"Abee darwaza khol"
[Open the door]
No use. It takes more than that to awaken the sleeping giant (me).
"Kamine dharwaza khol nehi tho thod daloonga"
[Open the door else I will break it open]
The bang on the door just kept growing louder and louder till I knew the resistance level of my door was about to be breached after which my room would have got the dubious distinction of being the only room in the hostel with natural ventilation (ie, no door). Now I wouldn't want such a situation would I?
Me (in my sleepy condition) : "Abee bhen**** mere darwaaza ko chod. Mei aa raha hu"
[ Leave my door alone. I am coming]
On opening the door, I find Vishal standing outside, grinning at me.
Me : "Kya be, mere darwaaze se kuch panga hei kya tuche?"
[You have any problems with my door?]
Vishal : "Wire hei kya tere paas"
[You have any wires?]
Though Vishal and me were conversing in hindi, I was still in my sleep state. In my sleepy condition, I thought we were talking in my native language malayalam...and "wire" in malayalam also means stomach.
For a second I looked confused, then looked down to make sure my "wire" was still there and then looked back at him, looking more confused.
Me : "Ha abhi tuk tho hei"
[It's there till now]
Vishal : "Tho de"
[Then give]
Me : "Kya!!!Tuche mere wire chahiye??? Pagal hua hei kya"
[What!!!You want my wire?Have you gone mad?]
Vishal : "Abe dena yaar"
[Give it dude]
Me : "Saale, tere wire ko kya problem hei ki tuche mere wire chahiye"
[What's the problem with your wire that you want my wire]
Vishal : "Mera kaafi nehi hei"
[Mine is not enough]
Me : "Ha woh tho mei dekh saktha hu. Mere jaise thoda bahut khaana khale, tuche bhi mera wire mil jayega"
[Ya I can see that. Eat more food, like me, and you too will get a good wire like me]
Now the poor chap looked confused. That is when I looked at his hands. He was holding lots of wires, as in cable wires. That is when it occured to me what he was asking for.
Vishal : "Abee project kar raha hu...tere paas koi wire hei tho dede...project ke liye chahiye. Mere paas jitna hei, woh kaafi nehi hei"
[Dude, we are doing a project. We need some wires for it. If you have some then give it. We need more wires than what we have now.]
Me : "Andar jaake jitna chahiye lele"
[Go inside and take what you want]
Vishal (shouting) : "Oyee Manan, yaha ka wires mil gaya, tu oss room se leke aa...oyee Ganesh tu woh room cover kar"
[Manan, I got the wires from here. Now you try to get some wires from this room and Ganesh, you get it from that room]
I could see that these 3 guys were pulling out wires from all the rooms in my wing.
Me : "Kaun sa project kar raha hei be"
[Which project are you doing]
Vishal : "Wireless networks"
Me : "Kya!!!wireLESS networks????wiresONLY networks bol"
[What!!!wireLESS networks????you are joking right? You must mean wiresONLY networks right]
Vishal : "Abee tu nehi samchoge. Tu jaa"
[Leave it, u won't understand]
Well he did have a point. Networks were never my cup of tea. But then a natural question that arises is shouldn't a wireless project be done without wires???
After getting my morning sleep screwed up by big guys doing some wireless project using wires, I thought I may as well go to the lab. I took a bath, had my breakfast and started going to the lab. As I left my room, I could hear Vishal shouting to some guy on the 3rd floor :-
"ABEE WIRE NEECHE DAAL"
[Drop the wire down]
As usual the DMC lab was full. This week was going to be a tight week for all the first year Mtech guys since everyone had some project or assignment submission deadline coming up soon. Adil, Chander, Riju, Ajinkya, Ramesh, Vaibhao, Rakesh, Chotu, Saurab were some of the people who were already in the lab. Everyone was busy doing big things on the computers/laptops, looking damn serious. Suddenly there was a cry.
"Yipeee we received the packets, we received the packets"
When I turned to look at the source of the cry, I saw Riju dancing (looked like bharatanatyam to me, but in all possibilities she may have actually attempted to do break-dance which ended up looking like bharatanatyam). But the first picture that suddenly came to me, on seeing Riju, was that of Riju thumping her chest, like Tarzan, and screaming "OOOOOOOO........"
But her partner, Ajinkya, was looking at her, confused. "But I didn't sent any packets. Then how did we receive it"
Riju (Shocked) : "You didn't sent???"
Ajinkya : "Nopes"
I looked at Riju. "You too Wireless", I asked. She nodded. O great, one more wireless project. Well, atleast their project didn't have wires.
Meanwhile in the other corner of the lab, a few minutes back :
Ramesh : "Abee Vaibhao, where did our packets go. You sent them right?"
Vaibhao : "Yups"
Ramesh : "Then where is it"
Vaibhao : "How do I know"
That is when the explosion, in the form of Riju's shouting, was heard throughout the lab.
Ramesh : "Hmm I think I know, where our packets went".
The situation continued for a long time, Ramesh's team senting the packets and Riju's team gobbling them up. As I sat down in front of my computer to do my work, I could visualise packets with names Ramesh and Vaibhao on them, flying around the DMC lab, trying their best to get back to their masters' laptops, but unable to do so since a blackhole called Riju was busy eating them up.
3 comments:
I wish I was there in DMC that day...
This blog is technically incorrect. Wireless medium is broadcast. So there is no question of eating up packets. If I can get packets sent by Ramesh, they should also get them. Hee hee
@devshree: Hard luck :D
@Riju
Several points to be noted
1) networks is not my cup of tea
2) Technical wise, all my blogs r incorrect
3) If Ramesh didn't get the packets, you should make a complaint to the packets, and not me, as to why they are attracted only to you and not ramesh...maybe the packets were males :D
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