At a glance: The first weblog meeting
So..., the first group meeting of this weblog took place on 19th of April in London, and it was successful. Axe and I were the first people to arrive in the venue, followed by nine other friends including bloggers Aref-Adib, Jay Londoner, Sina Motalebi, and Hoder who arrived from Canada just the day before this meeting. It was exciting and also a bit 'strange' because it was the first time most of us were about to meet people whom we knew only by their writings. It kinda reminded me of the BBS meetings in Tehran about a decade ago.
The venue – Mash Bar in central London – was a good one even though the music was a bit louder than what I expected, and that forced us to raise our voices; but hey I guess it's the same in almost all bars and pubs isn't it? Pity Kash didn't show up, he was the one who suggested this venue! Where were you man?
One of the amazing things about this small group of people was the broad range of expertise, including Business, Banking, Anthropology, Music Production and Audio Engineering, Journalism, Sociology, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. With this much power we can potentially run a whole country :-)
We missed all those members who couldn't make it to the gathering. I understand it was difficult to attend for those of you who live outside London. Next time I will try to organise the blog meeting in a weekend with a one-month notice (or even earlier).
Hope you all enjoyed the night, now enjoy the photos!
In Central Line towards Oxford Circus tube station.
We gathered at this corner of the pub, where they had huge lit-up wallpapers.
Part of the group
Sina Motalebi tells us some of his stories, interesting but very sad...
By the way Mash Bar has its own Micro-Brewery located at the rear of the hall, £2.90 per pint!
Hoder: "Why??" -- Axe: "Yo"
Sina chats with Aref-Adib
Hoder shares his funny stories about life in Canada
Aref-Adib is exhausted, Hoder wonders why, Sina knows why!
was lucky enough to catch the last train on Jubilee line and go back home!
P.S.: People who attended: if you want the high resolution version of the photos please send an e-mail to the blog e-mail address.
Wow! Sinna mottallebi?? Hoder??? did you not put the pictures, I would not believe a word! I personally wanted to shake hand with Londoner. Where were WestEnder, Nazli, Nazanin, Mahdi(I've really really really missed his posts and comments), Parthisan? ... more pictures? I can't wait.
(at April 23, 2005 12:14 PM)
wow! i am jealous ... i wish i had known about it/invited to it. it would have beem amazing to meet everyone. glad you all had fun, looks good!
(at April 23, 2005 12:37 PM)
Sorry guys, 4 I didn’t make it. I was busy those days because of my M.Sc. dissertation. Hope to see you all on next meeting… ta’
(at April 23, 2005 04:21 PM)
Well it was so enjoyable that I can't really remember the loudness of the music that Lord Provost mentioned indeed I was either so drunk or deeply in conversations with the others as each single one of them was very friendly and full of knowledge,
Perhaps we can have news coverage for next time as we are in a way in touch with BBC Persian and some TV channels that would help our little organisation grow up and attract more and more Persian students that would make a huge brain network.
Loads of thanks to Lord Provost that directed the gathering and the others who supported it with their coming.
(at April 23, 2005 09:31 PM)
guys I really wish I could have attended the meeting. pictures and commentaries are great :)) I'm short in time, preparing for a visit to north america so stay tuned for my tales!
(at April 25, 2005 01:46 AM)
hi guys, i'm so jelous i couldn't attend. sorry i was and still am in the middle of a major project and couldn't really leave the town.
why don't you set the next meeting near nottingham forest? ;) you can also visit Prince John's castle ;)
(at April 25, 2005 02:50 PM)
Please don,t rub it in!!!!It was such a pitty i could not make it .glad u had a good time.
(at April 26, 2005 10:53 AM)
hello guys.i enjoy alot with all your efforts.espicially the pictures.i want to know about the things thatyou do in this weblog but i dont know how?funny,isn,t it?ok have agood time.bye for now.
(at May 2, 2005 09:47 AM)
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