Some big scholar of ancient times, told this about software engineers.. "If you dont value the value of time, then you should have been none other than a software engineer.. ."


It is the happening story of few bachelors, highly sophiscated techy software professionals ( Aint I look more flamboyant..!! ), living in a posh three bed room flat somewhere in the outskirts of chennai.... Bibin ( None other than me ! ), Cherian, Fahmy, Guppy( Mithun.), Jacob..

I was happy that i have an alarm in my mobile. The alarm tone was the most sick sound i have ever heard. It started yelling at me at sharp 7:30 AM. Thank god.. another bright morning.. !!!! .. Is that what I said.. ? Nope.. you are wrong.. "Damn .. I have to get up from the bed....".. With more fervour, I switched off the mobile. Resumed savouring the nice cold breeze coming through the window and sleeping like hell... You cant imagine the immense pleasure you will get, sleeping again after that small break...

Suddenly, another yelling sound came from the other room.. "Damn ..it"
It is the other alarm from the next room.. It is another nightmare in the whole process of "SOUND SLEEP." Hoping that some idiot sleeping next to it will shut it down, i continued my exhaustive process of sleeping... I waited 5 seconds.. ( i can see cherian anxiously waiting for the same in the next bed..!!! What a coincidence.. Great men Think alike... "). Another 5 seconds passed by... 5 more.. more.. Nothing happens..

Cursing the idiot ( Name not disclosed for obvious reasons ) sleeping next to the alarm, I stopped the yelling machine with much anger and grief.. grief that I lost so many precious moments of my sleep.. How come these idiots can sleep so sound... !!! Am I the only responsible guy in the whole lot... ?????Hey..Wait.. you got it wrong... Actually, I am the one who wakes up late compared to others.. Even If everybody is half an hour late today, I make sure that I am half an hour more late in getting up from the bed.. :D.. Coming back, I saw cherian sleeping as if nothing has happened.. Wow.. what a perseverence.. !!!!
Next comes the only lady who is allowed to enter our small 3 bed room house. You might be wondering who the 'femme fatale' coming so early morning.. It is ...........It isss.... Our maid !!. She is the one , who washes our clothes.. who cleans the plates and cutleries of yesterday night's battle in the kitchen...( I will tell you more about the battle .. Coming soon to your nearby '_ _ _...' what ??? nothing.... Read this from here , budddy...;-)

Actually all 5 out of this six guys have seen her doing all these jobs all for us ... But one is left , who dont have the luck to see this morning chores done by our maid.. Who is that ' silly fellow ' who is ignorant of all these hardships taken by our maid.. ? ... IT IS NONE OTHER THAN ME !!!!!!! ............
I have seen her only few times.. Why ?? Am I so busy that I leave home early ... ? Nope.. I am busy sleeping sound in my bed.. I always tried to get up early and leave home early for office.. But I dont know why, my eyes become so heavy every morning that , i dont have the power to keep it wide open !!!...
As soon as I get up from my bed, I see 5 souls running here and there.. what these guys are after.. ? One is searching for the tooth paste.. another for his brush.. ( It is no one else.. Less frequently, I tend to remember where I kept my daily utilities..) confused.. !! I too.. :-D ..

30-Jan
Even if you are alone at home, we have enough entertainment at hand.. killing mosquitoes ..!! ( I think all the six are more mosqui professionals than s/w !!! .. You should see the way, all six working hard to kill a single mosquito... More about mosquitoes... coming soon... :-D ) .. Hey.. come back... come back...So after brushing, I move on to press my dresses. Somebody will ask... "dey... you want coffee..?? " Suddenly you can hear voices coming from here and there.. "One for me.."... " Please for me too... " Out of the 3-4 glasses of coffee prepared, 40-50% will be poured in the kitchen sink... You will be wondering , what these guys are doing...? dont wonder.. We tend to forget that there is coffee kept for us in the kitchen.. Busy man , busy !!!! ... Time run so fast ( We also run fast to get into the two bathrooms we have.. ) that we dont have the time to spent for a cup of coffee.
All this time, we will have our TV singing for us.. MTV... V... KTV... BBC... CNN.. It is a pleasure to listen to iraqi war on BBC while the hero is running fast to reach the heroine.. What does that mean ?.. How come two channels simultaneously.. ? Advanced feature of TV ? .. Nope.. Simple logic.. Why should we wait, for an idiot running after a girl ??.. Eventhough we dont care much for time, we dont have time for everything... We are busy.. We pretend to be busy... Once everybody has finished , we all leaves our pretty home for earning daily bread and butter...

Next comes our small war with 'Auto wallahs..' Silly guys man.. Whenever we ask for the rate, they seems to include the price of their auto too in the rate.. Horrible guys.. We can never ask them to run auto for meter rate.. The meter runs more fast than the auto itself !!! .

One more day goes off.. doing lots of things at office and doing nothing !!

Evening moments

After a long break , here I am back... Thought of writing more.. a lot more... but as I told you before ....!!! What.. ??? You still remember what i said.. if you do, you have damn good grey matter.. I told you...We are busy.. we pretend to be busy.... ;-)... After a long tiring schedules of coffee breaks, tea breaks, meetings, ( hey relax.. nothing official about it.. talks on the rest everything under the sun....), we are back home.. But before all this, we have to plan about the night activities.. Wonder what this guy is talkin about..?? Yeah, we have to plan on the dinner .. we have to plan on what defensive actions should be taken against the army of chennai mosquitoes.. God .. I think there are more mosquitoes in our house than the total population of the whole colony..

Just a flashback story..

We arranged a maid for cooking dinner for us daily.. It is the first day, she will prepare something for us... We all were anxiously waiting for what she will prepare for us.. We saw that she has prepared 'chapathis and potatoe curry' for us.. Chapathis are one stuff which demands more physical exertion than a workout in gym.. The most arduous task in the whole process is to prepare the dough.. Always, I am the one who prepares the dough...

Does it mean I am the most athletic and powerful among the lot.. ?Nope...

We have got enough good candidates competing for 'biggest tire of the year' .. i mean software tummy.. ( Names not disclosed...come on.. dont ask me why..!!!! They boast that 'it is the sign of prosperity'.. sometimes, even i myself doubt whether i have joined the bandwagon... ;-)).... )
Jacob will prepare a superb potatoe or some other curry.. Fahmy will be ready for the battle with the roller.. Where is cherian.. ??? Sorry he is on cooking stove.. I mean.. he is preparing the final outcome of the whole process.. COOKED CHAPATHI.. I have seen my mom preparing chapathis in short time... I wonder why it takes 2-3 hours for this 5-6 hefty bachelors... Is it because we are lazy.. ? No.. we are very careful in minute details like the taste... flavour.. blah..blah... ( all things you can think about a 'chapathi' .. hee..hee.. ) .............

Back to our maid.. We all happily ate all the chapathis and lived happily ever after... Is that what you think...??.. You are mistaken.. The next day was the highlight of the game...

We told her to buy one kg of rice and prepare for 6 with 4 cups of water.. Also told her to prepare something with fresh vegetables.. Once we all are back home.. happy young lot... with an ardent desire to tease their taste buds with some exquisite dishes.. We couldn't believe our eyes.. We wondered how she prepared all these things today.. ?? .. She has prepared 'Sambar'.. Wow.. !!!!! But something is swimming in it.. God.. It is 'Big potatoes' floating in it in the same form it came out of mother earth.. We should respect earth and what it gives us.. But this was beyond everything... Next vegetables in the curry was so 'FRESH' that the cabbage was not even half-cooked.. We all wondered how obedient she was.. She prepared the way how we asked for.. Fresh..

We thought .. "Lets make another dish.. We have cooked rice at least.." We opened the rice bowl and saw that the whole one KG of rice is there .. that too cooked to an extent where it was looking more or less like 'chapathi dough' .. The very next day we thanked her and appreciated her service with a suspension with 'immediate effect...'
So whenever we dont pretends to be busy we cook by ourselves.. Now starts the battle with pots and kettles in the kitchen.. This is the most wonderful and funniest part of bachelor life.. Jacob, our major chef... He is the one who prepares new dishes for us .. There is Guppy, me , jacob, fahmy , cherian etc..etc.. who are very enthusiastic in big tasks like peeling onions, cutting vegetables, cooking, checking the salt ..blah.. blah.. But there is one common thing we all do.. Once the whole cooking task is over, we all pretend that we are unaware of the cooking utensils to be cleaned.. It is the privilege of our maid ( Remember .. the one coming early morning... !!) , to clean all of them.. Most often heard statement in software world says, 'resources should not be kept idle..Keep them engaged in some stupid tasks.'.


Bachelors in Kitchen is the only place in earth where you can see tough guys weeping to the limit.. Science has progressed so much.. But still stupid research guys cannot make an onions which wont make you cry... Then we cut green chillies.. we wipe the tears with the same hand.. I am sure that whoever has cooked ever in their life will be the best husband a girl can ever admire of.. You know why.. Dont know..??? Think... Think... ( Let me also think... !!!)

More coming Soon !!!!

Late Evening moments

Folks.. I am back.. After 8-9 months... It was a long journey.. With lots more interesting experiences.. We were talking about those events which happened a few months ago..
Now things have changed. Does it include us ??? .. NO WAY...!!! . We are still the old wine in new bottle. Now we reach home daily from office by nearly 10... WoW.. Hard-working people !!! .. Sincere.. Dedicated.. Loyal to the company.. Blah.. Blah... Yaar, I am not boasting... !!! I am talking about those people which we would like to become.. But, what to do.. !! We are busy bees..We dont have time for these things... So we start off with our daily chores.. Watching TV..!!..

Thanks to CAS ( Conditional Access $#^! ) in Chennai, we could see all the informative and entertaining channels like DD-1,DD-2, ... upto DD-infinity.. This includes all the wonderful regional channels also from DD. I always wonder about these Cable operators in Chennai.. Doing a service to the chennaites.. Imagine about those channels from Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, France etc.. etc.. Wow, I have improved my GK 100 times.. Forget, whether you understand them or not.. You just stare at the TV,.. and laugh when the people inside the TV laughs.. Rest of the times, just shake ur head..It is so easy, u know... Others will think.. Look at Bibin.. or Guppy.. or Cherian...!!! . They are well-educated and knows a lot of languages.. WoW..Seems interesting !!!

You might be wondering, how these hopeless souls are able to do it.. Because, we do it day in day out.. Attend any team meetings in a software company, and you will know it.. There also, we laughs when other members laughs... We nods, when all others do the same.. Height of multi-tasking... Doing multiple things simultaneously.. We are very busy people.. We wastes time in lots of other things which normal people wont be able to understand...

A small secret, which no one knows.. !! " I have slept with everyone in my office.. Because, we all go to the same meetings.. Hee . Hee" .. Bad joke, right.. But, it is true.. I am planning about one technology wherein, If it hears a sound of a yawn in a meeting, it will suddenly start playing rock-metal music and Whistling.. As an old saying from a greek scholar goes - " Meetings are the best way to waste time, trying to find out - Why are we having a meeting...?? "

Finally, Guppy decided to pool in the money to get CAS, and we all agreed to share the rental for channels.. And we had a new member in our house.. CAS.. It was a relief for us, poor souls, who were dying for a drop of good entertainment.. Now here comes STAR movies.. HBO...Star Plus.. ( Guppy loved this channel very much.. will tell u ).. Discovery.. NGC..blah.. blah.. We said 'TATA bye bye' to the old DD channels.. ( You should get paid for seeing programs like Shakthiman etc..etc.. in DD .. Nazi camp torture would have been better than this one.. ) But, we were loyal to one channel.. Headlines Today.. Reading this, you would have started thinking that we are interested in current-affairs, indian economics, political instabilities,bilateral relations of Ind-Pak etc.. etc.. We are mostly interested in who delivers the news rather than the news itself.. All 6 of the house would agree that, she is a sophisticated, polished ( A shoe or what ??? forget it... just kidding...!! ) and cosmopolitan lady... It is none other than Mitali Mukherjee... There is no second opinion about her screen presence and communication..

Then there is Guppy who watches all the stupid Star Plus serials to see the beautiful lady characters.. What a tolerance level, man.. I really admire him for his perseverence ...See, how much pain and torture ( from the serials) he takes for a good thing.. Then there is myself and Cherian, who are after all the movies in the HBO and Star movies.. Real movie buffs.. There is another interesting character in the whole story.. Mr. Jacob.. He is interested in all the weird programmes in mallu channels.. His favourite programme is a consulting programme performed by a psychatrist with a French beard and a good looking female.. Hearing the crazy questions asked, rest all of us, has wondered whether we are normal .. or those people are normal.. Whatever, Jacob is adament in listening to all these 'great advises', and thankfully he has become more abnormal nowadays.. Other than that, we all are pretty normal.. It is a different fact that we often doubt whether there is something abnormal...

Lots more interesting moments are on your way ...!!!