Exactly 365 days ago,
*Wake up call. 830 AM and my sis was on the other side*
”Oye mote!! Get your bumbums  off the bed and get ready for MAD.”
”Wha ? Is it time already?? I’m up, I’m up ! thanks…now get lost.”
Its 850AM and am searching for that Sanju’s email to confirm the address; sneak into my flatmate’s room, pick up his Pulsar’s keys and rush to Rotary Bal Bhavan.
I walk in at 915 to find the bright smiled Sanju and buhahahaha smiled Niki. We converse and I sit to fill …

One fine day, in the Department of Computer Science, CUSAT -
945 AM *Chey! I’m late!!* *Enters exam hall* ”Why are you late ?” ”Sir, no water sir!” ”Oh..okay..get in!”
And thus I enter, take my place and think what to do. After gazing at everyone in the hall, I stare at my question paper for Industrial Organization & Management and realize – Studying in bits and pieces doesn’t help
That’s my question paper -

Hmm…now …

 
Three years ago, on this very day, one girl and five guys took the next big step in bridging the inequality in society thru education. Make A Difference was registered as a charitable society under the Travancore Cochin Societies Act, 1955 on November 1, 2006.
MAD officially turns three today folks

One reason, and a major one why we won the InDiya Shine Award is because of the #twimads. Go to www.search.twitter.com ; type in “makeadiff” . Wollah !!  And you’ll see for yourself
We got a zillion ReTweets for putting up reviews. People whom we didn’t know, people who don’t know about MAD. One thing was for sure, they all went MAD. They would or would not have reviewed, but they did the next best thing. They retweeted. They spent 0.1s of their valuable time and spread the update …

“Hey Karthik…these are details of the engineering awareness that happened on Saturday… I myself am not an engineering student so dont know how much I  understand but wateva i did get im tellin u…”

 
We started of at St. Mary’s Kacherypady by 2:15.There was some delay in their getting there. During this time they distributed diwali ladoos to the kids and had a small-icebreaker by making them sing etc.
They started off with the class soon.The class was taken by IEEE which is a group of engineering colleges*.They began with an introduction …

Current Emotion- Yet another year; and yet another Diwali in Cochin (Sigh!)
But then, the clouds struck, and in the background of lightning and thunder somebody spoke – Hey, Chotu Diwali on friday and your class on friday too…. Current Emotion – ahan
Rapid thinking and a few phone calls = Diwali celebrations at YMCA Boys Home, Thrikkakara.
Jazim (the latest noobie aka tingu no. 2) and I arrived earlier and had a chat with the warden and the …

Written by Harsha Jayakrishnan
The last day in the month of August was educative and fun. A visit to National Institute of Oceanography was organized by the placements cell for the kids of Valsalya Bhavan and The Big Boys who stayed back during the Onam Vacation. We (Polly, Jonva, Rebecca, Karthik and I) accompanied the kids to NIO. We reached at 1030 and thus began our short and highle educative guided tour.

Kiran, one of the staff from molecular biology department spoke of DNA to the kids. He showed them various …

…….the Make a Difference way

Make a Difference monitors its projects based on two areas:
1) Activity
2) Results

Activity
To ensure the on ground activities are taking place uninterrupted and the quality is maintained, we monitor the following factors:-

1) Attendance: Every city maintains its own attendance register online. After every class the batch head updates the attendance of the volunteers hence ensuring in real time that classes happen without fail.

2) Feedback: After every class the volunteer comes online and puts up their feedback of the class. The mentors monitor this …

As Teza Jose (Joachim’s; high after watching a Gerard Butler flick) puts it –
Presenting before Maddies of Cochin.. the best of the lot!! the wonder workers.. the winners!! yea.. here it is "Joachim’s"!! The lady’s walk away with the crown!! please give them(us) a big applause!!
I guess you would have figured out who is leading by now;
Joachim’s is running away with Holy Ghost a close second.
The Scores as of now -
Joachim’s – 250 Holy Ghost – 235 YMCA – 205 …

 
Once upon a time a ‘Xavi’ calls me up and – “Dude Oberon has a Rock Fest-”  Me: “Hey cool. When is it ? I’ll be there”. Xavi: “Its an acoustic gig. My friend’s band is playing. We can carry out some PR stuff ” Me: “Hit Me!”
And the rest is history. (Current Emotion *Awesomeness*)
Sorry for the delay in writing this post (Negative Creep *When are you on time anyhow ?*). Minus Six was to play at TimeOut …