Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Posted on May 17, 2009, 6:35 am, by NiMaL.
Day 6+1 – Flying Back Got up at 9.30 Had breakfast at hotel Can Üzüm & Goknur Topcu came to meet us at the hotel Couldn’t spend the day with them as Can had a soccer match that day Checkout the hotel room room at 11.30 Participants from Italy and Michigan left Kept our bags [...]
Posted on May 16, 2009, 6:25 am, by NiMaL.
Day 6 – Closing Ceremony Breakfast at hotel Seminar at campus on Career Choice (but felt it was little sloppy) Had Capachino Introductory presentation on Masters Programs of BU Lunch, the usual sandwich for all, but Ramanan had special being a vegetarian.. Closing Ceremony 1st – Americans, 2nd Borazici CS Project, 3rd MEU Turkey Robot [...]
Posted on May 15, 2009, 6:20 am, by NiMaL.
Day 5 – Istanbul Sightseeing Breakfast at hotel Visit Topkapi Palace, a little long journey on bus Spent nearly 2 hours inside the marvelous Ottoman palace, which is not only a palace now, but also a museum housing a large collection items from the Ottoman period and before Lunch on the roadside (the same sandwich, [...]
Posted on May 14, 2009, 6:15 am, by NiMaL.
Day 4 – Journey to Asia Breakfast at hotel Went to campus Had a seminar by Paul Doany, CEO, Turk Telecom on technology and entrepreneurship It was more on his experiences in making the correct decision and also suggested that not always the intellectually sexy ideas succeed. He also talked about some of the VAS [...]
Posted on May 13, 2009, 6:30 am, by NiMaL.
Day 3 – Presentations Day 2 Managed to getup a little early and had breakfast at hotel Went to university for the second day presentations Presentation by Macedonia Presentation by Bulgaria Tried some Turkish Coffee during the break, it was good, and the fortune telling was interesting/funny Presentation by WMU, USA Presentation by Russia Pasta [...]
Posted on May 12, 2009, 6:10 am, by NiMaL.
Day 2 – Presentations Day 1 Get up late at 8.00 and had to skip breakfast Went to university at around 9 Presentations started from 9.30 Presentation by METU, Turkey Presentation by Boğaziçi University, Turkey Presentation by Purdue University, USA Presentation by University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (yeah… our presentation was at 11.15) Though we [...]
Posted on May 11, 2009, 6:20 am, by NiMaL.
Day 1 Breakfast at Hotel Visit Dolmabahçe Palace Spent half day inside the one of the largest and grand palace in Turkey Lunch on the move Visit Miniatürk Miniature Park Its a great way to see a snapshot of the whole Turkey in one place Goknur Topcu joined us after Visit Rahmi M. Koç Museum [...]
Posted on May 9, 2009, 11:18 pm, by NiMaL.
Day 0 Got up early Breakfast at hotel Cevahir Shopping Centre with Can Üzüm Meet Goknur Topcu at Kahve Dunyasi (Coffee World) @ Cevahir Mall Took ‘The Istanbul Metro‘ with other ICAMES 2009 participants Taksim Square İstiklal Avenue Lunch Turish Delight İstiklal Avenue Beyoğlu Galata Tower Walked from Taksim to road near Dolmabahçe Palace Came [...]
Posted on May 9, 2009, 7:15 am, by NiMaL.
Day (0-1) Colombo: 12.15AM – Check in at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) was easy with Emirates Online Check-in, also we can get the seats as we wanted 01.00AM – Felt kinda hungry while waiting for boarding, so had a $1 Burger at BIA 03.00AM – Boarding, Helped another Tamil guy who was going to Doha [...]
