Your computer is sick

The other day I saw that my otherwise talkative colleague was silent. I thought she was sick, but soon found out that a virus has entered her laptop back home through a pen drive which she used to download the software. However this time it got corrupted and became malware and she was not even able to open the program. She was waiting with a long face while a I'm-gizmo-savvy-buddy of hers was re-configuring her badware. She waited praying to the computer Gods in heaven(these are the new-age substitutes of the Greek Gods) as her doctor-fix it- friend went ahead with his operation HELP. He finally succeeded and she too learnt her lesson in the process. She was going to test-drive all her software on the office computer as it had a lot of powerful antibiotic cover which could fight off most of the viruses.

From her experience, I learnt that Dr.Murphy was right with his laws;

The longer it takes to download a program the more likely it won't run.
You will get disconnected from the Internet or experience a computer crash when you are downloading. If you don't experience one within 80% completion, then it will happen at 99%. If you do manage to get the file, then it will turn out to be completely useless and/or invalid.

Hey,are you a software professional ...

Office-time means quality time spent at the expense of the employer. I would simply like to tell how productive an employee in a software company can be. The software professional swipes in his card on time, sits in front of his desk all the time, goes to the cafeteria on time, and leaves to his home, well, on time.
Then there are these delightful little breaks when the server of the company is down. All work or all that seems like work comes to a royal halt, I said royal because even the boss knows that he himself cannot do much in times like this. There are some very sincere guys who put on a very sad face and report first to the boss that the server is down because he was the first to find out when he was surfing some job portal or better chatting with this girl from United States on orkut.
But one day when the work inevitably gets piled on, gathers some dust and multiplies like bacteria, when the deadline is just around 54hours around the corner, you actually see these guys working. Wow! You can see them up all night, drinking buckets of tea and working their fingers off. Suddenly their efficiency level hits an all time high and they are working against the tide of time like Sherpas climbing uphill the unforgiving cold Kanchenjunga!They come to office with tired, red eyes and unshaven beard and you hear that they were up all night ,till about half past 3 and were back to the office along with you. Makes you feel that you are actually an under worker! They have a launch 14 hours away and the entire office crew knows that they are working. Where as your toil of silent hours a 3 or 4 extra hours per day goes unnoticed.
I look at it as the rise of the Titanic Wave and its denouement. Add a few works here and there and it gets all the more dramatic. The launch is finally done, and its party time. And then starts the swipe in-swipe out and have quality office time all over again, bringing it to a full circle.

Coffee break and Tea time

They proceed
serenely
with coffee mugs
like brides
in the altar

Behind them
there are no
white long veils
trailing...

Some like
tea, others coffee
some like
the gossip
that is thrown
in-between
their cuppa
and the spoon...

Some of the prized moments in a day of anyone working in front of a frowning computer screen are breaks. Not koffee with karan, but coffee/Tea with colleagues. Some like them light some dark but the ritual of picking the right snack to go with it is the key. There were days when my friends even brought along the right savories to go with it, from home and shared with laughter and fun.
Tomorrow, when i am away from my friends, and perhaps go to another place, I'll still hold all my memories like gold fish in my water bowl of life.