From Pradyut's Desk:
Subj: MY DAYS IN TCS B'LORE.
7:00 Wake up. Decide to do some really path-breaking work today.
9:00 Reach office. Sign in. Switch on terminal.
9:05 Check mail.
9:15 Start replying to accumulated mail." I really hate being
popular. "
9:40 Send mail to occupant of next to next cubicle. "
Going for a lil'e booze tonight ?"
9:45 Log into CyberSpace / M-Net / whatever.
9:50 Start searching. There must be some girls logged in.
10:05 Ask a girl for a date.
10:10 refusal!!
Heartbroken.
10:20 Recover equilibrium. Search for coffee. Anybody going to
cafetaria ?
10:50 Back at desk. Decide to really start working now.
11:00 Realize that the required manual is in the library.
Will have to withdraw it.
11:15 The spare library card was here somewhere. Where is it?
11:30 Give up on library card search as a bad job. Of course
I can do the stuff without the manuals.
12:45 Something written. Should get compiled.
12:46 How can 40 lines of code give 283 lines of error ?
Must be some typographical mistake. Will check it
after lunch.
13:15 The food was really good today. Why don't they make this
item a regular feature ?
13:20 That was a really bright idea. Send a general mail to
campaign for inclusion of this item everyday for lunch.
13:59 Did not include windows.h in the code. Now it should
compile.
14:00 It compiled in one shot. God, I'm a genius!
14:01 RUN.
14:01:01 GPF. (General Protection Failure)
14:02 Stunned. What is the world coming to these days ?
14:05 OK. Now the hard part comes. Do I debug the code or filch
somebody else's library card ?
14:06 Looked over the cubicle. Chap in next cubicle has almost
completed his module. Homicidial thoughts.
14:15 No, I should really do something about it. Start debugging
the code.
17:45 Continuous GPFs. It would have been easier to kill the
chap.
17:50 Take a break. Go for a fag .Recurrent daydream : "Why are
blonde girls so pretty? "
18:05 Start Netsurfing. Search for Sharon Stone.
18:15 Found the location. Start downloading the pictures.
18:20 No space. Save it in the server ?
18:21 Do I dare to do it ? OK, what the hell, DO IT!!
18:35 Start experimenting with fonts, cursors and prompts.
God, I was really made for this stuff !
19:25 Where is everybody ? Finger !
19:30 Time to pack up and dart down towards NASA
23:50 Back from the pub. Consider today a day well spent.
Long live the I.T. industry.Long live TCS . Long live
Pradyut MItra!!!
0:00 Turn in for the night. Resolve to do some really
path-breaking WORK tomorrow.
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Is Marriage that bad ?
Contributed by Talu: 2nd Entry from Talu, BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
> >> Marriage is a gamble. You start with a pair. He shows a diamond.
> >> She shows a heart. Her father has a club. His father has a spade.
> >> There's usually a joker around somewhere, but after a while he
> >> becomes a king and she becomes a queen. Then they end up with a full
> >> house.
> >> Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends.
> >> You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has,
> >> you wish you had ordered that.
> >> At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, "Aren't you wearing
> >> your wedding ring on the wrong finger?" The other replied, "Yes I am,
> >> I married the wrong man."
> >>
>>> Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is really finished.
> >>
>>> Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his bachelor's degree
> >> and the woman gets her master's.
> >>
>>> A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to
> >> get married?" And the father replied, "I don't know, son, I'm
> >> still paying for it."
> >>
>>> Young Son: Is it true, Dad, I heard that in some parts of Africa a
> >> man doesn't know his wife until he marries her?
> >> Dad: That happens in most countries, son.
> >>
>>> Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness
> >> was until I got married; and then it was too late.
> >>
>>> A happy marriage is a matter of give and take; the husband gives
> >> and the wife takes.
> >>
> >> When a newly married man looks happy we know why. But when a
> >> ten-year married man looks happy - we wonder why.
> >>
>>>
> >> It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job,
> >> he still ends up with the same boss.
> >>
>>> A woman inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Husband wanted". Next
> >> day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing:
> >> "You can have mine."
> >>
> >> A perfect wife is one who helps the husband with the dishes.
> >>
>>> A woman was telling her friend , "It is I who made my husband a
> >> millionaire." "And what was he before you married him." Asked the
> >> friend. The woman replied, " A multimillionaire".
By Sanjib Talukdar..
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
*****************************
standing for what you believe in
regardless of the odds against you
and the pressure that tears at your resistance
means COURAGE
keeping a smile on your face
when inside you feel like dying
for the sake of supporting others
means STRENGTH
stopping at nothing
and doing what in your heart
you know is right
means DETERMINATION
doing more than is expected
to make another's life a little more bearable
without uttering a single complaint
means COMPASSION
helping a friend in need
no matter the time or effort
to the best of your ability
means LOYALTY
giving more than you have
and expecting nothing
but gratitude in return
means SELFLESSNESS
holding your head high
and being the best you know you can be
when life seems to fall apart at your feet
and facing each difficulty with
the confidence that time will bring
you better tomorrows
and never giving up
means BELIEVING IN YOURSELF...
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Shantanu D'Gupta Resigns
Hello guys,
No more mail from this end.i'm resigning from my job w.e.f. from today ie.
15th Jan. 1998.I have had enuff of it,so chucked it just like that.As of now
i don't know where i'll be going and what i'll be doing.Probably B'lore
bound-just to see how Being in B'lore feels.That's it
Keep in Touch (however it may be) & Keep the Faith
Luv
D'Gupta
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Pradyut to join TCS Calcutta
I wonder what Sujoys' doing ..
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Pandu's 5th article
I find myself albeit late in catching up with u all in the new year,but
nevertheless, the bottomline is i'm back.Back with the same nagging &
unchanged intentions of bombarding u with this
daily mail, however hard u try to shrug me off u'r back. So let me wish
u all a fabulous new year
ahead, picking the trail up from where I had left and extending it by
hoping that this daily nuisance
is all u find miserable in u'r palate.
There was a mild chill in the air when I reached B'lore
at an ungodly hour today.
The gentle breeze soothed the body & the mind & it felt good to be back.
The pleasant chaos
which we call our work-place & all the hurlyburly that go with it did
not seem to be a difficult choice. At least not as difficult as to
forget the lazy evening falling upon the ganges with the last rays of
the sun or the journey across it in a steamer with someone who
appreciates. And is'nt it wise to forget anyway?
Who cares whether u cross the ganges or the pacific & if u feel good or
not?
Calcutta was veiled in fogs of nostalgia. It still
is.With the moments that have passed and will never be.Where the all too
real & practical
resposibilities, that life so harshly puts on our unwilling
shoulders,melted with the first rays of the sun,one knew he was
happy.That's what we felt.Me & gourab,our dear ol' ornithlogist,talking
about old times over a bottle one evening.Time has changed. He said.I
did'nt know of which time he was talking about.I did'nt have to.For I
too felt like it.'Happy new year',I wished,hurbouring
a sincere hope in an increase of migratory birds in cal.He looked so
distressed.'Same to u'.No, I thought. Not same with me.New years are not
happy.It takes away all u had & makes u older, sadder & wiser in
return.'Time
has changed',I finally voiced my consent.Knowing that these are no more
the times when we did'nt need any 'happy new years' to be happy.
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