Language of the techies

Newbie techie : Hello there!

Manager techie: Hi!

Newbie techie : How is your son doing now?

Manger techie: He is much better now. Two more days and he will be discharged from the hospital.


Newbie techie : What happened, exactly?

Manager Techie: Oh! you see..he developed this breathing problem. It got severe. Actually I too had the same problem, when I was young...so you see..there is a "bug in the code"!

Newbie Techie : Oh... ok ( :O)

The long wait.

How long will it take?
I lose patience everyday.
Long time it has been.
Is that day coming?

Agonizing it is to wait.
I cannot help, but do.
After a million failures,
I hope there is something good.

Everyday I wonder,
if something is just around the corner.
With new hope, I wait at the bend,
but slowly, the day ends.

Maybe tomorrow will have something new.
Maybe tomorrow will be my day.
Keeping faith I wait,
for the day that will bring in change.

Mr B

As promised, I am back! Just google searched my name sometime back, and the wonder of wonders!! I am listed fourth on the first page!! ( yippie!!!).

Anyway, back to Mr B da. This dude, is some 2 years my junior, but one can hardly figure that out from the attitude. He happens to be a bengali, who wants everyone else around him also to be one. The first time he met me, he actually struck up a conversation in bengali!! :O Thanks to my Oriya background, it did make sense, but seriously can you beat this guy. Heights I tell you. Whoever told him that bengali is the new national language or something. And yea..one more thing, while I do get it that adding a " bro" here and there while talking ( in English mind you!!) does sound cool, but can you imagine adding the " bengali" substitute for bro every now and then. Totally uncool and disgusting!! If you dont want to go as far as bengali, then you might want to try that out in hindi, its equally bad!!

I have been fortunate enough, not to have interacted much with him. But then my interactrions with Mr BD make up for it. Come to think of it, I shouldnt feel too bad about these people, because who else is gonna inspire me to write?? :P . So until I meet the next weirdo ( actually even if I don't)...bye!!

Back with a Bang and a new Gang!

Its been quite a while since I blogged. Things werent that great off late.What can I say,missed
being laid off by a whisker :(. Well things are looking up now, and I sincerely hope they get
better and better. So while all this was going on, I forced myself into a new team ( to save my
ass). thanks majorly to Sam :D


While most of my team mates are great, there are a few...who well I cant stop myself from
writing about. There is this Mr Bednath who happens to be my lead and Mr Bhanu da who is
"supposedly" my junior colleague. I shall begin with Mr Bednath.


Mr Bednath is seriously the epitome of lethargy. He is perpetually waiting on someone else to
proceed with the work. But sometimes I cant even blame it on lethargy ....because then its just
plain no-commonsense. Seriously read on...

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(Conversation over the phone)

ME: Hello Mr Bednath!!(bd from now on)

BD:Good morning!! So is the connectivity problem with the client n/w resolved.(Btw BD sits at

client location)

Me: No actually. I talked to the n/w folks. They need the ip address of the particular client

website. Once they get that I should be able to access. Do you have any idea? Or maybe you

could ask the client (since you are there!!!) and let me know. ( yea I know, I shouldnt be talking

to my lead that way...but the guy can get really stuck up , as you will soon find out. So unless

you just tell him straight on, you could keep going in circles till eternity)

BD: oh!! actually this will be a long

process..hmmm....hmmm....hmmmm...........well......................hmmmmmmm .....achaa........hmmmm
Me:( waiting for him to stop "hmmm"ing!!)

BD: Hmmmmm.....................ok ...let me see...

( after half an hour BD calls up and I wonder if I actually underestimated his capabilities)

BD: Achaa so you need the ip address right( Do I??). Well I just found out the ip address of my

pc. I think that should do.

Me: ( Somehow managing not to faint) ....( and then not knowing what to say!!!)

BD: You there??

Me: eh yes! Mr Bednath, I dont think that will work.

BD: Why wont it work?!! See, I am able to access the client n/w.

Me: Well...but its not the same thing.The pc ip address and the client website ip address.

BD: Whats the difference?

Me: (Oh My God!!) well...ummm....

BD: Ip address is an ip address after all. How does it matter?

Me: ( Taking deep breaths)

BD: Just give them my ip address. I am sure it will work. See most of things these days have ip

addresses. It helps knowing them. But...what the hell, you can't go on finding ip addresses of all

the things around you. When will we start working if we go on finding ip addresses of things. Ip

address...bla bla...Ip address...bla bla......Ip address....bla bla..............................................

Me: (Still taking deep breaths)

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Actually there was more of the Ip address crap, but I had to cut it short. I dont want you guys to
go through that nightmare really.

Now lets leave Mr Bednath with his ip address phobia and move on to Mr Bhanu da. But I really

need a break before I do that, so I guess Mr Bhanu da has to wait till my next post. I hope you

do too.

Cya soon.