A coupla years back on one of my assignments with IBM, i was on a conference call with about 30 folks (u all know how those calls are). I had a VP of Sales, Mr.Timbuktu. He was on a mad rampage and would not let anyone speak on the call. This fiesta went on for about 20-25 mins of the 30 min call we had...ARGHH. So I decided to vent out some of my anger by IMing my associate Captain GoGo (..of course i am not going to list out the real names)
me: Dude...when will Timbuktu stop. Hes driving me nuts. I wish he'd stop right now..my brains are fried
(brief pause)
Timbuktu : oh, i will stop right now.
(oh gosh!! i had IMed my VP instead of my associate, telling him hes an idiot. How can i do that. People who know me said "Only you can do that")
me: Sign out
The next day we had a awkward moment, but then we laughed over it.
I have had a few comedy of errors in my life in things I have done or said or even heard. I went to a school in Mumbai PCT college of Engg..(almost as famous or infamuous as MIT ...lol who am i kidding). Apart from valuable lessons on Engg I also learned Pinglish (PCT-English) . Some of the moments we still revlive ...
A professor in a telecomm branch catches 3 students copying in class. He asks them to stand up and...
Prof: You both all 3 get out .......(both..all 3 huh)
Prof: Also i want you to get all your fathers
(all your fathers ..are you kidding me)
Prof: oh wait ...u get your mother ur father and both ur parents
I was in the Computer Engg and file submission is the most critical time in the 4 year of college and no matter how much i tried i never got my file submitted on time...So i reach to college very early (the next day of submission) and the prof has just come in.... My prof is this guy who's english is kinda like minglish (marathi + english). So i go in the lab
me: Sir, may i come in
Prof: kashala (why)
me: Sir, file submission
Prof: aree....सकल सकल डोका नाकू फिराव (sakal sakal dok nako phirav)
me :excuse me what???? (now i am desi guju guy, me no speak marathi)
Prof: Morning Morning dont rotate my head ...(Rotate...huh...oh wait he translated it literally) .
Prof : Go open the doors of the windows and let the atmosphere come in. (!!! atmosphere!! ..at that point i had to leave)
I love giving exams (ya rite!) specially the surprise tests. They are best not because they are taken unannounced and you are shocked but its the surprise you get after the tests...
Aree dude, aaj mera surprise test tha. Waise to maine pura paper attempt kiya but I think mera ek answer to surely right hai. (pure paper mein ek answer...waah mere einstein).
The surprise comes when you get the tests back you realize you get 0/100. If the profs could negative i am sure they would. Speaking of surprise tests i remember something which happened in a Telecomm class
Prof: Students i am going to take a surprise test
students: ahhhhh
Prof: Yes, surprise test ....any Thursday of next week. OK.
Really, so much for the surprise.
I am sure my class mates have much more to add on to this, i hope i can reach out to some of them and add thier Pinglish here.
3 comments:
dude, wat u did to Mr. Timbaktu; i did the same to my manager (few years back), the only diff that wat i had written in my message was far more insulting :) and to make matters even worse, my manager was a female ... :) :)
lol. Now i can say we are friends.. same college, same classes, same mistakes...Actually in my case it was a female too but and i had to buy flowers. I left the company few months later but i hear she still has a foul taste in her mouth. Do you remember the Pinglish and some of the things we used to hear from our prof's? Remind me some
Brilliant blog....I never knew you had such awesome writing skills and i am not referring to your english or pinglish btw :-)...
Cheers to your blog and do continue writing, you have got a regular reader...:-)..
Cheers,
Manav
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