Pranks Played with friends are never forgotten in Life

Pranks Played with friends are never forgotten in Life

This was a prank played by me with one of my best friend.

During engineering, my friend had been placed in a company, say Comp-1. But since she had not got the joining dates yet, she decided to work for some other company until she gets her joining date, say Comp-2. This was only a temporary job for her, as she was waiting to get her DOJ at Comp-1. Finally, after a few weeks of working there at Comp-2, she got the joining date for Comp-1. She left Comp-2, without letting any of her colleagues that she is leaving her job. Now, she happily joined Comp-1 and was very happy. But the thing was that, her new office was just next to the older one. I found that this reason was good enough to scare her. After a few weeks, I played this prank on her :

One fine afternoon (Not fine for her), I called her up from my office telephone and told her that I was her manager Mr. Dinesh, calling from her old company, Comp-2. As soon as I told this, she had totally got scared (as she is very sensitive).  I told her that I’d seen her roaming about near their office, without attending office. I also told her that she needs to pay some amount as a fine (compensation) to the company, as she’d left the company without any notification. She was really frightened when I told this. She started arguing (not exactly arguing) that she’d resigned the company long back and started asking me why she needed to pay the compensation. I also started arguing that she MUST have to pay the fine and also told her I’d sent a mail regarding this. She had got so much frightened by this time that, she immediately disconnected the call. She’d started crying by this time. She informed her friends about getting this call and left her office early that day, with lot of pain in herself. She never ever thought that somebody would have played such a prank. She cried and cried the whole day. Everyone, starting from her friends to family members, were only consoling her the whole evening and night.

Finally, that night, I told her that it was me who played this entire prank. Tears rolled down her eyes again, I felt. She scolded me like anything. But, at the same time, she had calmed down. I could feel the relief that she’d got by this time. Anyways, I asked sorry several times. I also scolded her that why she’d to fear so much for such incidents. I enjoyed playing this prank and also making her cry. She had a sigh of relief by this time. By this incident, she will never ever forget me in her life… And if she ever tries to forget, I’m always there to remind her of this incident. 

Patience - Do You Have It ??

Are you having enough patience in life ??

It was the last week of December – the last week of the year 2010, I witnessed an accident on the NICE Road.

I was travelling towards my office on the NICE road. At the end of the NICE Road, it connects to the Hosur road. Usually, during the peak hours, there will be lot of traffic at the end of this connecting road. So, many of the vehicle users tend to travel on the other side of the road (i.e. on the right side of the road where the vehicles come from opposite direction) after passing the final toll on the NICE Road. This road provides them as a shortcut, so that they can reach their destination early. Yes, the accident which I witnessed was due to a vehicle following the wrong direction.

I was in the office bus, stuck in the traffic jam near the end of the road. A Scorpio car user came in the wrong direction, overcoming all the traffic that was there from around 10 minutes. He must have thought that he is reaching the destination earlier than what he had thought of. But alas, there was something to happen. A bike rider coming in the right direction couldn’t recognise that this Scorpio was coming in his opposite direction, breaking the road rules. Unable to control his bike, he rammed into the Scorpio. The result? The bike was broken into pieces. The head light, the front tyre, most of the front part of the bike was broken into pieces. And the saddest thing – he laid on the road unconscious…!! Maybe he was dead !!

What was the mistake he committed ??  - Nothing…!!!

He was just coming in the right direction. But unable to control his bike, he lost his balance and lay helpless on the road. I don’t know what happened to him, don’t know whether he survived or was dead.

So whose mistake was it? Yes, it was the mistake committed by the Scorpio user who came in the wrong direction. Though the bike user did not do any mistake, he was a victim of the mistake committed by some other person.

In this world, why is that people who commit mistake are spared and the ones who don’t commit any mistake become the victims ? If only the Scorpio user had waited for some time in the traffic, he could’ve avoided the accident. He could’ve waited with a small amount of patience. Not only him, many of us like him, tend to lose patience, especially in situations like traffic and tend to take shortcuts. It may not have an effect on us directly. But others may suffer because of our mistakes.

So people, please have some patience in all the things you do. I don’t say not to break the rules. Some rules HAVE to be broken in life. But not the ones which can cause trouble to others. Any comments ??

Friends v/s Colleagues

Friends and Colleagues

There is a saying that, “Colleagues can never be friends”.

I felt this saying is very true…

Reason: Miscommunication.

If any miscommunication happens within friends, they will try to solve themselves. Even if it is other person’s mistake, that friend will put the blame on himself and solve the matter.

But in the case of colleagues, this is not the case. Even if it is their mistake, they put the blame on others and always try to be safe on their side.

That’s the difference between colleagues and friends. This world is so bad. The saying “Colleagues can never be friends” is very very true…

Generation G-A-P ?? or Not so C-O-O-L ??

Is it a generation G-A-P ?

OR

Are we 'NOT SO COOL' now?

I found this interesting topic posted in our office Bulletin Board. Take a look at it :-)

“Yesterday I was chatting (SMS) with my Cousin after a long time. She ‘s in +2 at MCC , Bangalore

She forwards a good morning message on my mobile, later followed a series of conversation:

Me :  Hey hi! How’s  you doing sweety??

She:  Hey Gm! U stil arnd? U neva rply 2 ma txts..

Me: Well dear , you know by the time I reach home it’s always 9:30 or 10 at night and you would go to bed early. Well sorry though..:)

She: s t? ya olwys lyk bus dude..:-/ fin tym fa ur swt cous..;)

Now I was getting a little confused like what was she trying to sayL.. I din wanna reply asking ‘WHAT’?? that would jeopardize my reputation of still being in this generation L.. tried hard understanding with the context

Me: Hehe :D  .. Ya kind a busy babes u know .. with work and all ..

(Me thinking..What the heck is with me ..? ‘Babes’??? She called me dude so I replied with ‘BABES’..!! is this lingo appropriate with that generation?? Well I tried to be one of them :D)

She: yea .. Reli.. ows wrk ’on now?

(God! What’s this now?? Whats up with kids now-a-days? They swallow half of the letters in a word..)

Me: It’s ok now dear. I’m sort of free these days as it is the end of year and considering that vacation is up next in the US. Should be free until Jan 15^th.

(All the Effective email communication training affect that am used to type all the words with all the letters inside it. Uff.. such huge gap between us )

She: Beta!

(Now what’s this supposed to mean..one word?? I din dare to ask again thinking it would not be so cool.. I desperately wanted to be one of them now and wanted that college-going-kid feeling. So I checked my previous messages and first SMS had something like ‘Neva’ which I assumed it for ‘never’. So ‘Beta’ would be ‘Better’.  Now I got what she wanted to convey..uff)

Me: yes.. Enjoying my free time at office :)

She: Hey u so mean! Y din u cum to hme lst week wen ur bro,kid n bhabi cme?

Me: Hey sorry honey, I had to meet one of my friend that day.. so couldn’t turn up.

She: cme nxt tym.. dy told u wudn cme.. I was lyk xtrmly angry.. Hey kidz so adoble.. cutie pie..

(Well.. atleast by now I should be able to understand this..:))

Again  SHE: wts tkin u long tym to rply??

(God.. its been ages since I did a rapid SMS conversation.. and moreover I got to understand her msgs.. well I tried my best to reply fast)

Me: yes sure swtz .. I’ll come next next time .. Now you take care of yourself. I gotta go.

She: K den. Cme nea colg nytym .. ll intro to ma frens ;) .. c ya

Me: Oh that’s sweet.. then for sure will come :) .. cya take care.

By the end of all this I felt so ancient and totally felt out of place. The only thing cheered me up was meeting few gals at MCC when I go to see her  hehehe.. hope I wouldn’t feel so ancient when am there“

This sometimes happens to us also. Now, even I’m wondering what is the answer. Is it really generation gap ??  Or we are not cool anymore ??  Any answers ??