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Read it, You might find it Funny

I am totally irritated. Looks like my time is really bad. I need some help. Any astrologers around??? Just kidding... ok.!!!! J But the incidents happening to me for the past few weeks certainly made me think so. You guys might be thinking what, so horrible can happen to me. It all started one day evening when my manager wanted me to drop him to his home. He had to leave to his native place and hadn’t brought his bike. I agreed to drop him in the evening. At 5 he called me. Just then one guy said casually “Are u taking him to Kill???” Oh Man, his words almost became true. We got into Hosur Road and just as we were around 2 Kms from office, it started happening. There were two Maruthi Van’s to my right. The guy on the extreme right (the idiot), moved his vehicle to his right, so as to avoid a Pothole or something. The next guy did the same. I had to move right. But then I saw there was no space to my right. BANG.. The Van hit my bike. And there goes one of my “poor” indicator rolling on

The "Cursed" Project

An unusual adjective for a project one would say..... How can a project be cursed?? crooked management??, heavy workload??, tight deadlines??, difficult customers??????? Let's see This product is a video decoder called cherrypicker. Developed initially from the client office in Silicon Valley, the product was stable and running well in the market. As is the case with most of such projects, the company decides to outsource the maintenance work to Infosys.An Engineer from Infosys came to the client office to get a knowledge transfer ( TOI - transfer of Information as they call it here) from the sole Client engineer left behind, Mr Alan Gustafson. Two weeks into the TOI and the first incident occured. Alan Met with a terrible Bike accident and went to a Coma. He is in that state for the past year and a half.Everyone sympathised with him and prayed that this should not happen to anyone. Little did anyone know what was to follow..... The Infosys Engineeer; let's call him _First_ ; h