Contests

Started with a short series of boggle contests on both groups...lets see how many participate - though I have my hopes really low on this one...

6/23/06
And yes, I was right about the contests being akin to a 'No Show' movie. Not a single soul participating!

Anyways....
Cheers still!!!!
Anshu
Medical '94

Alumni Website

We started the alumni website suggestions posts today. Naren is going to lead on the technical front. And it is heartening that the yahoo group has already seen many a lively discussion on this idea. Hope we can make a fantabulous site!

6/24/06:
We've formed the core team for the website. We hope to get it up and running in the next couple of weeks.!

3 cheers to the PDPS Spirit!
Anshu

Apropos School Website

As we all suspected, there was a school web-site (rather a web-page) that was set up some time back.... it is now defunct! And unfortunately, the domain name www.pdps.com and www.pdps.net are no longer available.

Now that the school authorities know about this, they are working on making another website for the school. And I feel really honored that we, the alumni, have been asked for our suggestions, and can actually contribute at this stage to the school! This I think is a great idea since we can now step in with our suggestions in full force. For a while now the alumni group has been pretty active - the success of which I must attribute to the youngsters who have recently matriculated from school- so the time is ripe to throw our hats in the ring too!

To begin with, I guess the site should cover the basics like every site does:
a) History of the school
b) Academics & School structure (which is PDPS's strength)- this can include syllabus for classes, an academic calendar, information about houses, honor board etc.
c) Prospectus & Admissions Information
d) Current happenings in the school- from the current student point of view - can include school tours, class picnics, any other events taking place in school, new ideas given by students for any activity etc
e) Details about Staff Members & Teachers
f) Extra Curricular Activities - A special section needs to be devoted to this since our school children win a lot of competition in a variety of fields
g) School's involvement in social activities - if there are not many activities that we are actively involved in, then we should start getting children involved.
h) Online Bandwagon (e-version of our school magazine - now defunct, but efforts to revitalize which are on!)
i) Student's Academic Progress (parents can log in to check their ward's progress report)
j) Alumni News (yes yes..we should be there as well!!). This can be added as a 'Class Notes' section where information about alumni can be updated by one chosen Class correspondent for each class (e.g. I can volunteer for the batch of 1994)
k) Details on individual Conferences, alumni meet, fete etc etc etc
l) Last, but not the least, Discussion forum for current students on any topic they wish to ask teachers, alumni or other fellow students with a special section devoted to career counseling!

To my mind, the last section serves the most important role else the site is nothing but a motley of a whole lot of only sometimes useful stuff!

Hope we can have a lot to contribute here!

Cheers!
Anshu
Medical '94

Another meet in Delhi-18th June 2006

There seems to be a wave of alumni meets in the city currently! Good going everyone!

So, here's the brief account of the most recent one - this is Rachna's post on orkut:

Quote:
hi
just came back from the cherished meet :)
there were ten people to contribute to the fun : dipen mehta,rahul jain,shaily,bharti,ankur,rajat,kunal,jyoti,aashish and me :)
schedule time was 1 p.m. at everbake.
and as per pdps standard time,people started pouring in by 1.30 !
larger gathering was expected but then looking at the jam packd everbake..thanx to rest for not cuming ...just kidding!
moving on..by 2 p.m. all ten people were together clunching on a table...so lost in talks and talks and talks that nobody botherd to order the food...
it was only after when we realizd that waiters are ready to throw us out..that we pikd up the menu card!
and then came the delicious meal..!
manchurian,friday...oh sorry...fried rice,chilli panner,chilli potatoes,pizza along with drinks...dont raise eyebrows...soft drinks..:)
coz of one reason or the other...people started leaving but before that came the good looking,attractive...cut the crap...i am talking about the delicious cake...yum :)
which we all cut together and ate like true pdpsians ;)
meet stretched for about 3 hours but every minute was fun filled!
its so good to fetch back the old contacts with old memories...hats off to orkut :)
:Unquote

Also available is another engrossing account of the meet on Ankur Sethi's blogspot. To complement the lively post is Ankur's flickr post with the pictures! Dont miss out the pic of the cake and the flowers beneath the table!

Have fun watching them!

Cheers!
Anshu
Medical '94

Bandwagon- School Magazine

Good news people ... the school magazine Bandwagon is being revived.. hope to publish some stuff from there in this column in the times to come!
-Anshu

Numbers growing still

I thought it would be unfair not to mention the latest number of members on each of the groups in this blog... So, as on date, orkut stands at 135 members while yahoogroup is at 46. Of course, a few of the members are in both groups. However, my database lists 167 distinct members - the only glitch being that for I do not have mail ids for many of them. However, the good part is that most of them are not internet users and we still know them through someone who is an active member of the group.

Anyways, at the moment I have 70 confirmed attendees & 17 more tagging with them for the Meet. So, that makes it a total of 85 people... thats really cool:) Re the date, however, I am yet to hear from the school authorities (the audi construction was underway). However, I expect that we should be able to finalize on this real soon (end June at most).

Also, an important bit of info on the school website- a new one is being made and would be ready in about a month's time.

If anyone has any other info to share about the school....please post your comments/ mail/ call:)

Till next time, take care y'all

Cheers!
Anshu

Class Reunion '02 (in Delhi): Detailed Update available at Ankur Sethi's blogspot

Orkut PDPS Meet – 2002 Passout Group

The Orkut PDPS '02 group met in Delhi on Saturday, June 3, 2006. This was the first meet of its kind. Ankur Sethi did a splendid job of getting everyone together, and most importantly- of giving all of us a first hand account of the happening day, replete with pictures:)

A brief summary for those who are running out of time:
Venue: Assemble at McDonald's (Inner Circle-C.P), proceed to Decibel (Hotel Samrat), top it up with lunch at Dwarka (Kamla Nagar)
'02 Alumni Present:
Ankur Sethi
Dipen Mehta
Dhawal Shah
Shimona Khandelwal
Rachna Jain
Sunny Goel
Shaily Goel
Ashish Singhal


The Ditchers:
Rahul Jain
Ajay Nagpal

A Few More Pictures:



At lunch - Dwarka (Kamla Nagar)



All smiles-Outside Decibel (Hotel Samrat)
[Standing-L-R: Dipen Mehta, Sunny Goel, Rachna Jain, Shimona Khandelwal, Shaily Goel, Ashish Singhal
Sitting-L-R: Ankur Sethi, Dhawal Shah]


For a first hand account, check out the following inks to
Ankur's blog
'02 Delhi Meet Pictures

Cheers!
Anshu