Anthony Tongbram’s Blog

I love blog meets, and I try never to miss the chance of meeting new bloggers in a City. I attended my first blog I guess in Mumbai, and my last one was in Delhi when I first came to Delhi.

It is time now for the Delhi Blogger meet again, but alas! I  would miss it. I am not in Delhi at the moment, and won’t be back till Feb end or March. I am hoping, we could organise these meets more frequently so that there would another meet by the time I reach in Delhi :).

 I got a message on facebook, and was overwhelmed by the number of people who have sent thier confirmation: If you haven’t yet, and you live in or near Delhi, and you write or read blogs, visit http://delhibloggers.eventbrite.com

Here’s a list of confirmed members so far.
Zabeeh Afaque
Blog: http://www.mediaactivist.blogspot.com
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Anouradha Bakshi
Website: http://www.projectwhy.org
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prabal banerjee
Website: http://www.goip.co.in
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Akash Bannerjee
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Sunandini Basu
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chetan bhattarai
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Indrojit Chaudhri
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Apurva chaudhry
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Twilight Fairy
Blog: http://www.twilightfairy.in
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Ankur Gupta
Blog: http://ankurg.info
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Uma Iyer
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Ravi Kapoor
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Urvi Khanna
Website: http://www.autsun.com
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Rajesh Lalwani
http://www.blogworks.in
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sunny lamba
Blog: http://sunnywinterz.blogspot.com
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Just Mohit
Blog: http://unjustly.wordpress.com
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Mayabhushan N
Blog: http://ardh-satya.blogspot.com
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Shashwat Nagpal
Blog: http://www.shashwat.in
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Nikhil Pahwa
Website: http://contentsutra.com
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Ashutosh Pradhan
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Vyom Prashant
Blog: http://asksar.rediffblogs.com
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Gurinder Raju
Blog: http://endsandmeans.blogspot.com
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Gautam Saluja
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Swagat Sen
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Ankur Sethi
Website: http://www.ankursethi.blogspot.com/
Blog: http://stillpics.blogspot.com/
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Hiren Shah Shah
Website: http://mypyp.wordpress.com/
Blog: http://wplay.wordpress.com/
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Prabhat Sharma
Website: http://www.horizonit.co.in
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Rupali Bajpai Sheryari
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bajpairupali
Blog: http://sakhiscribbles.blogspot.com/
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Sanjay Shrivastava
Blog: http://flickr.com/photos/copysanjay
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Lalit Singh 

Blog: http://lalitsingh99.blogspot.com/
Anyway all those who would be there, enjoy! and keep us updated

Did I say that I will start updating my blog every day? It wasn’t meant to be a New Year’s resolution, but now that I have broken it, so be it.

Anyway, 2007 would be the most uneventful year, ever. But surprisingly it went away pretty fast.

I shifted to the NCR around end of 2006, and I got fairly adjusted to the Delhi chill by the start of New Year. Oh and I learnt driving in the Fog. Visibility? Just the bonnet.

2007 new year (that was last year) was a small affair of wine and dine at my place with some close friends, and past midnight I had to go a friend’s party when there was this fog suddenly, and we had to turn back.  

I loved the winter though, but was not too prepared for the delhi heat. My AC broke down on the hottest day of that year, and swore that I wouldn’t stay another summer in Delhi, which seems unlikely, now, though. Did I mention that the power also went, just when the AC guy came after a long wait.

2007, I also made huge losses in the derivatives segment. When the market touched unimaginable heights, I went short, again and again and again, thinking that the market shouldn’t be so high, and justifying my act by telling myself that I was hedging my portfolio, even though I was buying HUGE lots of Nifty Puts. Well some people never learn. Some stocks did exceptionally well though; RPL, India Bulls, Ashapura, Sesa Goa, Era Constructions. But I was never born to be a hedge fund manager. Oh even the slot machines would agree as I learnt recently at Vegas.

2008, I will stay away from derivatives. I will stick to my good old stock picking, and once picked, STICK to my “buy and forget” strategy. Help me God!  

Blogging took back seat. 2007 was a year when I spent the most unproductive time online. Well, thanks to the social networking sites, aka orkut and facebook and user generated sites aka Digg. Now on less of social networking, except for business networking, and more of blogging.

Ah back to blogging, there will be Industry watching, stock watching, dashes of bollywood, NextGen technology, Manipur, North East India Politics and lots of personal stuff, and pop culture like the good old days. And how come a music maven never writes about music? More music to come! And Cinema!

And lots of weird WTF posts to come.

Now is the time to update your blog rolls and feeders.

Happy 2008!

Welcome to tongbram.com. Many of you know me from Anthonysmirror or Bachelor cooking! I haven’t blogged for a while now, not because I ever got bored of blogging, but I just couldn’t find the time to update it more frequently. Perhaps I had been spending too much time on the so called social networking sites. Oh Yes, If I remember correctly, it was Digg and orkut that took away my blogging time… Oh it is all coming back…

Well I am here now, hoping to be back among bloggers, and maybe wake some old bloggers like me who have been hibernating too long.. Watch your comments and emails..

Welcome me back!!!