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...