"Different Phases of Life"

“Life would never be the same”. Coz every time you think of it, something much better is in store for you. Obviously when am writing some shit, it has to be associated with me.. 3.5 Golden years in a place comparable to heaven, it seemed life had taken everything out of me when I was leaving college. But as they say “Everything happens for a cause”. You can only revisit those special memories in your dreams but again as a friend used to say “You have to move on”. And I, moved on, moved on and landed up in Bangalooru. I realized, after all it isn’t that bad… You just cant compare and must not..

After the initial hassles of finding a flat and it was actually one of the toughest assignments on earth we finally settled. Who are these “we”.. Meet them, they are Siddharth Srivastava, Rahul Verma, Gautam Arora and Rishabh Agarwal. Very strange people are they. All of these characters have unique qualities and are one of its kind.

Most of the time passed with Sid cribbing about the Hosur road traffic. He was so adamant on showing everybody that dangerous road that it almost became a landmark for Bangalore tourists. But the point was, he got used to it coz “Ab to adat si hai asie jeene ki”..haha.. This chap can repeat the same things thousands of times but you will still love it. You will love it when he gets tensed up for small, unimportant things and will narrate this unimportant story to everyone and these everyone will scratch their heads thinking what is their to get tensed..hahaha. I hated people calling me “baby” but loved it when he used to call me by this name. He can watch any damn movie, but a very unique characteristic was he used to like them all. He made me watch KANK 2 times(a different issue that I slept during the movie). But dude, humein adapt nahi hui hai apke bina jeene ki.

Then there is my room-mate, Rahul Verma. A very complex and moody character. This bunny looking fellow is always upto some bc. He is intelligent and am sure going to be successful. But has been highly unsuccessful in one area.. Need I mention it. Ok, he has a favorite dialogue, “AM 22 years old and am a virgin and am not proud of it”. Is the picture clear now. You wana find him, I will tell you the way. Just find a guy with specks from Ranchi who will be laughing non-stop at his own jokes, who will be rocking in his company, who has the best room-mate, a hardcore Dhoni fan and who will always be listening to rock songs, a different issue again whether he understands it or not!!!

Next comes the commited man, Bhaggu. Has his priorities set in life, be it his future life partner or his aim for MBA. We were very lucky coz Bhaggu was the only sole being in Bangalore living in the same city for 4 monthsJ He knew everything, knew where to find that everything and knew how to screw that everything. A damn caring person, he generally lives in 3 states. Excited, Normal and Depressed. You wont have much difficulty distinguishing these. When he screams “baby, baby” it’s the first state, when he is engrossed with CAT studies or its talks or when he is on the phone it’s the 2nd state, and when he isn’t doing any of it, obviously the 3rd one. Is a very emotional person and I wish I had made friends with him in MIT. Wish him and verma best of luck for MBA.. (Me and Sid will join you guys next year, wot say sid)

Last but not the least, me.. hehe, wont disappoint you guys, so wont write about myself!!!!

"She, who must not be named"

Sudden rush of unexpected chain of events has again forced me to revert to one more bullshit like this. On Monday, Oct 9th at 2:20 p.m. I get a call from Rachit, “Rishabh, we have a meeting at 2:30”. I say “I didn get a mail”, “Dude, they just mailed us”. Hmmm, not weird, its very characteristic of our team to schedule meetings and inform all just 10 mins earlier. It has a lot of benefits, for instance, some people mite not make it to the meeting so there can be less disturbance in the meeting room or one doesn’t die out of curiosity of what is going to be the agenda of the meeting because again very characteristically the agenda is only told during the meeting.

Anyways, inside the meeting room gather 6 JSE’s(Junior Software Engineers), our TL and our AM(Associate Manager). In the next 5 mins the AM understands that we haven’t been doing any work for the last 1 and a half month and decides its high time now that the company starts benefiting from our brilliance or intelligence. So we all be assigned a mentor and a new TL via email, which should have been done on the first day of the project and we are told that the honeymoon period is over. The first thing which comes to my mind is whether my leave during Diwali is still intact or not. Luckily it is, atleast for the time being.

As usual these meetings or these kind of things cant hamper my recreation room visits. So here I was playing T.T. at 3:30 when Sandy calls me and says “Dude, where are you, haven u seen the mail. We have been assigned new mentors, you and XYZ are in the so called same team for some time”. “Ok dude, no problem, wil come and check the mail in some time”. “For your kind information, XYZ has already met your mentor and TL and has already started working on some work assigned by them”. “Wot fuck”……

At this point of time you all are eligible to know some details about this creature “XYZ”
1.Around 5feet, 9inches tall girl from Rajasthan. A bit hefty, fair complexion but has quick reflexes in general and maybe don’t get time to have a morning walk because she walks very briskly in the office. A lot of guys on first note will try to hit upon her.
2. Has an amazing zest or zeal for work. Loves it.
3. Is generally too enthusiastic about everything.
4. Did her Mainframe training seriously and knows a lot of technical stuff.
5. Has a decent spoken English but you ought to see her written one. No sense of tense, verb and a lot more. You may finally have to talk to her personally to understand what is she trying to convey.

So, I went to meet my mentor and TL. They say, “Rishabh, you still haven’t got a TSO id, so you cant log on to the mainframe. So for that time, you sit with XYZ and help her out with the program.” “Ok , what is the program”. “Basic one, just copy the content of a PS to a VSAM”. “Ohhh, that, that is easy, no worries”. I return to my seat and see Rachit and Sandy laughing at my state. After all I have got the perfect knowledge and a perfect partner to survive in these conditions. Everything is happening to my liking. VSAM, I hated this name in training.
A lot of people surround me and try to help me out. Everybody can do bits and pieces but nobody can write the whole program for me and also teach me.

I call up Charu “Oye, yeh VSAM kya hota hai” “Yeh kaisa sawal hai, r u nuts”. “I explain her the whole situation and the generally stupid Charu tries to give some reasonable answers to my great questions. But my state doesn’t improve. Next day at 11 in the morning I message XYZ “Hey, before submitting the program just let me know”, she replies in her great English “Ya, ok, but submit tomo itself. Work late nite”. What she actually meant was she had worked late nite yesterday and submitted it already. But it had some errors and one day after also we are trying to rectify them. In between a lot of tools have been taught to us and in 2 days I have been given too much information to grasp. God save me.
Some general talks between me and XYZ. Total mis-match of frequency you can say.

1. Me: “I didn’t study anything in Mainframes yaar. Basically, you can say our teacher wasn’t good”
XYZ: Almost bewildered “What, we had to work really hard you know. We also used to come on Saturdays to finish our work”
Me: Total Shock

2. Me: “You will have to clear a lot of my doubts”
XYZ: “Ya, ya, no problem. What we wil do naa, we will both study and come. Whatever you don’t know I wil explain you, and whatever I don’t know you explain me”
Me: “What”
XYZ: “Itna to kar hi sakta hai yaar”
Me: First of all do you think I will be able to clear any of your doubts, the second and most imp thing is, are we in school???

There have been a lot of instances which will make me look like a stupid.. But why will I write those.

End Result: Both of us think the other person is a fool!!!