Sunday, September 30, 2007
Vehicle cemetery - aeroplanes, ships, trains and more
Dont forget to go through the comments, which further links to other great articles.
tagxe - Lets Share the Bill
Update: Tagxe.com is giving away FREE RIDES!!, details here..
a) You are a daily traveller from Bedok Reservoir to Tampines
b) Instead of paying the fare completely, you may look for other people taking the same route.
- Here comes the tagxe, all you have to do is to create your route 'n wait for others to see.
c) Another person is seeing this, partnering your ride and thats it!...
Even tagxe.com recommends a way to split the fare.
Theres some ongoing discussion in hardwarezhone, and you might be interested in peeking into the developers personal blog.
He is listening to comments. Thats great for a developer. Lets hope this venture be a success. Register today and see when people responds to the route you created.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
BumpTop - The 3D Desktop
Watch the Clip here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/131
Drunk Man Tries To Kiss Ricky Ponting in India
If you are not able to watch the above video, click here.
From http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070929/asp/nation/story_8374533.asp
A farmer-turned-realty-dealer from Whitefield — one of Bangalore’s infotech hotspots — planted a kiss on the Australian captain’s right cheek last night.
“Hey, what you doin’ mate!” the alarmed cricketer cried, trying to shake off Jayarama Reddy, as the flashbulbs popped.
But Reddy was not done. He asked Ponting, whose team clashes with Dhoni’s in the first one-dayer tomorrow, to turn so that he could kiss him on the other cheek.
The sozzled man was vying for the cricketer’s memorabilia at a charity event and had bid for bats and photographs.
A few minutes after the event — anchored by Mandira Bedi — began, Reddy declared that he would pay Rs 10,000 to be photographed with the Australian skipper. The promoters agreed.
The unsteady fan walked up to the dais and shook hands with Ponting. Next, he grabbed the captain’s shoulder with his left hand, apparently to pose for a picture. Then came the kiss.
Later, Reddy said he had done nothing wrong. “He is a great captain. Our Indian culture is to kiss him. In foreign, you know, they hug and kiss, but he refuses to hug Indians. I told him, you hug me, otherwise get lost,” he slurred.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Startups in India - iPhone gets freedom in India
Here is the photo attached which would prove that its working.
We are totally excited being the early usres of iPhone in India.
Ream more: Startups in India - iPhone gets freedom in India
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
New Rabbit & Tortoise Story
New Rabbit & Tortoise Story
From: priyanhere, 2 hours ago
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Monday, September 24, 2007
Ananova - Couple divorce after online 'affair'
The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she in an internet cafe, and started chatting under the names Sweetie and Prince of Joy.
They eventually decided to meet up - but there was no happy ending when they realised what had happened.
Now they are both filing for divorce - with each accusing the other of being unfaithful.
Ream more here
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Computer Ergonomics
Computer Ergonomics
From: priyanhere, 8 minutes ago
Study of how people physically interact with their work – fitting the job, the equipment and the work environment to the worker.
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Amigos - To be a friend
Amigos
From: priyanhere, 1 minute ago
How to be a good friend?
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Car Advertisement War
Car Advertisement War
From: priyanhere, 2 minutes ago
A car-ad war in South Africa :
In South Africa there's been an advertising war among the top end car Marketers.
01. BMW starts an advertisement.
02. AUDI answers.
03. The Japanese want to say something as well.
04. The CEO of BENTLEY starts an advertisement to answer all the other advertisements
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Some Project related facts
Some Project related facts
From: priyanhere, 1 minute ago
Some Project related facts
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Small story of feelings
others including Love.
One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all prepared their boats and left.
Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking,
Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, "Richness,
can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat.
There is no place here for you."
Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel, "Vanity, please help me!"
"I can't help you Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat." Vanity answered.
Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness, let me go with you." "Oh....
Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!"
Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her!
Suddenly, there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder.
Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder his name.
When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.
Love realized how much he owed the elder and asked Knowledge, another elder,
"Who helped me?" "It was Time," Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love.
"But why did Time help me?" Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered,
"Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."
Watch Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look
Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look
Video:
Behind the scenes with the coffee table that will change the world.
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Watch more great videos at Brightcove.com
Doctors and Engineers
Mumbai.
So they both gather at Pune Station.
Both groups are desperately trying to prove their
superiority.
SCENE 1 (PUNE- MUMBAI) :
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7 engineers take only 1 Ticket and 7 doctors buy all 7
tickets..
Doctors are desperately waiting for TC to come......
When TC arrives,
All 7 Engineers get in one toilet So when TC knocks ,
one hand come
out with the ticket and the TC goes away....
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NOW on return Journey All of them don't get a direct
train to PUNE.
So they all decide to take a Passenger till Lonavala,
from there they
can
easily get a LOCAL to PUNE
SCENE 2 (MUMBAI - LONAVALA) :
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Doctors decided, "this time we will prove that we too
are
equal"....All 7 Doctors take 1 Ticket. Engineers don't
buy any ticket at
all!!!!!..
TC arrives....
ALL DOCTORS IN ONE TOILET.ALL ENGINEERS IN THE
OPPOSITE ONE..
One engineer gets out and knocks the door of Doctors
toilet, One
Hand comes with the tickets, he takes the ticket and
comes in engg.
Bathroom...
TC DRIVES out ALL the doctors from the toilet and they
are heavily
fined
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SCENE 3 ( LONAVALA) :
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SO now both the group r on LONAVALA station. Doctors
planning their
move for last chance, they board the local to Pune.
This time doctors decide that they will play the
same(1 ticket) trick.
ALL Doctors take 1 tickets...Engineers BUY all 7
tickets this
time...
SO TC Comes.. All Engineers showed their tickets.....
Doctors are still searching for toilet in the LOCAL
train...........
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Conclusion: Technically intelligent people are genius,
So don't mess
with Engineers...
Small Family
Small family!!!
From: priyanhere, 8 minutes ago
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Newyork Kerala Super fast bus
Via from - Thalasserry--Panoor--Adivaram--Thamarasserry--Washington--Miami beach--Newyork junction(Last stop)
See the below pic.
Yuvraj 6 Sixes vs England Twenty20 World Cup Match
Yuvraj Singh hits a record 6 Sixes vs England in the Super 8's clash of the Twenty20 World Cup (2007). This is a video from the Live telecast..ball-by-ball.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Sysofni
Innocent guy: My stream was Kava .
Crapeger: We will put you in a Closed Systems project, get ready for training classes
Innocent guy: But, there is this new Kava project starting up. Why cant I…
Crapeger: No, we are planning to put a DataPaste resource into it.
Innocent guy: But. What the use of it…
Crapeger: that we will decide.
Innocent guy: I want to work in Kava ….
Crapeger: Sysofni won't work according to your wants
Innocent guy: But I was trained in Kava . What was the point in getting the training in the first place?
Crapeger: We have made you ready for situations; it's something like this… by not letting you eat is a way to make yourself ready for a situation where there is no more food left in the world!
Silence for a while! Innocent guy perplexed.
Innocent guy: The way I see it; it's like having loads of tandoori chicken in front of you and you can't eat it, no matter how hungry you are, because it for somebody who is a vegetarian. Anyways, fine. I want to work, I am ready.
Innocent guy leaves
Crapeger: he wants to work… ha ha… what a fool! ha ha.. we need ppl like him
After few days
Innocent guy: I want a transfer. This is not my preferred location of work. I want to go to Pune.
Crapeger: How can you leave, you are a Kava resource. We have a crunch of Kava resources.
Innocent guy: But I am not working in Kava .
Crapeger: You might
Innocent guy: But you gave me training in Closed Systems.
Crapeger: See, now you are ready for both.
Innocent guy: You are solving the wrong problem. I don't want to stay in this city.
Crapeger: What's the problem in this city? Have you seen the beautiful temples here?
Innocent guy: Hey, I am not 45 yet!
Crapeger: Hmmm… Why do you want a transfer? Are your parents there and sick at the same time?
Innocent guy: No
Crapeger: Are you suffering from a disease which only a Pune doctor can cure?
Innocent guy: No
Crapeger: Are you allergic to snake bites?
Innocent guy: What?
Crapeger: Then, what is the reason?
Innocent guy: Personal Reasons
Crapeger: Sorry, I can't give you a transfer.
Innocent guy: Why?
Crapeger: Personal Reasons
Innocent guy: Okay, I want a transfer because my girlfriend is there in Pune and things are going a li'l rough and I just want to be there with her.
Crapeger: Not a problem, we will call her here
Innocent guy: She is not in Sysofni .
Crapeger: No problem, we will hire here
Innocent guy: She is not even in IT
Crapeger: What? How can anybody not in IT.
Innocent guy: She is not
Crapeger takes a book out of his closet
Crapeger: Take a look at this book.
Innocent guy: 'P for Policies'. What's that?
Crapeger: It's a policy book we follow. We swear by it. Look at page 36. There you will find girlfriend-not-yet-wife no transfer clause.
Innocent guy reads the clause and frowns his face
Crapeger: Sorry can't give you a transfer. But as I am a good Crapeger, I will put your name in a transfer exls. This exls works in first come first serve basis. You have to wait for your turn.
Innocent guy: How long will it take?
Crapeger: Can't say; the first person, in the list, has become a Group Project Crapeger now.
Innocent guy: Phew!! What if I get a swap?
Crapeger: No I don't think that would work, the other person should be trained in Kava first and Closed Systems next. If it's the other way around, it won't work. And he shouldn't be trained in anything else.
Innocent guy: If I manage to find one, then?
Crapeger: Then your training batch should match; your percentages should match; you should have flunked in the same subjects; should belong to same cities; should be same height; same blood group and should have the same no of hair on your head.
Innocent guy: Ohh! That would be easy.
After 1 month:
Innocent guy: what abt my transfer?
Crapeger: I am working on it; your project is in yellow, go and work!
After 3 months:
Innocent guy: what abt my transfer?
Crapeger: I am working on it; your project is in red, go and work!
After 6 months:
Innocent guy: what abt my transfer?
Crapeger: I am working on it; your project is in magenta, go and work!
After 10 months:
Innocent guy: what abt my transfer?
Crapeger: I am working on it; your project is in dark bluish touch bottle green off red, GO AND WORK!
After 12 months; the project is finally in green. Innocent guy miraculously pulls the project off!
Innocent guy: I want the transfer now.
Crapeger: Ok, its done… you have to report to Pune on Monday. Good job done in the project!
Innocent guy walks off with his shoulders high!!
After one month
Innocent guy: Why am I called back?
Crapeger: Project has gone into black; it's in a big crisis. We wanted that as you are such a good resource, you should work in the project.
Innocent guy works like a dog; spends his entire time in the project work. Time passes by; short term transfer becomes long term. His girlfriend marries somebody else. He decides that there is no point going back to Pune. He should go to onsite from here.
Project is over. Client appreciates successful delivery.
Innocent guy: I want to go to onsite.
Crapeger: Sorry; you can't; we have a lucky draw, for VISA and your application has been invalidated. Sorry!
Innocent guy: But; you can't make me a different VISA?
Crapeger: I can't. See it is given in 'P for Policies' book. See the 'we-make-only-one-VISA' policy on page 723
Innocent guy: So, send me to some other place apart from US.
Crapeger: We can't. See the 'kidding-me?-No-account-transfer' policy on page 909
Innocent guy is disappointed now.
Crapeger: You need to be more flexible. You wanted to work in Kava , you wanted a transfer; you want to go to onsite. Little flexibility is required.
Innocent guy: I need to be flexible?? I have shown enough flexibility. I worked so hard. I even got an 'A' grade…
Crapeger: All the more reasons to be flexible. We have given you identification. See, now we pay you so much, that you can buy peanuts for yourself!
Innocent guy gets irritated by now.
Innocent guy: I don't want to leave Sysofni , but I will have to leave if I don't get opportunities.
Crapeger: No problem. We don't need inflexible guys like you. We want ppl to work without many aspirations. I cannot change the policy for one person. Go! We follow 'one-go-100-come' policy. Fresher's are crazy abt Sysofni , they will take you place.
Innocent guy: Alright! I am resigning.
Crapeger: Yeah do it fast. I have to call up client, to tell them that we can do their 5 months work in 5 days.
Innocent guy leaves the office heartbroken and disillusioned, thinking that he invested so much in his company but his company invested nothing in him… an that he is just a 'resource' after all.
Rosakutty - The IT Ammoomma
She saw her grandchildren using computers and developed a craving to beat them at it. When she first walked in to enroll herself, the teachers fell off their chairs at the state-sponsored e-literacy camp in their village. But within days, she took to the mouse and keyboard like a fish to..Lateral thinking....
So he proposed a bargain.
He said he would forgo the farmer's debt if he could marry his Daughter. Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the proposal. So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let providence decide the matter.
He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag.
1) If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her Father's debt would be forgiven.
2) If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her Father's debt would still be forgiven.
3) But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into Jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer's field. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble from the bag.
Now, imagine that you were standing in the field.
What would you have done if you were the girl?
If you had to advise her, what would you have told her?
Careful analysis would produce three possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order To save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
Take a moment to ponder over the story.
The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking.
The girl's dilemma cannot be solved with traditional logical thinking. Think of the consequences if she chooses the above logical answers.
What would you recommend to the girl to do? .... C below!!
Well, here is what she did....
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble. Without Looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said. "But never mind, if you look into the Bag for the one that is left, you will be able to tell which pebble I Picked."
Since the remaining pebble is black, it must be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the money-lender dared not admit his Dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.
Moral of the story:
Most complex problems do have a solution. It is only that we don't Attempt to think.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
i wOuLD hAvE.. (jOkE)
She goes downstairs to look for him.
She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him.
He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.
She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
"What's the matter, dear?"
she whispers as she steps into the room.
"Why are you down here at this time of night?"
The husband looks up from his coffee, "Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and you were only 18?" he asks solemnly. "Yes I do" she replies.
The husband pauses, the words were not coming easily. "Do you remember when your father caught us in the garden?"
"Yes, I remember" said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.
The husband continued... "Do you remember when he showed the shotgun in my face and said, 'Either you marry my daughter, or I'll send you to jail for 20 years?"
"I remember that too" she replied softly.
He wiped another tear from his cheek and said, "I would have been released today..!"
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Working or Serving?
of work culture. One of the participants asked the following question:
"I am a senior manager of Materials Department and I joined an
organization 25 years ago as an Engineer Trainee and over the last 25
years I have gone through every experience in the organization.
During the initial part of my career, the job was very challenging and
interesting.
However, all those exciting days are gone since I do not find my joy
any more interesting because there is nothing new in my job. I am now
feeling bored because I am doing a routine job.
However, Sir, I am living in the same house for over forty years, I am
the son for the same parents for over forty five years, I am the
father for the same children for the past ten years and the husband
for the same lady for the past twenty years !( the toughest job!)
In these personal roles I do not feel bored Please tell me why I am
bored of the routine in the office and not in the house?"
The response from Scholar was very interesting and convincing. He
asked the executive the question: "Please tell me for whom does your
Mother cook?"
The executive replied that obviously the mother cooks for others.
Then the Scholar said that the mother "Serves" others and because of
this service mindedness, she is not feeling tired or bored. But in an
office, we "Work" and not "Serve". Anything we consider, as service
will not make us feel bored. That is difference between Serving and
Working.
He asked the executive to consider his work as service and not merely
a work!! This was a very interesting analysis!! Whenever you put a
larger context around your work and see a broader meaning for your
work, you will take interest in your work and it will make a very big
difference in your internal energy.
Attitude Matters!!!
If you think you are working for the organization you will get
frustrated. If you feel you are doing a service and getting some
service charges you will feel happy. After all -doing what you like is
freedom but liking what you do is happiness! It is just a paradigm
shift that is required!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The corporate Law ...must read....u will lov it
His friend looked at him and said "Do you really think those shoes are going to make you run faster than that tiger?"
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Welcome abroad to the corporate world !!
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Tooo gooodddddddddddd must readddddd if u r a true mallu at heart!!!!!!--najn chirichu chirichu mannu kappi...
Bill Gates thanked all the candidates for coming and asking those who do not know JAVA program to leave.2000 people leave the room. Kunju says to himself, "I do not know JAVA but I have nothing to lose if I stay. I'll give it a try"
Bill Gates asked the candidates who never had experience of managing more than 100 people to leave. 2000 people leave the room. Kunju says to himself " I never managed anybody by myself but I have nothing to lose if I stay. What can happen to me?" So he stays.
Then Bill Gates asked candidates who do not have management diplomas to leave. 500 people leave the room. Kunju says to himself, "I left school at 15 but what have I got to lose?" So he stays in the room.
Lastly, Bill Gates asked the candidates who do not speak Serbo - Croat to leave. 498 people leave the room.
Kunju says to himself, " I do not speak one word of Serbo - Croat but what do I have to lose?" So he stays and finds himself with one other candidate. Everyone else has gone.
Bill Gates joined them and said "Apparently you are the only two candidates who speak Serbo - Croat, so I'd now like to hear you have a conversation together in that language."
Calmly, Kunj turns to the other candidate and says "Entha Sugham alle"
The other candidate answers "Nee Poda Pulle"
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Moneycontrol India :: News :: Make crores. Right NOW :: :: Financial Planning :: Wipro, Infosys, Ranbaxy, Stocks,,Investment
Monday, September 03, 2007
Management Lesson
At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet eight,built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground. He glared at the driver and said, "Big John doesn't pay!" and sat down at the back.
Did I mention that the driver was five feet three, thin, and basically meek? Well, he was. Naturally, he didn't argue with Big John, but he wasn't happy about it. The next day the same thing happened - Big John got on again, made a show of refusing to pay, and sat down. And the next day, and the next.
This grated on the bus driver, who started losing sleep over the way Big John was taking advantage of him. Finally he could stand it no longer. He signed up for body building courses, karate, judo, and all that good stuff.
By the end of the summer, he had become quite strong; what's more, he felt really good about himself. So on the next Monday, when Big John once again got on the bus and said, "Big John doesn't pay!"
The driver stood up, glared back at the passenger, and screamed, "And why not?"
With a surprised look on his face, Big John replied, "Big John has a bus pass."
Management Lesson: "Be sure there is a problem in the first place before working hard to solve one."
Can u prove 2=3 ?
Ramanujam's proof!!.... can u find any flaws??
Can U Prove 3=2??
This seems to be an anomaly or whatever u call in mathematics.
It seems, Ramanujam found it but never disclosed it during his life time
and that it has been found from his dairy.
See this illustration:
-6 = -6
9-15 = 4-10
adding 25/4 to both sides:
9-15+(25/4) = 4-10+(25/4 )
Changing the order
9+(25/4)-15 = 4+(25/4)-10
(this is just like : a square + b square - two a b = (a-b)square. )
Here a = 3, b=5/2 for L.H.S and a =2, b=5/2 for R.H.S.
So it can be expressed as follows:
(3-5/2)(3-5/ 2) = (2-5/2)(2-5/ 2)
Taking positive square root on both sides:
3 - 5/2 = 2 - 5/2
3 = 2
ANY FLAWS??????? ???????
legal..logical!!.
goes and confronts his lecturer about it.
Student: "Sir, do you really understand anything about the subject?"
Professor: "Surely I must. Otherwise I would not be a professor!"
Student: "Great, well then I would like to ask you a question. If you
can give me the correct answer, I will accept my mark as is and go. If
you however do not know the answer, I want you give me an "A" for the
exam. "
Professor: "Okay, it's a deal. So what is the question?"
Student: "What is legal, but not logical, logical, but not legal, and
neither logical, nor legal?"
Even after some long and hard consideration, the professor cannot give
the student an answer, and therefore changes his exam mark into an "A",
as agreed.
Afterwards, the professor calls on his best student and asks him the
same question.
He immediately answers: "Sir, you are 63 years old and married to a 35
year old woman, which is legal, but not logical. Your wife has a 25
year old lover, which is logical, but not legal. The fact that you have
given your wife's lover an "A", although he really should have failed, is
neither legal, nor logical."
Server Bole to!!!...
Server Bole tho!!!
First year was the most hectic year in my engineering academic life. On one side I was about to leave Physics and Chemistry forever and on other side I was about to join the geek world.
Scene: First year computer practical exam.
Venue: Computer Lab
Time: The worst possible time...Around 12 o'clock.
The last day of my first year exams and the biggest mountain is still not conquered - "Computer Practical".
The only thing I learned in last one year is to differentiate between a CPU and a monitor. This is the only
true knowledge I have about this subject.
Let me look at the search and sort program again.
Scanf then printf….Oops…printf then scanf… # include iostream.h…#include conio.h…clrscr()
Oh...God...I wish that share folder still exists… I hope the netsend command still works.
God...Help me… main ()…curly brackets open….
Oops !! There he is, the most brilliant student of our class Janeesh K.J , the one who asked
doubt to our Mechanical faculty on the first day itself. A tough question "Sir, is it possible to
store data on WordStar instead of Access ".
Ghosh!!! What's WordStar?? What's Access?? I am going to fail.
He looks too cool. Boy…5 more minutes left... C came after B…now we have C++ and VC++…C was discovered/invented (not sure) by Dennis Richie….
I can hear one of the gal asking Janeesh "What's ANSI C ?"
Oops...I don't know even that...Probably discovered by Ancy… so C was discovered by both Dennis and Ancy… might be husband - wife.
Here comes the lab assistant.
"Guys get in!!!"
So at last the time has come. Utmost one more supplementary. Huh!!! Karthik …you have been through these situations now and then … bravo...Come on!!!!
I entered the lab with shaking hands...legs…entire body...
Oh that's my system!!!! It's still vacant…my shared drives…. Ha ha ha ..great
"Hey…take this system…sit according to your rol l number" (In came the voice of lab assistant)
What the…H*%$ is it….?
Hey even this system is far from the faculty's desk. This is great.
"Now !! turn over the sheet of paper on your desk, you have to complete the task in 3 hours. First write down the algorithm and then start doing the program."
So...This is it… Come on…let's see what's in there….
Write a program to sort N natural numbers in ascending order and then perform search operation.
(PS: Use Bubble sort and binary search).
Nice question the one I have mugged up. Take this Compy – Dompy…
#include iostream.h…#include conio.h..main ()….
Its' over and still plenty of time left. Let me see what others are doing. Oh !! God they all are gone. Was this paper that easy!!
"Karthik are you finished with the work?"
"Yes Mam"
"OK !! show me the output"
"Here it is..." ..Ctrl+F9
"Okay..that looks okay..it could have been better…you should add comments where ever possible…"…bla bla bla..and one more bla….
Oh !!! she is gone….hmmm..she will never get satisfied…anyways..It's over…
I started going towards the door
"Karthik !!! where r u going? Come over here. You still have VIVA left."
Huh !!! Not again !!!
"Please sit "
"Thank you "
"Okay !! Tell me..What is a computer"
'A computer is an electronic device…….tttttrrrrrrrrrrppppppp"..
I am the best..I am the best..I am the best.. Yah I am best
"What r macros?"
'Sorry'
Did she hear me saying I am the best…
"What r libraries"
'Pardon'
"What are command line arguments?"
'Don't know'
"What are inbuilt functions?"
'Can u please repeat the question……'
Are these questions from Computer Science!!!! Huh !!!
"Okay one last question…Show me where is the server in our lab"
Hmmm….Server is something big…yah it's very big….bigger than CPU and monitor…now I have to find where it is….hmmm…
not that…that's a switch board…not even that...that's AC….hmmmm…which one is the server…..Oopps…that's her again…
"Hey !!! Stop revolving in your chair and tell me..Which is the server?"
Hey that looks like a server….
'There it is'. …(pointing hand towards the UPS, but the faculty thought Karthik was pointing towards the system..kept on the table )
"Good…Why didn't you tell me earlier if you knew that? Actually no one answered it correctly...Good keep it up"
"Thank you mam..thanks a lot…"
Yahoooo…..last ball..sixer..yipeeee………………….
From then on I never looked back, within hours I became the hero of the class. People started coming to me with their doubts.
I cleared all their doubts. Even that svelte gal came and asked "What's ANSI C ?". Till date she thinks Richie and Ancy are husband and wife.


