Know your Moderators

[aah78]

a big hello to all,

from the latest Moderator to be added onto the Team-BHP Support Team.
most of you don't know me as i'm not a big poster - though i'm always logged onto Team-BHP. i'm a quiet person, overall and don't open up until i really know the next person.

Advait is my name, or Ads, as some of my friends prefer to call me - easier on the tongue, they say. born and raised in Mumbai (then Bombay), India. lived outside the country for a year or two - when i was very young - but most of my lifetime has been spent in Bombay itself. moved to USA a couple of years ago and was over-whelmed with the automobile world which, then, didn't exist in India.

i've been along for the ride ever since the Formula India group was a part of MSN Groups - i wasn't along since the begining and joined the group later but i hold the priviledge of being one of the earlier members on Team-BHP.

unlike most car enthusiasts i wasn't born with a passion for cars. i liked cars to the extent that one likes, say the sunset - it's beautiful, but you've seen one, you've seen them all.

i did have a favourite car toy though - it was a red plastic toy called Old Glory - basically an american muscle car toy. i used to lug it around every where i went.

it wasn't until much later in life that my liking of automobiles began to develop into love and later on turned into an undying passion for almost anything with an engine and 4 wheels - and has remained so ever since.

our family has had the pleasure of having owned a wide variety of cars over the years and it's been interesting in retrospect to think back and try to evaluate each model individually.

though i'm not much of a car washer - thats better left to the professionals / the machines - my favourite pass-time on Sunday afternoon's would be to take apart as much as possible of my dad's 1995 Maruti-Suzuki Zen's engine and try to put it back together....... not that it always worked......

Team-BHP has helped increase my knowledge regarding different aspects of the automobile world, ten-fold. a lot of members are living databases of information and are a boon to lesser mortals, such as myself.

that's it from me for the time being. definitely look forward to interacting with all of you...

regards,
ads

ps. as a foot-note, in the past couple of months, since i've been a Moderator, i've noticed that few members take it personally whenever their post is edited / deleted. i'd just like to point out that the Support Team tries to keep the board clean, to the best of their effort - so please try to bear with us. i've had a few of my posts deleted too whenever i've made unruly comments that don't really contribute anything to the topic under discussion. Team-BHP is different from other websites which might have different (relaxed) rules. we prefer to have a professional approach rather than a casual free-for-all.

[Zappo]

Hello people. I guess I take over the mantle of the newest mod in town. One fine day I was googling for some info on cars and their merits before I went out to buy my first car. Landed up here. I was amazed at the vast repository of information available here. Decided to sign up as the inquisitive me wanted to ask a lot of questions as well. Since then some time has passed. In between changed from a Newbie to a BHPian, then to a D-BHPian and completed the 1000 posts. I was like a kid. What? No Senior BHPian tag? Someone indulgently told me that you already have a DBHPian tag dude. But then the kid in me wanted both!

Before I could get through the 1000 posts feeling I now find myself booted up the ladder to a moderator's role. Well, so be it. Afterall Team BHP is now a second home. So much so that my wife sometimes get irritated as she thinks that this is all that I do through the whole day. Well I am getting her a second laptop soon so that I do not need to hear that "hogger" bit any more.

Talking about my life, I was born in Kolkata in 1974 as Debraj Goswami. So that makes me old for sure, even if not as old as the grand dads of the forum. I grew up in North. Kanpur to be precise. In between have had small stints in some other cities. As dad was posted to Maharashtra in the 90s I moved in to Bhusawal (maharashtra). Did my graduation in Physics with Electronics and then MBA. All this while this bug about computers was in me. I was anyhow working with these since my college days. I even used to earn my expenses by working part-time in teaching computers, developing small softwares and then later even assembling computers, setting up networks etc (though used to spend more time than a full time job, and loved it). In between I also did a few small IT diploma programs and gathered some paper certificates.

After my post-grad just when everyone thought I will take a nice job and settle down that latent computer bug decided to manifest itself with full fury. Chucked off some good offers and decided to go for further studies in computers. So ended up in the PGDAC program offered by C-DAC. And there began a journey in the field of IT.

Today I am holed up in Hyderabad and work on design and development of applications, mentoring newbies (college recruits) besides guzzling cups of coffee, attending mindless number of meetings, blabbering with the clients, filling up Excel reports, taking a few interviews when boredom gets to me. And when it still does not work I just fold my sleeves and sit down to do some good hands-on coding. Ah! The pleasure of it.

In all this endeavour Team-BHP is a constant companion. A serious stress buster. I am definitely the least qualified here when it comes to seriously technical stuff in the automotive world. And yet somehow I have acquired this rapport amongst those who know me as their permanent test driver, consultant, negotiator and trouble shooter. And in all my endeavours my trusted Indica keeps me company.

Chalo... I have done a lot of blabbering in the name of Intro. Now lets take out that Mods scissors and check on what you guys are up to

Aloha

Debraj aka Zappo

[DCEite]

Hi guys.
I am Priyank, 23 years old, born and brought up in New Delhi. I have recently shifted to Gurgaon though.
I am a Software Engineer by profession, right now working in a Software firm for the past one year. Did my B.E. in Computer Science last year (2006) from Delhi University.
Cars are my passion (not much of a bike guy though). And Team-BHP gives me a perfect platform to share my thoughts and interact with like minded people.

Looking forward to your cooperation.


Regards

Priyank aka DCEite

[theMAG]

Hi folks,

I've put on my moderator hat from this eventful date of 21-Feb 08; I must say its size and fit are quite nice.

I got introduced to this great community on March 2006 - when I was looking around for alloy wheels information for my then to-be purchased Swift. While I've never been in the habit of being addicted to anything up until that, Team-BHP had the last laugh there. This forum consumes a significant slice of my energies today and will continue to do so into the distant future.

On the personal front, I'm from Bangalore. My genes are dated 1979. To say I'm passionate about automobiles would be a gross understatement. I currently own a black Swift, and spend more than I can afford on it.

On the career front, I'm into Systems Administration, and a big fan of Microsoft's current day server operating systems.

To round up this little passage, I will be cleaning up any content, without emotion, not deemed worthy of this great forum. I trust you wont take it personally.


-Mahesh Shivaswamy (theMAG)

[Technocrat]

Hi Bhpians,

Ever since I remember I have been an Automobile enthusiast, right from childhood days till today & I intend to remain so. I am one of those who cant sleep properly if I am buying a new car\bike, going for an exciting(read long) ride\drives. Nothing in this world excites me as much as a Bike\Car does, although most of the time I am unable to decide whether I love driving more than riding or love riding more than driving

I have been associated with T-bhp since it beginning, I was very much into bikes at that time & hence was low on attendance here but as destiny would have it, T-bhp pulled me towards it with its vast knowledge & what added to this was my penchant for quality of content than quantity which T-Bhp truly symbolizes.

I am fond of music though I am no audiophile. I am based out of Pune & working for a Software company. I currently drive an Alto & ride a Pulsar.

Like I said I am very keen on quality of stuff that gets posted here & will ensure that quality on content remains high. I will also help newbies who want to learn & are not aware of some stuff here & there but not at the cost of quality.

Hoping for co-operation from my fellow Bhpians to make our favorite place the best in the world

Cheers

Kedar Gadre aka Techno

[DerAlte]

Hi, I am Aniruddha - The Old Man of TBHP! Really!! Warranty period is over long back. My model is so old that neither spares nor knowledgeable mechanics are available any more. Fortunately no one has advised my family to get a new model!!!

I was born in Delhi before the mad rush started. Seen the blue sky over Delhi during the day, and stars during the night. Seen the sand storms coming in over the western horizon - when Gurgaon was only a gaon with kheti-baadi and New Delhi ended at Ring Road. Even seen peacocks dance in the parks, and heard foxes cry out at night!!! Lain in bomb shelter trenches when the sirens wailed during the three wars.

Delhi College of Engineering miraculously managed to make an Electronics Engineer out of me, and fate sent me to Bangalore 29 years back. Seen the industry grow, seen the city crumble and then rejuvenate itself.

Automobiles and bikes started as a childhood passion, though it was years before I owned one of my own ('66 Enfield Bullet, bought nth-hand and restored to perfection in '80). Then came a '72 Ambassador, a '87 M800, a '94 Zen ... I have owned / driven far too many (especially when I was a part of the world's biggest automotive sub-systems maker) to remember individual details. I now ride a 2007 Safari DICOR, with a Y2K Santro as the backup.

I am a self-confessed jack-of-all-trades. For a living, I manage software development at a large Indian software company. I forget how many types of software I have written since '80. I started with 4-bit micros and assembler, and over the years mastered over a dozen computer languages.

I am a very disciplined person (having a teacher as a wife helps) and keep things ship-shape around me wherever I am. I am tolerant and moderate to an extent, which is limited to people who understand that one's rights cannot be exercised to the detriment of another's.

At TBHP, most of my time is spent in the ICE section - another enduring passion from my engineering college days. For me, it is both a stress-buster and a brain-cell rejuvenator - there are enough nut-cases to keep me company.

OK, boys and girls, enough of "chandu-khane ki gup-shup", come on, hop to it, back to your work!