So Soft-ware engineeeeru !!!

‘Machi already late night da…. We should have left earlier’, I told to my mate with a hopeless voice…. ‘Vennai, I told this 1 hour back and you din give a s**t… now polambingsssss’ I can see the anger in his sentence….

We all attending the farewell party hosted by our college telugu guys after the last day of the final year engineering course…. Ya, good 4 years passed by and we all were happy….

‘Seri…ok ok ok…chill out dude… after all its our party.. its only 1 o clk now… I will take you in 23 mins to home’…. I kicked my soul mate … I meant the black hero Honda splendour of mine…. There were 4-5 blokes living on the first floor of my house (tenants) who are (were) also my class mates in my college….This time I got one of em with me to the party in city center…. Our house is in the suburbs of Chennai and the city center is around 30 mins journey from ther….

‘Maaps (short form of maplai which means ‘son-in-law’ literally but no way means it) don be too rash or fast… go slow’…. He was begging me ..hahaha… I like it !!! I quickly parked my head in to the costly (400 rs.) helment and started to roll’…. It was mid june and no wonder the place is still humid even in the middle of night in Chennai… I was comfortable as the climate doesn’t bother me to slow down… Hardly any vehicles on road…. I was cruising to my home at around 70-80 kmph… taken the shortest possible route irrespective of the roads being no-entry zone or traffic police prone zone (as I got all the docs… needed to sneek away)…

We started from prince towers (egmore) and reached Choolai medu in 10 mins odd…
I took a no entry zone and went to a parallel road to take the short route… it’s a narrow connector road with lots of sharp curves… One dog was totally aggrevated by the noise of my vehicle and started to chase us…. There was other dog (sleeping 200 meters ahead of us) totally angry with this chasing dog’s voice and that too started running towards me… on an attempt to dodge this dog traffic I tried to do a smart cut and ended up skidding after getting past a hump….

Kreeeeeeeeeeeeech!!!! I din know what happened for next 20 secs…. After that I found myself 2 metrs away frm the bike… my left shoulder got a severe scratch… blood oozing out… big bang blow on my left knee with minor scratches all over the left leg…. I took my helmet off and found that it has got a big dent on the left side head spot…. Oh man …. Great escape…. Level 1 (My condition) is ok… I gotto check 2 more levels … next is Level 2 (My mate’s condition)… I looked back …. He came running towards me ‘Machi wat happened da… u ok there?? I detached and pulled away as soon as u started skidding…’ hahaha… super I like it…. He was totally safe with out even a single scratch…. What a friendship….lemme get well and kick ya a**… Level 3 (My bike’s condition) ayoooooooooo….. my dome (I got CBZ bike’s dome for my splendour on an expense of 450rs….) its broken…. Cha…. Total bad night : (

The beggars sleeping along the road side came towards me running and they were too good by giving me some water and the first aid that they kno…. They also took the bike for me and parked it along the side…. One of em asked me to go to hospital first…. But all we had is 32 rs…. Nthng more… as the trauma was not severe I decided to go home better… I need to answer 200 questions and cover up lots of facts… gone !!! gone !!! am dead man once I reach home…. I thanked all the kind human beings there and some how managed to get the bike running….

I crossed the Anna nagar Roundabout and heading towards thirumangalam with extreme pain on my shoulders…. Without knowing the biggest problem thaz gonna attack in another 111 secs…. There were a group of police men standing there near Blue star waiting for midnight hunt…. I was rightly caught… still I din bothered as I thought I got all the docs… ‘Where you guys coming from ?’ he asked in the most commanding tone… ‘Sir, farewell party sir from prince towers..’…I gave a humble reply with fulla agony….’Ok… get the papers’..why the hell these nuts asking me papers even though I haven’t breeched the traffic rules… karma… I don’t have any guts to ask anything…. I pulled out all the papers from the tool box where I kept those… ‘License???’ he starred at me…’Here…’ I pulled the card from my purse…’Ok.. where is insurance??’ … this time with more high voice…’Sir, it should be in there… how can it go missing’..i was puzzled…. ‘No, the insurance in this has expired 2 months back…where is the new one???’ he went mad…..

‘What the ….’ I dunno wat to do…. (Mavanay sethada nee)… I started pleading him..’Sir, I just met up with an accident and I am totally drowned already sir….I am sure my dad would have renewed the insurance… I will get the new copy tomorrow sir’… i showed a pathetic face…however the inspector was too rude…’What you thought am a fool…alright leave the bike… come with insurance tomorrow and get your bike’… he din wanna listen any more… I gave up after several attempts… My friend was a mere spectator all the time…. Wat else he could do… we started walking with out any idea about wat to do to get home…. We bashed those police men once we left the place…. Agony ..agony…agony…. jus an hour back I felt am the happiest person in the world… how ironic… crap !!!



We got PP70 bus near tirumangalam junction which goes to my place… we both sat in the last seat and slept one over the other thinking about the happenings…. And the following happened there after…

- convinced my parents that I was completely right with my bike riding and it was not my fault of leaving the renewed insurance docs…

- covered up the accident marks in my body with extreme difficulty


- went to the police station next day and claimed my bike back by writing a letter to inspector and also last but not least, at an expense of few orange juices to those b****s as a (forced) complement to do ther duty…


- comfortably lied to parents that it was those cops who broken my bike dome when they were transporting the bike….


- Got bullied by all my mates after that embarassing series(luckily my college days were over)

I wanted to get in to IPS and being a honest and public friendly officer…. After that devastating incident….(so kiddish isn’t it)… finally ended up being a software engineer blogging about this cho chaaad incident !!! (the least I could do) ; )

Think Think Think….!!!

Quiet long time aye !!! sema busy pa…. (please believe… believe… ada nambunga pa) anyways I started to feel that life is again goin monotonous both with office and personal life… nothing new and nothing exciting but there was a 2 day experience in the middle I wanted to share about which was very much intrstng….

I was so pissed off and not at all happy as am gonna attend a training on ‘Creativity, problem solving and decision making’ … crap its part of my development plan and I am supposed to take it… on top of that I had s**t loads of stuffs to finish off at my work place …..

It was Thursday morning and am fully drowned with no-mood-to-listen mentality… unwillingly I made to the training room on time which is like 1 million mile from my desk…. All the participants are new there and am not a good socializer in frst instance which made me feel more sick… no systems in training room means no chatting , no emailing, no time passing … ayooo I have to be in this desert for next 2 days…. I saw the trainer there… he was like heroine’s dad character in Kaadal movie…. So scary with his hefty appearance…. (machi nee maatna)

Ironically, those 2 days turned out to be the most intrstng part of this boring life spree am traveling on now… He started off with the introduction that made me to know abt the various ppl and ther background… fair… then he started off with 4 puzzles of different nature…. I managed to solve the first one with a clue, 2nd one i solved but thought the answer could be wrong due to too much logical thinking…, 3rd one was maths kinda puzzle but I thought lil different to arrive at a creative solution based on logic…. 4th one was very normal and little straight forward….. I was lil charged up as I was squeezing off my brain after a while… Then he started to explain how the brain thinks about each problem and which part of the brain (left or right) used a lot for a problem and how does it matters with personality ….. I started to feel the intensity of the heat… and I also felt its intrstng…. Wow !!! I exclaimed coz I wasn’t aware I spent 2 hours already in this class with out feeling a pain….

Got a hot cupa tea during the break and started lookin at the contents of the hand out for the first time… it was indeed intrstng… and I decided to give my best concentration as I trusted the person would be worth of with his amazing profile… The first thing stunned me was this… he asked generally ‘Guys, I got a question before you do this exercise… which part of brain you guys normally use?’ many said right, few said left.. few are confused …. So do i....’I guess I use both parts but am not a good thinker I believe’… …. I murmured in an unconvincing tone…. He throwed a crocodile smile (thaz how it looked) on me…. ‘Ok!!! Fill this questionnaire probably this may help you with your guesses about you’… I was curious… I filled the questionnaire in a flash… it has 20 questions with 2 options to answers for each…. The instruction was to calculate the number of option A and option Bs…. It was written at the end that if I have chosen more of option As then iam more a right brain user…. And vice versa… I was stunned to see I scored 10-10…. No wonder why am so confused most of the times…..Siva (trainer) given a philosophical smile on me and said ‘Ok dude…. Don’t think a lot just take this hand out and do as instructed’…

My curiosity now doubled… the hand out paper got around 20 phrases and I am supposed to pick those which suits me… I quickly picked and found 14 of em matches me… siva then had given another hand out of further instructions… That had a table with the information that what each phrase represents means is he a left brainer or right…. I counted…. And shocked this time… totally wacked… the result is 7-7… iam unique in that mini crowd…. Few others also claimed to be middle brain but ther results are not as accurate as mine…. However, shiva told that there is nothing special or good about this apart from such cases are very rare to find….. I was happy for a minute and disappointed to hear ‘ther is nothing much special about it’ (naa itha ketayna ivar kita…. Yethivitu erakarthungrathu ithu thaan pola)

This was a good start and I continued to listed about various ways of problem solving techniques, idea generation… most of the class room exercises happened as teams which made the course very much intrstng…. As a part of one exercise we are asked to create a worst tv show to telecast at 12-1 midnite which should turn out to be a big hit…. This was funny situation… we thought a lot and came out like a show that will blow up wat happens at the midnight of any one ….. it may be an intrstng show to a boring time pass…. All liked it …. One of the innovative guy in our team came up with this brilliant creation for the scenario…. Another team exercise made me curious was the scenario where an argument between a under looked software enggr and his lead who is desperate to finish up the ongoing project before the deadline… the soft. Enggr. Is so pissed off with his job as he was never recognized and now been asked to do over time shift to finish up the existing project…. It was a practical session done to emphasize the importance of role playing as part of problem solving… it was intrstng… ‘just put yourself in others shoes’ when ever you have problem with other people and then act accordingly… this is one big stuff I learnt…

I took the trainer away on the next day lunch to discuss about my work related problems and how to handle… he was very much professional and given an unbiased views about the problems…. I guess am much more clear about what is my problem all about and how to approach on it…. Wat more??? I have given him the best feedback (am sure he would have got the same from every one in every program he conduct)… and left the room with full of joy and enthusiasm with out bothering about the release I have to finish it by Monday eveng….

SHEER BRUTE THRILL !!!

This blog just express various people’s feelings during the last 3 balls of the T20 world cup tournament recently happened.

Background:

India batted first to put 157 on board. Pakistan chased well to reach 145 in 19 overs for the loss of 9 wickets. Last over.. 6 balls left and 13 more runs needed to snatch the shining trophy and prove they are the supreme power of the tournament.

Feelings…..:

Pak. - 19 overs – 144/9

Shoaib Malik (Pakistan captain sitting on the bench):

Oh god !!! I thought we are lost… misbah darling get those runs and prove the power of our religion. Atleast for our life (I don’t wanna get killed mysteriously after a shocking loss like our old coach)

Misbah (batsman who is about to face the first delivery from Jogi.):

Array yaar !!! I was expecting Bajji… wat the hell ??? this bowler is cheeky in this match and keeps me confusing on the approach… anyways… I remember the league match I played with similar situation… I shouldn’t mess up this time.

Dhoni (Indian captain):

Come on Jogi… I know I am gambling with you but thaz alright…. I don’t care if we win or loose… play your best cricket…. (don’t laugh dhoni is more a philosopher than a player) ;)

Runner in the other end:

Ya allah !!! please don’t make me to take the strike…. I am sure I will be dead with heart attack….

Joginder (the Indian bowler about to bowl):

All sharp people…. Made me to bowl last over so that they can put the blame on me… I feel like am a scape goat… anyway I don’t think I can get in to team even if I bowl well and win the match…. Lemme stay off the pressure and do decent bowling…

Harbajhan (poor victim of Misbah’s fireworks earlier):

Ahhhhhh !!! I totally messed up… good I haven’t taken any chance to bowl last over and take the worst curse from all of my country men.

Pak. - 19 overs – 145/9 (wide ball bowled)

Dhoni : F**k
Misbah : Yesssss
Shoaib : God is great !!!
Harbajan : Me great escape ;)
Sharukh khan : Chak de India come on !!!!

Pak. – 19.1 overs – 145/9 (Dot ball)

Dhoni : There you are my boy J
Misbah : Ya kudaaaaa
Javed miandad : Teri *****
Venkatesh Prasad : Yes man yessssss get me some credit come on….
Gambir : Will I get man of the match !!!!
RP Singh : I should have bowled this last juicy over yaarrrrrr

Pak. – 19.2 overs – 151/9 (Sixer)

Indian fans : Jogi is an A** H***
Javed Miandad : I love you Misbah darling
Rohit sharma : Watz so great about it even I can hit like that
Harbajan : (again) great escape daaaaa !!!
Agarkar : Me too great escape …
Venkatesh Prasad : I can see myself in my days
Gambir : I think I wont be the man of the match


Pak. – 19.3 overs – 151/10 (Out – Catch India won the world cup)

Afridi : thatz it my house will be damaged by now in Pakistan
Inzamam : Hahaha this time shoaib malik will be accused for killing coach
Sharad pawar : Super advertisement ready for me and my party for next election
Dhoni : I love India
Misbah : Not again !! am sure whole Pakistan will curse me for another few minutes before realizing my original contribution and value.
Ameer khan : Why not I can take Lagaan – II with this…..
Sharukh Khan : I should not shake hand to Pakistan skipper by mistake
SA and England : Abba !!! we haven’t lost to the worst team.
Australia : Just miss… we should have got this candy… lets crush them next week in the tour to India
New Zealand: For us the win against India in Super 8 is the best moment lets escape with that credit
Jogi : I know they wont give the man of the match to me… lemme pretend like it was an ‘idea delivery’
Sreesanth : I showed (shouted/screamed/sweared) up a lot !!! I cant think my situation if I left this catch….

India won the T20 world cup – 2007… week to remember, memories to cherish for ever : )