Smile please

In one of my previous posts, I had written about some of the funny incidents that had happened to me in IIT. Well today, I will be writing about some where I am not the chief protagonist, but was still present at the "crime" scene, when it was unfolding. As usual, the stories getting printed below is a "Garam Masala"ised version.

December 1st, Dec 2008, me and Kukri (real name can't be revealed) was aboard the train heading to Trivandrum. Our first semester was over and we were heading home for vacations. We were travelling by the new "All-coaches-AC-but-no-place-to-sit" Gharib Rath train. We were sharing our compartment with an elderly couple.

Few hours had passed since we boarded the train. Initially we whiled away our time chit chatting about various things that happened in campus that semester. After sometime, we started feeling bored. Then Kukri suggested something:

"Why not watch a movie. We can watch it in my laptop. I have downloaded Yuvraaj (Salman Khan's new film) from the hostel LAN. I was planning to watch it at home with my family, but I guess we can watch it now"

I thought it was a good idea. He took out his laptop and then he started to play the movie.
Suddenly for the first 2-3 seconds only sounds were coming out from the the movie player

"Hmmm aaah oooo oo yeah.........."

We didn't understand what was happening.
Then 2 seconds later the video came up.
Boom!!!!Suddenly we felt someone dropped a nuclear bomb on our heads....the video was a full blown porn movie!!!!

Kukri jumped into action immediately. Within a fraction of second the laptop found it's way back to Kukri's suitcase and there he was sitting giving a fake smile to the elderly couple, who by then were staring at us strangely (wonder why!!!). He was muttering under his breath

'If I ever lay my hands on the son of the ***** who names a porn movie Yuvraaj, I will %$@#%^&* him...."

After seeing all this I was thinking what would have been the situation if Kukri had actually watched the movie at home with his parents.

Our second semester had started in January 2009. As a part of our Mtech course structure, the Mtech students have to perform TA (Teaching assisstant) duties under some professor so as to be eligible for the monthly stipend. I was assigned to Prof Bhujade. I, along with 4 others from CSE Mtech1 (ie, the first year Computer Science Mtechs) had the responsibility to conduct the VHDL lab. We were selected for VHDL lab because we had done a course in the previous semester, by Prof Bhujade, where we had learnt a bit (a very small tiny bit) about VHDL. Our job mainly was to make sure that the 2nd year Btech guys were doing their VHDL assignments properly, in the lab, and to help them out in case they had any issues with VHDL programming.

2 days before the first lab was to begin, there was a change in the TA list. Sriraj, who was the "brightest" TA among us was "handed" over to Prof Sharat due to his "expertise" in various complex applications (website maintainence), way beyond the comprehension of a normal human mind. Thus there was now a "vacancy" for VHDL lab TA. Our CR, Aadi, promptly reacted to the crisis by "appointing" my roomie Sheiku (Sumair) as the lab TA. On learning about his appointment, Sheiku was almost in tears

" Oyee I haven't taken the VHDL course last semester, then why have I been put in VHDL lab. I don't even know the full form of VHDL"

Well the truth was even I didn't know the full form. But then I quickly googled the net and found it before anyone saw me doing it.

We had our first VHDL lab day before yesterday. I was wondering how Sheiku was going to manage the lab. The lab started and students started doing their assignments. After sometime I caught Sheiku busy asking a student, questions about his VHDL code.

"Explain the code"
"What is the significance of this keyword"
"Explain how this function works"
and so on....

After the lengthy discussion, the student asked Sheiku

"Sir is my vivae over"

"Yeah it's done. You have done well. Keep it up".

The student felt happy.Sheiku then comes over to me and whispers

"Poor guy thinks it was vivae. Actually he was teaching me how to do VHDL programming"

Well, certain people do have ingenious ways to learn new things.

After sometime another student called Sheiku.

Student : "Sir, what is a test bench"

Sheiku : " You don't even know what a test bench is? Didn't you brush up your concepts before coming to lab? Very bad. I will not help you, you find it out yourself"

The poor chap looked helpless. He was sure the "all knowing" TA would have helped him out.

Sheiku then walks over to Krishna (another TA) and asks

"Oye what in the world is this thing called test bench"

Thus our hero Sheiku had an eventful TA duty on the first day.

After the first semester results were declared, there was one person who scored a perfect 10 (whew!!!) in our class. His name is Lokendra. Last week it so happened that Lokendra, Adil, me and some of our friends went out to have icecream, as a part of Lokendra's treat. While we were having the treat, Adil was having big big conversations with Lokendra, asking him for tips on how to top the class, secreats of how he got a perfect 10 etc. After the treat was done, we all came out of the shop and were preparing to leave. Just then I heard someone calling me from behind.

"Psst...over here..."

I saw Adil indicating to me to go over to him. I went over to him.

"Oyee what was his name yaar, the one who gave us the treat"

I was a little surprised.

"Lokendra", I said.

Suddenly Adil went over to Lokendra and said,

"Lokendra bhai, thanks for the treat. I always knew you would top the class. You always had it in you. Keep it up"

The way Adil was talking to him as if he had known him for a long time, I couldn't help but smile.