The Night Shift!!

Oh!! wonderful !! 6 in the morning and I'm writing some gibberish instead of being tucked up between the sheets in a warm cozy bed. All credit to my working in shifts.. Please dont get me wrong .. I certainly ain't complaining.. I get to stay home, work from where ever I want (provided I have internet access), cut out the travel time and u know ;) .. u can figure out all the merits of staying at home and working.. and thanks to the wonderful team I'm in, I get help whenever I want.. irrespective of the time of the day.


Ok, so talking about this first shift experience..(we work in the rotational shift - the regular cycle being 1 week of day followed by 1 week of night followed by 6 weeks of regular shift ..).. its all nice but sometime down the lane the entire timings has a funny effect on ur head.:

Its like you are dreaming your work and working your dream.

Talking about the 1st part of the above statement its like all the time you are working, you have the feeling of walking through the dream.. No!!! u arent sleepy cuz u would have slept most of the day but things just dont seem real.. Advantage : U dont freak out when there is an issue .. u just end up figuring out a way to resolve it and if u can't do that, u know u can always rely on your team(though u hate to wake them up, u know u are left with no other option.)

Now the second part, and this is the actual confusing part of your day.. You are just not sure if u have eaten the rasam rice with chips or some SAP product with the component- they all seem the same.you are confused as to what day it is.. u go to sleep and wakeup on the same day.. the date doesnt change... the things that you did overnight , u do on the same day.. and its sort of scary... the fleeting thought that your day is never going to end. that the day is eternal. *shudders* but while u work, its the complete opposite effect.Its ur day running off .. you deal with 2 days in the span of ur work hour. Sometimes its like living 4 days in 2 and sometime like the clock is rotated by an angle like all the numbers are shifted ... that 11 is in the place of 5; 12 in 6 and so on *reminds of the geometry sessions and the circular probability sessions* and if I go on, this note will end up being a collection of random words with no connecting thoughts. So, here's sparing both of us the pain, this is me signing off..

Toodles!!

PS: This was written a year ago!!

SIMPLY FICTION

       She lay on the bed waiting. He was late. She had called him up an hour ago. He was always late - always busy. He had come. She was too feverish to  hear him open the door and come up the old creaking stairs. He opened the bedroom door  and found her - frail figure, shivering as though she was kept in the freezer. They knew each other since they were little children. One look at her was all he needed. He rushed to her and held her hand. He could feel the pulse. Like an experienced doctor he said accusingly, " U got drenched in the rain yesterday. Dint U?  U have flu."

PS: thanks sorcy for bugging, nagging and  threatening  me to write...:)

In the Lab

In the electrical technology lab:

External: what is the speed of the Transformer?

GeniASS(confidently): 1200-1500 sir. It varies.

External : how do u measure speed?

GeniASS: using the Tachometer, sir.

External : Take this tachometer and find me the speed of the transformer used in this lab **hands him the tachometer.

GeniASS walks to the table on which the transformer is placed and where a girl is performing her experiment..

GeniASS: excuse me, can u just give me a moment with the transformer.. i need to find its speed.

girl gives him a hard stare.

GeniASS: could u just tell me how do i find the speed of the transformer?

Girl: Idiot, its a static device. transformer doesnt have speed. :|

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In the electronics devices lab external:

WiseGuy shortcircuits the 2 ends of battery on the breadboard. Theres a KA-BOOM and a powercut.

Lab technician(accusingly): What have u done?? u short circuited it?? u can get out and give the finals next sem as supplimentary..

WiseGuy(with his hands burnt): NO sir i din do anything...Just wait till the power comes, u can see the output.

Lab technician: Out of the Lab now!!

WiseGuy: Sir, Please

The power returns and miraculously there's output on the CRO.

Lab Technician: H-how did u manage it??

Wiseguy: i connected the right circuit sir..

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In the Fluid Mechanics Lab:

the problem in this lab was that the indicating metres were at a height and all the shorties(me included) had difficulty noting down the readings and there was only one chair.

On the first Day of the Lab:

Lab Incharge: take the accurate readings. look into the meter perpendicularly to avoid the parallax error.

Shortie: Errm sir, i wouldnt be able to do that. Im a little short. Do u think i could borrow your chair while i need to take the readings??

Lab Incharge(mocking): Yeah sure, why not?

Shortie: Sir, could i do the same during the externals?? Wouldnt the external mind if i take away his chair??

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