Parateji at IBM IRL -II (MS and CMU)

Hi friends,
My last post on this topic was to describe about the great journey I had ... with beautiful girls. But this time I am here to tell you about the friends I had and made during my internship at IBM India Research Labs. So, should we start with the introduction of them one by one? But before you read, please note that the persons described here are very good natured and things writen here may be little exaggerated.

Let's start with Mr.AVS or Anand Vivek Shrivastava or more popularly known as Anand Fighter Shrivastava. While people know him more because of his fighting skills (arguing with others) but I will remember him more because of his hairs. I can't understand why a man with very short hairs (may be less than an inch) will go to hair cutting saloon and get it shorter to 1cm. And after this, he would come in front of you to tell that he is looking sexy in almost negligible hairs on his head. It seems the sexiest person according to him may be some bald guy like 'Shetty' (villain in old hindi movies) or our own Mr.Gandhi. But onething about him is very good, you can say whatever good or bad you want to say him. You can give 'gaalis' to him , he won't mind as long as you don't say anything wrong about Linux or anything good about Microsoft.

AVS is student of IITK and you can contact me to get email id of this sexy person.I think I should move forward with next person.

Next person I would like to introduce is Mr. A Ramanathan alias Ramu. If AVS is half the weight and volume of any normal person ,Ramu is 2.5 times the weight and volume of normal person. Afterall, he is from big brother IIT Kharagpur. Ramu is the man whose smile is very difficult to be stolen from his face. A stud of his own kind!! Yeah.. it is true that his heart was broken once by some girl in Kolkata (if I remember correctly) and it was this incident which made him Devdas. No..devdas can't be a correct word as his was a different case.Let's forget it. But hopefully he loved girls although his affection for AVS told a completely different story. However, if you are interested in some new theories of reproduction, may be you should talk to him directly about his "Pyramidal theory of reproduction"

Our Next Hero is Mr.MS or Mayank Sachan. He represents himself as a very cool guy who can impress any girl. Is this a misconception of his about himself? Neah... He is really cool man.... afterall you need to be really cool to impress a girl whose name is something which reminds you of horror film. I don't know her name but remember the horror movie 'Gothica'.

There is a very good story about MS and I think MS is the character of this article and not Ghantadhar this time.
The incident is when a girl from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) came for internship at IRL. She joined late as compared to us and we were really sort of settled at IBM by that time. As the girl was from CMU, we nicknamed her Miss CMU. She was really a tiny girl... just like you can scale your image by some factor, it looked as if god had scaled her by the factor of 0.6. As our group of interns had 'Paarkhi Nazar' (We all used to wear specs ie. we were 4 eyes men)...., SO how could she remain hidden from us. As we were fully faaltoo guys, we had enough time to think of stupid ideas and here came one such stupid idea. MS said," I am going to take this girl out for a coffee ".

"Oh that's a brilliant idea but I bet you can't take her out", AVS said. I don't know what is that in AVS which makes him so confident. But there must be something stronger in MS which made him to say "And I bet too that I am going to take this girl out for a coffee at Barista within next 3 days". That was secondmost dumb thing to do to bet on something like this which was going to cost him anyway. Either he had to pay for Barista or he had to pay to AVS. Hey.. what you are saying?? Secondmost dumb thing.... then what is the first? Ofcourse, first was to tell this idea of taking girl out to AVS and me.. otherwise how could have I written this article?

Soon.. Ramu also got interested in the deal and said," Me and AVS will pay the bill if MS goes out with this girl". Oh God!!!.... Ramu is also a fool.If I were present at that time, I would never have got involved in such bet.. It will be MS who will go out with girl, it will be MS who will enjoy... Am I mad to pay for him then? IS ghantadhar made only for ghanta and nothing else?

DAY 1
Let's continue with the story.... both the parties were very confident but MS was really looking forward for the thing. And it is during lunch, Miss CMU (who is of Indian origin) sits in front of me for the lunch. And I talked to her... I came to know that she belongs to Delhi and she can speak Hindi. But wait a second... what is she doing? She is eating rice with something which I call 'Kaanta chammach' or 'fork'. Uffff!!!!... I have never been able to eat Pizza or Roti with that and she was eating rice!!! I felt so dumb and all my conservation stopped.

Here Comes Mayank Sachan
MS came for the lunch and sat beside me. Ofcourse our hero came to talk to Miss CMU. And soon,there conversation began. MS started speaking in his usual style which resembles someone trying to act as foreigner in Indian movies. God knows what accent he was using.... I never felt his way of talking that irritating... I said to him," Yaar.. you can speak to her in Hindi..she understands Hindi".

Why did I say that?? To tease MS?... No.. Actually I am ground to earth person and I feel when Hindi can work, one should speak in Hindi only.We should respect our National language.

But Before MS could speak more, Miss CMU managed to finish the rice she took, with her 'Kaanta chammach'. I wished I could ask her to teach me this skill of using fork which I could not learn. MS must have been angry with me at that time when I interrupted him.

Anyways, MS got his chance to have his first interaction with her and started thinking of his further line of action.

Evening
It was evening time the very same day. MS was thinking of something and decided to meet her again. He went to her lab where another intern named Nirmesh Mehta was also present. Labs at IBM requires access permission which MS didn't had. So he had to ask to Nirmesh for this.

Nirmesh opened the gate for MS.
"Hi Nirmesh" said Mayank.
"Hi...How come you are here?" asked Nirmesh.
"Just to meet you...Can't..."
" To meet me... Strange!!... you never came to meet me before", said the perplexed Nirmesh.
"OK yaar... tell me what you are doing..." MS tried to pacify him and turned towards Miss CMU," Hey... you are in this lab.. I didn't know. You are working with Nirmesh....On what project are you working?"
However, the reality was MS knew this lab because of her and not because of Nirmesh.
She said," I don't have any project now. I haev not been assigned one yet".
"Oh.. That means you are free.... why not have a coffee outside?", said our cool dude.
" Hmmm.. but what's the occassion?"
"It's my birthday.."
"birthday??? When ?? today??" asked CMU.
" Oh no.. it's very late but you will not be with me by then..."
What ?? Are you worried about MS who gave such a stupid statement. I am more worried about Nirmesh, what his heart would have felt on knowing that MS is giving treat to Miss CMU when he came to meet Nirmesh and not her.Unfortunate Nirmesh!!!

What happened next is secret which I share with all other intern friends. But isn't it obvious when I say that the statement was so stupid?
But something happened that lead to no one winning the bet.
I think I should stop now as I have to go out for dinner now and prepare for my Btech Project later at night.
But you should keep watching for this space as there are lot more characters to come who have their own story..like Rajan-the king of Sonipat,
Rajpal, Ravi, Pranav and the mysterious labmate of Pranav.
So keep watching...
GhAnTadhAR