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A phone call that started it all...............again!!

"Hello??" i said as i picked up d call..... the number was unknown....must be telemarketeers, i thought.
"Hi, Remember me?" said d female voice on the other end

For a moment, my brain stopped working......of course i knew d voice....cud recognize it anytime...anywhere.........its been months that we had talked & i was certainly not expecting her call, after all, its been long we  broke up & she hardly calls since her boyfriend (the 1 who replaced me that is) doesnt like her talkin with her ex. I had pretty much accepted that and kind of moved on with life. And then, out of the blue, the phone call comes.

"Sure, how can i forget ur voice?"i said wen i had recovered enough to speak
"ohh, then what took u so long ??"  was d next bouncer aimed at me
"umm.. i was thinkin if u dialed the right number" i said, trying sarcasm
"SHUT UP!!"
i complied......u cant argue wid gals, n if that gal has ever been in a relation with u...its suicidal !!

After a moment of silence, i decided to try my luck and started pleasantaries..
"ahem...so, how are u??"
"m fine, hw about u??njoying ur life?" was d formal reply. We both were a bit formal talking after so long...
"Trying to...with the minimal scopes n time i get 2 do so. Hw is ur boyfriend?" i could not keep the inquisitiveness down
"We Broke Up"
"What??when??why??" followed my stream of questions...
"umm...lots of questions, dont want 2 answer now..."
"Okk...no problem" trying to be understanding  "so, hw did u remember me all of a sudden??"
"I never forgot u...always thought of u, just the circumstances u know....knew u wud always be there 4 me"
i kept silent, accepting the later part of her statement.......

Slowly, as we started talking, the uneasiness gave away to the lost ease and we started discussing our lives...we had a lot to catch up, had nt talked lot in the last quite-some-time. Within a few days we were back 2 our old self and sharing everything 2 each other, helpin n supporting each other with their problems, i, tired of my hectic work life and she,frustrated with her life at home.  And soon we realised, it was back to the good old days......& we were happy.

Disclaimer: Story completely fictitious.....no resemblances 2 any1 ;)

vroooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

"Bhaiya, when can i expect it?"

"Sir, i am trying, u'll have it by max 12"

"12 is too long, i got 2 reach my office by 11"

"Sir u know the procedure...there is always a long queue infront...."

This is the conversation i was having at 10 am with the owner of Bajaj showroom. My Pulsar 220F was due today and i had intended to collect it before office. But IST played its part and i was delayed as usual.....

It was about 12.30 pm when i got 2 see my new bike...a sleek gorgeous black machine...

Its been 4 years i have been riding my old 2nd hand pulsar, and finally decided i have had enough of it.... True, it was a companion to many of my experiences, My 1st bike, my 1st accident ;), my near-death experience during midnight-rash-driving, getting caught by traffic wid no documents, soooooo many trips with friends...It will take another blog if i start to write my experieences wih the bike....but u knw, everything comes with an expiry date...So i decided to move on with it and get myself a new bike.

After a lot of online survey, i decided i would be brand-loyal (:D), stick with Bajaj(& pulsar) & go for the Pulsar 200. But sadly, its production was ceased and so, the next model, ie Pulsar220 was decided. Colour was never quite a question as i had decided on black long ago.....

Some quick discussions and money arrangements were made, paid the advance for the booking and finally, d day arrived. I finally received my new bike...As i started the ignition and revved the engine....i realised i have made a gud choice.............

Job Lyf

One of my happiest days in college was d day wen i was selected in Patni Computer Systems. The market was down, comppanies were less...so i was more releived than happy wen i got selected @ the 3rd company that visited our colege. Within a few more days, i was also called for interview in a relatively small-scale Nagpur based company named InfoCepts. I was not much enthusiastic, but then thought to give it a try, just for the sake of it. Little did i know of my future then.....

I was selected in this as well, and the HR knew i was placed in PCS as well....so she keept pressing me to join this company over PCS, saying that it had better perspectives. I was reluctant and denied many times, but she was persistent. I am so thankful to her for that. That was the ending of 3rd year in college... I was pretty high, being the sellective few who ha grabbed 2 jobs; specially wen many had none. Within an year though, the reality stuck, and God!! Dint it strike hard!!! No official letter from PCS yet, and i was really depressed. And then i was offered the joining by my curent company (InfoCepts) just within 20 days of the final semester exam completion.

It was no short of a miracle for me, specially when i had not attended a single session here during the 3rd/4th year of my college. So, i readily accepted the offer and joined, the 1st from our entire college batch i think. I am about to complete an year and half of so called "Corporate Life" in just a month. I surely have gained sumthing in the past 1.5 year; new friends, monetarily, knowledgewise...but i sure have also lost some. They say there's nothing like a free lunch here...u gotta pay 4 every crumb here. I miss my old happy-go-lucky days...the easy effortless spending of time with friends and most importantly, the lack of responsibility on our shoulders....Not that i am kind of experienced here, the expectations & responsibilities are mounting...and its sumtyms tough 2 meet them..

How i wish i could be a kid again!!!

Re-Union

Sum1 said once in an SMS: Few Relations In World Never Die..that's what friends r supposed 2 b.... In case u have not got the connection right, check the 1st letter of each word in the italicised part above!! I finally realised that was true recently....


I had been to B'lore recently, to meet up wid a frnd on her b'day & 2 catch up wid sum old pals...Thanks 2 Indian Railway Service, i reached the Majestic station about half an hr late (The THANKS was genuine...last time i had reached 8 hrs late!!!), only 2 learn that my old pals were late(trusting the Indian Railway!!) n my frnd(b'day gal) was waiting just outside the station s she was also a bit late....neway, after lots of confusion (which included my frnds lookin 4 me inside the platform when i was out of it by a comfortable margin of 15 mins!!), we re-united.... After breif hugs(we r guys, remember, n in this part of d world, we r NOT supposed 2 have lengthy hugs, unless we want to portray that we r GAY!!) and few pleasantries (selected collection of beep beeps)..we settled down to a table.....Time flew so easily that we hardly had noticed....soon it was time to settle 4 d night...journey from majestic was about 1-1.5 hr by a Volvo..forget a BMTC bus!! So we departed wid the plans of meeting next day at 11 O clock, which got revised to 12 O clock to suit the late-risers!!


Next day, we met at 12.30 sharp... (IST mein half an hour late isnt considered late)...and after munching sum chicken pieces....left for a cafe cum bar....I settled 4 a cold coffee n others had chilled beer....we started reminding our old days, hw things have changed. No fixed topics, just leg-pulling, remembering old scams, plain free-flowing discussion on anything under the sun...and time raced by...


Soon it was time to depart...fill our heart with these fond hours of memory and go back to our places, back to work.......that half-day spent was so lively, so easy-going; that "sometimes I wish  I could...Turn back Time....." n relive those lazy minutes over n over.....

Bugs!!!

To all the Testers and bechare Developers…. He He…

Introduction:

Roshan D'Mello (QA Tester)

Mukesh Thakur   (Developer)

Roshan D'Mello:  Hey Mukesh, there is a bug in your code. Type a text in username text box and press enter. Beep sound doesn't appear.

Mukesh Thakur:  How can that be a bug? There is no requirement that beep sound should come. Anyway, I will assign it to offshore and get it fixed.

After 2 days,

Mukesh Thakur : Roshan, bug is fixed. Please verify.

After another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello :  I have re-opened the bug because sound is not coming in some PCs. Sound is coming in my machine, but my colleague Rajat Choudhry is not getting the sound.

After another 2 days,

Mukesh Thakur : Not a bug. I observed that your friend Rajat Choudhry has old IBM machine. Unlike your DELL machine, IBM machines do not have inbuilt speakers. So, to hear the sound in Rajat Choudhry's machine, please use head phones and then get the bug closed soon.

Another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello :  I have re-opened the bug because sound tone is Different across different machines. Sound is coming as 'BEEP' in my machine, but My colleague Rajat Choudhry who is having IBM machine is getting the sound as 'TONG'.

Mukesh Thakur : Not a bug. Get lost man. What can we do for the bug? The Two machines are built in such a way that they produce different sounds. Do You expect the developers to rebuild the IBM processors to make them uniform? Please close it.

Another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello :  I have re-opened the bug because intensity of beep Sound produced on 2 different DELL machines is different. My machine produces Beep sound of intensity 10 decibels whereas my friend's machine produces Sound worth 20 decibels. Fix your code to make the sound uniform across all machines.

Another 2 days later,

Mukesh Thakur :  Once again it is not a bug. I have noticed that the Volume set is different on the two machines. Ensure that volume is same in both The machines before I get mad and then close the bug.

Another 2 days,

Roshan D'Mello :  I have re-opened the bug.

Mukesh Thakur :  What ?? Why? What more stupid reasons can be there for re-opening?

Roshan D'Mello:  Sound intensity is different for machines placed at different locations (different buildings). So, I have re-opened it.

After 2 days,

Mukesh Thakur : I have made some scientists do an acoustical analysis of the two buildings you used for  testing. They have observed that the acoustics in the two buildings varies to a large extent. That is why sound intensity is different across the 2 buildings. So, I beg you to please close the bugs.

After 1 year

Roshan D'Mello :  I am re-opeing the bug. During the year, I requested The clients to arrange architects to build two buildings with same Acoustical features, so that I can test it again. Now, when I tested, I found that intensity of sound still varying. So, I am re-opening the defect.

Mukesh Thakur : GROWLLLL.....I am really mad now. I am sure that the Sound waves of the two buildings are getting distorted due to some background noice or something. Now I need to waste time to prove that it is because of background noice.

Roshan D'Mello :   No need for that. We will put the machines and run them in vacuum and see.

Mukesh Thakur:   ??

Result-----------------------

He is now in mental asylum while Roshan D’Mello has become QA Manager.

A particicularly Messed up Day/Night....

This is description of one of my particularly messed up day in office & home. It was a Lazy monday and i had to do  a couple of regular Bug Fixes and release for testing; atleast thats what i as thinking when i started for office. 15 minutes in the office, and i knew i was screwed for that day!!

10.30 AM: Started my system and went for a client call. But the client/host did not appear as he had some issues and the call was cancelled.

10.45 AM: After reading the 14 mails downloaded (all were sent on sunday different points of time, as i had checked mails on saturday), i came to know that there is a serious issue which needs to be solved ASAP. I already had my share of developing and testing, and all this extra work in the same day!!

4.00 PM: Got the developements done. Starting for testing.

4.10 PM: Some issues in the Testing environment, can not test the changes.

7.00 PM: Same issue still prevailing. No testing yet. Was supposed 2 release the code by 6.30 PM. About to pull my hair! Went down for a match of TT.

8.00 PM: Called one of the onshore guys(consultant) for the probable cause of the extra issue, hoping he might get it done. He gives a probable solution, but says he's too busy 2 look into it.

8.30 PM: Another onshore guy comes online and offers help with the issue. Some relief at last.

9.00 PM: Testing environment still not working. Unable to test the changes made yet....grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

11.00 PM: Frustrated and tired....wanna go home!!!!

11.30 PM: Decide the testing environment's not gonna work, so switch off my system & go home.

11.45 PM: try to clean my fishPond, it slips off my hand and breaks! my bathroom is a mess of stones n the pond and broken shards of glass. Also cut my finger and lost my appetite!!

aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!!!

12.40 PM: after doing nothing since the last 1 hr, switch lights off and go to bed.....