge.
A stick or a stake for celebrations' sake
Will you please to give me a toast
If you can't give me one, I'll take two;
The better for me and the best for you!

The Wl meet- Gujucity was glorious..... :D
it had full attendance of members.

The board had- Total strenth-1
Present -1
Absentees -1

written on the top left corner, just like the school days.... :D

So i woke up around 11 am, thought what should i do and how should i celebrate?
Couldnt do much so went to the seashore and decided to have a solitary celebration. the word solitary celebration again was touchy.... the solitary writer... he wasnt there although mumbai wasnt that far from gujucity...
anyways decided that next time i ll join some of you and we ll have a blast....



Well this pic had no mask on it while it was taken by some intelligent and tech savvy fishermen.
But stepMan has appointed me as his sidekick and since i dont have any super power as of now.. he said its not the time to come out.I am late blommer it seems.He faxed me the appointment letter.

And ste designed this new half costume for me....he's a very able person with photoshop you know.


I made this collage for each and every member and visitor off our lounge. Hope you like it..
there's a drink for almost everyone there.... :D
enjoy the toast....


I ll try my best to meet all the members, you mean a lot to me. I am really thankful to god that i meet you guys when i was feelins really down in my life. Thank you all for lifting my spirits.
Hope oneday we may organise a succesful global meet for TWL.

Well the Orange guys couldnt pronounce "writers lounge" and "belated" please bear with them... they are still learning english...I am sure they would have sung well in Dutch.... :D

WL Meet-up - Chennai's Day Out

This it folks....the day we were waiting for....

We waited, we sweated....and then we met....

Chennai Meet has officially begun

The destination was Pizza Hut....nice place...nice chicks around...food had to be great..its pizza's for lord's sake :P

Kingsley was the first one there...standing dumbfounded....guess he searched inside for us....hope he didnt gt hold of some other gal thinking her to be aarthi :P

lols...so when we reached, john was already there...i was meeting him for the first time.....he's pleasant company...talks way too less and very much matured.

Jeez am J

okays we went in and chatted...the waiter was eyeing us with suspicion....hehe...and we kept on chatting. Aarthi and Kings started in Tamil and everything went over my head...i could only mumble ser seri from time to time. Gulshan rang up...said she was on her way!! she found an auto but had to run after it :P

She arrived bout 20 mins later...all in pink and yay!! we were 4 of us then.....

We chatted about ourselves.....i dun wanna get into details...but yes people...it was fun....we had a rollicking time....thoorika arrived late after we finished our pizza's hehe...

Over to Gulshan

I never knew apart from writers it will introduce me to some great friends too…when I came to know via Stephen that he has met a few writer’s from Lounge, I used to wonder if I will ever be able to meet anyone of them…coz the only guy I knew from Chennai in Lounge was Kings and till then we were as good as strangers….but finally Her Highness (Artz..she looks like one) descended from heaven, read Delhi (bad comparison :D) to earth, read Chennai….met her Prince Charming (FL…he is doesn look like though :P) and decided to meet some poor mortals like us….lol….

To cut the story short….it was WL’s first anniversary and some brilliant person(i-don’t-know-who) decided to keep a meet in Chennai…yes u read it right..here..in Chennai..the one in Tamil Nadu..Gosh I was so excited so happy and so down in fever ….my mom said no..even before I told her Sunday’s program..she made sure that I am on my bed, in my room, at the most if I can go anywhere it was within the four walls of my home ….poor me…but then I decided in the morning itself…I have to go..so I jumped out of bed, hopped and played around, fought with my brother and mom finally irritated..shooed me out from home :D :D

I was late but was finally there….after a lot of hungama of course..the place was new for all of us..so everyone was confused ….FL ko pakdo :P….but when I met them it was awesome…superb…too good…I don’t have words to describe…not even for a second I felt that I was meeting some new people…it was like as if we knew each other….we started with introduction and some leg pulling and reminders to FL that he wasn’t on date :P….then Kings ordered…oh I forgot to tell that we were in PizzaHut …which poor people had to select coz of me …because I said no to Mocha…sorry guys :(….

Kings was a calm and composed person of course the most mature and the “Gentlemen” type of guy…he was just as what I imagined him through his blog writings :)..felt great to meet him…

Artz was a great friend…a charming personality…she is literature graduate and handling some Building stuff business….wow..how do you even link it dear…anyways was fun all the time…cracking jokes and hi5’ing all the time….she was the second most mature person…above all I was wondering how she was juggling all the work and these frequent meetings at the same time..She was kind of a lost friend found :)

Freelancer a.k.a Mridu was really irritated because of me...he was even going to throw me out of the auto : ( heartless :D :D ….i kept pulling his leg all the time... and he kept cursing me because I didn’t leave him alone with Artz even on way :D :D…on a serious note…he was a great guy..fun to be with…think we can be great friends…and yeah..he is last in the list of maturity :P :P lol

Thoorika..she was late…very late…atleast she made me feel that I am not the only late lateef :P…she was kind of silent but smart….calm and composed ..her signature words being “Khalo” and “chalo” :D :D….I don’t think I heard anything else from her mouth whole day long…nice girl though..she dint step in water but as it was supposed to be…we got drenched way back home :D :D

Arv was supposed join us..but couldn’t because of his some commitments…anyways hoping to see him next time :) We spoke to Prats, Ste and other Bangalore people also :) They too met and it seems and enjoyed a lot :)

After PizzaHut it was beach..Kings couldn’t join us…but then we four were there…had fun….I made them all walk miles for Arun’s Icecream..hehehe..hope they aren’t cursing me….I was supposed to leave back at 3.30 or max by four…but then I didn’t wanted to leave and by the time we parted it was already 6.30….we all decided to meet next weekend for movie..Bidding goodbye to FL and Artz me and Thoorika left for home..and thus ended the tiring and happy day :)

I was sure of catching fever..but wow I was able to go to office today and write this post :)..i think happiness took over tiredness and fever was shown way to home :D :D I am too excited to meet these people and all of them again this coming weekend…hope it ll be even more fun and we ll bond even better :)

Love you loads guys…thanks for bearing me throughout the day :)

Heena

over to artz--

On Sunday, we experienced what we have always talked about – TWL is a family. Since you know about almost everything after reading Heena, I would just sum it up in a few words.

It is always good when you meet the one whom you know in this virtual world. Few months back I got a chance to meet Sandeep, my big bro! J

This Sunday I woke up wit a lot of excitement. I was going to meet some more members of my virtual family – Kings, Heena, Fl, Thoorz, Arv…

Sadly, Arv could not make it because of other commitments he had. Me, FL, Kings, Thoorz and Heena kept chatting… not even for a second did we realize that we were meeting for the first time. It seemed as if we knew each other since years.

Now I would just want to say a few things to all of you whom I met –

Heena - You rock! I just could not believe that you are just 19!! Your sense of humour just amazes me all the time! J You have an intense persona… very matured and I just loved your company. It was great meeting you and I hope our bond grows real strong!

Kings – Start talking da! I mean… he looks really matured, very focused sort of a person. Thank you for bearing with us throughout the Pizza Hut torture sessions. Lolz!

Thoorika – She has that killing cute smile on her face. She is so polite, so quiet… There is that warmth you feel around this girl. I just love your ‘KHAO’ and ‘CHALO’. The next time we meet I should see you TALKING!!

FL – Do I really have to say anything about you? Don’t you guys know it all? He is a jester, a sweetheart, a wonderful human being with a heart of gold. You rock!

The awesome beach time we enjoyed will be cherished by me always. Thanks to you Mr.Freelancer! :P

Thank you all for making it to the TWL Chennai meet. The feeling that you all have left me with can’t be described… it was wonderful. I love you guys…you are just fantastic

FL speak-

okays...me back again....John had to leave soon....pity arun, arv and dr.kumar coudn't make it. They would have loved the beach...Someone teach heena how to sit in an auto...she keeps falling off. We went to the beach and did some rifle shooting...i was showing off my nearly impossible to learn tricks :P

It was a day to remember.....a day where john nearly turned into a waiter, a day where aarthi nearly became smart....a day when thoorika nearly became Valentino Rossi...a day when Heena nearly became the next P.T Usha after showing off her sprinting skills behind an auto...and a day when i nearly revealed my true identity as BOND :P

Mostly it was a day of the Lounge....a lounge that sprung back to life.....rose like a phoenix from the ashes and now turned into a peacock...

huh? i am going bonkers i guess...too much beach water in my head

IT WAS A DAY WHEN THE LOUNGE WENT BEYOND THE INTERNET

We READ, We WRITE, We definitely LOUNGE

P.S| couldn't get John's and Thoorika's views today....don't mind folks...they would post it in their behalf soon. Moreover Sunday we are going for a movie :P

Kingsley and Gulshan

kings and FL

Gulshan and Artz

Thoorika, Artz and Gulshan

FL and Artz :P

WL meet - Bangalore..!! Photos tagged

(Sry guys, had posted this in a hurry yesterday. Have tagged the photos now, so that you can recognize who's who. )


Over To Prats -

After numerous calls and messages sat night, finally the meet was decided for Sunday 3pm. Oh I was already supposed to be bit late but i was very late ( I reached 4:45pm ! and i had attended so many messages and calls by that time) As soon as i entered the area, i saw Arjun, Hashan, Tan and his wife engrossed in talking. Did i say area ? yes I did .. coz we met at "Coffee world" which is neither a closed place nor an open area. Its the centre of a mall so sort of open area !

I was meeting Tan for the first time but it wasn't difficult to recognise him anytime you meet.So we got started with the orders and talked of the lounge, the loungers and so on to Tan's wife. She looked really happy to be there and was the most welcome guest at least for me ( I was afraid i would have to bear all "Guy's talks" otherwise ;) ) We talked of the loungers who could not come to the meet - Leo's dad wasnt well yesterday , Vasudha could not be contacted and Bard , we talked of our weekend - how it went till we met, what each is busy doing generally .. and so on .. We meanwhile talked to few loungers from Chennai too - I remember talking to FL, Artz, Thoorika (yes gal.. i heard ur hello myself) and Gul ( will buzz u soon dear ) !

Half an hour later, Abhri joined us. Time was not just 5:30pm .. it was suddenly so alive .. Tan's friends came to pick him up, Meena joined us, and so we were suddenly a party of 9 people ! Abhri was in a real jolly mood as he dared to give me a new nickname - "The Boss" ( waiting to meet you again and kick you ).. It was really good to be amidst so much talking and laughing.. After Tan left, we sat and laughed a bit more while Abhri made me the target of his comments and meena supporting ! Arjuna nd Hashan wre obviously enjoying the laughs ( next timw it will be you both on the hot seat i promise :P )

Abhri too left by 6 since he was being a good host to his brother. And that left me, meena, Arjun and Hashan at the same place. The real torture of the guys started then as me and meena talked non stop of movies, books, writes and all. Tan returned to just say goodbye again. We discussed about a lot of loungers - Ste, Asbah, Insiya, Illashree, Arun (yes we talked of your fictions), Maverick, Hashan's fibs, Arjun's funny posts, Vasudha, Pri, Mona and so many of you ! And we talked of blogging - why , how, when, the addiction, the pleasure, its meaning to us.. phew !! By 8pm i was so much tired though i did not want the day to end ! But finally we parted in another 15 min - with biig smiles on our faces !

Hope we all meet again very soon ! And i wanna meet vasudha this time fr sure ! ( Take it as order from "the Boss" and please paln something again soon )

Ok! here i end my journal .. over to Arjun to tell anything i missed !
Thanks to everyone who came even for half hour ..
Love ya all
*Group Hug* !

Heya all, It's me Arjun now.

I guess Prats said it all. By the end of the day I sat wondering- Usually a friendship starts with a hand-shake, introduction, moves onto a conversation, understanding of each other, finally ending up being best of friends. It was kind of funny yesterday in a way that the process was quite the opposite. We bloggers, we blog our hearts out that we know each other so well even before that first "hand-shake". Amazing isn't it.

Anyway, just wanna say it was lovely meeting all you guys-
Tan and Maitri. It was really wonderful to have met the bubbly, adorable couple you are. :)

Prats - as usual.. talks, talks and talks. A perfect partner for keen listeners like me and hashan :P

Meena- You were a surprise and such a pleasant one at that. Loved your talks and company throughout. :)

Hashan- Enjoyed your company man. You are cool. :)We must catch up on a few non sci-fi movies this time. ;) ryt na ?? ;)

Abhri - You, we learned that are a very silent person and you talked the most yesterday. Yeah, the boss said it. ;) .. We call her 'Teacher'. ;)

And then we had a few visitors- Tan's friends- Premangshu and Kumardeep (Guitarists). Enjoyed your company too guys.

Hope we keep doing this more frequently for we want sundays to be just this way. Loved meeting u all once again. Here are a few pics. Enjoy!



Hashan, Myself (Arjun) and Tan.




WL couple :) - Maitri and Tan.




Any guesses?? ;)





3 different expressions. I decided to be the joker.




Meena with a cute kid.




Abhri (h), Tan, Hashan, Arjun, Maitri, Prats, Meena, Premangshu (Tan's friend- a guitarist)

Bangalore Meet - Sunday

Hello guys,

We are planning to have a Bangalore meet of the loungers this Sunday, the 19th of July. All of you from Bangalore and those who are willing to reach here are welcome. When I say 'Welcome' don't take it lightly, because we are planning to punish the absentees ... hehe.... jus kiddin. All you loungers - young, old, new, just born... anyone and everyone please make some time for this meet. We'll all raise another toast then.

The place and time -

Brigade Road, Mc'Donalds - 3pm

We expect you all to be there. Take this as a personal invitation. Anything further, do get in touch with me. See ya. :)

WL meet-up this Sunday

People, as part of the Lounge celebrations, we are planning a meetup in selected cities...

i dunno about the other cities but its definite for the Chennai team to meet up and lounge on Sunday. Arv, me, Artz, Heena, Kingsley have confirmed their atendance :P

Bangalore is also eager...lets meet up folks...click a million pics....enjoy this week...

Mumbai waalo....are you listening??? Dilli walo...jaago!!!

other cities....get up and start planning....its Sunday...log on to ur gtalk ids...and start making plans. Atleast we can dedicate one sunday to be with our loungers....since we all call it our family!

Happy Birthday to yu all

We have read, we all Write....its time to Lounge

so whaddaya think??

WL Meet up

As we all know, Writer's Lounge is like a family to us. So for the first time we are making a planned meet up. What do you think??? Good idea? Meet up's in Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore are for sure. And about the rest of the country....i would let you guys decide it. This would let us bond together even more. The meet up will be in the first week of July....on a single date all over the country. It will be the WL Day. If its successfull, then we can make it periodic...after every 3 or 6 months.

Use the comment section for querries and suguestions......as well as to fix the date. Admins keep this post updated all the time so that no one misses it.

Let's take WL beyond the net.