5 years in Bangalore

I still remember the excitement that we had when we heard that we are going to Bangalore... and all the excitement was due to one reason - we will be getting chance to seat on a plane :)
We were 10-12 IBM freshers batch friends, came all together - saw Bangalore together. We started living in Bangalore and it was exciting as we started getting our paychecks first time... money earned by us and for us :) Then we took a flat on rent, had some fight with our flat owner - learnt how the real people are. It was good experience to experience how different people behave, how they can cheat you. Also there were others who helped us.
Its the time when a student turned into a worker, or software engineer(sounds better). When you are a student, you have lot of friends and you spend time with friends. But when you turn into a worker, your friend count decreases and you start getting colleagues - fifty percent of those will be only official. But the other 50% are more than colleagues, they become our new friends. They are the ones with whom we work and spend most of our time(provided we are working for more hours in office than being at home) , they make our happy moments. They help us and they become part of our life.
Initially all of my friends were working for IBM, but as they say "You are alone in professional life", we changed the organizations and joined different organizations and became alone.
Now most of us are working in different organizations, most of them in Pune. So it feels nice in one way that I am going back to Pune now ... But at the same time I feel little tensed, because I will be moving near to my family. So can't behave as freely as I used to:)
In these 5 years, we had lot of trips, some planned with friends and some with colleagues. I have almost seen the complete south india..... ok atleast I can say that I have put my feet on soil of each state of south India.
Before coming to Bangalore, I didn't know that Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam are different languages(remember the scene from movie Chak De about Telugu). But now atleast I know they are different and I think I can tell the language if I hear somebody speaking in one of these languages...( I think but I am not sure :).
Living in Bangalore for 5 years have changed me a lot... both in good ways and bad. Talking about good ways, I think it has helped me in my professional life, the way I talk, the way I work. No... I am not going to tell the bad change :)
After all this, I must say the people of Bangalore are very good. They accomodate everyone, they don't care where you are from and what you have and what language you speak and what is your cast. Thats why I could stay in Bangalore for 5 years without learning Kannada.
So, thank you Bangaluru... and I wish I shall come here again :) ... Pune I am coming ...

Oriya - same word with different meaning

There are some words in a language which coexist in other languages. Most of the time meaning is different in each language. Sometimes because of usage of these words create a funny situation, here is an incident about it.

It happened when I was in Denmark. Along with my 3 Oriya friends I was going to visit the ISKON temple. Oriya here means people from state of Orissa in India. So we started from our home and reached the Vanlose. We had to catch a bus from there to reach our destination, so we were waiting at the bus stop. There were two women from Somalia standing there next to us probably waiting for the same bus.

Then we saw that two of our oriya colleagues are coming with family.
Then one of my friends said - 'Kya hain yar.. aaj pura oriya oriya log mil rahe hain'. (English - What is this man, today we are seeing all oriya oriya people).

After listening that the Somalian woman looked at us, which we ignored.
Then I said to my friend - 'Han yar, aaj to oriya din hain... sab oriya log :)'(English - Yes, its oriya day... where I see all oriya people).

Like this we said few lines using the word oriya. Everytime we use the word 'Oriya', those two somalian woman would give some strange look. We didnt understand, so we just continued our discussion and ignored her look.

After some time that lady came to us and this is what we discussed.
Lady - Hey, are you talking to us?
Friend - No, why?
Lady(with little anger on her face) - Then why are you saying 'hi' again and again.
Friend - No, we didnt say 'hi' to you.
Lady - Oh, you said 'Oriya' 3-4 times, that means hi in Somalia language.
Friend - Oh, we didn't know that. Oriya is a language spoken in India by people of Orissa. We are just talking about that.
Lady - Ah, thats the case. I thought you guys are just pulling us and we felt little embarraced when you said it again and again. But now its clear, its okay:)

There are some other words which have different meaning in different language like -
Chumma in Hindi means a kiss, but in Tamil they say Chumma for saying 'simply'. Like - Chumma I did it means Simply I did it. It was
little surprize when I heard girls using that word while talking in office.

Connecting the Dots

Recently I read this article about Steve Jobs -
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/notes/santosh-pandey/steve-jobs-must-read-even-if-you-have-before/450429641487

This article is inspiration for this blog post. I have experienced similar 'Connecting the dots' funda in my life. It was when I completed my 12th Science from Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra and I was looking for admission to engineering. Among the universities in Maharashtra, Pune university is the best university for doing the engineering. There was 70% reservation of seats in Pune university(home university) for student from Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik district. Other 30% seats were reserved for students from other universities. So ideally no student from these districts will join any college outside Pune university. But I joined Govt College of Engineering, Karad, which comes under Shivaji university and ranks around 15-20 in Maharashtra.

Once I joined college, most of the seniors and classmates would give me a surprised look and ask me about why did I do this mistake? At that time, even I didn't have any strong answer apart from one. I have got admission to Government Engineering College which costs 1/4th compared to any private engineering college. Even if I would have tried for admission in Pune university, getting admission to Govt Engineering College in Pune was impossible considering my marks in 12th:)

But after completion of my first year, I got distinction and a chance to change my college. Most of the people don't know about this rule, but in Maharashtra you are allowed to move from one govt engineering college to other if you have a strong reason for that or you have good marks. And I had good marks. So using that rule, I got admission to Govt. College of Engg. Pune(COEP). COEP is the best engineering college in Maharashtra after IIT, Pawai.

This is how the dots connect for me in my past. I got admitted to Govt. college of Engg. Karad because I was going to get transfered to COEP Pune :) Off course you can't connect the dots in future, you just have to take the right decision at current time and think that the dots will connect in future and be happy :)

माझ्या कविता

काल बागेत फिरताना ... आम्ही बनवलेल्या कविता ....

1. ये रे ये रे पावसा

ये रे ये रे पावसा, तुला देतो पैसा ...
पैसा झाला खोटा, पावूस आला मोठा ...

पावसाला आणायला चांदोबाची गाड़ी ...
चांदोबाच्या गाडीला हरनांची जोड़ी ...

हरनांच्या जोडीला सोल्पा नीर कोडी ...
नाहीतर ते मारतील उडी, आणि उलटी होइल गाड़ी ...
आपण खाली पडू आणि रात्रभर रडू ...

शक्यच नाही... कारण गाड़ी पावूस घेवुन आलेली... आपल्याला नाही :)


2. मी मोर्चा नेला नाही

मी मोर्चा नेला नाही, मी सम्पही केला नाही,
मी निषेध सुध्हा साधा, कधी नोंदवलेला नाही...

मी पिझ्झा खाल्ला नाही, मी बर्गेर खाल्ला नाही,
ऑफिस मधे फुकट मिलनारा, पासताही चाखला नाही ...

मी कार घेतली नाही, मी बाईक घेतली नाही,
बक्शिसात मिलालेली सायकल, तीही स्वीकारली नाही ...

मी डोला मारला नाही, मी शिट्टी मारली नाही,
माझ्यावर लाईन मारनारिला, कधी प्रतिसादही दिला नाही ...

मी मोर्चा नेला नाही, मी सम्पही केला नाही,
मी निषेध सुध्हा साधा, कधी नोंदवलेला नाही...


3. मला कार घ्यायची

पुढे पुढे म्हणता, वर्षे घेली चार ...
आता तरी लग्न करतो, घ्यायच्या आधी कर ...

लाल लाल रंगाची, मला कार घ्यायची ...
धावेल जी वेगाने, चित्त्यासाराखी ...
ब्रांड कुठलीही असो, पण मोठी असावी ...
मोडेल कुठलेही असो, पण नविन असावी ...
लाल लाल रंगाची, मला कार घ्यायची ...

स्पेशल थैंक्स मयुरेश, मनिष आणि नीरजला ....

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शशिकांत चत्तर
नम्मा बेंगलुरु

Danish Christmas Lunch and Dinner ...

Christmas... major festival celebrated in most countries of the world... Each country and community has different ways of celebrating it. And you don't need to be Christian to celebrate it.

As most of the software companies in India have clients in US or Europe, we also get involved in Christmas celebration as we have less work during that time or forced vacation or year end time .. so time to chill :)

Last year I got chance to see the traditional christmas celebration in Denmark. Like we celebrate Deewali in India, people in Denmark visit their relatives during christmas time. They have one special lunch organized called Christmas Lunch. Actually I am in doubt whether it should be called Christmas Lunch or Christmas Dinner. Because the lunch which I attended started in afternoon around 2 pm and continued till 7 pm :)

It was my friends colleague who invited 3 of us for christmas lunch. Tradition says when we go for it, each of us have to buy a gift(small gift) because they play some kind of game after lunch.

We bought the gifts and went their at 2 pm...took around 30 mins to find the house. Before going there my colleague has asked about who will come and we came to know that it will be only the family who will have lunch with us. So after our arrival they introduced us to the family which consisted of -

My friends Danish colleague, his wife, three kids, father, mother, brother in law, sister and her daughter. So we were around 13 people.

Our lunch started with some traditional danish dishes (made up of meat, chicken, fish) and traditional drink red wine. So we discussed about India, Denmark, movies bla bla bla... So slowly and slowly they started to bring new dish and new drink and our discussion continued... more dishes ... more drinks and more discussion... This continued till 5 pm....

After that we started playing christmas game where we will seat in round. All the gifts bought by each one of us and each one of them will be kept at the centre of table. Then turn by turn each one of us will get chance to through a dice. If we get 6 on that, we can take one gift from the table. Once all the gifts are taken, we will continue the game, and now if homebody gets 6 in the thrown dice, he/she can take somebody else's gift... and there the fun starts. This game is continued for some time ... They try to make sure that at the end kids get atleast one gift...

After the christmas game, we have to eat our last traditional dish.. which is similar to khir and drink red wine...

Most interesting part of the whole lunch was, we had lot of discussion with my colleagues parents. They were very nice and talkative... And they felt so nice as this was a total different Christmas lunch experience for them....

You can see in below picture about how much there people drink.... too too much :)

Welcome 2010

First of all Wish you all a happy new year 2010, filled with joy, success and everything you are looking for :)

Its more than 2 months since I wrote my last blog. And now its again time to write. In these two months I really didn't get time to write and by saying really I mean it :) Weekdays were busy in work and weekends in timepass. In weekends we played cards, watched new movies on internet, went out in the city centre and spent time there. We also watched Roadies 7.0. All these things made me busy.

But now I have got time to do things in my way, because I don't go out, I don't go to office, I don't play cards with friends.... because I am sick, I am having Chicken pox. So sad na.. yes its sad. Its like I am in a cage. But advantage is I am getting time for myself. To do the things I wanted to do and example is writing this post :)

I remember all my new year celebrations since I got my first job after graduation.... Each of the celebration was kind of different. 2005 - I was in Mumbai at my uncle's place, we had little party there. 2006 - I was in Bangalore and went in a social NGV get together. 2007 - I was in Denmark and had party there. 2008 - I don't remember it... what did I do? And 2009 - I was inside my house with chickenpox :)

But anyway each of these years were good and gave me lot of memories, lot of new friends and memorable moments with them. I am sure its the similar case with all of us. Lets welcome 2010 :)

My (first) Danish Class

Danish... language spoken by danes(people of Denmark).... Last week I attended my first and probably last danish class. But chances of being it last danish class are less as there are other good reasons for me to attend it. There is a nice good looking polish girl in the class :)

In Denmark they teach Danish language freely, so anybody living in Denmark can register for it. This is one of the things which I would like to have in India - Free education. If that would be the case, then by now I would have learnt Kannada language as I was in Bangalore for at least 4 years.

Danish language is easy in some ways and difficult in other ways. It doesn't have different verb forms like am/is/are, for everything they use er, which is nice. When coming to difficulty, the main problem is they write something and pronounce something else. They say its the same case with french...(remember the scene of movie Hum Tum, when Rani Mukharjee's mother in movie tells her house address to Saif Ali Khan).

Lets take an example...Fuglebakken.. This is a place in Denmark and its pronounced as Dhumrapan . So if you listen to it, it will sound like the word from sentence... Dhumrapan karana mana hain(Smoking is prohibited). Thats how they pronounce it. There are lot of rules like which characters should be silent in a word depending on when and how its used. For example, they have a word Hvad... which means what. In that word they have both H and d silent...so its as good as saying va. Enough about Danish language, I should not start a lesson here :) (real purpose of stopping here is I don't know more than this, as of now :P)

But its nice to join such classes. Not only because you can learn something but also it gives us opportunity to socialize. Oh yes... I can make use of things learned during my school time (not only ... but also). Now you will be wondering about what is this socializing and why do we need that etc.. But for Indians its not really a thing which needs special attention. Another similar term is stress in work. For Indians these things are very normal. But for Danes(Danish people), this is something different and special. So they have to do something special to socialize - like go for party or go to friends house. But in India this is not required as our social life is quite good. But when I am here in Denmark, I felt the need of socializing.

This is the website of my school - http://www.cbsisprogcenter.kk.dk/

Oh I forgot to tell one interesting thing before I joined the class. I went to the school, filled out the form. They said that I will receive a letter after few days and I did receive the letter. But surprisingly the letter was also in Danish. I was expecting at least this letter should be in English as they know that I am gonna join the class to learn Danish, but thats how the system works :)

Funny Manager Incident Number X

Here is another incident happened with my manager.... funny funny manager...

In our project we use Notes Instant messaging tool, for official chat purpose. In this tool we have an option to mark busy, in which case nobody can ping us and start chat.

My friend was very busy one day and she set her status as busy. Now that day this funny manager had some question for her. But he couldn't chat with her as she was busy.

Then he came to her desk and asked her, "Hey, can you change your status to available in the chat tool, so that I can ask you something in the chat. You can make it busy immediately after that!"

Thats the Manager, who doesn't understand the meaning of busy!!!

Uncyclopedia

You might have tried encyclopedia website, which has information about everything you want to know.

But have you ever tried this - http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

This is Uncyclopedia...this also has information about everything you want to know... but just a small difference... the info that is present on this is not correct... its more of funny information...

Here are some examples -

Some things about Denmark -

Danish Language

“Danish is not a language - it's a throat disease.”

~ Queen Margareth of Denmark

Most linguists have come to believe that the Danish language, sounding approximately as a seal with pneumonia holding a potato in its mouth, is indeed most closely related to Sealese, though some dispute this and think a relation to Penguinese to be more likely. However, the sealists have gained an upper hand recently, with the argument that there have been longstanding contact between native Danes and Seals. Indeed, after the great Seal invasion in prehistoric times, they often inhabit the same territory, with Danes having numerous habitations on Greenland since the landing of Erik den Røde (Erik the Red, not to be confused with Svend the Green), and the invading seals having a large remaining colony in the marshes of south-west Denmark, the so-called "Tønder Marsk" (which is also the home of the last 0.3 people).

Here is another example of Pervez Musharraf -

Pervez Musharraf Early life

Pervez Musharraf was born as a bastard in a deep pig dungeon, on August 11, 1943. Musharraf along with his lesbian friends immigrated to Pakistan and chose to masturbate in Karachi. He stayed in Kabul for three years, two hours and did his education from Bill Clinton Sex college for the economically backward, but being impotent, he got thrown out of there. Although thats all just presumption Mushy in reality is just a space cockroach who was exiled from their planet for being too fucking stupid. He spent his early years in Ankara, Turkey, from 1949 to 1956 and speaks fluent Turkish.

Please note - No personal offenses meant....

Try this website when you have some waste time which you don't really want to waste!

Funny Friend

After reading my blogs(if you read it:)), you may think that how I get all such friends and not anybody else...and maybe I am funny too:)

In ITC Infotech office Bangalore, there is a bike parking area for disabled people. Its a small area, where around 10 bikes could be parked. They have put a board on entrance saying "For Differently Abled". So ideally any normal person should understand that this area is for special people.

One day I saw my friend X parking his bike in that parking area. And here is our conversation -
Me - Hey X, can't you read that?(kya be, padh nahi sakata kya?)
X - What?(kya)
Me - See whats written there...(vaha pe kya likha hain dekh!)
X - what is there?(kya hain vaha)

Then I read it for him.

Me - Its written that this parking is for disabled people.(abe likha hain na ki disabled logon ke liye hain ye)
X - oh...thats fine... They will come to know that my brain doesn't work and thats the reason I can't understand whats written there :) (oh..thik hain.. fir vo samaz jayenge ki mera dimag kam nahi karata :))

My New Laptop - Dell Inspiron

Last month I got a new laptop... I was very happy! I thought now I will get more time to put blog posts, but thats not the case. All the time I am busy doing facebooking and orkuting and there is no time left for blogging... But today I have decided that I will blog regularly, so lets see how it goes!

So will be back with my new posts!

Oh.. I forgot to tell my laptop configuration... Here it is -
Processor - Inter Core 2 Duo T6400 @2.00GHz
RAM - 4GB
Hard Disk - 320 GB... a lot for me :)

My First Day in Bangalore...

It was my first job. I got transfer to Bangalore. We were total 10-12 people who got transfer at the same time, all from same fresher training batch in IBM. Company had provided accomodation in a hotel near Dickenson road in Bangalore. My office was on residency road. It was my first day in Bangalore.

I went to office in the morning by taking auto. Then while coming back to hotel I thought its nearby distance and I should try bus instead of auto. So on residency road I got into a bus on one of the signals. I got in from front gate of the bus. I was standing near the front door. I asked the conductor whether the bus goes near my hotel and got the ticket. He asked me to wait near the bus door as I have to get down after some 2-3 stops.

There were lot of ladies standing near the door and the front side of the bus. At next stop few more ladies got into the bus from the front door. So that part of the bus was very crowded now. I was just standing at the same place, very near to the door. Then some lady started saying something to me, probably in Kannada. I didn't get anything. I didn't bother to ask it to somebody as bus was getting nearer to my stop. Following that lady, few more ladies were looking at me and saying something in Kannada. I just ignored that. I was confused and kind of surprised about that, as I was new to this city and it was my first day in Bangalore. It was looking as if they are saying something slang to me and I was just ignoring that.

Finally after suffering from this, I got down near my hotel. In the evening I told this story to my friends. And they gave a surprising answer to me, which answered all my questions about the bus, the ladies and everyone in the bus. My friends told me that, in Bangalore, ladies get into and out of the bus from the front gate. And they seat and stand on the front side of the bus. While men seat or stand in the back side in the bus. Now I realized, why there was no man on the front side in the bus...

... And he broke it!!!

Those were the best days of my life.... Yes I can say this to refer to those days, when we used to play cricket in NGV Bangalore, two years ago. That time we were around 7-8 people staying in 3BHK flat in NGV. For software engineers there is an advantage, you get 2 days break in each week.... I just love it...

So during those days, every saturday & sunday - mornings and evenings, our mission used to be playing cricket. When I am on batting side, my team mates will not allow me to bat..and when I am on balling side everybody from opposite team want me to ball. So you can understand how good my cricket skills are. But still I used to enjoy cricket a lot.. and thats because other things that used to happen on the cricket ground.

We were around 8 people used to play cricket. So we used to divide us into two teams of 4 players each. There was a guy in our opposite team... I like to call him - Angry Young Man!!!(AYM). If somebody cheats in a match, he used to get angry. But whats cricket without cheating :)

In my team whenever somebody hits boundary, we used to come at the centre of creeze and dance. Same case when somebody from our team takes a catch or takes a wicket while fielding. And the AYMs reaction to this was unbelivable. He would be red with anger... And seeing his red face, we used to enjoy more...

One day after our cricket match, this was our conversation -
AYM - I don't want to play.
Some other friend - Okie... (seeing towards other players) we will play.
AYM - No, I will not allow you to play.
Some other friend - Why?
AYM - I don't want these four people in single team(pointing to our team).

That was funny... We used to discuss in the evening about all that happened in the match...and laugh like anything.

One day in one of our match, it was last over. It was my over and the AYM was going to face it. They just needed 2-3 runs to win the match. Now as I already told you about my balling skills, everybody knew that we are going to loose beacuse of my balling. The AYM was quite happy, as it was my balling. But to everybody surprise, I took his wicket.. It was bowled!!! Everybody was looking at me and AYM with 'ohh..' on their face. Seeing this AYM was very very angry on me.....and he hit the bat on ground and broke it..... Thanks god, he didn't hit it on my head.

I really wish that some day in future I will play cricket with my AYG best friend, with the teams divided like it was before...

When you are in office, keep your mobile on silent mode!!!

Yesterday, being Sunday I went to office to do some work. I saw another person in office. I just checked about what is he doing? And to my surprise he was pasting small small paper labels in front of each desk. On each paper label it was written that, "Please keep your mobiles on silent mode". I was just thinking about what made him do this hard work(its not really hard..but doing it on Sunday makes it difficult) on weekend. He could have asked it to some office boy. But I think he was very much angry with those people who don't think of the impact of keeping mobile on normal full volume mode and disturbing the working souls with nice, loud caller tunes.

Sometime back when I was in Denmark I was having some casual discussion with my team there during our lunch time. And suddenly somebody got a call and the ring tone disturbed us all. Then on of my Danish team mate told this funny incident.

There was some lady project manager. She used to get lot of calls and she never thought of keeping her mobile on silent mode. So each time she gets a call, her neighboring colleagues used to get angry. But who will ask her to keep it on silent mode? Whenever she was having meeting, she used to keep her mobile at her desk and used to go for meeting.
One day she went for a meeting and the mobile rang... A person sitting next to her took it. There was a jar filled with water and having some flowers in it kept on the desk. This person put the ringing mobile in that jar. Sometime later the lady came. She understood what might have happened. And she learned a lesson...

Finally I got it!!!

After trying a lot, finally I got it... Thanks for your wishes and guidance...Each one of you has helped me some or other way to achieve this.

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My Manager Incident 1

From long time I was thinking about whether to write or not about him, as its not good to write something bad about some one. But its more funny than bad about my manager's behaviour and yesterday his behaviour was the key reason for my blog posting here...
My manager, he looks very innocent. And I feel that he has this habit of forgeting... Some days back I told him that I am from Pune. And I think everybody in my team(around 6-7 people) know about the native places of the other team members. I think atleast the manager should know these details about team members.

Around two months back, when I came back from my native, I had a chat with my manager saying "Hi...how are you..". Then he replied saying, "Hey Shashi, When did you come back from Bengal?". I was kind of surprised and I told him that I am from Pune...then he said.. oh...ok...

Now Yesterday again after coming from my native, I gave him some Bakarwadis which I brought from Pune. He replied to that, "Oh, you brought it from Bihar?". Now its too much...I don't know next time he might say that I am from Pakistan... :)

Virtual Barber Shop

I was just browsing through Youtube videos and came across this one. Its really a nice video and gives you experience of real barber shop.... Enjoy...

My Pakistani Friend!!!

When we are in India, sometimes we hate Pakistani people. And few are responsible for this hatred feeling. But that is quite serious topic and I don't think this is good idea to discuss it here. Rather here is an incident which happened to me in Denmark.

One day I was with my few other friends, was doing weekly household shopping on Saturday afternoon. So I was coming with 3-4 bags in my both hands. Now I had to take a bus to go to my place. So I was waiting at bus stop. And there came a bus. I was getting into bus and bus driver said, " Are kya bat hain? Itna saman leke ja rahe ho?"

Me - "Are sab le jana padata hain.. pure week ke liye..:)", with a smile.

Driver - "Achha, kaha se ho?"

Me - "India se. Aur aap?"

Driver - "Are sahi hain.. main to Pakistan se hun... Aaa jao.. front seat pe baitho... aapko Hindi gane sunata hun!"

And then he started music player with some Hindi song running.

Driver - "Kabhi suna hain kya ye? Rekhaji ke gane hain..."

Me - "Achha.."

Driver - "Aise hi yahan pe vaise bhi Hindi me kisi se bat karaneko nahi milata... isliye gane sun leta hun... achha lagata hain"

Me - "Sahi hain.... "

Then we talked for few minutes and then after some time, I got down at my place saying "Good Bye .. " to him...
The way he behaved with me is really nice. I will never forget it.

So when you are outside India and when you meet somebody from Pakistan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, you feel very nice. You feel like we have met our neigbhour, somebody from our own country.

Lunch with my other language friends

Today I had lunch with my other language friends. Three of us were Hindi speaking and other 4 other language speaking friends. I will name other language speaking friends as olang1, olang2, olang3 and olang 4. And 3 of us Hindi1, Hindi2 and myself. This is our conversation until we finished our lunch.

olang1 - safsdakasf sadsa fdsakjfsda asfhyidoterae lksjfasd ds tewlkjrwea
olang2 - asfds lk safdk jioiafsadij kasfask klhklsahf sadifhskl l
olang4 - asfdjakl fsad fsdajkf sdkja fjksdaf sdaljkj jhkk
olang2 - asfsdjk hjkasf sdalskk k sdaf sdafs
olang3 - asfdsakj khhdg dfagf sdkhji ihereamn askdf sd

this continued ....
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olang2 - asfhf sdaksdafksadf sd
olang3 - asdfsdafsdakjk jkhsafasklkjuihu o sdfiasksjafds e rekl

Then myself and Hindi1 finished with the lunch....
Hindi1 - We have finished our lunch, we will carry on...
olang1 - okie guys!!!

and their conversation continued - bla bla bla....

Any comments on which is this olanguage?

What common man thinks about Software companies?

This happened when I was having training in my first company in Pune. It was rainy season and two of my friends were coming to office. It started raining so they stopped at one of the shop so as to avoid getting wet in rain. There was a person and young guy standing there and discussing something. They saw my friends wearing IBM badge. As a curiosity that young guy asked the person, "What is this IBM?".
To that the old person replied like this, "IBM, it is Indian Bank Management!!!. It is a very good company, only here it is private otherwise it is a government company." My friends couldn't say anything and just kept quite.

Another time I was going to my office by auto. I work in ITC Infotech, a 100% subsidiary of ITC. And our ITC Infotech office is located at the place where there was ITC cigarrete factory. Now people don't know that it is now software office. So after coming near to my office, I told the auto driver that you can stop here. Now as he knew it is Cigarrete factory, he asked me, "Sir, Do you work in Cigarrete factory?". And they I had to tell him that, "Bhai, this is no more Cigarrete factory, this is IT company. Cigarrete factory is shifted to new location now.".

Few days back there was a CA in our company for filling out IT returns. He asked me, "I heard that employees get free cigarrete in your company. Is it like that?". I have to tell him that , "No sirji, not at all.".