Muted

I always wondered during meetings and conferences, watta blessed man he is, who created mute button. :)

As i claimed my expertise in keen analytical mind and blah blah... "How to ensure the mute button actually worked???" No need to mention what a disaster it would be if the line is not muted.

Its been a tough time for Amy's team.. ( yep amy is all grown up and  started to work :P ) Late nights, endless meetings, non stop conference calls - perennial bombarment of knowledge being transfered from left ear to right ear.

After a point, they were just present physically and mentally too tired to understand. well that just gave them one more reason to FB, chat during these sessions. And they acquired a talent of mindlessly saying "yes" or no "we are good to go"

Just few minutes ago, note the time.. 2 am and on a friday night sunday early morning - training on material which amy made. do u think she would be interested :P If you peep into Amy's lappy - FB ( checking out notifications and chatting with 4 - 5 windows, the max allowable in fb without a scroll bar. considering the fact how much Amy hates scroll bars.), few mail boxes open, twitter ( only source of news during the long stretches ), gtalks, blogs, many work related mail chats, office communicators.

Amy's influence spreads faster than fire, the team was a notch higher. Needless to say - everyone was in same page :P

For a moment Amy beamed with pride that she was multitasking so well. Also saving the team from influence of trainings and KTs. This "next in line" guy gets up to bring beanbag ang gets comfy. But now that he is settled, and they all realise there is no one to say "Hmmm" "Yes" or any unmuted vocal nods :P
So he goes "Hey Amy, now u are the closest to the speaker, you better take over"

Amy: "what is the need to say needless things, the speaker also knows its his duty to talk. Haan yes bolne ki kya zaroorat hai"

She could hear her own voice with a lag. ' Is it what i think it is :| '

Rest is common across all blogs. Embarrassment. and feeling guilty :P

We all had a hearty laughs.

U are the best amy. what would we just do without you.

Mad Hatter

This was an old incident when amy had just finished with her school.

Amy and best friend punnu were headed to BCity and that too a flight journey alone ( what i meant was un-supervised ) Punnu's parents had a conference in BCity, whom she was going to join. Amy was just fulfilling her set routine of visiting her grandparents just like how we used to read in tinkle and other comics.

Done with school. No more uniforms and what it represents - Restriction. Not a kid anymore. More freedom. Can try out more from the bounded behaviour set by parents. One offshoot of such idea was to bully some guy.

In the capital city Airport, they find a guy who appears to be a NRI ( for the reasons like he is wearing a cloth hat, which was not in fashion in India at that point of time :P ) Perfect bakra, their eyes gleamed. No need for communicating "Are you thinking what i am thinking???"  I dont think Amy was aware of the term adam teasing ( still it is not prohibited by law :P ) Apprehensive Punnu goes "may be we shouldnt"

"How does it matter? Do you think he would ever know who we are? Are we ever going to meet each other again? Come on lets seek some risk for a change" comes a confident answer. Followed by some comments like - "Dekha nahi videsh ki log apne aapko pardesi samajhne lagthe hain. Apne suit boot toh dekho. topi pehnane ki zaroorat hai bus" No need to explain whom it was passed on.

The gals were just warming up to have fun, there was announcement for boarding.

But Amy's wish for seeking some risk was so intense that even god wouldnt back off from granting it :P And fate would have had it, the seating was Amy, Punnu and ... THE NRI guy in the window, middle and aisle seats respectively. When probability theory fails - Murphy's theory kicks in. More omen of worse to come. The two were quiet as strangers!!! And didnt even dare to cross him and go get out to go to the loo in midst of the journey.

Once the plane lands in Bcity, they give out a loud sigh of relief. It couldnt have gotten worse! They let the guy go and waited till he disappeared in the crowd before getting out of their seat. Unlike the usual tendency to rush before the plane even comes to a halt.

Narrating and giggling about their experience while collecting the luggage that they see Cousin waiting. going up to her - "Hey i didnt know you were coming to pick me up. Thats is very sweet of you. Meet punnu my friend"

She replies "Actually I didnt know you were coming. But good that I met you as well. We would drop you on the way. Do you remember cousin Y he is coming back from US of A after his masters. So came to pick him up"

"Oh great I havent met him in ages, as I was in the north for years altogether. You wait for him and I would pick up punnu's luggage and come"

Amy walks up to punnu. After collecting all the luggage and were returning to leave, they see that its the same guy. Murphy's law in succession.
"Now what how do we avoid them?" When he aside, Amy runs to her cousin to convey that she would leave punnu in her hotel as she is alone and from there she would head back home. Hahha :P I would have loved to be there. The sadist in me would have been so happy. Some incidents do suggest that god still works for the underpriviledged :P

The Farewell

An ode to the 1 and half year spent here. Things changed. Enthusiasm and even the outlook. What people meant to amy. The priorities changed. Expected outcomes changed. :D In the end nothing mattered and it was good and to an extent practical education that Amy got. She is a changed person and we are loving it.

Most important of all, its just not her who these had happ. Everyone has had a paradigm shift, change in personality et all.

New people come, new (mis)adventures.

Cheers to life. Another phase starts. a bit of responsibilty and sophistication.

Keep smiling til she unleashes her clumsiness.

pre exam

Once more and I would make it a thumb rule. Her urge to do everything except to focus on things at hand. :P Esp during exams. I had written a post before her previous mod exams on her instistance
Well I guess Amy's brain is made to be active during this time hence she start pondering more.

Amy: I crossed cat s path wat would happen to the cat. :P
ASax: ( should i even reply ) - smiles just for courtesy sake
An auto passes by
Amy: I guess it just turned lucky, it was not rode over by the auto. See i am so lucky and made the cats life.
Wat ASax replied.. does it even matter.

She didnt even attribute it the cat having 9 lives. :P

I sometimes do wonder why do i even entertain her and her stupid thoughts. No curse one me :D

Well a little pondering on my side revealed that I wanted to write about the worst, useless banter is different. Hence!!!

Punctuation problem

Amy is associated with haste, speed and clumsiness. yes you are right!!!

Here s an example how she almost got married because of the punctuation.

T&Y was star gazing and talking philosophy :P He gets a msg "Hello my friend got married today and I freaked out because of that" from, who else, amy!!!

He reads it as " Hello my friend got married today and I freaked out bcoz of that"

Actual msg was "Hello... my friend got married today. and i freaked out bcoz of that "

Hahha

Torture in disguise

Amy was cribbing to her 3f gang about the food in the mess. Just One more reason for Amy to crib. I never understood the after effects of cribbing. How can anything be accomplished by just telling someone else and that person also doesnt do anything about it but just listen to her ( assuming females cribb more than males) Let me give some credit to Amy. Well she atleast try to get some solution however infeasible ( bcoz of impossibility or sheer laziness ) the solution may be.Which was to arrange for a stove and she would cook for everyone!!! WTH. As every soul in the world universally knows she was mad. God save 3fs. I really understand why these guys even put up with her madness.

The fun starts now. The almighty heard her supposedly and devised a plan for her. She was supposed to rush back home to take care of her bro. She was all excited about going back home. But as expected madamoiselle didnt fathom the consequences. On one end she gets to torture Kp. But she has to shift within the span of one sleep to become a home caretaker from a happy go lucky hostelier. waking up early morn to cooking to cleaning to wat not. Moms are busy damm busy, She realized that day!

She boasted she made the best chai. Uj s testimonial for testimony ;) But cooking fullfledged without mom's supervision was dreadable. (If not for her for us. from taste to potential hazards explosion, burning, burnt food, vessels falling down) Not that mom needs to help but the presence somehow assures any mistake will have a workaround. :) For the gunieapigs like KP and me we would definitely agree with later part of Amy's thoughts. Adversity such as this brought about best cook in Amy I would say. she has been adding her own flavour to everything she is preparing. Also lets see how long we have to put up with this. KP should not get a reason to say the stomach upset was the reason for his poor grades.

Not just that she needs to teach tiny tots whom mom started taking tuitions to keep her busy. Extra busy moms' are supercool. So many kids saying maths rhymes aplhabets wat not, all the time from my left from my right. All around! thank got there is only 360 degrees. In between my baby calls contemplating story of silly goat! Giving me ideas to bully these kids also. Double treat KP topping with tiny tots.

Putting best use of her degree i guess.

Amy "With all commotion, their mistake brings smile. Their innocence is all wat you can ask for in life. They gave a self made greeting for mom and handpicked flower from their garden. In a ruled sheet written Happy New year Mam in chalk piece. Thats damm sweet!"

I see an alternative career blooming for Amy!

:) Over and Out!

Repercussion of getting thrown out of class

Its been quite sometime since Amy narrated me anything. She seems to be happy and contended in her own world. ( WATTT!!!! NO misadventures.. aise kaise ho saktha hai ;) )

16a class looks forward for Mad-u-let-i's class. His talks about six sigma swamizi and TQM swamizi. ( DShan can update in comments, he has been taking notes seriously :P ) But he took classes till 3 40 on one fine 11th Feb 2010. After the whole gang goes to have tea in the staff canteen, searching for bakras who can actually would invest 3/- on the poor hungry sleepy souls. Here comes venture capitalist Double A s. The usual bakkar session happens. Dpes threatening to send his free sms. Acting too smart she doesnt let Double A s to rush to class and un-Rag was not there to shoo us like smelly hilly goats in a herd. They find the door locked.

Oops! now what. Realizations as to who all have attendance shortage. Even though the limit is 70% ( May be 75%. Does Amy know? Anyways, when in shortage how does it matter is she has 50% or 20% ) Aak deliberates on matter that matters like attendance 'there s gonna be only 3 - 4 classes this mod on this course, then how will we manage! '

Our hope that if un-Rag comes to class, he would get to entry saying he was out on a work. We were also on work just that lecuturers dont understand it. We had horde of ideas like we knock and run away. Call someone inside and ask them to tell the prof. No one dared :P

Finally people listened to the great oracle amy that it was waste of time and left the place. They were aimlessly walking down the 96 steps. Outweighing the plan to go to HN, Kalaghoda seemed to rouse more curiosity. But you know the laziness that grows in this magical forests. Coefficient of friction was some 2 hours by the time Seh, the last one came( Armed with his DSLR.. he hit me with a khali bisleri bottle to quote this) . But they were all happy that whole gang was going.

Guys were enthu about the godly art rather than the human art. It really inspired amy and aak to take up art as profession. Amy as usual was in her hangover of doing something different. When will she ever stabilize!

Ate in Bademiyan. Went to marine drive. Teasings all the way who will go with who strategies ;) Stunts and fotographs all the way. Pep talk with Seh. Memorable one. Back to campus down the "Great Stairs of Colg" They all just realised being 10 min late they had 10 hours of fun.