Friday, May 25, 2007

There is a problem facing me here!!!

My friend was looking at the desktop and was deeply engrossed in debugging his code. He called my name and said "I have a problem facing me here..."

He lightened up on hearing my reply, "Why dont you turn around?"

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Explaining 'Sardar'ji jokes ...

This happened to my ex-colleague. He during a team luncheon had told a sardarji joke. Manager was an expatriate(a blonde in that) and so she had difficulty understanding sardarji genre jokes.
Now he wanted to explain her about this category of sardarji jokes and in a hurry uttered,
"Sardarji jokes are like 'blonde' jokes of the west."

Thankfully she had not got offended by mention of blondes in this context it seems(as he had survived to work an year under her after this).

Monday, May 14, 2007

Life's ups & downs

I am scrapping with this friend who is in Chennai after some 3-4 years. On her question on "Hows life?"

My reply: Life has been good with its usual ups & downs. How abt urs?
Her reply scrap: Yup, with lots of ups & down here as well.
My reply: I didnt know that Chennai roads are as bad as Gurgaon roads?
(I am residing in Gurgaon for some years now. Now, after this scraps exchange, she is not replying back to any of my scraps)

Short of Vision as ...

RS, had earlier described to me a business opportunity which IMHO did not exists.
PK: Business plan that u r suggesting, at any day is not implementable by a third party.
RS: You need to have vision to implement this.
PK: Yes, as I am short on vision, I am indeed short-sighted.
(Just FYI, I wear specs for short sight.)

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Be careful abt spell check correction in outlook

My colleague in UK had accepted all corrections suggested by Outlook mail and sent the mail to his manager(Anil).

Later did he realise the mistake of accepting all when he read the 1st line of the mail as
"Hi Anal, "

Tamil PJ (to be enjoyed by S/w Enggrs)

Me: Hi, Yeppadi irukka?

Friend: Nulla kiraenn.

Me: NULLa kiraenna???, Why dont u declare a variable and set the value?

Ab Bahuth Hogaya!

My colleague narrated this incident that happened to him with his son.

Once he and his wife had a heated discussion on a topic for some time. His son(may be around 6 yrs old then) who had been listening to the whole fight suddenly intervened. He had then said "Ab bahuth hogaya! Mein shahdi nahi karunga!" ("I had Enough of this stuff! I will not marry anyone!")