The deadline

Paul cant even recollect the last time he has slept peacefully. It was 11′o clock in the night and almost every one in his project team were in the office. Their project was supposed to be the cutting edge of all the projects which his company has done so far. But other than the changes in the language in which they are coding, he didn’t find any difference. His GL has brilliantly made the stick and carrot approach and the carrot being his promotion.

Paul is not averse to working late in office. But working 7 days a week and that too almost from 10 am-12 pm daily has taken too much out of him. He is now bored of seeing the same faces again and again. The hot Punjabi, who made every one drool on the very first day of the project, is now looking like a hag. Of course she is still hot for those who are not in his project, but every one now hates her for her mails which she send. She is the head of testing team and the problem is that she is pretty good in it.

The PL whose position Paul is presently coveting, is looking like a zombie nowadays. He has been properly made as the guinea pig for this project. There must have been some fight between him and the GL. As a matter of fact, The GL did hate each and every one in this project team.
But still 3 months is almost over and today 12′o clock is the dead line.

Till now, individual modules are over and system testing is going on. Paul has done everything that he could have done so far. Now his worry is not in the project being buggy, but his module being responsible for it. Just like a convict waiting for his judgment, every one is waiting for the dreaded mail to come from the babe who once took their hearts away.

The time is 11:55. Man the last five minutes are the worst to go. Paul doesn’t have anything to do. But still he wants to do something so that the blame will not come on him. In fact he doesn’t know whether any blame will arise as a matter of fact. Why is that Punjabi coming towards him? Her face is not looking that promising now. May be there is some big fault in some module. Hey definitely she is coming towards him. Oh my God that’s it, he is doomed. Man what did he do wrong? He almost tested everything in his module twice. Nothing can go wrong. Has he done anything wrong in the Compatibility? But that can’t be his problem. They must have given the requirements wrong. Now she is next to him and inside his cabin.

“Mind for Coffee?”

A techie’s melancholy song

First time, I saw your face
Even though it seemed unreal,
I pinched myself really hard
To find indeed, a human form.

I cant say hi, I cant say hallo
Even if you want me to
your profile just says: strangers beware,
and you are struck up in your virtual world

You are just my friend’s friend
cant that make me your close friend?
I am just a decent man,
change that about me line my dear
lest me not break your rules

infatuation has timed itself out
and true love has made its path.
2 days have already passed,
still, I havent closed your page
and waiting for that distant ‘hi’

ps:I have been deeply hurt. One of my friend has told me that  I dont have any romantic feeling left in me. So this song is the response to him

Lets groove it baby

Well Alcheringa has finally ended and This Alcher has been a really memorable event for me. The most important thing which Alcher has taught me is to know how to ask a girl out.

For those guys who don’t know anything about Alcheringa, it is the cultural festival which is conducted every year in IIT Guwahati. The main attraction in Alcheringa is ‘The Groove’, a RJ contest. This contest is famous as the RJ’s will have to show their skills to the selected set of audience who will be grooving to the RJ’s music.

But there is one major problem in this set up. Only couples are allowed to this disco and no singles are allowed. Even though singles are allowed in the end run, it is not funky if you go into groove without your partner.

The percentage of girls in IIT Guwahati like any other IIT is pathetically low and even those girls will normally not come to groove. So this leaves the status of IIT guys miserable. The only saving grace is the local girls who come to Alcher. But with around 1500 strong male population in which almost 50% dreaming to go to groove, the number of girls who are single and coming to Alcheringa and who are ready to come to groove is trifle too low.

Due to these reasons, you can see waves of guys standing in each and every corner trying to catch a girl so that they can take them to the groove. The girls will definitely have a very hard time trying to frame ‘NO’ in all the different possible ways.

But still, I have one friend of mine who has stricken gold not once but twice in Alcheringa. Once this time and the other time, the previous year. After talking with him, I came to know that there is an different language called as ‘Asking a girl out’.

The normal pick up lines for the IITans are

1. Would you mind coming to groove with me
2. Would you like to come to groove with me
3. How about going to groove together

guys!!!! even though you and the girl know that the only intention of you talking with that girl is for the groove, girls are not guys. They don’t like people talking directly. So don’t pop on the question of going to groove together at the start itself. The girl don’t even know you and the chance of going to a disco with a virtually faceless guy is almost impossible. So the correct pick up lines could be

1. Hi
2. This dance is better than the previous one
3. Hi is this your first Alcher

So first start a conversation. Try to know something about her even though you dont care anything about it. After a irritatingly long conversation, pop up the information about groove and how cool it could be. After all this foreplay, you ask her whether she might be interested in going with you.

Even though the number of girls whom you can cover through this process is very small, the success percentage is very high. My friend is the best example for this process as he has a success percentage of 100 compared to my 0/15% or my friends 0/9%.