The holidays went on smoothly with the unsual change in the daily routine while the college reopened and PSR reminded me of the passport application that was lying in his desk unopened. And we both filled the forms and still i coudnt figure the reason behind the 3 xerox copies that were asked for submission! let it be. Here started the real pain in the ass. We started on to get a DD. Gandhinagar is a well planned city having all the banks in a single sector and that shouldn't be a problem. ICICI was the first and having an account is compulsory to get a DD. I as a common man coudnt get this! some business point?(may be). Anyway the very next was the indian bank and we went in asking for the DD forms and an unexpected harsh reply as if i was asking his daughter for a date! The next scene;we were out of that closed room and now entered the Syndicate and what an amazing view for the customers.The building looked as if it is the remains of a tomb with a lot of paper buried instead of gold and silver. Finally we got hold of the DD forms and filled them, all three of them(one for our frnd), and the cashier gave us a wierd look and asked to fill these in a separate form and bring bak to him!!!!!! We couldnt get a bit of that and asked him to repeat and the situation never changed. Not knowing what to do we came out of the tomb realizing the lack of dead bodies there and the bank people trying to fill that space with the customers.
Finally decided to try our luck for the last time, entered the Punjab National bank and asusual we found noone at the "May I Help U" counter. To our relief the DD forms were out there hanging and they even pasted a copy of a form. We filled and tried to submit in the counter "chow". There was this elderly person(EP) and PSR handed over the forms and here starts the comic show. EP asks PSR about his bank account and PSR unknowingly spills about his ICICI bank account and all of a sudden EP shows his rage.
EP: "You maintain an account there and all the benfits to them while the clerk work is being done by us. Why should we do? We do this work freely for our customers and why dont they"
PSR: "Sir the problem is i am having an A/C in Hyd and they need a cheque book for the DD...
EP: Why do they need a cheque book. we do without that!
Me(in my mind): How the hell do I know about the reasoning behind their rules. I am not the bank GM
PSR: Sir those rules were set by them.. what can we do!!
EP: so you accept its a "gundha" bank then why do you maintain an account in such a bank? they even dont have 800 branches all over india.. and we have some xxxxx branches...
Me: Its almost lab time and we even dont know whther he is going to give us the DD after all this class
PSR: that is okay sir but now...
EP interrupts: Ask that mam there... points towards an officer there
Me: God plzz save us... atleast let ma'm be sensible enough
Ma'm: Whats wrong? are u students?
PSR: Yes mam and we came here for a DD and he says(pointing to the counter chow) we can't as we dont have an account here... (rather his problem is having an ICICI account).
Ma'm: (speaks over in gujarathi) You guyz go there and you can get the DD's.Its an order.
Me: Thanks god for the lady power. Laughs silently, unseen ofcourse.
submits the form and a wait for the DD. And again.. these bank guyz are really serious and they can go on blabbering better than us!!!
EP: See you know that ICICI is a gundha bank phir bhi waha account rakthe ho!!!
PSR: (with the wtf-look on his face) Sir, We are paying the extra charges and moreover my frnd(myself) doesnt have an account there...
EP: leave the DD.. we have many facilites for the students.You can get free DDs for the fee you pay.....
Me: Gawwwwwwwwwwwwwd!!! why did you leave us all of a sudden! plzz come back.
PSR: Sir the problem is during the admissions ICICI came over there and ur bank didnt and so we have our accounts there...
EP: See you can close the accounts there and open brand new accounts here...
Me: wtf!! about to leave in an year and now again the headache from the scratch!!!! God where are you
To our relief our DDs were signed and handovered with a lauffable joke of asking to remember them after leaving INDIA.
can anyone forget such a memorable experience!!!!
PS: This was my first DD. (that was dealt by me)
No harm intended in the post! Neither every employee is harsh nor the harsh behaviour is witnessed everyday.It was mere bad experience.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
Of the holiday cricket, a Spectacular match and the bank employees
Well, the last week was real good... got to see lot of people in the early mornings around 9 AM which is the natural seeping time here and ofcourse a lot of cricket too. No misunderstandings plzz!!!! its neither Crciket 2002 nor the 2004 version but the actual cricket that is played in our very own ground with the help of a half bat,an intact bat without a crack,a ball,three stumps and a chair and ofcourse 16 students. even a kindergarden stud in INDIA knew the no of players required to play but thank god atleast sixteen are out there in the ground moving the lazy buts around to field, bowl and run instead of sticking their asses to the chairs playing over lan, or watching friends and movies least bothered even to drink a glass of water. special thanx to all cricketing freaks out there who ran around the hostel calling every possible alive person. watching all the dropped catches and the runouts and the exhaustive time outs(yeah ur reading a post on cricket) after every double and if its me the timeout would be the very next of a single, we concluded to play on the alternate dayz rather than stressing ourselves everyday for two hours.Engineering really turned the things around; cricket, which can move even the dead souls in INDIA, isn't able to move these guyz from the videogaming and the movies and the internet. Anyway going out into the ground turnedout to be better,infact best rather than watching the movies or sticking to the net or the dead,dull and boring test series. The dull test series and the excitment of the holiday cricket remained to be starters while the actual treat was the greatest one-day ever played.
You think u are the luckiest soul on earth? and if your answer to the question of watching the final one-day between Aus and SA is a big NO, then you are one among the unluckiest bunch of few wierd species. The most unbelievable game ever witnessed and the game of records, shall i say unbreakable records? After watching the enormous total put on the board by the aussies, I thought about the mental pressure and how weak the proteas would be and to my utter disbelief they chased such a huge total!!!!!! and their body language just demonstrated the wonders a positive mind can do. A real show by the batsmen hitting the ball all around into air that made it a bad bad bad day for the bowlers. And the unluckiest guyz and gals, watch it!! ESPN has gone crazy(it should be) and you can view the match if you switch the boring serials for a breathtaking game.Still if you cant get it, we have it on the hard disk!
Tha bank employees will be continued in the next post as I dont want readers to close this page after viewing the length of the post.
You think u are the luckiest soul on earth? and if your answer to the question of watching the final one-day between Aus and SA is a big NO, then you are one among the unluckiest bunch of few wierd species. The most unbelievable game ever witnessed and the game of records, shall i say unbreakable records? After watching the enormous total put on the board by the aussies, I thought about the mental pressure and how weak the proteas would be and to my utter disbelief they chased such a huge total!!!!!! and their body language just demonstrated the wonders a positive mind can do. A real show by the batsmen hitting the ball all around into air that made it a bad bad bad day for the bowlers. And the unluckiest guyz and gals, watch it!! ESPN has gone crazy(it should be) and you can view the match if you switch the boring serials for a breathtaking game.Still if you cant get it, we have it on the hard disk!
Tha bank employees will be continued in the next post as I dont want readers to close this page after viewing the length of the post.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
A week free from restricitions
Smiles around while coming out of the SP class, talking about the "homework" we were to submit by 22nd and the gleeful gestures of the prof contrary to his portrayed character and also about the quiz;the prof says and believes and might be hoping it to be a surprise quiz while we were guessing the questions goin to be quizzed from the last night. Thats two quizzes in a row and missing the first, I spent a sleepless-so-boring-night(leave alone the football match and the blog) to attend the class. :-) Thats the last class before the holidays and now am enjoying the dayz.
Lot of gaming and lots of movies and the sleepless nights for chitchatting have occupied the place of tensions and SEN's boring fundas.Everything changing, the temperatures droppin as the climate varied substantially, no classes, no labs, no alarms, no dead lines, no submissions.... all of a sudden, I love this world and wish it to be forever the same as it is now.These days, moving around gandhinagar and ahmedabad a lot. The bird flu has shown its effect. Its almost one week I ate food in the college. aalu paratha and the snacks being the only replacables,as i hate the veg items that are available here, am helping the Salt and pepper(a small hotel) waala to grew a bit richer. This week has not yet begun, already interesting things started happening...
. PSR has started his blog... check it out here.
. Our dormant DesignProject got into Crawling state after a loooooong sleep.
. I got to know some interesting things about the indo-pak partition and Jinnah.
awaiting that is in store for me in this week.
Lot of gaming and lots of movies and the sleepless nights for chitchatting have occupied the place of tensions and SEN's boring fundas.Everything changing, the temperatures droppin as the climate varied substantially, no classes, no labs, no alarms, no dead lines, no submissions.... all of a sudden, I love this world and wish it to be forever the same as it is now.These days, moving around gandhinagar and ahmedabad a lot. The bird flu has shown its effect. Its almost one week I ate food in the college. aalu paratha and the snacks being the only replacables,as i hate the veg items that are available here, am helping the Salt and pepper(a small hotel) waala to grew a bit richer. This week has not yet begun, already interesting things started happening...
. PSR has started his blog... check it out here.
. Our dormant DesignProject got into Crawling state after a loooooong sleep.
. I got to know some interesting things about the indo-pak partition and Jinnah.
awaiting that is in store for me in this week.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
dejected, gloomy angry and fun
That was me in the past few dayz! may it be the Discomp mark sheet or the missed pop quiz, may it be the fight about ganguly or the sudden flames out of subhash's monitor(i was using it), may it be the pending work or the sudden laughs, I was out of my mood... feeling lonely irritated by the slightest talk, shouting at every possible thing, making fun of myself. feeling down, making hopeless efforts to make myself comfortable with the atmosphere here. hurting many, aware of some;sry mate, I was a bit rude u-know-where.
i need a break to cope up with all this, to be normal again, back to my senses and here comes our midterm break, just a week full of joyful holidays!!!! is it? having the SEN project, the DesignProject, the discomp project and marketing final presentation and now comes SP into the picture(with due respect to AnishMaturia) with an assignment to be submitted the very next day to the end of holidays.. is it rt to be called a break!!!!! i prefer a loudd YES here. I would love to do things anytime I wish and this break gives me such an opprtunity. drafting this, i went wandering around the campus in the early morning. Its beautiful to be awake in the early morning watching the pigeons moving away from the corridors noticing the time as if they knew our schedule, feeling the pleasant early breeze, and all of a sudden it started to drizzle.. there is nothing more I could wish!! walking alone in such atmosphere is rejuvenating while watching arising sun never ceases to be a wonderful experience. I hope this feeling would last a bit long and i want myself to be quiet and calm, better stop talking!
and the best part of this week remains to be today when Arsenal made it into the champions league quarters crashing down the hopes of Real madrid Galacticos.Keeping aside the slow pace of Ronaldo, despair of the fans, its their lack of coordination in the last match and the bad luck and bad finishes in the second encounter with Arsenal turned out to be the actual reasons for their dismissal from the league.Wactching the second match in Arsenal homeground,goalless as it was, but its fun as both teams had done far better than the first. I was one among those thrusting fists into air merrily at 3.20 AM shouting in the TV room, least bothered about the people sleeping around. The missed popquiz ringing alarm bells, I was away from the discussions analyzing how unsatisfactory Reyes played and how splendid Lehman and his counter part played. but, here I am bloggin while the goddess of sleep nowhere in the near sight and anything new is something special!!!! isn't it? and my blog is brand new. needless to say i am loving this.
just now heard from our sen group that the test cases are done and the keys are back and i am awake and the SP class is abt to start in few mins. things turning out my way?
i need a break to cope up with all this, to be normal again, back to my senses and here comes our midterm break, just a week full of joyful holidays!!!! is it? having the SEN project, the DesignProject, the discomp project and marketing final presentation and now comes SP into the picture(with due respect to AnishMaturia) with an assignment to be submitted the very next day to the end of holidays.. is it rt to be called a break!!!!! i prefer a loudd YES here. I would love to do things anytime I wish and this break gives me such an opprtunity. drafting this, i went wandering around the campus in the early morning. Its beautiful to be awake in the early morning watching the pigeons moving away from the corridors noticing the time as if they knew our schedule, feeling the pleasant early breeze, and all of a sudden it started to drizzle.. there is nothing more I could wish!! walking alone in such atmosphere is rejuvenating while watching arising sun never ceases to be a wonderful experience. I hope this feeling would last a bit long and i want myself to be quiet and calm, better stop talking!
and the best part of this week remains to be today when Arsenal made it into the champions league quarters crashing down the hopes of Real madrid Galacticos.Keeping aside the slow pace of Ronaldo, despair of the fans, its their lack of coordination in the last match and the bad luck and bad finishes in the second encounter with Arsenal turned out to be the actual reasons for their dismissal from the league.Wactching the second match in Arsenal homeground,goalless as it was, but its fun as both teams had done far better than the first. I was one among those thrusting fists into air merrily at 3.20 AM shouting in the TV room, least bothered about the people sleeping around. The missed popquiz ringing alarm bells, I was away from the discussions analyzing how unsatisfactory Reyes played and how splendid Lehman and his counter part played. but, here I am bloggin while the goddess of sleep nowhere in the near sight and anything new is something special!!!! isn't it? and my blog is brand new. needless to say i am loving this.
just now heard from our sen group that the test cases are done and the keys are back and i am awake and the SP class is abt to start in few mins. things turning out my way?
Monday, March 06, 2006
Nothing like weekend
The title may sound as if i had a great weekend, but mind you it may sound even in a different way. There are people who dont care about weekends or rather they have no idea about weekends or weeknds are not a "special" part of their life.
Do i sound senseless and aloof ? may be you are lucky enough to be counted among those people who enjoy the weekends; atleast there is something special about your weekend, may it be blissful or miserable. I prefer to join the people(many from our coll for sure) who believe there is nothing like weekend not literally!!. Even here we can have two clans(infact more than two--- after giving it a min thought). India had been a state of various clans and ....what not! This is no exception and some of these clans :
i) Hardworking n Sincere
Though we have only five working days(damn) and this semester has been providing us with a lot of holidays, these people still can't find time to "civilize" --term you can(should) find a new definition in my dictionary. Though they have this urge to socialize, our proffessors are guarding their mind,soul and everything in this student life like dementors guarding the azkaban. While the problem there is of the very existence of voldemort, here the problem is the absence of such voldemort. To them there is nothing like weekend.It hardly makes a difference.
mind you I am not critisizing the ppl but the "system".How on earth could one person complete the Programming assignment while he is to worry about the hardware lab that is to be completed by tomorrow and the communication problems, the nightmares are omnipresent.
ii) I AM GOD LIKE
These people doesn't belong to this place,atleast they themselves believe this and hence they can be anywhere,anytime,anyway they wish;may it be a lecture or a lab or a cultural programme or anything unless its not a part of this place.There is nothing like days and dates and can we expect them to be aware of weekends!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iii) gamers
Frustrated by the atmosphere here, they prefer to be in the room rather than moving out in the sun. See them, talk to them, listen to them, feel their presence. Alas,Thank god if it happens on some sunny day but such instances can happen iff you are awake while the ghosts wander. I fear if they can bear the brightness of a mere lightray after being used to that of the monitors and stars. No fear, no responsibilites, no assignments, no labs and finally no weekends. These people are very important nowadayz in our institute as our Dean Mr.CP is initiating steps towards cutting out the LAN to reduce the impact of gaming and to transfigure these souls into bigshots.
Is the lan the real culprit or their lack of interest in "those" that our CP is looking at. clueless..
never ending debate is goin on..
iv) radha aur krishna
The couples. Though every day is special its the weekends that they look for! ( how do I know, is the right question. Did you watch irobot?) nothin much to be penned down here.. am sure they love these weekends.
v) The idle chatters
I find them everywhere. Obssessed with everything in the world from aish to any other gurl, Lalu to Bush, Saddam to Laden, Ganguly to Sachin(Can't i ever leave this topic!Uhh) Though they find no much difference between weekends and other dayz, still they look out for the weekends. Sit in a room. Look over the monitor where the game is going on and start the blabbering. Its fun man!!!! real fun.Discussing, fighting, becoming sentimental,and and and the BETS.. how many did u win? last but not the least LEG PULLING Thats the real funny part that makes up the weekend.
and these days AnishMaturia is in my dreams during the weekends with his "really really surprising quizzes" and i guess i need a good night sleep to attend his class tomorrow. Its worth it!
btw do tell me howz ur weekend?
Do i sound senseless and aloof ? may be you are lucky enough to be counted among those people who enjoy the weekends; atleast there is something special about your weekend, may it be blissful or miserable. I prefer to join the people(many from our coll for sure) who believe there is nothing like weekend not literally!!. Even here we can have two clans(infact more than two--- after giving it a min thought). India had been a state of various clans and ....what not! This is no exception and some of these clans :
i) Hardworking n Sincere
Though we have only five working days(damn) and this semester has been providing us with a lot of holidays, these people still can't find time to "civilize" --term you can(should) find a new definition in my dictionary. Though they have this urge to socialize, our proffessors are guarding their mind,soul and everything in this student life like dementors guarding the azkaban. While the problem there is of the very existence of voldemort, here the problem is the absence of such voldemort. To them there is nothing like weekend.It hardly makes a difference.
mind you I am not critisizing the ppl but the "system".How on earth could one person complete the Programming assignment while he is to worry about the hardware lab that is to be completed by tomorrow and the communication problems, the nightmares are omnipresent.
ii) I AM GOD LIKE
These people doesn't belong to this place,atleast they themselves believe this and hence they can be anywhere,anytime,anyway they wish;may it be a lecture or a lab or a cultural programme or anything unless its not a part of this place.There is nothing like days and dates and can we expect them to be aware of weekends!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iii) gamers
Frustrated by the atmosphere here, they prefer to be in the room rather than moving out in the sun. See them, talk to them, listen to them, feel their presence. Alas,Thank god if it happens on some sunny day but such instances can happen iff you are awake while the ghosts wander. I fear if they can bear the brightness of a mere lightray after being used to that of the monitors and stars. No fear, no responsibilites, no assignments, no labs and finally no weekends. These people are very important nowadayz in our institute as our Dean Mr.CP is initiating steps towards cutting out the LAN to reduce the impact of gaming and to transfigure these souls into bigshots.
Is the lan the real culprit or their lack of interest in "those" that our CP is looking at. clueless..
never ending debate is goin on..
iv) radha aur krishna
The couples. Though every day is special its the weekends that they look for! ( how do I know, is the right question. Did you watch irobot?) nothin much to be penned down here.. am sure they love these weekends.
v) The idle chatters
I find them everywhere. Obssessed with everything in the world from aish to any other gurl, Lalu to Bush, Saddam to Laden, Ganguly to Sachin(Can't i ever leave this topic!Uhh) Though they find no much difference between weekends and other dayz, still they look out for the weekends. Sit in a room. Look over the monitor where the game is going on and start the blabbering. Its fun man!!!! real fun.Discussing, fighting, becoming sentimental,and and and the BETS.. how many did u win? last but not the least LEG PULLING Thats the real funny part that makes up the weekend.
and these days AnishMaturia is in my dreams during the weekends with his "really really surprising quizzes" and i guess i need a good night sleep to attend his class tomorrow. Its worth it!
btw do tell me howz ur weekend?
Thursday, March 02, 2006
finally am back
The first one, in the second and hopefully the last!
Joining the crowd right there discussing everything under the sun... This everything depends on the perspective and differs from person to person,time to time and right now I dunno which category I fall into.Is it right to call it a momentous phase??? hmmm may be yes after feeling the impact of gaming and presently "enlightened" to do something construtive. Replacing gaming with an age old praxis of writing crap! Henceforth you are reading this and don't blame me or gaming for the crap you are goin to read or see. btw Is there something like constructive crap?
There is no particualr reason behind me going online, but can't deny the effect of friends in this decision of mine. This is no presidents' decision affecting many but its something important to me. Atleast I can shout here about Ganguly being dropped ridiculously without hurting my wingmates and let near future decide about any otherthing(s) I can do here.
Joining the crowd right there discussing everything under the sun... This everything depends on the perspective and differs from person to person,time to time and right now I dunno which category I fall into.Is it right to call it a momentous phase??? hmmm may be yes after feeling the impact of gaming and presently "enlightened" to do something construtive. Replacing gaming with an age old praxis of writing crap! Henceforth you are reading this and don't blame me or gaming for the crap you are goin to read or see. btw Is there something like constructive crap?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
