HAND HARD DISC

HARDWARE TECHNOLOGY - In our language, we call it BOX SELLING. All in the feather, flock together and use the same terminology. It is the same lingo across the IT Hardware world.

There was this guy who joined us at work. He was narrating one of his initial experiences in the Hardware world. He was having an internal interview and it so happened that his manager asked him, "What is the size of the Hard disc?"..... To his manager's utter shock, this guy uses both his hands and puts his in front of his manager......(Just the way it is in the picture....)

All he had to answer was, 320 GB, 500 Gb etc and this brilliant man, comes up with a hand gesture the way it is in the picture.

Imagine the plight of his manager......

THOSE BLUE DAYS

All of a sudden, the entire world ahead comes to a stand still. Nothing ahead to look for. Where did all the happiness vanish and the entire life style to a big stand still. Every morning, a new day hoping to bring something new, but nothing yet has happened like that. When will the sun shine anew and bring anew day.

Sometimes, life brings such unexpected twists and turns, that just catches one so unaware. You totally wouldn't expect and know not how to react to such queasy situations. But why and how do such ruse happen to certain individuals..... Well, none would seem to have an answer...

I sometimes sit down and ponder over. Certain individuals face such terrible situations and are so shell shocked to the peak. Some get over the same at a fast pace while some want to dwell in their misery. God should give one the courage to withstand such temporary back falls, but the situations are so harsh to withstand.....Harsh isn't the word...

One should always know that neither happiness nor troubles are permanent in life. They are like the waves that rise and fall in leaps.But why is it so hard to take problems at your stride and so easy to welcome happiness.

Always remember, this was told by my Physics Prof in college that, "PROBLEMS ARE A SOLUTION IN DISGUISE"!!!!

SUMMERHOUSE

Summer House - This is one of the books by Jude.

I don't happen to read a lot of her books. But, by chance I started reading her books and this one titled - THE SUMMERHOUSE was one amazing book.

The Synopsis of the book is as follows,
Three friends turning forty on the same day, meet after a gap of seventeen years. None would have been in touch till then. Out of the three, one would be a homemaker, the other would be a writer and the third would be a nurse. The writer's publisher forces her to get in touch with her other two friends in order to celebrate their birthday together. ( Thanks to Technology, they manage to track down the other 2 ...)

Finally, all of three of them meet at Maine. Hence starts their adventure. All the three of them start bridging the gap of seventeen years. None of them except the homemaker seem greatly happy about their life, and the homemaker to some extent. One evening, all the three of them decide to go purchase gifts for the other two for their birthday.

But incidentally, all the three of them come across a card which states,
MADAM ZOYA, know your past...

The three of them get curious and visit her. She makes people go back to three weeks in their lives and if they want to they can make that their permanent lives......

Read this further to know what happens to their lives.....

Delhi Meri Jaan

DELHI - Much awaited trip in times to come. 16th July 2011 - The Day never to be forgotten in my entire life.
This was indeed my first trip all by myself (Whisky you better vouch!!) to the much awaited Dilwalon ki Dilli.

I was so excited that I reached the airport 4 hours before my scheduled flight as if the plane would fly me as soon as I reached at my convinience. Anyways I reached the airport and spent time browsing.

It was time for me to board my flight - SPICEJET heading to my destination - DELHI. After spending 2.5 hours with utmost excitement, I reached the INDRA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. The air that hit me on my face when I alighted was so hot that I felt I was in a desert. Dilli ki garmi, indeed garam.

In a WHITE DOWRY CAR i10 was WHISKY waiting to whisk me away to Gurgaon. Here I was to stay the next 10 days and I knew I would paint the city red. (Hopefully RED!!!)

(I know Whisky, you will have that smile on your face for my statement about your car - DOWRY I10 only, and it will not change!!!)

I sat in the car and I literally had to pinch myself hard to believe that I am finally in DELHI. Well, I did get a hard pinch.

The day I reached, I didn't venture out.

The next day we headed to do local sight seeing. I bought a few junk and we headed to Delhi.

One thing that caught my attention was "GOL CHAKKAR", 2 mins I was taken aback. MY Hindi is indeed good, but guess not this good. Out of curiosity I asked what does this word mean. That word meant - CIRCLE. Oh Lord... GOL CHAKKAR SE ULTA HAATH JAO - Now this line means take left in the circle... ( Whisky yaad hain yeh sentence!!!)

All thanks to Whisk's BIL, I landed up seeing Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. It was indeed fun and interesting.
Guess what, I landed up having South Indian meals ( All thanks to BIL). The most tasty meal in Delhi guess.

We went to a lot of places in and around Delhi and Gurgaon.

The best part is here. Whisky's DOWRY CAR mind you Whisky's life is parked in the parking. I all of a sudden wanted to travel by METRO. And yes, I did make Whisky's car remain parked and landed up getting into the METRO. (Whisky imagine your reaction.. My dowry i 10 worth 5 lakhs parking main khadi hain aur aap mujhe metro main le ja rahe ho......!!!!)

I got in Guru Dronacharya Station and got down in MG Road, not to forget the penalty for not swiping the metro card...

Some memories are etched in your mins forever. HEY YA, I WANNA GET CLOSER TO YOU.. Whisky must be fed up of this song by now......

Overall a splendid trip for life......

P.S: Not to forget Saket main Coffe Beans main AC kha he bahar nika gaye the.......(UFFFF yeh garmi.. was Whisk's favourite dialogue!!!)

Looking forward to more trips to yeh hain indeed Delhi Meri Jann!!!!

P.S: Hope I have not forgotten any other experience except for the Bangles admired by that chik in Turquoise.....

JOURNEY WITH NO END

This journey that I started in the world of Laptops, Desktops, Servers, Workstations, Storage etc , was the beginning of a wonderful journey. Among all these gadgets, was a tiny silent geek that I met. I used to feel the gadgets would make more noise than this human...(I mean you can just imagine how MUCH this human would talk....UNBELIEVABLE....). I would jabber away to glory and this guy wouldn't utter a word..For a person who would speak ten to a million, silence and serenity are unheard and unknown off...

Initially, I used to wonder how does anyone sit so silently at work lost in his work throughout the day. Well, I used to be zapped to the zenith. (Obviously for the rate at which I speak, anyone would seem quite in front of me....).

But this pocket joy, was awesome!!!!

FULL ON or OFF

Internet - In today's world THE most important base for survival. E mails, chat, sms etc all done through this powerful engine. It has become an essential tool for survival or shall I say existence.. Pretty true for some though....

This blog is one hilarious incident in context to the Internet.

I actually text a lot in my phone. But not necessarily all my friends would love to do the same. At times , they really have no choice. Thereby, after a lot of hue and cry, fuss in vain, my W gave up the argument and decided to start sending me text messages. Truly, this adamant little bottle threw up a whole lot of fuss ten times his personality. But, me being me.....

One evening, a few days back, Whisky said I would receive text messages. I was overjoyed, actually on cloud nine. YUPPIE.... PERSEVERANCE indeed pays at times.. ( Mind you, only at times and it comes a limited warranty too........)

I waited, waited, waited... even after a couple of minutes passed, my phone didn't beep. I being a restless soul, couldn't wait. ( Obvious, patience level is negative...) I picked up my phone and called. After a few rings, I hear that sweet voice on the other end telling me something called " FULL ON"... I at times can barely hear what comes out of that tiny , amazing voice box. I was baffled.. Pondering what on earth is this FULL ON now... I asked the same. Pat came the reply...

" I am trying to send text messages from FULL ON SMS".......... I burst out laughing.. I mean literally rolling on the floor...

Mind you, not a single text message, but the response from my pocket joy was awesome.. " I am on FULL ON SMS.. I asked, FULL ON or FULL OFF since I had not received a single text message... Yes got it right.. NOT 1 SINGLE MESSAGE FROM FULL ON SMS......

I wonder should it be re christened to FULL OFF SMS.....Only W can comment though......

P.S : FULL ON...... FULL ON.......INDEED!!!!!!

PEAS OR PIECE

Most of the times it is OFFICE HOT NEWS that we exchange with great enthusiam and ultimate curiosity. At times, I feel if we had done this in college we would in the topic of discussion and gossip instead of debating our manager's goodness.

Neverthless, one such lazy afternnon, I happened to bump into my colleague who apparently her finished her lunch too. So , I casually asked her what's for lucnh. Her response became the theme of this blog of mine.

Her reply and my interpretation was just mind blowing. In response she said, " Biryani", so I asked what Biryani and she replied "PIECE"....

Now for we veggies, that PIECE in pronunciation will be taken as PEAS...

Ain't this a great way of communication for comprehending..

PIECE for the non - veggies and PEAS for the veggies....Eitherways the suffix is BIRYANI irrespective of the prefix.....

Delhi Main Hain Jaan Indeed

Delhi - What comes into my mind when I think of this city - Just one word WHISKY.

Whisky - My dearest and bestest pal who moved into Delhi from Bangalore.

Nov. 16th 2010 - Dreaded day in my life, the day Whisky was leaving the city once and for all to settle amongst dilwaale in Delhi. I cannot let the feeling sink in even today that Whisky isn't here and has moved out.

Some people just walk into your life and leave that impression that will last a lifetime. Whisky is one such who has left that ever lasting impression in life.

The days spent with my dearest pal where just the best for days to come.

Delhi - This is one place given a chance I would like to settle just to paint the city red with Whisky.

Some things BEST UNSAID

Life sometimes throws really hard tasks at your face. So hard that your face should crumble. The ones that don't let it crumble are the ones who work out wonders for themselves. Ain't it true????

The most asked question, "WHY ME"? , but an answer never found till date.

People so often fall in love and very fall often fall out too. Well, what's nes in this?? Love is meant to happen, but ponder that love remains forever or not. Come to think of it, most of the times, it does not.

Faced with a situation like this, what does one usually do...

The situation is usual, boy - meets- girl-falls-in-love-but-cannot-marry types. Isn't this the most common scenario that we see in the modern days and have heard in ancient times too.

The same thing happens in many of our lives too. We fall in love madly and crazily and dream about spending the rest of our lives with that person. (It's like, when you fall in love, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible..)

For most people it comes true. But just imagine for the ones it doesn't come true..

Parents force, the guy is not interested, things don't work out, wave lengths don't match etc, whatever the reason may, the inference is a BROKEN HEART and a zilch love life. The state of mind is not something one can really pen down. Everything around changes all of a sudden and there seems world's end.

But, life has to move on for some and for some it just gets stuck.

This life that gets stuck..... Somethings indeed are best when unsaid!!!!!

COFFEE DOES KICK

"Tere sang, ek simple bhi coffee bhi kick deti hain, tere sang"!!!!!!!!!

This song is indeed Fenny & Whisky's favourite song. Not for the fact that coffee happens to be their favourite but only for the fact that even a simple coffee with each other kicks them real high. Their company is just enough to LEAD A HAPPY LIFE FOR EVER.

Each time they meet, this is the song that they recall with new memories. New memories each time this song plays at the back of their mind.

This is one such coffee incident.

Whisky happened to meet fenny sometime back and they decided to stop over coffee. (The very irony of coffee shops being, pay-more-to-converse-more attitude....)

This time the coffee shop being CAFE PASUCHI (Not sure if I got the spelling in tact, nevertheless, please correct the same..) They walked into the shop and sat. It was almost seven in the evening. This coffee was a stop over before dinner.

Menu card arrived. Scanning was in full swing from Fenny's end as Whisky can never place an order. After a quick scan, settled in for hot coffee. The price was pretty high only to an utter shock later. Few minutes later, something called coffee arrived in huge tray. From a distance the tray looked almost empty.

With a royal treatment, there arrived our COFFEE CUP. FREAKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
The darned cup was not in the least bit visible.. It was the most tiniest cup anyone could think of serving coffee , let alone it being for boring guests.

Peeping over that cup, gave an utmost shock of life. The tiny cup had a few drops of black water in it and nothing else. A few packets of sugar were piled in a cup and it looked like sugar should be poured in plenty to feel happy to pay that price.

Whisky mustered all his courage and took a sip, and freaked out. God knows what that damn black liquid was....For crying out loud, this black water came at a price.. Another sip and the cup was EMPTY....

THIS COFFEE INDEED WAS SIMPLE AND INDEED KICKED......

(p.s: this is the to etch a memory over coffee for times to come.......)