Office! Office! Office!

Colleague 1: are you using that charger ? if not , give it to me.
Colleague 2: I am using it.
Colleague 1: "thoda jaldi karna "

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Colleague  1: "ek kaam hai"
Colleague  2: " 7 30 pm dude. main nikal raha hoon"
Colleague  1: "lekin e bahut hi important hain"
Colleague  2: "accha .. bata kya kaam hai"
Colleague  1: " (Goes into detail about the description).. aaram se karle koi jaldi nahin hain.. lekin kal subah tak code live karna hain "

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Colleague  1: "Something's must be done about your hair style "
Colleague   2: "Oh yeah. Jason Statham's look is the best. I might go for it."
Colleague   1: "yaar, he's different. He looks like a stud"
Colleague   2: "main bhi tho stud hoon"
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Manager: What is it that takes so much time?
Lead: I don't think it should be done this way.
Manager: Then how do you think it should be done ?
Lead: We should write E-R diagrams
Manager: Then do it within half an hour.
Lead: ??
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Manager: C'mon yaar. Do it faster. It's already late.
Programmer: But how can I document it first and then code it later. That's Weird.
Manager: It is possible.
Programmer: It is better I code it and document simultaneously.
Manager: No. Document it right now.

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ఇంటి సమస్యలు!!

మా ఓనరు ఎంత వెధవ అంటే , పోలీసు వాడికి అడగక ముందే డబ్బు సమర్పించి , పని పూర్తిగా లీగల్ గానే జరిపించాడు. వాడికి డబ్బులు అడగకుండానే ఎందుకు ఇచ్చాడో, దేవుడు ఎరుగు.

చిన్న గ్యాస్ సిలిండరు తెచ్చు కోవాలంటే ఓ పెద్ద ముర్డర్ ప్లాన్ వేస్తాడు.

త్వరలో.

Civilization - I thought we've agreed upon that!

I am one of those people, who couldn't understand the real reason why so many rapes happen in India's Capital. So I started reading. Reading a lot, as to what kind of upbringing/mentality creates a systematic spawning of criminals. Most of the crimes against women.

Of all my readings this is the most comprehensive and shocking story, I've ever read.

Excerpts:

"Sample this. On 8 December 2010, in the little known village of Pillu Kheda in Jind district, a 13-year-old girl was abducted by four boys, raped and left by the roadside. The girl somehow managed to crawl to a brick kiln for help, only to be raped again by two workers there. When she was finally let go in the evening, an autorickshaw driver offered to give her a lift, only to rape her again and dump her on the same road. Left for dead and crying for help, the young teen was picked up by a truck driver and his aide, who — not surprisingly by now — raped her repeatedly for nine days. The police eventually found the girl at a woman’s house in Panipat after her father had filed a missing complaint.

The administration and police keep mum because they are always under political pressure. Everybody in Gohana (a town in haryana) is politically connected with some big-shot politician. Support from the khaps further boosts their morale. Everybody believes here that they can easily get away after raping a woman. In most cases, the accused forces the victim to compromise and keep her mouth shut.

Although Gohana DSP Yashpal Khatana rubbishes all these charges, what he offers as an explanation for the frequency of rapes is deeply disturbing. “Girls are easily influenced these days,” says the DSP. “They wear western clothes, so the number of gangrapes is increasing here.” The chowmein argument somehow begins to make sense now. After all, this is one of the keepers of law talking."

Even the chowmein argument can't be any more ridiculous and absurd than this. Cops who raped the victim (who was earlier gang-raped) are going to investigate that case.

I tried to think about various root causes of this animal behavior, I found this. This gave such a good insight as to what happens in Delhi day-in and day-out. 

One excerpt summed up well from that link, that we are dealing with animals here. 

"I’m angrier when I read scholarly articles about civil society, better governance and societal and infrastructural reforms. I read words like five years and “long term” and seethe. Of course one wants to live in a civil society that believes in redemption and the rehabilitation of its worst members but you have no bloody idea what you’re dealing with in Delhi. These are men who operate on an animal instinct. You need a brutal deterrent, employed continuously and consistently in the short term to let them know we mean business. When you’re cornered by a wolf snarling and baring its fangs do you lecture it on the sanctity of life? No, you react. If I could come face to face with these brave men of Delhi who tormented me, I’d shoot them between the eyes. Even today, if a man stares at me a moment longer than necessary I have this visceral urge to rip his eyes out."

One possible explanation to the cause of these crimes is that these men want to dominate and when they cannot, they try to use their strength or it is just some social stigma they think they have to overcome at any cost. This seems to suggest that. Other possible explanation could be they are either hysteric of some sort or just psychologically ill. 

I could only think of one possible solution. For the future generations, educational system needs to impart some wisdom. But for the current generations, we are just dealing with wild animals which are out of control. They just need to be tamed, in whatever way possible.

Reliance NetConnect+ and a fix.

I went thru' some forums to complain on how pathetic Reliance NetConnect is. Just as expected, there was a sea of disgusted and angry customers, who are really annoyed. But one review (not a complaint), caught my attention. It read like this:

"Some idiots wrote reviews regarding Relince net-connect being the worst net let me tell you it is the best net ever it has awesome speed from 1.5 Mbps-2.1Mbps. To all those idiots who say reliance net-connect is worst try BSNL 3G data card services and then write a review. Reliance has a good network coverage and nearly all small and big towns have reliance communication service centres. The IDIOTS who say Reliance Net-connect+ is the worst net I am sure you guys have not changed the D.N.S. . If you are using Reliance netconnect plus do e-mail me and I will send you the D.N.S. for it. My e-mail address is prakharrai96@yahoo.co.in
"
(Source: http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Reliance-Netconnect-review-umqslqqqlr)

I couldn't believe what he said, because of the harsh phrases used in it. I was a bit inclined to think that this guy could be working in Reliance. But I couldn't help think about this option.
A couple of searches in internet landed me onto this.
A way to change immediate DNS that we connect to.
http://www.tekgazet.com/how-to-change-reliance-netconnect-dns-server-settings/net/1562.html

Now after changing it, I get a download speed upto 520 Kbps and an upload speed of 120 Kbps.
I think that's it. That solved my problem. But it still keeps me bothering, was it official ? Do I have to keep looking some other alternatives every now and then ? How come Reliance, who market their products so aggressively not provide such crucial information to it's own customers ?

Crossed Fingers.

Password to Double Standards

I pay my phone bills online. But this time I forgot my account's password. So I clicked on the forgot password and I received two short codes, one through sms and the other one thru' email. Once I confirmed both, I was shown a create new password page. Life's good so far. I tried to enter some password.

Attempt 1: xxx
Site: Your password should have atleast one special character

Attempt 2: xxx
Site: Your password should have atleast one number

Attempt 3: xxx
Site: Your password should have atleast 8 characters

Attemp4 : xxx
Site: Your password should have atleast one Capital Letter

Attempt 5: xxx
Site: Your password cannot be the same as previous five passwords!!!!!!

Seriously, by now I was so totally out of passwords.
This time I followed my heart.

Attempt 6: xxx -- Seemed like Success

But ..

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Internal Server Error.
The Website is under maintenance. Please try again.



I finally created a new password that I can never forget. It's close to what I felt.
W. T. F!!!

Mumbai Diaries - Part 1

"Dude I told you!! We should have gone to the beach. I know you suck, never knew you suck this much!!!" Reddy shouted at me for making his evening not worthy to remember.
I said. "I was just trying to .. "
"No Stop. In the first place you made me come over without having enough break. And then this. Ah .. forget it !!! "
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15 Hours Earlier
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"Vashi .. "
"Vashi , utharne vaala koi hai ?? ", a boy shouted from the front door.
I woke up suddenly disturbed by his cry. I turned to the window to look outside. The sight was beautiful. It was raining, quite greenly and people outside were in a hurry to reach their destinations.
Some of them were holding umbrellas and wore backpack to the front. I wondered if in that case why bother wearing a "back"pack at all. Then something in me reminded that I am actually in Mumbai now, Ah! Finally. I waited too long to come to Mumbai. It's been a year since I got placed in college. Generally, we get placed a year before we graduate at IISc. Thoughts of how I would fare in my job rushed into my head. It made me a little nervous, especially after having a rough time at college.
The bus stopped again. This time the boy from the door shouted, "Sion! Sion!! Sion aa gaya hai, last stop!!"
I reluctantly took my bag and told Reddy, "Let's go!"
Reddy was my classmate at IISc. Though we both know each other, we never were real buddies in college. We were good friends. I gotta tell you, in college you never get placed with your best friends in the same company.
Reddy was pretty disgusted by the sight.
"It's raining. How are we going to carry our stuff? " he said annoyingly.
I said taking a taxi would be the world's best idea. He gave me a dirty look. I tried to ignore his look and got down lazily. Rain started pouring heavily as if it was waiting for a signal to come in full swing. Before I could get any feel for the new city I noticed that my bag is missing. It struck like thunder. I looked around and there's a guy who was carrying my bag and threw it in his taxi. I followed him and had to literally snatch my bag back. This guy then asks me , "kaha jaana hai bhai ?"
I said, " I don't want a taxi".
Reddy in the mean time was trying hard to handle the mob of taxi drivers. I came back to Reddy, he really needed some help. One the taxi drivers learned that we speak Telugu. He was the scariest of those drivers. He was tall, extremely dark and his shoulders reminded me of "The Incredible Hulk".

He said, "Haa, Telugu. You from Andhra. Me Tamil. Neighbor states. Get in my taxi !!!"
... to be continued.

Yathaa Raaja .. Thathaa Prajaa!

Someone calls me up on the phone.

me: "Hello"
Sales Guy: "Hellooooo. Sir, please use our credit card. The deal is so exciting that you'll only regret if you did not go for it"

me:"how is it exciting?"
Sales Guy:" blah. blah. blah. (Classic repetitive stuff from the sales guys)"
me: "sorry, it didn't excite me. I will not take the card"
Sales Guy: "Please sir, you have to take it"
me: "Why, I am not really interested"
"Why, what's wrong in this plan"
"I am not interested"
"But why ??"

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After 50 more calls from the same guy

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"Hello sir, would you like a credit card from our bank?"
"I told you hundreds of times . I am not interested"
"Sir, but why ???"
" Let me talk to your manager , you idiot"
"Sir, you cannot talk to us in that language"
"Sure, I can. Connect me to your manager"

He did connect to the Manager.

Manager: " Hello Sir, Good Morning. Let me first apologize for the inconvenience caused and what seems to be like a problem ?"
"I received hundreds of calls from the same guy every now and then. Please tell him that I have some work here to do and not to disturb me like this. "
"Sure I will Sir. This will not happen again. "
"Ha. Hope this make things easy from now"
"Sure. But sir,
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Why didn't you opt for this card anyway !!!"

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The Sales Guy was right. I did not go for it and I regret for sure, but for different reasons altogether.