England won their \ufb01rst Test against Australia at
Lord\u2019s since 1934 on Monday when they defeated
the visitors by 115 runs on the \ufb01nal day of the
second Ashes Test. Andrew Flintoff led the English
charge with a \ufb01ve-wicket haul in the \ufb01nal innings.

lover and like to know more about
your city, Madras Week Celebration has
always had something special for you.
And like every year, this year too the
week-long celebration will be held from
August 16 to 23, or may be even longer.
From 15 events in the \ufb01rst year, the
event has grown to host about 75
programmes, including quizzes,
exhibitions, and performances, all
centred on the theme \u2018Madras\u2019.
As a run-up to the city\u2019s birthday
celebrations, the coordinators are calling

groups to plan their event. Schools with
INTACH Heritage Clubs, city\u2019s leading
clubs, hotels and cultural institutions
have chalked out their programmes. Do
you have something to tell, share or

Write to editor@madrasmusings.com or Chennai Heritage, 5 Bhattad Tower, 30 Westcott Road, Royapettah.

for corporate houses. The grand \ufb01nale of Pergo Floors All Under Lights 2009 were conducted with volleyball, basketball and 5A side soc- cer as events. Wipro, Accen- ture, iSoft, Sify, Catterpillar, RR Donnelley, Kotak Secur- ities, L&T Infotech and Consim participated in the event, organised under \ufb02ood \ufb02ight at Nehru Stadi- um.

local music from around the world with electronic beats that exempli\ufb01es the spirit of music. The album is priced at Rs. 395.

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our years of high and low mo- ments, anecdotes during birth- day celebrations, cultural day

performances, picnics, industrial visits are no longer just penned down in autograph books or even slam books. The batch mates who have re- cently passed out from their colleges have made videos of their college life in order to relive those nostalgic mo- ments for life long.

Dinesh Chandran from SRM Univer- sity, Bioinformatics, 2004-2008 batch, says, \u201cAt \ufb01rst it was created just for fun and entertainment but later after

completion of studies, the video which has songs from the movie\u2014Boys, has become like a slam book for everyone. We recall four years in the four minute single video.\u201d

The videos that re\ufb02ect the nature of the batch and college life are set to tunes of various songs\u2014Kal ho naa ho, gladiator theme and songs from the tamil \ufb02ick\u2014Boys. While SVCE\u2019s video is called \u2018college in nutshell\u2019, M.Sc Elec- tronic Media (integrated) 2002-2007 batch from Anna university is \u2018The 64\u2019 and SRM University\u2019s is \u2018Friends forev- er\u2019. Karthikeyan from M.Sc Electronic Media (integrated) 2002-2007 batch says, \u201cAll through we were known as the rebellious group and one of our

professors used to call us \u201cThe 64\u201d and we became popular with that identity and hence the name.\u201d

Interestingly, the videos of Sri Ven- kateswara College of Engineering- electronics and Communication ECE 2003 \u2013 2007 batch and M.Sc Electronic Media (integrated) 2002-2007 batch have got more than 1,000 views. A lot of coordination and planning was in- volved behind the making of these vid- eos. The creative minds got together and gathered photos from various friends and made the video with touchy songs of various movies. These

videos have become an integral part of the farewell day celebrations. \u201cIt was a last-minute preparation and the idea was kept as a secret. Hence we could involve only few friends. But we ac- complished the challenge of covering almost all our batch mates in the vid- eo. Majority of the pictures were from our industrial visits and symposiums,\u201d says Siddharth Chyndalia of Electronics and Communication ECE 2003 \u2013 2007 batch, from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering.

Ginesh Gandhi from M.Sc Electronic Media (integrated) 2002-2007 batch had this idea much earlier during the college-days itself. \u201cWe became very close to each other in the \ufb01rst few months of college life and I was sure that we will miss each other a lot. Hence from the initial days itself, I started to make a video and over a pe- riod of time, many of our friends joined in.\u201d\u25a0

Autograph books are pass\u00e9 and students have begun to make videos on their college life and upload them online on YouTube. Ergo speaks to the young alumni of Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering of Electronics and Communication ECE 2003 \u2013 2007 batch and M.Sc Electronic Media (integrated) 2002- 07 batch from Anna university and SRM University, 2004-2008 batch, Bioinformatics about their videos.

Vodafone Essar has introduced \u2018Vodafone Tuesdays\u2019. On every Tuesday, Vodafone subscribers in Chennai can avail a \u2018Buy 1, Get 1 Free\u2019 offer at select
multiplexes and restaurants. To avail the offer, download a mobile coupon by SMSing \u2018TUESDAY\u2019 to 56789. These coupons can be validated and redeemed at
the Sathyam multiplex, Gallopin Gooseberries, Gangothri, Benjarong, China Town, Copper Chimney, Ente Keralam, Dominoes, Bike & Barrel and Zara.

The videos of Sri Venka- teswara College of Engi- neering-electronics and Communication ECE 2003 \u2013 2007 batch and M.Sc Electronic Media (inte- grated) 2002-2007 batch have gotten more than 1,000 views each.