Sunday, August 29, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
OBC (OS Backward Class)
Shraddha, my cousin gave me a call today morning, “Can you get me one book named TPS online exams for Information Technology 12th Science?”
“OK”…I could just say one word in deep sleep.
“12th Science has computer subject? Oh yeah! It was one of the electives during my time also!” I recalled. But I couldn’t get that subject due to limited seats in std 11th and therefore not even in 12th :( I still remember my father tried his best to have that subject in my syllabus because he just had one innocent thought in his mind that ‘Camputer is the future of today’s world’…they used to call ‘Computer’ as ‘Camputer’! So whenever he used to get any chance to make us computer literate he used to make use of it at best of his capacity (financial).
Actually during college days ‘Computer’ was not a new entity for me, I had ‘computer’ as an additional subject in my school during Std. 5th till Std. 8th but most of the time we used to play some games on it or some basic DOS commands. Off course we had no idea how does this machine called ‘Computer’ start but one thing was 100% fit in our mind…As soon as you see some white letters appearing on the already black screen followed by a colorful Windows 95 picture, it assures your that the computer is getting start now :). After my schooling I had already missed an opportunity to get to know the new OS (98 & Linux) in Std. 11th or 12th and I also I had no idea what does ‘Cyber Cafe’ mean at that time in 1999-2000. I was just familiar with the terminology Y2K during that period and that was the only thing I knew about computer. Computer has four main parts that are Monitor, CPU, Keyboard and Mouse, with this limited hardware knowledge I got admitted into computer engineering in 2001
Imagining myself becoming a ‘Computer Engineer!’ that thought itself was simply amazing and it was dream come true! (On very first day I had no idea about the nightmare of B.E.) I was sitting in the lectures with smiling face whole day like ‘Rancho’ from 3 Idiots as everything which was happening around me was unbelievable for me!!! Very soon after few days I started feeling little bit bore. It was not happening the way I used to dream of Engineering. It’s all about ‘Computers’ and since I join the college I had never seen the computer in any of my lectures!!! Where is that device which I had used in my school days?
Finally!!! That day came, when we had our first practical session for language ‘C’. I was very excited about it as well as bit nervous too. We were divided in 4 batches for the practical and my friend, who had better idea about computer than me, was in another batch! Off course during HSC and after that I had visited to few of my friends who had computers at their home and from them I could get one addition that, now instead of ‘Windows95’ picture you are expected to see ‘Windows 98’ picture on the screen when the computer is about to start, then take the mouse and start playing with this device using cursor. It was that simple!!!
We entered into the computer lab, there were so many computers! I had never seen these many computers together at one place before!!! We had one separate computer for every student! At that moment if someone would have had questioned me “What’s the difference between Secondary School and Engineering college” I would have promptly answered, “When there are 5 students sitting on one computer then it’s secondary school and when there is one computer for each student then its engineering college!!!” First half an hour our professor taught us something about some ‘vi editor’ and all. I was so awestruck about that whole environment and also because of that A.C. I was extra cool and hence whatever my professor told us that all went miles above my head!!!
Finally that moment came for which I waited for almost 4 years! We were asked to turn on our computers and do the practical. I clicked the button of the CPU. That ‘Beeeeeep’, Aaah!!! I was feeling as if I am about to take off from that launch pad with the sound of that CPU fan!!! White letters started coming on the already black screen…I smiled with some fulfillment and I was waiting for that picture of ‘Windows 98’ to come…2 seconds gone…5 seconds gone…10 seconds gone…I waited calmly…finally 2 minutes gone…Those white letters stopped changing on the screen but still that picture of ‘Windows 98’ didn’t come. Now I got little bit worried!...What went wrong?...or did I actually miss to see that picture of ‘Windows 98’?...no but then where is that lush green wallpaper of mountain with blue sky which used to appear on my friend’s computer along with ‘START’ button on left hand side bottom? I was not able to see either of it on the screen! I got confused now!
Now what to do? How will I operate it using mouse?...Yess!!! I reminded of Mouse! “Let’s move the mouse, may be after that it will work!!!” I opened the drawer swiftly to grab the mouse…hey but where is it??? There was only keyboard under the drawer. I literally checked all the drawers of the furniture but didn’t find even real mouse inside it! “What is this happening with me???” I was not just worried but also frightened now! How will I work now without mouse? It was complete chaos!!!
I looked around. No one was there at my right, I looked at my left. One guy was sitting next to me and he was doing something with the keyboard. From his behavior I could guess he had some experience of computer.
“Hi, I am Arun, What is your good name?” I asked him
“Hi, myself Amit” He replied.
That’s all! It was enough of introduction to convey my worry to him
“Actually…I am not able to find my mouse…also that ‘Windows98’ screen didn’t appear on my screen. Can you please check what’s wrong in my computer?”
He smiled and said,
“These all are UNIX machines!”
“What?..what is that UNIX?”, I questioned him.
“Unix is an operating system. We do not require mouse to work on it. We can work using keyboard!!!” He explained.
We both smiled at each other. Off course he laughed on my illiteracy behind his smile but I smiled with a realization that ‘Boss, this is computer engineering and it’s not going to be easy. Every day you got to be ready for surprises!!!” :)
Today when I work on UNIX command shell and type ‘bash’, I smile inside with a thought, “This UNIX really ‘bashed’ me once!!!”
“OK”…I could just say one word in deep sleep.
“12th Science has computer subject? Oh yeah! It was one of the electives during my time also!” I recalled. But I couldn’t get that subject due to limited seats in std 11th and therefore not even in 12th :( I still remember my father tried his best to have that subject in my syllabus because he just had one innocent thought in his mind that ‘Camputer is the future of today’s world’…they used to call ‘Computer’ as ‘Camputer’! So whenever he used to get any chance to make us computer literate he used to make use of it at best of his capacity (financial).
Actually during college days ‘Computer’ was not a new entity for me, I had ‘computer’ as an additional subject in my school during Std. 5th till Std. 8th but most of the time we used to play some games on it or some basic DOS commands. Off course we had no idea how does this machine called ‘Computer’ start but one thing was 100% fit in our mind…As soon as you see some white letters appearing on the already black screen followed by a colorful Windows 95 picture, it assures your that the computer is getting start now :). After my schooling I had already missed an opportunity to get to know the new OS (98 & Linux) in Std. 11th or 12th and I also I had no idea what does ‘Cyber Cafe’ mean at that time in 1999-2000. I was just familiar with the terminology Y2K during that period and that was the only thing I knew about computer. Computer has four main parts that are Monitor, CPU, Keyboard and Mouse, with this limited hardware knowledge I got admitted into computer engineering in 2001
Imagining myself becoming a ‘Computer Engineer!’ that thought itself was simply amazing and it was dream come true! (On very first day I had no idea about the nightmare of B.E.) I was sitting in the lectures with smiling face whole day like ‘Rancho’ from 3 Idiots as everything which was happening around me was unbelievable for me!!! Very soon after few days I started feeling little bit bore. It was not happening the way I used to dream of Engineering. It’s all about ‘Computers’ and since I join the college I had never seen the computer in any of my lectures!!! Where is that device which I had used in my school days?
Finally!!! That day came, when we had our first practical session for language ‘C’. I was very excited about it as well as bit nervous too. We were divided in 4 batches for the practical and my friend, who had better idea about computer than me, was in another batch! Off course during HSC and after that I had visited to few of my friends who had computers at their home and from them I could get one addition that, now instead of ‘Windows95’ picture you are expected to see ‘Windows 98’ picture on the screen when the computer is about to start, then take the mouse and start playing with this device using cursor. It was that simple!!!
We entered into the computer lab, there were so many computers! I had never seen these many computers together at one place before!!! We had one separate computer for every student! At that moment if someone would have had questioned me “What’s the difference between Secondary School and Engineering college” I would have promptly answered, “When there are 5 students sitting on one computer then it’s secondary school and when there is one computer for each student then its engineering college!!!” First half an hour our professor taught us something about some ‘vi editor’ and all. I was so awestruck about that whole environment and also because of that A.C. I was extra cool and hence whatever my professor told us that all went miles above my head!!!
Finally that moment came for which I waited for almost 4 years! We were asked to turn on our computers and do the practical. I clicked the button of the CPU. That ‘Beeeeeep’, Aaah!!! I was feeling as if I am about to take off from that launch pad with the sound of that CPU fan!!! White letters started coming on the already black screen…I smiled with some fulfillment and I was waiting for that picture of ‘Windows 98’ to come…2 seconds gone…5 seconds gone…10 seconds gone…I waited calmly…finally 2 minutes gone…Those white letters stopped changing on the screen but still that picture of ‘Windows 98’ didn’t come. Now I got little bit worried!...What went wrong?...or did I actually miss to see that picture of ‘Windows 98’?...no but then where is that lush green wallpaper of mountain with blue sky which used to appear on my friend’s computer along with ‘START’ button on left hand side bottom? I was not able to see either of it on the screen! I got confused now!
Now what to do? How will I operate it using mouse?...Yess!!! I reminded of Mouse! “Let’s move the mouse, may be after that it will work!!!” I opened the drawer swiftly to grab the mouse…hey but where is it??? There was only keyboard under the drawer. I literally checked all the drawers of the furniture but didn’t find even real mouse inside it! “What is this happening with me???” I was not just worried but also frightened now! How will I work now without mouse? It was complete chaos!!!
I looked around. No one was there at my right, I looked at my left. One guy was sitting next to me and he was doing something with the keyboard. From his behavior I could guess he had some experience of computer.
“Hi, I am Arun, What is your good name?” I asked him
“Hi, myself Amit” He replied.
That’s all! It was enough of introduction to convey my worry to him
“Actually…I am not able to find my mouse…also that ‘Windows98’ screen didn’t appear on my screen. Can you please check what’s wrong in my computer?”
He smiled and said,
“These all are UNIX machines!”
“What?..what is that UNIX?”, I questioned him.
“Unix is an operating system. We do not require mouse to work on it. We can work using keyboard!!!” He explained.
We both smiled at each other. Off course he laughed on my illiteracy behind his smile but I smiled with a realization that ‘Boss, this is computer engineering and it’s not going to be easy. Every day you got to be ready for surprises!!!” :)
Today when I work on UNIX command shell and type ‘bash’, I smile inside with a thought, “This UNIX really ‘bashed’ me once!!!”
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Mathematics of My Life
Mathematics is there,
In every 1’s life
Whether its you,
Or it's your wife.
I came in this world
Like you from heaven,
Just you came after ‘9’
And I came after ‘7’
Parents were keen to hear ‘1st’ word of mine,
Now they don’t even listen to me!
They got excited, when I got my ‘1st’ teeth,
Then after not even bothered about rest of ‘31’
When I was ‘5’,
I went to school just 4 fun.
Since then I celebrate every year,
When I am incremented by ‘1’
If it's std. ‘10’ OR ‘9’,
I was always afraid of number ‘35’
35++ was always fine, 35-- is a big crime.
And what unlucky I am,
There was no ‘Best of 5’!
When I was in college,
I got to know the real geometry.
What is love triangle?
And what is 143? (I love you)
I was Single, She was Single
and we had a perfect chemistry!
I looked at her,
She looked at me.
I threw an ‘Arrow’
And she gave me a ‘Line’!
I got differentiated from B.F(s)
And got integrated with my G.F.
When I grown up lil further,
I came to know about Beer and Wine.
Mathematics was still there,
In terms of ‘Haywards5000’ and ‘VAT69’
‘555’ was the best brand of cigarette, I donno how...
And some movies had age limit of only ‘18’ and above!
When I was in B.E.
It was always on ‘Cylinder’!
Now the passing ‘limit’ was ‘40’
With a tiny ‘Calendar’!
I got my job and I got to know,
What is floating point number?
Whether my package is ‘4.3’ CTC or ‘3.4’ Base,
It's always going to be less and my life is a mess!
I am inverse of you and you are inverse of me.
Even thought I am ur senior, and you are my junior
Your graph is always exponential, and mine is linear!
Even after marriage,
The mathematics will continue.
Just ‘1’ or ‘2’ that’s all,
After which you can’t actually ‘continue’!
-Arun
In every 1’s life
Whether its you,
Or it's your wife.
I came in this world
Like you from heaven,
Just you came after ‘9’
And I came after ‘7’
Parents were keen to hear ‘1st’ word of mine,
Now they don’t even listen to me!
They got excited, when I got my ‘1st’ teeth,
Then after not even bothered about rest of ‘31’
When I was ‘5’,
I went to school just 4 fun.
Since then I celebrate every year,
When I am incremented by ‘1’
If it's std. ‘10’ OR ‘9’,
I was always afraid of number ‘35’
35++ was always fine, 35-- is a big crime.
And what unlucky I am,
There was no ‘Best of 5’!
When I was in college,
I got to know the real geometry.
What is love triangle?
And what is 143? (I love you)
I was Single, She was Single
and we had a perfect chemistry!
I looked at her,
She looked at me.
I threw an ‘Arrow’
And she gave me a ‘Line’!
I got differentiated from B.F(s)
And got integrated with my G.F.
When I grown up lil further,
I came to know about Beer and Wine.
Mathematics was still there,
In terms of ‘Haywards5000’ and ‘VAT69’
‘555’ was the best brand of cigarette, I donno how...
And some movies had age limit of only ‘18’ and above!
When I was in B.E.
It was always on ‘Cylinder’!
Now the passing ‘limit’ was ‘40’
With a tiny ‘Calendar’!
I got my job and I got to know,
What is floating point number?
Whether my package is ‘4.3’ CTC or ‘3.4’ Base,
It's always going to be less and my life is a mess!
I am inverse of you and you are inverse of me.
Even thought I am ur senior, and you are my junior
Your graph is always exponential, and mine is linear!
Even after marriage,
The mathematics will continue.
Just ‘1’ or ‘2’ that’s all,
After which you can’t actually ‘continue’!
-Arun
Sunday, August 8, 2010
REALIZATION
It was 11:45 PM. I had already missed the 11:50 PM CST from Knjurmarg as it takes 15 minutes from my office to reach to kanjurmarg station. My calculation was cut-to-cut now. Had to reach Kanjrmarg station by 12:00 AM, catch 12:05 AM CST, get down at Kurla by 12:15 AM and then catch the 12:20 AM Vashi from another platform. Just 5 minutes here-or there and I will have to wait till 1:30 AM
I just wanted to catch 12:05 AM CST from Kanjurmarg and rest will be automatically taken care of by train itself :-) I came out of the office by deciding of taking ‘auto’, but no auto at the stand. Waited there for 2 mins which I seemed like 15 mins!. It was waste of time to wait. I started walking…but with this pace I can reach station by 12:05 only…ohh no…I started running!
I was sniffing when I reached station but then, I went completely breathless when I saw the ticked counter…I was closed!!! In fact the whole premise was closed with sliding metal gate! I quickly checked out my bag with the hope of old bunch of coupons…and yess, I found it! I took it out for stamping and … as the whole premise was locked, I can not even get my coupons stamped! It was a complete mess!
I just looked around. I was not the only one like this but another man without tickets and without coupons was standing there. He was cursing to the staff which was not there, he was also cursing to that Kanjurmarg station. As he didn’t find anyone else than me, after making every statement, he was looking at me for an acknowledgment! I too was shaking my head with sad face.
“I will go without ticket now” that man shouted and scornfully spitted on the wall!
I was there…still and steady…was just watching each movement of that man. He was stepping down the stairs…and suddenly a hooter pealed!...OMG!...my 12:05 AM CST train was coming! I also stepped down behind that man and got into the train running!
“Hushhh!!! I would have missed my train because of that man” I sat saying this and what I saw...that man was sitting right in front of me. Thank god, man doesn’t have ability to guess what a person is saying from the expressions!
He was calm now. He smiled at me. I too stretched my lips in response.
“Where are you going?” He asked.
“Vashi” I replied. I was thinking of asking the same to him.
“Ohh gr8…I will go to Dadar directly” he said it again.
I don’t know what’s great in going to Vashi…I just said “OK”.
“I must tell you this train department is useless. If they cant keep the ticket counter open at night then why to they have these trains running at night?” he uttered.
Ohh No! …I was also without ticket like him!
I am the most unlucky in such conditions. I had to find out some way before any TC comes in and asks for ticket from me. I got an idea! I took out my bunch of coupons and a ball pen from my bag and started putting the date, place from where I got into the train and the time behind each required coupons. The man was till now busy in taking the breeze, now turned to me again and asked with confused mind,
“What are you writing on these coupons?”
“I am putting all that information which is been stamped on coupons. If any TC comes I am going to show him these coupons” I answered.
“Hahaha” that man laughed sarcastically and said,
“I don’t think any TC will come now. If the ticket counter itself is like no man’s land…then TCs must have slept in their house by now…hahaha”
I just smiled at the man and continued putting dates on the coupons.
Now I was just two stations away from Kurla. May be the man was also unlucky like me as at Ghatkopar station 2 TCs got into the train and started checking the tickets of the passengers! That man was taking a nap. I pat on his knee and by nudging my head towards TCs, I warned him,
“TCs are coming!!!”
Now I just wanted to see his reaction. But the man who was roaring a while ago on the platform was completely flat now. He got terribly frightened! Before he takes any action, TC was in front of him, waiting for his ticket.
“Sir, I don’t have ticket…ti..ti..ticket counter was closed!”, he was not even able to say the truth clearly.
TC got happy. I could see images of 100 rupee note in his eyes! He commanded his partner TC,
“Hey take this man out!”
Another TC approached to the man and he was about to take the man in remand and I interrupted that drama saying,
“Wait! This man is not with out tickets!”
I took out the coupons. One bunch of his fare and another bunch of mine!
“He has coupons. As ticket counter was closed completely, we had to write the date over the coupons using pen”
“Then why he didn’t say about it?” TC asked.
“He didn’t know that I manually stamped his coupons as well” I replied.
TC left with sad mood. I also got ready to get down at next station.
The man was still looking at me surprisingly. I gave him his bunch of coupons and said,
“Its just a matter of realization!”
“If TCs wouldn’t have come, you would have never ever realized what I did for you.”
“When I was stamping the coupons for me, you cold have bought the same from me but you didn’t realize it!”
“You spitted on that wall, tomorrow more 100 like you will spit there and you people only will start hating the station. When you spat there you didn’t realize it!”
“You cursed ticket counter, you cursed whole staff but what’s the use of it as they don’t have realization of your hassle. Again you didn’t realize it!”
“We can know each other better, we can know this world better…it’s just a matter of REALIZATION!”
I got down from the train by saying this.
I will be happy if he realized it!
I did this with a cost of just 6 Rs. and see you didn’t realize it!!! :-)
-Arun
I just wanted to catch 12:05 AM CST from Kanjurmarg and rest will be automatically taken care of by train itself :-) I came out of the office by deciding of taking ‘auto’, but no auto at the stand. Waited there for 2 mins which I seemed like 15 mins!. It was waste of time to wait. I started walking…but with this pace I can reach station by 12:05 only…ohh no…I started running!
I was sniffing when I reached station but then, I went completely breathless when I saw the ticked counter…I was closed!!! In fact the whole premise was closed with sliding metal gate! I quickly checked out my bag with the hope of old bunch of coupons…and yess, I found it! I took it out for stamping and … as the whole premise was locked, I can not even get my coupons stamped! It was a complete mess!
I just looked around. I was not the only one like this but another man without tickets and without coupons was standing there. He was cursing to the staff which was not there, he was also cursing to that Kanjurmarg station. As he didn’t find anyone else than me, after making every statement, he was looking at me for an acknowledgment! I too was shaking my head with sad face.
“I will go without ticket now” that man shouted and scornfully spitted on the wall!
I was there…still and steady…was just watching each movement of that man. He was stepping down the stairs…and suddenly a hooter pealed!...OMG!...my 12:05 AM CST train was coming! I also stepped down behind that man and got into the train running!
“Hushhh!!! I would have missed my train because of that man” I sat saying this and what I saw...that man was sitting right in front of me. Thank god, man doesn’t have ability to guess what a person is saying from the expressions!
He was calm now. He smiled at me. I too stretched my lips in response.
“Where are you going?” He asked.
“Vashi” I replied. I was thinking of asking the same to him.
“Ohh gr8…I will go to Dadar directly” he said it again.
I don’t know what’s great in going to Vashi…I just said “OK”.
“I must tell you this train department is useless. If they cant keep the ticket counter open at night then why to they have these trains running at night?” he uttered.
Ohh No! …I was also without ticket like him!
I am the most unlucky in such conditions. I had to find out some way before any TC comes in and asks for ticket from me. I got an idea! I took out my bunch of coupons and a ball pen from my bag and started putting the date, place from where I got into the train and the time behind each required coupons. The man was till now busy in taking the breeze, now turned to me again and asked with confused mind,
“What are you writing on these coupons?”
“I am putting all that information which is been stamped on coupons. If any TC comes I am going to show him these coupons” I answered.
“Hahaha” that man laughed sarcastically and said,
“I don’t think any TC will come now. If the ticket counter itself is like no man’s land…then TCs must have slept in their house by now…hahaha”
I just smiled at the man and continued putting dates on the coupons.
Now I was just two stations away from Kurla. May be the man was also unlucky like me as at Ghatkopar station 2 TCs got into the train and started checking the tickets of the passengers! That man was taking a nap. I pat on his knee and by nudging my head towards TCs, I warned him,
“TCs are coming!!!”
Now I just wanted to see his reaction. But the man who was roaring a while ago on the platform was completely flat now. He got terribly frightened! Before he takes any action, TC was in front of him, waiting for his ticket.
“Sir, I don’t have ticket…ti..ti..ticket counter was closed!”, he was not even able to say the truth clearly.
TC got happy. I could see images of 100 rupee note in his eyes! He commanded his partner TC,
“Hey take this man out!”
Another TC approached to the man and he was about to take the man in remand and I interrupted that drama saying,
“Wait! This man is not with out tickets!”
I took out the coupons. One bunch of his fare and another bunch of mine!
“He has coupons. As ticket counter was closed completely, we had to write the date over the coupons using pen”
“Then why he didn’t say about it?” TC asked.
“He didn’t know that I manually stamped his coupons as well” I replied.
TC left with sad mood. I also got ready to get down at next station.
The man was still looking at me surprisingly. I gave him his bunch of coupons and said,
“Its just a matter of realization!”
“If TCs wouldn’t have come, you would have never ever realized what I did for you.”
“When I was stamping the coupons for me, you cold have bought the same from me but you didn’t realize it!”
“You spitted on that wall, tomorrow more 100 like you will spit there and you people only will start hating the station. When you spat there you didn’t realize it!”
“You cursed ticket counter, you cursed whole staff but what’s the use of it as they don’t have realization of your hassle. Again you didn’t realize it!”
“We can know each other better, we can know this world better…it’s just a matter of REALIZATION!”
I got down from the train by saying this.
I will be happy if he realized it!
I did this with a cost of just 6 Rs. and see you didn’t realize it!!! :-)
-Arun
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