The ‘worst‘ best thing that could happen to anyone is having two important events on the same day at the same time. We were faced with a similar situation Microsoft China conducted Mobile Development Seminar at Le Royal Meridian, Chennai and Microsoft India conducted Windows Vista Launch at Taj Coromandel.
Shard said he would accompany me if I was going to mobile coz he was more interested in that. Even I decided to go for that over vista launch coz I had already attended Vista launch for architects a week back and also I had never tasted the food at Meridian. 
Anyway, myself and sharad arrived at Le Meriden early morning with the wrong ticket. We had bought the ticket for Vista launch. Paid 50 rupees for each printout at the hotel and finally the event started.
The Chinese pronunciation of english was very difficult to follow and needless to say, the first session was amazingly boring. He was just reading out from the PowerPoint slides and we couldn’t even doze coz we were in the 1st row. 
After a while we noted that he was using the name “Tanya” quite often; atleast once in evey two sentence. The only “Tanya” we knew was the name of a female character in the game Red Alert we were playing back then. To have our piece of fun in this boring session, we came up with our own ideas.
Me: Ye bandha hamesha “Tanya” ka naam kyon le raha hai. (why is he always using the name Tanya?)
Sharad: Could be fullstop in chinese.
Me: or could be his girlfriend/wife back in China. Poor guy is missing her badly. :’(
Sharad: Could be a red alert fan himself
Me: or could mean water in Chinese. Someone give him aquafina.
Sharad: Seriously what is Tanya?
Me: Absolutely no idea.
Sharad: Try to follow what he is telling and we will figure it out
Me: ok will try.
The next line on the power point read “…..Windows mobile version 6 based on the development platform Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (read as Dot Net)”. When he arrived at that particular line, he read “….Windows mobile version 6 based on the development platfrom Microsoft Visual Studo ‘Tanya’ “. 
Finally the mystry was cracked. It appears dot-net is pronounced as “Tan-nyet”; ‘t’ silent.
