God, Are you examining my 'Considerate' nature?

Not once, not twice, at least 5 times when travelling, if my memory serves me right, as I'm writing this post!
Here's how the testing times unraveled...

(In the order of occurence of events: Please read AP as Anonymous Person and so on, so forth.)

Scene 1:
I was travelling in KSRTC Rajahamsa Bus from Koppal to Bangalore - approx 8 hrs' journey....

AP: Please allow me to sit in your seat since I've back-ache problem. My seat number is 17.
Me: Alright. Your seat...Above the tyre of the wheel?
AP: Yes, sir. Thank you.
Me: You're welcome. I can sense your pain.

I moved to seat number 17. I found that the knob mounted to left arm of the seat, that causes the to-and-fro movement of the seat, was broken. Sadly, the handle of the knob itself was too rigid to move by a centimeter! As a result, it behaved like a firm wooden chair!!!

Scene 2:
I was travelling in VRL bus from Koppal to Bangalore.....

AP1: Your seat?...
Me: (Failing to notice her intentions...was in a hurry as well) Yes, my seat number is 1(equivalent to sleeper class in the train). I quickly move to my mom's seat to chat with her.
AP2: Sanjeev...
Me: Hey, how're you doing?
AP2: I'm doing good....BTW, my sister has a *kid* baby and so, could you please allow her to take your seat?
Me: Hmmm... (Thinking for a while)...Alright. What's her seat number?
AP2: Seat number 6. Thanks, buddy.

It turned out that AP2 was my school friend and the young lady for whom he had asked me to do a favor, had a healthy kid and not a baby, mind you. Moreover, she was too healthy to be in need of 'sleeper class' seat!

Scene 3:
I was travelling in Shatabdi Express from Bangalore to Chennai for my US B1 VISA interview. Window seat was reserved for me. That would be my first ever experience travelling in the Shatabdi Express.....

AP1: Could you please sit in the seat closest to the aisle in the next row?
Me: Why?
AP1: We're a family of three and we can all sit together.
Me: (Arisen by the impact of such previous incidents and also by the fact that sitting in the aisle seat with so many tea/coffee/snacks' vendors taking turns by your side, every now and then, throughout the next 5 hours, would be such a terrible experience) Sorry. I need proper rest - I've my interview tomorrow.

It turned out that AP1 was a middle-aged lady and there was no genuine reason behind her asking for the window seat except *in her opinion* for the so-called family-sitting-together experience, which, I later thought , would be a disaster anyways, since the woman was not a talkative type and neither were her daughter and her brother!

How can you deny somebody his deserved comfort when you don't have any genuine reason behind your asking him for the compromise?
Should all young men always sacrifice their comfort? At least, me?

Scene 4:
This time on my way back from Chennai to Bangalore. I was travelling in Lalbagh Express from Chennai to Bangalore. Although, Window seat was reserved for me, it turned out that seat numbers were swapped in reality.....

AP1: My seat number is 3 and I'm sorry it's not my mistake.
Me: (Grinning at the Railways Administration in mind) Let me ask the Ticket Collector regarding this.
AP1: Alright.
Me: (Going to Ticket Collector(TC)) Sir, mine is a window seat and it was reserved long before AP1 reserved his seat.
I should be sitting in that seat.
TC: Look Sir, it happens(holding the Reservation Guys guilty, perhaps) sometimes. It's all a matter of adjustment.
It's like Kannadigas asking for more share of Kaveri water than Tamil Nadu, since that took birth in Karnataka (laughs sarcastically)
Me: AP1, (Narrating TC's story) I guess, I should be sitting there.
AP2: (Jumping in her brother's defence) This has happened with us several times and we're sorry.
Me: (Although sure, I could win an argument over her) Alright. Have a nice journey :-) ... :-(

AP3: Could you please let me sit here in the aisle since our whole family could be sitting in the same row and you can get back to the window seat number 45 (in the behind rows)?
Me: Sure. Thanks. :-)
Me: (Closing in on to Window seat) Hmmm... Aisle again. This time aisle in 3-seater row :-( .

It turned out that some seat adjustment had happened again, amidst all the hustle-bustle in the process. As Lalbagh Express doesn't have better logistics facilities compared to Shatabdi, it was a terrible experience journeying in the train on my return.

And, God, why me again?

Scene 5:
I was travelling in Volvo bus for work. I was seriously reading architecture document of our project....

AP1: Excuse me, I want to sit here (Gutsy).
Me: (Caught by surprise), Hmmm...alright... (Leaving my seat..)
AP1: Thank you.
Me: You're welcome!!!

It turned out that AP1 was a healthy young woman who was quite aware that there was no reservation-for-women kind of thing in Volvo buses.

...And, God, why me, again and again?

To be continued... :-)

Random Thoughts!

10:45PM:

The idea of publishing a new post on my 'oasis blog' hits my mind!!!

10:47PM:

I start writing a new post...

In the last few days, my face has turned significantly 'white' but glowing, thanks to my taking absolute rest for four days to avoid any side-effects from severe cold and cough and eventually destroy those killer bacteria. It was all rest and no computer screen for almost the entire period, not going to work, no-tension-in-life sort of situation. In the event, I've grown a forest on my face....

Oh...! No!!!!!!

This 'forest' reminds me of the fact that I've grown so much of hair on my face that it needs almost a 40-minute scaling-cutting-removing-cleansing operation to be done on my face and bloody, on top of that, I need to wake up early in the morning and start early to suffer frustrating 2-hr journey to work...

And...Manager will say: Long time...No see and you'll have long hours @work for few days now. Happy Laboring!!! [:-(]

So, will put a stop here. Will continue some time with my random thoughts!!!

10:52PM:

Until Next Time,

Cya

Fix You!

This is one of my all-time favorite lyrics':

When you try your best but you don't succeed

When you get what you want but not what you need

When you feel so tired but you can't sleep

Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face

When you lose something you cannot replace

When you love someone but it goes to waste

COULD IT BE WORSE?

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below

When you're too in love to let it go

But if you never try you'll never know

Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down your face

When you lose something you cannot replace

Tears stream down your face

And I

Tears stream down your face

I promise you I will learn from my mistakes

Tears stream down your face

And I

Lights will guide you home

And ignite your bones

And I will try to fix you

Start Playing Sudoku Here!

Sudoku from SudokuPuzz.com

After Long Time............

I'm happy to be back to blogging.

I heaved a huge sigh of relief today after long time...

Finally, I'm officially into some real java project. I'm allocated to DIAMOND Project,a healthcare project. I feel happy for the technology-JAVA . Yes, Java it is. I love it. I'm passionate about it.Good that my Project /*Resource */ Manager is a nice guy. He's cool.

Well, one would wonder why is this guy so adamant working on java. I'm not trying to be adamant.You can't be so adamant about working on one technology in IT Services industry. True. You never know when you'll be asked to shift to some other team in the same project !!!

Thank you God for having listened to my daily night prayers !!

I found you

Call it a miracle.

I found my friend's whereabouts on namesdatabase.com

after a long 6 years; We'd separated from each other when we'd passed out of our 10th standard.Ages it is for me 'cos he is a good friend of mine.

I was really happy to learn that he also works for a reputed multinational.

Thanks namesdatabase.com.

cya

BEAN THERE, DONE THAT !

I did it.

Finally, I called up a close friend of mine whom I'd not spoken to since long time and we spoke over a good length of time. I was really happy.

Infact, I've been able to do good things alike, of late; calling up friends, seizing an opportunity to meet them in a mutually convenient time comfort zones, start loving what you do at work, learning from mistakes, recovering fast from depression mode............

I can observe from my own experience how 'being in dual minds' attitude ruins most of your valuable time and leads you to nowhere. There is a big story behind it; I would like to keep this story telling in my future blogs (Hey, I don't like to abuse my blog's debut). I find Just-take-life-as-it-comes philosophy soothing my wounds. That's my life-style nowadays !!!

Before I put an end to my first post, few of the "Quotable Quotes"
from our java trainer at work whose approach to life I admire a lot, are:

1. "When you've entered computer-science field, you should be open to learn newer and newer technologies".

2. "You should try to learn from what you do,no matter how dumb your work is".

3. "The day you stop learning in 'this' aka IT industry, you're dead in the industry".

Welcome to the world of JAVA

I speak javanese, besides english !!