A Day in a S/W Engineer’s Life…..
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Anand Kadam
Bristol, UK
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A Day in a S/W Engineer’s Life…..
Below is an extract a typical day in my Office :
I am sitting in my cubicle in front of my computer ……..this problem needs to be fixed…..my client wanted me to complete the coding 10 days back … ..Here i am looking through the monitor trying hard to put my left brain and right brain together to concentrate on my work ..the black screen of unix reminds me of Black.. ..i loved every bit of it until i discovered its a straight lift from miracle worker and now i hate myself for appreciating Mr.Bhansali……Thinking of Black reminds me of TZP ..wow..i cried ..i smiled ..i loved…..This is what indian cinema should be ….Stop Anand..focus ….PM wants this by EOD……but how come Welcome is bigger hit then TZP… …common Anand …just work …but how can Taran adarsh give same ratings for both welcome and TZP……Its beyond my capacity to understand this ….What is Nana Patekar doing in this shit …why is Firoz khan acting-nonacting-overacting-underacting in this film ….now i know where did Fardeen khan get his acting genes …..ditto for Zayed khan…wait both are cousins not brothers ….whatever ….Forget it Anand it’s none of your business ……work …please work ……Why is my team-mate staring at me ….oh is it because i made him realise that there exists a movie called Manorama six feet under …..Why are these movies not noticed ……..just ignore him and get back to work like how people ignored MSFU….There is a new mail ..let me check that first …f#$& you ..this is the 4th time i am getting the same mail…
movie to watch out in 2008 …..it starts with Sarkar Raj …..directed by RGV ….why is he doing this to me ….i bunked college for his company ….I cried for Satya when KKHH got all the awards……i even enjoyed daud ….but pls RGV pls ..for god’s sake ……give me my ramu back ………oh i the PM is coming here .. ..fast ..fast change the window ..alt tab…damn it …. alt tab……Why is he opening his mouth …..oh he is speaking …….what is he speaking …..it’s like hearing a review from Khalid …you understand each and every word but still you dont understand what to make of it …..Why is he now sounding like Rakhi Sawant …oh he wants to make his presence felt …..why has he stopped speaking .. …do i need to speak something ….hmm ..ok ..”ok”…why did i say ok ..and for what?…. ..this is how Ajay devgan signs a project these days ….. .let me get back to work ….continue with the e-mail ….its Aamir’s Ghajini…its remake of memento …why on earth does aamir has to do this ….aamir please please acknowledge the original…..Memento was f&*#ing awesome …was complex but worth it …..That reminds me of a movie very similar to my coding style …..very simple code ….make it too complex so that my pm is in awe of my coding style….ya thats Pulp fiction ….and as my friend says ….the movie is damn good ..but i don’t like it …..there’s too much work pressure ……let me have some coffee …..the coffee seems so refreshing …..yikes ..it sucks ..the taste sucks….its like a Yashraj film ……when will they respect the audiences or they seriously believe that we Indains are morons who have IQ below 0 …..common grow up …even Sanjay Gupta has grown up…now he is copying from sources unknown to common people ………..I have to drink this coffee ..no other option …..
let me get back to work …..wait let me check PFC ……no new blog from last 2 hours …..forget it ..back to work …..
it’s 5.30 pm ….hmm …will work tomorrow ……
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
ha ha ha…looks like its the same scene with all of us in office. in my ofc they say, u work for pfc and get paid here!
yrf…its official now…aditya chopra is back…directing a fim..rab ne bana di jodi starring srk(who else) and new girl. wil release by the end of 2008. after that shitty mohabtein and many more great ideas from that great man…bhagwan bachaye
it is like i have written this.
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you work for pfc :O
i have a fracture in one arm and im sitting at home for 2 months..
is there any work i can do for you guys..please pretty please :D
@vivek
lot of work mate :-)
start off by writing something
Too good!
PFC is right place for demented, us (who get paid for experiencing bollywood) :d
Phoenixnu ,
srk(who else) and new girl..common man another love story that too with a 40 something man and 20 someting girl….
@Shailesh Limbachiya,
thanks man…
@vivek,
dude i don’t work for pfc..its like i am addicted to it…pfc is my homepage….
Clerk…thanks mate….
I have hooked most of my office mates on to PFC, am in the process of being kicked out for this crime:d
Ah! Do I love University life or what? :D
hehe
Neeraja ! Remember our little tryst with Van Goghs ” Starry Night”…? Well,…they copied that too…outright ! ….Movie called “Superstart” …starring Kunal Khemmu ! …Saw it in the previews !
@Playback
What?!!! where are the previews? youtube? indiafm?
fantastic posttt
Only diff of opinion is that I like yashraj movies
boss baaki tumhare har point se totallly agree
sw engineers are nothing but glorified clerks
dude we need more posts like this here!!!!!
rock on!!!
Hey Anand, you should edit the title of this post to ‘A day in the life of a PFCite’.
Woosh,this is addictive,ain’t it:d/
v alll go thru the same thin in office!!! this n facebook.. lol
Anand, and how can you justify or be passionate when u do that to ur work? Dude, ur projects due 10days back. How about this, what if your passion was seriously films and ur in that place where your are in that creative space, there are perks that come with it like ur work now, like PFC during office which in that case would be loads of parties and beautiful women – how would you do justice to the process of films then?
I am a S/W guy, I am on PFC full time but c’on, glorifying not doing work to dream about passion and not do nothing abt it? Dude…
No disrespect but I have a beef with all who say work sucks when PFC/films happen… give equal importance to both dude… one will help you fuel the other…
Cheers!
@Anand,Kahaani office office ki :d:d…but i want to ask one question ki “i the PM is coming here .. ..fast ..fast change the window ..alt tab
@PLAYBACK
Saw it on youtube. kya karein?!
aur itta bada ‘Starry Night’ ka placard :O kahan? in mumbai?
@ Neeraja …sigh ! I dont know !
@sudeeep …thanks mate..i used to be a fan of yashraj..but these days they are just churning out crap obviously execeptions are there…
@RICK thanks..:)
@arun prakash…ya you are right i should have thought of that title …:)
@aarsh vora….
i guess each one of us goes through the same…
ravptor ,
don’t be judgemental here…you don’t know anything abt the project i was working on…..no one knew anythng abt this the designer the syestem architect no one had slightest idea…and evrythng would come back to me….i give equal imp to both work and my passion…afterall it’s my job which is going to help me in my passion…..
so dude don’t judge me..when you don’t know me atall….
@Shatrughan …
thanks man…and i guess PM’s are same across all the companies….
@Neerja and Play, and don’t ignore the spiderman pose which Toby Mcguire gave in his black spidy suit; sitting on his toes and the hair flying, Yeah!! the good and the bad, copying the poses also now.
Not just for software guys, it’s true for advertising guys too. The only difference- we often call it a day at 5:30 am. If only I stopped visiting PFC every ten minutes, I wd be able to leave at 5:30 pm n watch a movie.
@playback
i thought that painting was called cafe terrace at night
Well i have just started doing the S/W professional thing and you have just given me a preview of my time right now and the days which will play out in the future. but i think I agree we guys(S/W pfc’ites should do something about it). Hoping to read Stardust or some random publication an interview of an actor or a director or some techincian remembering his days spent on pfc at office.
What are the chances????8-|;);)
$iDs…
even i think the same..if i spend the time i spend on pfc on writing my scripts…i would have finished it by now..anyways late is better then never…
@filmibhai
All S/W engineers are glorified clerks is like saying all film waalahs are nachne gaane waale bhaands.
You need to know better dude.
@filmibhai
And btw if you are reading PFC in the comfort of your home/office and interacting with so many people sharing ideas thats all because of some anonymous S/W engineer working hard somewhere.
@ P ,….u disagree ? lol,…how are u different ?
Let me tell your narrative style has a name:
Stream of Consciousness
Sushant Srivastava ….thanks..i never knew that…
@PLAYBACK
It depends who are you looking at in either field. When you talk of films you talk of Fellinis and Goddards but when it comes to S/W professionals all you know is some of your friend or relative wasting his time playing cards on his PC in one of those great outsourcing firms like TCS and Wipro. You conveniently forget about people like Bill Gates who have made the PC revolution possible.
And though its no use educating you, there is lots of original research and product development work happening in India now in not just software but in other technology areas as well. If a S/W startup in US does not have significant India presence, then VCs dont even look at it. But how would you know? You people are into demeaning others without having any accomplishment against your own names.
Get well soon mamu.
@P ….how did u assume I have no acclompishments in my name ? lol,… And having written S/W myself,…I know about the industry ,…even the present,… Focus outta the desktop dude !
….and yeah,…I think filmibhai meant the USUAL Indian brigade abroad…which is quite true!
what a sooper read!!!:)
zzzz ..thanks buddy
P – ‘You conveniently forget about people like Bill Gates who have made the PC revolution possible.’
what a revolution ! ppl’ve become slaves to the same computer they thought wud ease their lives .. gee !
the work most sofwre companies make their slaves(ok..employees) do can be done by retarded monkeys with a bit of practice and patience .. cheers !
wake up every morning .. read newspaper in the bathroom .. hurl abuses at the good ol’ netajis .. bear the life sapping traffic jams .. throw a ‘kutte-ka-patta’ (id badge) round ur neck .. deposit urself in ur ac-cubicle .. work/pretend to work .. complain abt the world on some forum .. come back home and get ready for the next iteration ..
filmibhai-
wake up every morning .. read newspaper in the bathroom .. hurl abuses at the good ol
@filmibhai
If you are talking of the ‘USUAL’, that will remain mediocre in every field. In cinema or TV too there is a lot of junk being produced and consumed every day. If everybody was an achiever then being an achiever would be mediocre and you will have to be a super achiever.
nosmoker -’you need rest.. try not using stuff for an day where their is no software involved..
software guys are hardworking ppl too..
just because you