Friday, November 16, 2007

Of Birthdays, Blackforest, Large Prime Numbers and 69
Well the day started half an hour in advance.......... A couple of fellas calling me up early to wish me........ Claimed i would be busy with important calls at midnight and tht I would ignore them then........... Real smart alecs.......... And then the conference happened........ You know wat they say............. "SSDD".......... pretty close:p. A finer concerted effort of browbeating i have never experienced before.......... Of course they did have the advantage of numbers.... Thot i got out of that one pretty well............ :D classic move giving ppl 5 choices and telling thm to take their pick........ Neatly done even if i say so myself.
Hmm... Figured i was par for the course so far. Little did i know i wasnt even close to the truth. You know i was wished by nearly everyone i knew on 14th morn itself.... Figure u cant call it anything but morning as it was after 12 and the next day but doesnt make sense to start the day with night. Anyways went to sleep around 2 after a pleasant conference which kept dwindling down progressively as time went......... Pareto deserves a mention here to btw:p
The day began bright and sunny. Of course i got up at sometime around 8. Ate some soji tht mom had prepared for me.... Dropped mom at office and sat down to breakfast... For some reason i booted up the system and wat do u know the next thing u know the time is 12 and i have been playing age of empires for nearly 3 hrs........ Those 3 hours turned out to be the most hassle free hours of the day:D kidding ppl....... Anyways i finish breakfast and lunch at one go only to realise i had invited a few ppl to lunch at sangeetha...
Now u know me........ I dont like wasting good food....... So i dont:p But believe the second and third lunches were easy to push in but i had to balk at the fourth one....(For interested parties the second lunch consisted of cheese kulchas and the third one of paneer pulao.... The fourth was sadly a dried Butter Naan......... maybe if it had been hot and fresh......... But we will never know the answer to tht now.....:p) Now when my friends decide to do something they always do it in style........ My birthday was no exception:) The lunch party consisted of vishnu, rajesh, siva(tho he didnt eat squat), nitin, su and hari and myself of course.
Already filled to the brim i waddled to the gallery(waddled is a joke and none of u r allowed to refer to it as such..... u can call it walking thank u very much) along with the lunch party and an edict was passed by general consensus that as i had come to college i should stay there till 5 atleast... And then lo and behold Vinod joins up with us......... Vind(as he likes to be known) was discretely engaged during our impromptu lunch but completed his engagements ahead of time and met up with us....
After about ten mins Vind and Vish do the disappearing act............ The first and the best surprise of the day was to follow....... Pras joined up with us(And no thas not the surprise).. The guys(and gals) had got me an honest for goodness BlackForest cake.....(Guys u r the best:) ) I was thrilled to say the least(Actually vind let the cat out of the bag before he left but i acted surprised and brilliantly too i think:p). And thn they tell me their nefarious plan ..... I am not to have a single bite.... Well we couldnt have tht now could we......... After a brief struggle and some quick hand eye co ordinated moves i managed to polish of a goodly portion of the cake..
You know when u were younger and your parents gave you birthday parties........ These parties generally had a theme........ Well this one had a theme as well after a fashion...... "Ever wondered y u cant have sex at a speed faster thn 68 miles per hour??"..... Well the answer to tht was the theme of my birthday....... Seems my constant mouthing off in tht particular topic was the reason for tht theme being chosen..... Heck even the candles spelt 69....... I still have the card and the mug tho:p
Went home and was taking a nice bath when who of all ppl should call but my interviewer form google........ Now u see i could be excused if i wasnt expecting the call......... Because i WASN'T:p Well toweling off i sat for the telephonic interview and he hit me straight away with a puzzle.... Now u see i was still in the off mode mentally and i took some time to warm up.... Took nearly 20 mins to solve tht one.......... The data structure q was easy tho.. Got tht straightaway.. And thn he just had to go and ask me a q tht i knew but i didnt know(they are the worst type u know........ U already have heard the q and know all the incorrect answers and y they are incorrect but not the right one......... well tht was my last q......:( )
Never one to tempt Providence and with the number of surprises i had tht day i slept off early.........
And that people was a recollection of wat is most probably one of the best birthdays that i will ever have......... Thank u guys...... U r the greatest.....*sniff sniff*(jus kiddin' :P ................... abt the sniff part:D)

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