Saturday, April 26, 2008

Old Wine - in a new Bottle !!

I love saturdays as you got a lot of time with your cozy bed .. I was prejudiced that nature doenst lie but it declares spring time and here comes snow ... not good snow means no fishing , no cricket ...

I was thinking of making use of this home-time to write something up but was not getting the spark - may be after a couple of shots of tequila i would .... I was searching for one silly article that I wrote like 5 years ago just for some fun ... couldnt find it then i had sent mails to all my colleagues to search it for me .. the magic mail landed in gmail as an attachment !! So am reproducing the original copy - with no changes in its original immature format !! It has all to do with the work in ma project - may not make sense to all and the characters can easily be mapped if u know what i mean ;-) Ignore the flow and the mistakes as this was me writing like 5 years ago , I love Burkha Dutt the way she reports and the way she takes convo - may be the kargil war reporting impressed me lots !! There is contest for guessing the General's original identity - he is posted at a different location overseeing a vast & critical operation !!
Here we go :


THIS IS BURKHA DUTT REPORTING FROM CAMP F0

DAY/TIME : Saturday , 1515 Hrs IST

Hi this is Burkha Dutt reporting live from CAMP F0 – the most happening place @ TCS SHOL.
Even on a Saturday afternoon , the camp is alive ..The atmosphere here is always pumped up and I’ll be reporting one of the many battles LIVE ,that are taken up here !!!!Hope we don’t have to wait more …

Ring Ringgggggggg ;;;;;;;;;;

Just now a call from Boulder ,USA has landed up at the CAMP COMMANDER’S desk (code named: Service Coordinator) .General Stern Looks picks up the call , he remains cool and calm even though he knows that the starting shot of a new battle has been fired.

The General patiently takes down all the initial details of the battle like the location of the battle (code named : Host Name/Company name) , the gravity of the situation (code named : Severity of the ticket) and jots these down in his log book.

Gen.Stern is a decorated soldier with lots of medals glistening on his chest and a lot of battle experience behind him.The Platoon Commanders under him are newly recruited ,inexperienced , young Lieutenants.

General is on his duty .He checks out on the type of the strategy employed by the opposition and assigns (code named : warm xfer) the role of temporary commander to one of his Lieutenants(code named: oncall #1).

The Lieutenant is a bit worried as this one is his maiden battle .So he tries to find from old war docs(code named : previous occurrence) whether such a scenario has happened earlier , but he couldn’t find any.In the mean time Gen.Stern orders that this battle should be taken care of immediately.

The General is now looking a bit concerned because its his responsibility to see to it that the battle (code named : low sev .. sev 2, sev 3) doesn’t magnify itself into a full scale war (code named : high sev .. sev 1, GC) .

Just then the hotline rings again and it’s the call from the Top Brass confirming that the battle has become of high gravity now as civilians are also being targeted by the enemy (code named : guest impact) .

The General wants immediate action, so the young Lieutenant decides to get help from his senior officers.The Lieutenant summons up enough courage to wake up his senior ,Major Atonsite (code named : Oncall #2) who is at an undisclosed location..

Major Atonsite is a veteran of many such battles and he has enough valour to deal with these kinda situations.He just gathers required info and in a short while he sends in superior strategy (code named : $jobs) and reqd ammunition (code named: good n backup datasets) to counter the attack.

- I see the Lieutenant is a bit relaxed now and the battle half won.

The Major yells orders and the Lieutenant takes ‘em down clearly in his mind( as far as he can understand).

He passes marching orders as given by his Major and after all the plans executed , voila
the job is done – yet another battle wonnnnnnn !!!!!!!!!!1

The Lieutenant wiped off the remaining sweat from his forehead..The General congratulates the team and before they can party the hotline rings again..

Ringggggggg ringgggggggggg …………………

Hello this is General .Stern from CAMP F0…..

The cycle repeats all over again ….

Before bidding good bye to all the officers out here lemme sum up some of the popular war cries I heard here of different Platoons ;

Guest Platoon :

Oh ! SPAMuji zara jaldi chalo baba jaldhi chalo …
(babuji zara jaldhi chalo tune..)

HR Pay Platoon :

Roz roz hum sochtha yehi ki aaj humko ek abend
Mil jaayae kahiiiii..

(rangeela roz roz hum tune…)

Credit Platoon :

It’s the time to new accounts . aaj milega kya LOS ??

(it’s the time to disco frm kal ho na ho tune )

n maroon-beret.
n CAS-MVS GUEST

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

lolz !! good stuff,General Praphul...showing off your versatility and winning ur everyday battles in the "army" way.

Justbeing-Sree said...

How dare you not mention about the only valourous "Finance" Platooon in the camp...:))) !!! Anyways, nice write up...Good old memories are flashed thru....

Prabhu Infant said...

Hilarious! Simply hilarious!