One Night @ the Development Center

Well this had been a long awaited thing. To spend 1 complete night at my office. I never thought it would be this boring and normal. Like always had the feeling , i would end up coding all night some dark piece of code and come out to see the early morning mist and sunrise or may be crash into a lady colleague and end up talking the whole night. Or may be something eventful would happen.


But there was some fun no doubt.Let me share and see if you people can feel it.

6.30pm (yesternite) - I messed up a piece of code, allready being warned once.

6.45pm (yesternite) - Frustration creeps in, dunno what to do, called up on Kuheli , got more frustrated when she said she was busy.

6.50pm (yesternite) - Called on another friend , we planned to go to the canteen in a few minutes and chill out over some coffee and snacks together.

7.00pm (yesternite) - PM calls me and tells me that in development projects, like the 1 in which I was involved, I needed to work on weekends, wont be allowed for long vacs (i.e. a week) , to work till late and stuff. Adds to my frustration.

7.05pm (yesternite) - Had the snacks in a hurry, i had a masala dosa n she had some Aloo Bonda.

7.30pm (yesternite) - Saw her off till the bus, went to the ISD(Information Services Deptt , may be the corporate way of saying library) and went through some magazines and journals.

7.45pm (yesternite) - Nishant calls up, we meet at the EC-4 canteen.

8.00pm (yesternite) - We both meet Kuheli who was there for a short stint, she left by company bus at 8.15.

8.30pm (yesternite) - We tried Rajesh on his cell a couple of times. He dint answer. So i smsed him, to pick us up when he left.

8.45pm (yesternite) - We went out to have an 'Indian' fag near at the nearby store.Before we left Rajesh's car was there, after we came back in 10 mins it wasnt.

9.30pm (yesternite) - Rajesh called up from his home that he had left his cell there. On reaching
home he got the message.

10.20pm (yesternite) - We had dinner, 1 cup-o-noodles , 1 fresh cut fruits plate , 1 bottle pepsi.

10.45pm (yesternite) - I entered my ODC for the late night shift, allthough i dint have a shift, and found it to be totally empty.

11.00pm (yesternite) - We went to Nishant's ODC , it was bigger and empty, created a more creepy effect. We sat their doing all nonsense, like trying all others system passwd, messing up all other's desk and what not.

11.15pm (yesternite) - Called up Kuheli, she was allready in some other world, in her dreams.

11.30pm (yesternite) - Called up Lucky, had a nice long half an hour long chat.

12.10am (yesternite) - Got the maps of various cities printed out for myself and Nishant :)

12.30am (yesternite) - Called Anil Sahoo from office number and told him it was some1 from BDA and there was a case filed in his name coz he dint pay the road tax in B'lore. We are so talented actors, must ahve been there in Bollywood. Forced him to believe the whole matter.

1.00am (yesternite) - Called Dhiraj Agarwal to have a same effect as that on Anil, almost succeded , this time called as the IMG team from Wipro and the issue was he was found watching objectionable content on his system. Dhiraj being a smart ass just slid through, although he admitted he was petrified.

1.35am (yesternite) - Had a short little walk in the campus. Looked like EC4 was teleported to Mars from Earth :)

1.45am (yesternite) - Returned to my ODC and have a game of Basketball and table tennis, but wont be possible with just 2 players, one like me , other like Nishant.

2.00am (yesternite) - Went to the dormitory and had a sound little sleep till today morning.

8.00am (today) - Woke up, disturbed by a call on the cell.

8.30am (today) - Writing this line.


In between the times mentioned we did lots of non sense, like cursing fate,sketching on some white board, cursing fate,playing with the sensors, cursing fate ,trying experiments on Nishant's new N72, cursing more,taking some printouts , cursing and cracking jokes between us. It all seemed so different , where serious development goes on for the half of the day ,in the darker half they looked so incomplete, I am talking about the cubicles, the extensions, the systems, the whiteboards , the cubes , the revolving chairs. Reminded me of my night outs in college.

But the sad part God dint appear in front of us . :-(