Just a Passing Thought

I still remember, I was in school that time in the 8th standard when I heard of computers first time. Though it was almost clear that the subject would not be evaluated in final examinations, yet every body was interested in computer subject, or at least the lab. It was an air-conditioned lab. We were awestruck, as going to an air-conditioned room was a privilege that time, and nobody out of my friends had seen a computer before. We removed footwear outside the lab out of fear that some virus may attack computer. I guess that time even our teacher did not knew which virus actually attacks the computer. So there, we had removed our tiny shoes outside the lab and we stood in semi-circle around the lone computer that was in the lab. Everybody was pushing each other around in order to get closer look. Our teacher opened ms-paint. He then showed us how to draw something on computer. It looked like out of the world that time, drawing without pencils, sketch-pens, eraser and sketch-book. First of all seeing a computer itself was a big thing and then ability to do sketching on a computer was even big thing. After our teacher had drawn whatever looked like a tree, we thought we would have homework to draw something similar on a computer. We pushed each other around in order to use the computer, but our teacher ordered all of us to go back to the class. We used to boast about our teacher. My teacher is a master in computer. He can draw sketches. He operates computer very fast. And none of my other friends believed that that time.

I had not even thought that time that someday I would work on a computer, or own one. Moreover, today when I work on a laptop, it somehow doesn't feel that we know a great deal about computers. It has no longer remained the thing of awe, instead has become a necessity. Your eye-sight, your energy, ration, medical, grocery bills are all now told by computers.

Even this post would not have seen the light of day without a computer

Kya Karein, Kya Na Karein

Now days…………….
I am playing
Badminton

I am listening
Mehfuz by Euphoria
Beedi jalaye jiagr se piya, jigar mein badi aag hai from OMKARA
Door Jaake bhi tu mere saanson mein rehna from KANK

I am watching
KANK promos on NEWS channels

I am also
Talking a lot and utilizing the low cellphone tariffs

I am DOING
NOTHING


Amongst all these doings’, I have something which remains unanswered

WHERE’S MY PURPOSE DUDE

Amen, every thing aside, I now feel that mere jeewan mein who nahi hai, kya kehte hain usse
LAKSHYA...........
LAKSHYA, that’s the word (definitely, copied from the movie Lakshya)

May be, I too need some Preity Zinta kinda gal who can perpetuate my life into new horizons, as Hrithik’s life had in the movie.

Must say the generation X of our country is going great guns, man every one is so focused about his career, in this regard the hers are even more concerned, yeh aajakl ki ladkiyan, they are so focused.
Almost every friend of mine, is working in such a planned way…..
The day I call up second guy, some of the most obvious replies are
“ I am forwarding my resume to bla bla”
“ yaar, ek nayi offer aayo hai……”

Moreover, talking about their packages, its getting obese from fat, amen there should be a limit. Since most of my friends are associated with software/ service sector
I am not estranged to terms like
Coding
Networking
Product Development
Mainframe
..............................................................................

For me, it is like selling Guar and becoming GAVAAR, day by day.


This kind of scenario is not new for me, its following me from the day I opted for textile engineering.
Some of the most common questions I just hate to answer are here. Please don’t ask me these in future.
Then,
@@ : TEXTILE……aur kuchh nahi mila, computer vumputer, jo ye lee
However, this is the truth but I do not let every one know the truth so my answer goes as
## :nahin, it’s a good field with lot of potential, India is coming up fast in textiles,.... WTO, MFA, etc,etc.....
Now,
@@: your mumma was telling you have got a job
##: yeah

@@: Kahaan
## : Rhodia Hindustan Gum & Chemicals Ltd.

In this age of Infosys, HCL, WIPRO, no one has heard about it,
so the next one goes like
@@: Kahaaaaaannnnnnnnn
##: Rhodia Hindustan Gum & Chemicals Ltd, Rhodia is a US chemical giant and they are into manufacture of textile thickeners.

@@ :?????
## :????????????????????????????????????????????????????????