Things going great!!..Thats my current situation...
I'm working on something that really fascinates me..Finally my engineering skills kick in..Basically an Electrical Eng. by heart and soul...and working on SAP for a utility major at the client location!!!Phew...Man its the dream of my life coming true...
Finally stuff that I can relate to and cater a solution...And some previous project experience kicking in...Previous project went live with a bang, and some euphoria kicking in...A solution that I was deeply involved in and went live with least issues is helping me in my current assignment..There was a huge publication online that went on that implementation, and the familiarity of relating the same to my current development...Sensational...
Only that I'm in Michigan running a slight fever, and sneezing my guts out...Wish that too vanished...If it did then I'd be jumping and rearing to get to work from next week onwards on my favorite thing right now...SAP rocks!!!....
Saturday, December 09, 2006
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Time capsule...
My Yahoo! time capsule quote...They say this will be there on the web till 2020..When you can look back at what you were 14 years back..Looks like a good way to make your mark in history...
http://timecapsule.yahoo.com/capsule.php?i=61133&t=you&l=en
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Travel Blues....
May leave India for a short while...Hopefully...Not yet confirmed...Will be an awesome break...But at the same time I'll miss a lot of ppl out here...List is endless, but dignified...[:-D]...More later...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Punctuality Sucks….
[Aug 3] 9:00 am:
[Me]: Dudes what the ****. Not finished packing yet? How are we going to catch the 6:00 pm train to Chennai?
[A]: Chill dude. We’ll easily make it on time.
[Me]: I like to be before time. I’m particular on that. Are K, SA and J packed already?
[A] Ya, they’re already done.
[S]: Let’s come back home after office and pick up our luggage. Otherwise its too much to carry.
All of us agree. It is not worth dragging all of it to office and then back along the same direction to the station.
4:00 pm: Still in office. I’m freaking pissed. We’re not going to be late for the train. ATM is not working. None of us have much cash.
[Me]: You know what time it is? We’ll never make it.
[A]: I’m done. Go call S. Tell K, J and SA to come straight to station. We’ll meet them there.
All done. Catch a rick outside office.
[S]: Bhaiyya, Ameerpet jaana hai. Uske baad railway station jaana hai.
[Auto]: Teek hai. Chalo.
Drives at a snails pace. S’ swearing “Gaadi hai ki bail gaadi? Uski *** mein ek ghuz*** tho !@#$”
4:50: Reach home. Run helter skelter to pick up required stuff. Tickets. Shoes. Suit for the marriage. Ticket check again. Lock the car. Check it again. All set to go, and better hurry. It is already 5:10 and bloody late.
Back to auto. Suddenly all roads clear up.
[A] Lets get hot-chips man. I’m hungry.
[Me] You are perennially hungry dude.
[A] We have loadsa time. Lets get it.
[Me] NO. We’ll be late. Train leaves at 6. We’ll get something from the station if we have time.
Super Auto reaches station at 5:25.
We get to the station to see one food-stall selling flavored milk on Platform 1.
[A] I want milk.
[S] Me too.
[Me] Me too.
All of us sipping on cold flavored milk. Notice Chennai train coming into station. Platform 2.
[A] Come. Lets go. Its on platform 2.
All of us cross the bridge to platform 2. We leisurely hunt for coach S9. Train starts moving.
[A] Lets get in quick. I think it is leaving early.
[Me] Is this our train?
[A] Ya.
[S] Sirji, yeh Charminar Express hai kya? Chennai jaata hai??
[Sirji] Haan..Get in fast…Quick..
[S] Call K and tell him to come quick. Train has already left. What will he do? J and SA will miss the train too. We have to do something.
All of us go through the bogies to S9. Train has already picked up speed.
S9 seats 59, 60, 61, 62 have some 20 people sitting on it.
[Me] Hello, is this Charminar Express?
[Hello] No its Chennai express. Charminar express leaves at 6:30 pm.
[Me] WHAT?
[S] Lets jump of the train. Its only a little off the station and probably 25 kmph.
[Me] Yeah children. Lets jump.
[A] NOOOOOO… Now way. Its too dangerous. Lets get down at the next station.
All of us agree. Lets go meet the TT and tell him our problem. We’re all great model citizens of India. He’ll be considerate.
[A] goes in search of TT.
[Co-Passenger] Son, this train is on a totally different route. You’ll never be able to catch the other train.
Me and S totally pissed off and wondering what the heck to do.
Short while. TT in plain clothes comes walking by triumphantly. Like a CBI guy who’s caught an international criminal.
[A] Walking. Show me your ID card sir.
Sir not bothered. Asks us to follow him.
[A] At least give our ticket back.
[Sir] Coming. You people coming this way. Coming. This way. Behind. Ekkada nichi. Next compartment lo theesko.
Compartment S7. Nice govt cabin. Lion’s Den. 3 TTs having a ball.
[Sir] Ekkada rapu moonu passenger kavali pampisthanu malli ticket nakko. (Forgive my telegu – I think he meant Ha Ha I caught them. Ticket less travel. Frauds)
[TT 1] Ippudu baito. (Sit here?).
[TT 2] Nenu rounds chestanu. (Me going for rounds. Have fun).
[Sir] Ippudu ticketsla print chestava? (Looks at the printed ticket. Shows it to other TT).
[A] Sirs. We have a legitimate ticket. But we’ve got into the wrong train. Please help us out. We din’t mean it.
[TT] Hmmm… Its ticketless travel. You have to either get down or pay fine.
[A] But we have the correct tickets for another train. Its not our fault.
S and me frantically try to reach out to someone in office to try and cancel the other trains ticket. But can’t do that, because K, SA and J are on it. Information comes that they’ve got a general ticket and converted to berth seats. Sigh of relief.
Drama lengthens. The grotesque Sir and the nonchalant TT nod at each other. Speak endlessly in telegu and show us the calculations.
[Sir] Next station is 4 hrs away. You can pay fine till there, get down and go home. Otherwise pay Rs 2000 and get seats for this train and go till Chennai.
[A] Sir that’s a lot of money. We don’t have that much.
They look at me. My visage is loaded with anguish, despair, sadness, despondency and just about every inch of my face is pleading with them to help us out. But I don’t open my mouth.
[Sir] Look, you are like my sons. You told me you are students going for interview to Chennai. I wish you luck. But we are also helpless. What if Flying Squad comes and catches us. Nothing will happen to you. WE’ll lose our jobs.
[A] Sir, we don’t have money.
[S] Sir we’ll go one round in the train..Ammma Thaaaye..and then come back.
[Sir] Do what you want. You’ll have to pay fine. So far you’ve been in 2nd class berth. That’s the max consideration I can give.
[A] Sir what can we do. We don’t have money.
[Co-Pass 1] Sir I know telegu. Rambles in telegu and tries to reason with the TTs asking them to let us go with a lesser fine.
All of them go talking really well..Nice bonding happening. But the TTs are obstinate in their verdict. Money or get out.
[Co-Pa 2] I’ll help them. How much money do you need?
S immediately jumps up and talks to a co-passenger 2 and takes him out.
[Sir] See..When he offers money he goes out. These guys are frauds. I’ve seen lots of them in my life.
[Co-Pa 1] Oh no. I don’t know anything about them. I thought they are actually in trouble. Sorry sir. I don’t know anything about them. Totally apologise. God alone knows. What kind off people are there ah!…Innocent people..Never thought. Siva Siva….
[A] Sir its not what you think….Please….
[Sir] Rs 2000. This is the break up. Pay or leave…
S and CoPa 2 return.
[S] to Me. How much money do you have?
[Me] In front of TT. I have 450 bucks. Look.
All of them see. (Thank Allah, Christ and Krishna that nobody knows how expensive the Hi-Design Wallet I’m displaying to them is, though having only some chillar at the moment)
[CoPa2] See I have 1000 Rs, which I’ll lend them. That’s all I have. I’m a poor man. These guys need help. As soon as you get down pay me. Arrange for the money somehow.
TT agrees. Some roundabaout figure of 1600 is reached. More digging of money and a little more from CoPa2 covers the ticket cost.
[Sir] Give them surrounding berths itself, so that they don’t run off. Ha Ha. (2 times with resplendent audio effects)
All’s well that ends well..We get tickets to Chennai and the journey goes on.. All of us feel elated as we’d done lot of hard work, and had lots of fun too…Food comes. Settle down to some impoverished biriyanis.
A little later.
[A] Chill dude. You look really annoyed.
[Me] I am. I have a migraine.
[S] Learnt a proper lesson in life.
[Me] Ya, never be punctual.. You end up losing.
[A] and never stop me from buying Hot-Chips Ramifications are huge..If only we had spent some time on that.
[S] Ya. If only we had stopped at some ATM on the way.
[Me] If only we had got another auto from home. If only there was more traffic on the way…If only we had jumped when it was 25 kmph..
Lets have a nice get-together after 7 years. S with his twin children, A with his one kid, and me newly married. We’ll be giving gyaan to the children…
All of us laught out loud and swear to have another life-chilling experience again.
Rewind.
[S] to CoPa2 .. Sir we have Rs 1200 with us. But we don’t want to show it to the TTs. Can you keep it with you and give it to us in dire straits.
[CoPa2] Sure !!… In filmy stlye..Just check my acting out.
Back in cabin….
[CoPa2] See I have 1000 Rs, which I’ll lend them. That’s all I have. I’m a poor man. These guys need help. As soon as you get down pay me. Arrange for the money somehow.
Winks at S A and me without the notice of the TT.
TT agrees. Some roundabaout figure of 1600 is reached.
Digs into his pocket for the Rs 200 more. S ‘s totally won over by CoPa 2’s acting.. Admires his histrionics silently without the TTs notice.
More digging of money and a little more from CoPa2 covers the ticket cost.
Chennai here we come!
[Me]: Dudes what the ****. Not finished packing yet? How are we going to catch the 6:00 pm train to Chennai?
[A]: Chill dude. We’ll easily make it on time.
[Me]: I like to be before time. I’m particular on that. Are K, SA and J packed already?
[A] Ya, they’re already done.
[S]: Let’s come back home after office and pick up our luggage. Otherwise its too much to carry.
All of us agree. It is not worth dragging all of it to office and then back along the same direction to the station.
4:00 pm: Still in office. I’m freaking pissed. We’re not going to be late for the train. ATM is not working. None of us have much cash.
[Me]: You know what time it is? We’ll never make it.
[A]: I’m done. Go call S. Tell K, J and SA to come straight to station. We’ll meet them there.
All done. Catch a rick outside office.
[S]: Bhaiyya, Ameerpet jaana hai. Uske baad railway station jaana hai.
[Auto]: Teek hai. Chalo.
Drives at a snails pace. S’ swearing “Gaadi hai ki bail gaadi? Uski *** mein ek ghuz*** tho !@#$”
4:50: Reach home. Run helter skelter to pick up required stuff. Tickets. Shoes. Suit for the marriage. Ticket check again. Lock the car. Check it again. All set to go, and better hurry. It is already 5:10 and bloody late.
Back to auto. Suddenly all roads clear up.
[A] Lets get hot-chips man. I’m hungry.
[Me] You are perennially hungry dude.
[A] We have loadsa time. Lets get it.
[Me] NO. We’ll be late. Train leaves at 6. We’ll get something from the station if we have time.
Super Auto reaches station at 5:25.
We get to the station to see one food-stall selling flavored milk on Platform 1.
[A] I want milk.
[S] Me too.
[Me] Me too.
All of us sipping on cold flavored milk. Notice Chennai train coming into station. Platform 2.
[A] Come. Lets go. Its on platform 2.
All of us cross the bridge to platform 2. We leisurely hunt for coach S9. Train starts moving.
[A] Lets get in quick. I think it is leaving early.
[Me] Is this our train?
[A] Ya.
[S] Sirji, yeh Charminar Express hai kya? Chennai jaata hai??
[Sirji] Haan..Get in fast…Quick..
[S] Call K and tell him to come quick. Train has already left. What will he do? J and SA will miss the train too. We have to do something.
All of us go through the bogies to S9. Train has already picked up speed.
S9 seats 59, 60, 61, 62 have some 20 people sitting on it.
[Me] Hello, is this Charminar Express?
[Hello] No its Chennai express. Charminar express leaves at 6:30 pm.
[Me] WHAT?
Houston, we have a situation at hand.
[S] Lets jump of the train. Its only a little off the station and probably 25 kmph.
[Me] Yeah children. Lets jump.
[A] NOOOOOO… Now way. Its too dangerous. Lets get down at the next station.
All of us agree. Lets go meet the TT and tell him our problem. We’re all great model citizens of India. He’ll be considerate.
[A] goes in search of TT.
[Co-Passenger] Son, this train is on a totally different route. You’ll never be able to catch the other train.
Me and S totally pissed off and wondering what the heck to do.
Short while. TT in plain clothes comes walking by triumphantly. Like a CBI guy who’s caught an international criminal.
[A] Walking. Show me your ID card sir.
Sir not bothered. Asks us to follow him.
[A] At least give our ticket back.
[Sir] Coming. You people coming this way. Coming. This way. Behind. Ekkada nichi. Next compartment lo theesko.
Compartment S7. Nice govt cabin. Lion’s Den. 3 TTs having a ball.
[Sir] Ekkada rapu moonu passenger kavali pampisthanu malli ticket nakko. (Forgive my telegu – I think he meant Ha Ha I caught them. Ticket less travel. Frauds)
[TT 1] Ippudu baito. (Sit here?).
[TT 2] Nenu rounds chestanu. (Me going for rounds. Have fun).
[Sir] Ippudu ticketsla print chestava? (Looks at the printed ticket. Shows it to other TT).
[A] Sirs. We have a legitimate ticket. But we’ve got into the wrong train. Please help us out. We din’t mean it.
[TT] Hmmm… Its ticketless travel. You have to either get down or pay fine.
[A] But we have the correct tickets for another train. Its not our fault.
S and me frantically try to reach out to someone in office to try and cancel the other trains ticket. But can’t do that, because K, SA and J are on it. Information comes that they’ve got a general ticket and converted to berth seats. Sigh of relief.
Drama lengthens. The grotesque Sir and the nonchalant TT nod at each other. Speak endlessly in telegu and show us the calculations.
[Sir] Next station is 4 hrs away. You can pay fine till there, get down and go home. Otherwise pay Rs 2000 and get seats for this train and go till Chennai.
[A] Sir that’s a lot of money. We don’t have that much.
They look at me. My visage is loaded with anguish, despair, sadness, despondency and just about every inch of my face is pleading with them to help us out. But I don’t open my mouth.
[Sir] Look, you are like my sons. You told me you are students going for interview to Chennai. I wish you luck. But we are also helpless. What if Flying Squad comes and catches us. Nothing will happen to you. WE’ll lose our jobs.
[A] Sir, we don’t have money.
[S] Sir we’ll go one round in the train..Ammma Thaaaye..and then come back.
[Sir] Do what you want. You’ll have to pay fine. So far you’ve been in 2nd class berth. That’s the max consideration I can give.
[A] Sir what can we do. We don’t have money.
[Co-Pass 1] Sir I know telegu. Rambles in telegu and tries to reason with the TTs asking them to let us go with a lesser fine.
All of them go talking really well..Nice bonding happening. But the TTs are obstinate in their verdict. Money or get out.
[Co-Pa 2] I’ll help them. How much money do you need?
S immediately jumps up and talks to a co-passenger 2 and takes him out.
[Sir] See..When he offers money he goes out. These guys are frauds. I’ve seen lots of them in my life.
[Co-Pa 1] Oh no. I don’t know anything about them. I thought they are actually in trouble. Sorry sir. I don’t know anything about them. Totally apologise. God alone knows. What kind off people are there ah!…Innocent people..Never thought. Siva Siva….
[A] Sir its not what you think….Please….
[Sir] Rs 2000. This is the break up. Pay or leave…
S and CoPa 2 return.
[S] to Me. How much money do you have?
[Me] In front of TT. I have 450 bucks. Look.
All of them see. (Thank Allah, Christ and Krishna that nobody knows how expensive the Hi-Design Wallet I’m displaying to them is, though having only some chillar at the moment)
[CoPa2] See I have 1000 Rs, which I’ll lend them. That’s all I have. I’m a poor man. These guys need help. As soon as you get down pay me. Arrange for the money somehow.
TT agrees. Some roundabaout figure of 1600 is reached. More digging of money and a little more from CoPa2 covers the ticket cost.
[Sir] Give them surrounding berths itself, so that they don’t run off. Ha Ha. (2 times with resplendent audio effects)
All’s well that ends well..We get tickets to Chennai and the journey goes on.. All of us feel elated as we’d done lot of hard work, and had lots of fun too…Food comes. Settle down to some impoverished biriyanis.
A little later.
[A] Chill dude. You look really annoyed.
[Me] I am. I have a migraine.
[S] Learnt a proper lesson in life.
[Me] Ya, never be punctual.. You end up losing.
[A] and never stop me from buying Hot-Chips Ramifications are huge..If only we had spent some time on that.
[S] Ya. If only we had stopped at some ATM on the way.
[Me] If only we had got another auto from home. If only there was more traffic on the way…If only we had jumped when it was 25 kmph..
Lets have a nice get-together after 7 years. S with his twin children, A with his one kid, and me newly married. We’ll be giving gyaan to the children…
All of us laught out loud and swear to have another life-chilling experience again.
Rewind.
[S] to CoPa2 .. Sir we have Rs 1200 with us. But we don’t want to show it to the TTs. Can you keep it with you and give it to us in dire straits.
[CoPa2] Sure !!… In filmy stlye..Just check my acting out.
Back in cabin….
[CoPa2] See I have 1000 Rs, which I’ll lend them. That’s all I have. I’m a poor man. These guys need help. As soon as you get down pay me. Arrange for the money somehow.
Winks at S A and me without the notice of the TT.
TT agrees. Some roundabaout figure of 1600 is reached.
Digs into his pocket for the Rs 200 more. S ‘s totally won over by CoPa 2’s acting.. Admires his histrionics silently without the TTs notice.
More digging of money and a little more from CoPa2 covers the ticket cost.
Chennai here we come!
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
ayi-mmah-seR hse-miH
Good Old Days: Even if his name was the one above, it wouldn't be insult enough to sing praises about his god given divine intonation. I was reminded of good old days in primary school, when I was an ardent follower of Mowgli and his clique. Mowgli had long hair but no cap, and thought he was born a wolf. And every night his entire clan would visit the highest point of their kingdom, and howl in unison. The forbearing forest-folk wouldn’t protest against this minute of personal glory for the wolf-log. They of course weren’t aware of the ramifications that stood impending.
Present day world: We are the jungle folk. And we are troubled by hundreds of minutes of this divine intonation, that reverberates, echoes, distills through to the remotest of chords of our minds and stays there lingering like the stench that follows you, if you are in a cab trailing the municipal garbage van.
I could never imagine one letter of the alphabet could influence my life so much that I would start despising it. Wherever I go, the menace stands aide-memoire to this monstrous aberration. Cabs, Discos, Pubs, cubicles of fellow-colleagues, wherever you go, the voice loiters.
The letter ‘O’…
A monosyllable when properly used can be very sweet. Like ‘I Love You’.
But there’s someone is there in this world, who is so insane, that he twists and torts this syllable beyond the limits of human comprehension...
It’s quite heart breaking to know that this guy has so many followers! I really can’t find what’s so enchanting about his voice that many are so fond off.
All he does is chant the same letter in umpteen different ways.
The phenomenon that he is, I would interpret this happening as a difference that people grew fond off. Like the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. The ‘OOOOOO’ drone drove into our minds so much that, we started having an affinity towards it. Even I find myself singing ‘Jhalak Diklaaja’, only to realize my folly immediately and scorn myself for indulging in such nonsense.
But then its quite comical to see a rocking super hot model shake a leg for his insanity. Each time the song airs on TV, my hand finds the remote ‘Mute’ button automatically, and I stare endlessly at the beautiful damsel bouncing about on my 14 “ screen.
Inference:
With so much good music all around, people want a change. They don’t even mind a slight aberration from normal music. Even if it is weird. A change is a change.
Present day world: We are the jungle folk. And we are troubled by hundreds of minutes of this divine intonation, that reverberates, echoes, distills through to the remotest of chords of our minds and stays there lingering like the stench that follows you, if you are in a cab trailing the municipal garbage van.
I could never imagine one letter of the alphabet could influence my life so much that I would start despising it. Wherever I go, the menace stands aide-memoire to this monstrous aberration. Cabs, Discos, Pubs, cubicles of fellow-colleagues, wherever you go, the voice loiters.
The letter ‘O’…
A monosyllable when properly used can be very sweet. Like ‘I Love You’.
But there’s someone is there in this world, who is so insane, that he twists and torts this syllable beyond the limits of human comprehension...
It’s quite heart breaking to know that this guy has so many followers! I really can’t find what’s so enchanting about his voice that many are so fond off.
All he does is chant the same letter in umpteen different ways.
The phenomenon that he is, I would interpret this happening as a difference that people grew fond off. Like the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. The ‘OOOOOO’ drone drove into our minds so much that, we started having an affinity towards it. Even I find myself singing ‘Jhalak Diklaaja’, only to realize my folly immediately and scorn myself for indulging in such nonsense.
But then its quite comical to see a rocking super hot model shake a leg for his insanity. Each time the song airs on TV, my hand finds the remote ‘Mute’ button automatically, and I stare endlessly at the beautiful damsel bouncing about on my 14 “ screen.
Inference:
With so much good music all around, people want a change. They don’t even mind a slight aberration from normal music. Even if it is weird. A change is a change.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Title...
Its 10 30 in the night..After a gruelling session of understanding the functionality of a Financial Accounting Object, I feel something is going terribly wrong with me!..
Its ironic listening to Yeh Hai Meri Kahani by Strings and reflecting on myself twisting and twirling at the relevence of each line of the lyrics .. Talks about old times, thoughts that haunt you only when you are all alone..I turn around and stare at the empty cubicles alongside me, speaking in a unified voice... Wish old times returned.. Last four years, all I had was fun..Loads of it.. I've done everything that was humanly possible..Been really irresponsible..But that feeling really drove me..Living life carefree.. But now with all the responsibilities and pressure, things are suddenly looking ominous...And to add to the fact is this profound solitude at 10:40 in the night on a friday.. Suddenly feel like breaking free, and just running away..All seems like a dream..A dream with mixed and vague feelings...
Whats worse I don't have that old dependable soul to turn to and speak to...
Man I miss my friends...
But thats a bygone era..
More brain storming later...
Its ironic listening to Yeh Hai Meri Kahani by Strings and reflecting on myself twisting and twirling at the relevence of each line of the lyrics .. Talks about old times, thoughts that haunt you only when you are all alone..I turn around and stare at the empty cubicles alongside me, speaking in a unified voice... Wish old times returned.. Last four years, all I had was fun..Loads of it.. I've done everything that was humanly possible..Been really irresponsible..But that feeling really drove me..Living life carefree.. But now with all the responsibilities and pressure, things are suddenly looking ominous...And to add to the fact is this profound solitude at 10:40 in the night on a friday.. Suddenly feel like breaking free, and just running away..All seems like a dream..A dream with mixed and vague feelings...
Whats worse I don't have that old dependable soul to turn to and speak to...
Man I miss my friends...
But thats a bygone era..
More brain storming later...
April - 'Be the Fool'...
It was a nice sunny april morning...
Yuck...Bad beginning...
It was a rotten April morning...The Indian Airlines episode dint do any good to the day..
Just one thing that was good that day was the home food I ate at Venki's house and a nice long chat with him..
Back at home, seething unused dark corners of my mind started reeking out stupid ideas of fooling people...Me n ashok decided to go for Hostage...Supposedly nice movie..Anyways a couple of jobless bored guys din't mind a crappy movie...5 mins into the movie and I wasn't feeling too great sitting idle on an April 1st.. The first time I suppose when nothing untoward happened..
Ok quit idling guys..Time for some action...
I call up a friend of mine 'B', and start off...
[Me] " I don't know how to say this, but I think I need to tell you some____", pat comes the reply..
[B]"I know, I know, I know...., April fools day..."...
Chay...That was my dialogue...Caught and killed at the budding stages..Din't go down that easy with me..So lets fool someone else ('D')..She agrees...
[Me]"Why don't you call up the other friend and say, 'Ashok has been buggin me for ages..., He says he has feelings for you..I'm seriously bugged..Did he call you??'..
[B] makes the call..comes the reply.
[D]"I'm confused..Did he actually say that??..U said he's bugging [A] too??...
Cuts the phone and gives Ashok a missed call..
Me and Ashok seriously excited..But we plan to keep her waiting, so that she gets more anxious..And we call her back during the interval..
[Ashok] "Hello, I got a missed call from you..Whats up?.. "
[D] "Oh!!!, Sorry, it was meant for another Ashok...Not you..Very sorry.. "
Me n Ashok laughing our hearts out...Another Ashok...Ya right..I beleive her..
Sunday morning..Ashok calsl up [B] and asks her what the status is..
[Ashok] "Eppidi, hows the plan going..?? "
[B]" Its too good now..She sounded really confused..I called her sometime back..She asked me again and again if I was joking..I could hardly control myself..But I think now she's really confused...I dont want to miss it on Monday..I wont be in town.. "
[Ashok and Me] "Dont worry, we'll chalk out something.. "
Sunday night..
Again call [B]...and ask her whats up?...
[Ashok].".Can't wait to finish it off..Whats up with [D] now??.. "
[B].."She's totally confused now..Great going..."
[Me screaming in the background]..."Dude, I think [B] is double crossing..For sure..Ask her that.."<<I'm not that convinced>>...
[B to Ashok] "I heard that...Tell him I hate him...Only he would say such a thing..I would never do that.. "
Me and Ashok think she's trustworthy..Let's go along with the plan...
Monday..
I inform [B], major plans made...Just wait till Wednesday..
Lunch...
Ashok's mouth is watering, mainly due to the sumptuous feast laid out in [D's] lunch carrier, which he usually usurps a major part off....Today, major acting..Sacrifice..Anything for fooling...
Ashok curses me...Dude I dint have her lunch today man..Mere se nahin hota...I assure him..Dude chill...By wednesday its over..
Tuesday, Wednesday...Still cold war going on between Ashok and [D]...
Thursday [B] calls me up in the morning..And asks me n Ashok to come straight to Cafeteria, and finish it for god's sake..To get the timing right..Me a [B] exchange a flurry of smses...
Cafeteria..
All of us gather around the table..
Ashok facing [D].
Me across [B].
[Ashok] I don't know how to start it..I don't know if after this you'll still be my friend..
[D] Face becomes half a tomato..
[Ashok] Ahh..baahh...ehh...yebb....i've been bugging these two for many days now...
I should have told you about this that day itself..I made a mistake then..I think its late now..
But still..
Silence..
Silence..
Silence..
[B] Small smile flickers across face..
[Me] Control baby, control baby...muuaaah...
[D] Rotten tomato like face...Flabergasted...Totally preposterous stuff going on..
[Ashok] Guys I can't hold on any longer...
[D] Biting teeth..Clenching fist...
[Ashok] Elated...Excited..
All three of us rolling with laughter...
Suddenly out of the blue...
[D] Is this some joke for you??..How dare you...???..When [B] called me, I was totally tensed up..My mom also knows it..What'll I tell her now... <<Rotten tomatoes are pouring down her face>>....
[Me]"Dudes...Take it easy...It was my silly idea..Any fault is on me..."
[B] Face grim...Donno whats happening kinds...I kinda look at her, to guauge if anything actually wrong..hmmm..Face still grim...Defnitely something wrong...
[D] I'm calling my mom...You only pacify her...Hmmmpffff...
Hands phone over to Ashok..
[Ashok]" maamie....this is Ashok...Aaaanh..naan thaaaan...Ashok here..."
[Karthik]...Poda SAAvkreki! April fool!....
[Ashok]..Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssuuuuuuuuuuup Doc!!!!!.....
Shit...Totally fooled....
[B] and [D] laugh at the sad plight of two dudes in despair...
Me tho still wondering..Whats going on..??..What happened to the trust yen yall??.
Am I so naive..Shit...Some one pinch me...Tell me its a dream..All's not lost..
Is it a case of double crossing...Naaah...[B] said she wouldn't dream of doing that...
Truth beats down in a bitter fashion...
Rewind...
[B] Ashok called me now man..He's been buggin me about how he feels for you n all...And he kept telling me the whole_____...
[D] Ya right..today's what?April first..?? Lets fool those two instead....
[B] Can't wait to do that....Lets do it!!!!...
Let's double cross them big time!!!!..Yipeee...
Two of them start their executive plan...Involve Karthik...Tells Hebbu (Can't control laughter)..
Two donkeys fall for it...Unfortunately no double crossing over double crossing.
History is made...Rather, I've already written what happened afterwards...
Moral of the story???Anyone???.....
Yuck...Bad beginning...
It was a rotten April morning...The Indian Airlines episode dint do any good to the day..
Just one thing that was good that day was the home food I ate at Venki's house and a nice long chat with him..
Back at home, seething unused dark corners of my mind started reeking out stupid ideas of fooling people...Me n ashok decided to go for Hostage...Supposedly nice movie..Anyways a couple of jobless bored guys din't mind a crappy movie...5 mins into the movie and I wasn't feeling too great sitting idle on an April 1st.. The first time I suppose when nothing untoward happened..
Ok quit idling guys..Time for some action...
I call up a friend of mine 'B', and start off...
[Me] " I don't know how to say this, but I think I need to tell you some____", pat comes the reply..
[B]"I know, I know, I know...., April fools day..."...
Chay...That was my dialogue...Caught and killed at the budding stages..Din't go down that easy with me..So lets fool someone else ('D')..She agrees...
[Me]"Why don't you call up the other friend and say, 'Ashok has been buggin me for ages..., He says he has feelings for you..I'm seriously bugged..Did he call you??'..
[B] makes the call..comes the reply.
[D]"I'm confused..Did he actually say that??..U said he's bugging [A] too??...
Cuts the phone and gives Ashok a missed call..
Me and Ashok seriously excited..But we plan to keep her waiting, so that she gets more anxious..And we call her back during the interval..
[Ashok] "Hello, I got a missed call from you..Whats up?.. "
[D] "Oh!!!, Sorry, it was meant for another Ashok...Not you..Very sorry.. "
Me n Ashok laughing our hearts out...Another Ashok...Ya right..I beleive her..
Sunday morning..Ashok calsl up [B] and asks her what the status is..
[Ashok] "Eppidi, hows the plan going..?? "
[B]" Its too good now..She sounded really confused..I called her sometime back..She asked me again and again if I was joking..I could hardly control myself..But I think now she's really confused...I dont want to miss it on Monday..I wont be in town.. "
[Ashok and Me] "Dont worry, we'll chalk out something.. "
Sunday night..
Again call [B]...and ask her whats up?...
[Ashok].".Can't wait to finish it off..Whats up with [D] now??.. "
[B].."She's totally confused now..Great going..."
[Me screaming in the background]..."Dude, I think [B] is double crossing..For sure..Ask her that.."<<I'm not that convinced>>...
[B to Ashok] "I heard that...Tell him I hate him...Only he would say such a thing..I would never do that.. "
Me and Ashok think she's trustworthy..Let's go along with the plan...
Monday..
I inform [B], major plans made...Just wait till Wednesday..
Lunch...
Ashok's mouth is watering, mainly due to the sumptuous feast laid out in [D's] lunch carrier, which he usually usurps a major part off....Today, major acting..Sacrifice..Anything for fooling...
Ashok curses me...Dude I dint have her lunch today man..Mere se nahin hota...I assure him..Dude chill...By wednesday its over..
Tuesday, Wednesday...Still cold war going on between Ashok and [D]...
Thursday [B] calls me up in the morning..And asks me n Ashok to come straight to Cafeteria, and finish it for god's sake..To get the timing right..Me a [B] exchange a flurry of smses...
Cafeteria..
All of us gather around the table..
Ashok facing [D].
Me across [B].
[Ashok] I don't know how to start it..I don't know if after this you'll still be my friend..
[D] Face becomes half a tomato..
[Ashok] Ahh..baahh...ehh...yebb....i've been bugging these two for many days now...
I should have told you about this that day itself..I made a mistake then..I think its late now..
But still..
Silence..
Silence..
Silence..
[B] Small smile flickers across face..
[Me] Control baby, control baby...muuaaah...
[D] Rotten tomato like face...Flabergasted...Totally preposterous stuff going on..
[Ashok] Guys I can't hold on any longer...
[D] Biting teeth..Clenching fist...
[Ashok] Elated...Excited..
April Fool....
April Fool...
All three of us rolling with laughter...
Suddenly out of the blue...
[D] Is this some joke for you??..How dare you...???..When [B] called me, I was totally tensed up..My mom also knows it..What'll I tell her now... <<Rotten tomatoes are pouring down her face>>....
[Me]"Dudes...Take it easy...It was my silly idea..Any fault is on me..."
[B] Face grim...Donno whats happening kinds...I kinda look at her, to guauge if anything actually wrong..hmmm..Face still grim...Defnitely something wrong...
[D] I'm calling my mom...You only pacify her...Hmmmpffff...
Hands phone over to Ashok..
[Ashok]" maamie....this is Ashok...Aaaanh..naan thaaaan...Ashok here..."
[Karthik]...Poda SAAvkreki! April fool!....
[Ashok]..Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssuuuuuuuuuuup Doc!!!!!.....
Shit...Totally fooled....
[B] and [D] laugh at the sad plight of two dudes in despair...
Me tho still wondering..Whats going on..??..What happened to the trust yen yall??.
Am I so naive..Shit...Some one pinch me...Tell me its a dream..All's not lost..
Is it a case of double crossing...Naaah...[B] said she wouldn't dream of doing that...
Truth beats down in a bitter fashion...
Rewind...
[B] Ashok called me now man..He's been buggin me about how he feels for you n all...And he kept telling me the whole_____...
[D] Ya right..today's what?April first..?? Lets fool those two instead....
[B] Can't wait to do that....Lets do it!!!!...
Let's double cross them big time!!!!..Yipeee...
Two of them start their executive plan...Involve Karthik...Tells Hebbu (Can't control laughter)..
Two donkeys fall for it...Unfortunately no double crossing over double crossing.
History is made...Rather, I've already written what happened afterwards...
Moral of the story???Anyone???.....
Monday, April 03, 2006
Post Mortem....
Last weekend was a hectic one...Heavily eventful too..
Met a batch of really enthusiastic people and felt like I was back in college and doing my daily routine...
Time to elucidate on the facts that made me hate Indian Airlines..
I was in TVM last friday for meeting up with the new recruits who were to join us this year. We hosted a party at Muthoot later in the night, and I think everything went really well that day. I was scheduled to catch the IA flight next day at 3:40 pm to B'lore enroute to Hyderabad. My dad is an IA fan and when I called him he said it always arrived and took off on time.
Met a batch of really enthusiastic people and felt like I was back in college and doing my daily routine...
Time to elucidate on the facts that made me hate Indian Airlines..
I was in TVM last friday for meeting up with the new recruits who were to join us this year. We hosted a party at Muthoot later in the night, and I think everything went really well that day. I was scheduled to catch the IA flight next day at 3:40 pm to B'lore enroute to Hyderabad. My dad is an IA fan and when I called him he said it always arrived and took off on time.
Except on this blessed Saturday..
- 2:40 pm: I was at the airport one hour in advance, after confirming that the flight was on scehdule..The moment I got down from the rikshaw, an electryfying message greeted me...IA flight to B'lore delayed by 20 mins..
- 3:00pm to 3:35 pm: No problems..I could reach B'lore by 5 pm and take the next flight at 5:55, which happened to be one Air Deccan flight..I asked the people on the Air Deccan counter if that flight was delayed..They said till last week it was delayed, but today it would surely take off on time...Damn...Murphy's Laws were coming at me like a meteorite shower on Jupiter..
- 4:15 pm..: No sight of the aircraft..
- 4:20 pm..: The aircraft from B'lore and Cochin lands lazily..
- 4:30 pm..: I'd already bitten all my finger nails off by now..Impatiently jostled with the entire passenger queue and settled into my fav 8F seat (1st row in economy in an A320 carrier, i.e, first to board and first to get off)..
- 5:35 pm..: The darned flight took suprisingly less time to land, and by 5:35 pm I was in B'lore..
- 5:35 - 5:40 pm: Then I embarked on my mini marathon..Ran from arrivals..Totally dilaphidated airport..Couldn't figure out where departure was..Finally found it amongst some bricks and mortar.. Some weird construction was going on..
- 5:40 pm: I'm at the security check in frantically trying to wade into gate 2 like Moses amidst the Ocean..
- 5:45 pm: I'm the last guy to get into the Deccan flight with half the airport staff mouthing obscenities at me and a big migraine attack settling in..
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Banungii mein......
Ever since man set foot on earth there was this piece of distraction called woMAN that interfered with every footstep that he took. So much that the same woMAN came to be the epitome of grace, fashion and beauty in today’s world...
From epics to the modern day TV-soaps, the world = stage (where each person plays a part) always reveled in making sure they hogged the lime-lite for a considerable period of time...Soap-operas bear a stunning similarity to draupadi's vastaharan in terms of time and lack of clothes...Today’s BMMI is the culmination of the very same two elements that stands unfazed since time immemorial....
It doesn’t take much intellectual brilliance to put 2 and 2 together and realize how dumb a person can be who wants to win BMMI because it was her mom's dream, and wants the entire whorled to vote for this noble cause...
It takes more than long legs, skimpy clothes and a crown to 'eradicate' illiteracy in the country...
A person is actually on the zenith of being ludicrous if she wants us to vote for her so that she wins the crown and takes her family for a world tour...
If you want us to vote for you because you just realized something that goes like this... "If I become MI then I'll be happy and so will you", its totally preposterous…
Even the hostess admits its going to be a tough task for us to decide who is the dumbest of them all…
And then there's common trash about how you'll go about changing the world with your smile. Poverty, illiteracy, female infanticide, polio, rabies... Everything will vanish of the face of earth once I win the crown. So please, please vote for me...because a small wish of mine will be fulfilled by a large number of votes from you fools who watch me day and night..
After the great Indian laughter challenge I think this has been the most hilarious of tv-events to have ever touched the cellulite screen..
So if you liked this post, SMS AbhiIluvU [yourname]
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Play Time!!!
Jhamooorey!!!
Ji Sarkaar!......
Pilayegaa??, Khilayega???,Dikhayegaa???...
How I hate these three dialogues that I'm supposed to burp...Totally detest them...
More later..
Ji Sarkaar!......
Pilayegaa??, Khilayega???,Dikhayegaa???...
How I hate these three dialogues that I'm supposed to burp...Totally detest them...
More later..
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Time-pass.....
Am back with a bang!!!!After brief hibernation...Back to the blog world...To ponder over the most inane of things...Comment on the most assiduous of adventures...With an all new perspective...Brief encounters with the 'GOD'....And the most fun filling current endeavor...
I AM AN ANALYST.... ASSoc. ANALYST....
Finally after a comprehensive training schedule, got launched on to projects...
Not allowed to disclose client details...
But here goes a gist of how life has been plus the responsibilities...
- Life is sure hectic with strict timelines blowing down your neck all the time...
- Get to know all kinds of people... Broadly classified into romantics, barons and others...
- Romantics crib about how the old times were great before you guys came around. Now all you can think of is party, fun and firm activities!
- Barons are stubborn, and demand little or no ‘extra-curricular activities’. They're pained to see the timelines torn apart by amateurs like us...
- Others are the best... They let you be in your own world, complete your work when you get the time...
- Identify where your fortes are and get rocketing in that direction...
- Everyone around says your work is so simple, its not some rocket science...But the fact is rocket science is far simpler than debugging CASE, IF, LOOP, FUNCTION, and asinine code written by aliens...
- You party when you've finished a level-7 (you're dead meat work) object, only to come the next day with the lead informing you about the sad demise of your code at the 11th statement...
- Adhere to each letter in the project standards and process docs.. Meticulous in updating each and every action on an object only to find stuff half done with the time bomb clock 5 mins away...
- Do everything perfectly and produce work on which you can swear your!@#$ s off that this is the best you have to offer... Only to stare at a change in functionality from step 1.1, clause 'a' on delivery day...
- Shoulder all the responsibilities that are there, only to find peers stare at you saying... Bloody custard, wanna go onsite eh???...
- Select all and delete mails from your inbox. All stupid forwards... A cancer patient getting one cent for each forwarded mail... A mail from yahoo, where you'll earn 1.4567 cents for each forward you do... Testimonials that I got 123456 $ from Google for forwarding this mail to assholes like you. You do the same too... Only to find that you've deleted valuable specification mails from the client... Bug the tech support team for a backup, and end up pleading to get the mail resent...
- Keep bloggin away only to find your boss look from your side and say...Sonny you've no work? Come hitherto, I'll give you fresh responsibilities...
- Got to go.....
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