A story

It was my first year in engineering, and I was trying to adjust to the hostel life, seniors and ragging. It was that time I heard her name 'Arati'. She was a third year student then and hailed from the same place as my roomy. She had a striking face, beautiful eyes and chubby cheeks. She was the angel of the college.

I started liking her the instant I saw her. Though I used to see her many times (I used to go behind her whenever I got a chance), I would have talked to her only two or three times. I really do not know the reason behind this. All those two or three times too happened only if I was with my roomy and she came across both of us.

First year flew by and second year came. We started moving out frequently. We had become seniors also. So I almost saw her daily. She would come with boy friend (villain). Yes she had a boy friend, who studied in her class.

Once I was in the bank extension counter inside our college campus and she too came there. She was wearing a bright yellow dress and I could not take my eyes of her. She said Hi to both of us and started talking to my roomy. They were neighbors in their home town and knew each other well. Indeed it was she who asked him to try our college rather than going for some other one. Few minutes passed like this and it was time for her to leave. So as she left I had told her only a 'Hi' and a 'Bye'.

Time flew by and my second year was coming to an end and she was going to leave the college forever.

I started to attend my third year in college. She was working for a company in Pune. Two or three months went off in third year. College was boring without her. One fine day, I came back to my room and saw my roomy getting ready to go somewhere. As soon as he saw me, he said "Yaar, Woh aayi hai". I did not know if I should feel happy or sad. I started to go with my roomy to meet her. Again my talk was restricted to a single Hi. She was leaving the same night and invited us for a dinner. But as my luck would have it I had a meeting about the quiz competition to be held at our college and I had to go.

All along the meeting I was cursing everybody there. I thought if the meeting gets over I would just join them for the dinner. But..

When I reached, my roomy had not come. He had gone to see her off to Pune directly after the dinner. When he came back, he told me "Woh pooch rahi thi ki thu kyoon nahi aya".

ctrl-alt-del

Never knew this could do lot of things. I really mean it when Ii say lot of things. People in the Indian software industry use this most of the time and I can say that its difficult for them to live without using this key combimation. Be it locking the system before going out, to restarting it when the system hangs up, ctrl-alt del is the mantra. But i feel the best use of it is done when the system is actually locked.

With the swelling crowds of employees in the IT industry, it has now become very common that you come across many new people in your office. And the good news is that the average age ranges some where between 25 to 30, with the age of those joining the organisation still less.
It is very much possible that you go to the office one fine morning and finding a very cute cubicle mate :). Hmm but what if she sits right in the other corner of your floor. You want to talk to her, but feel it would be better to know something about her before talking to her. Just wait for her to leave the office, go to her seat and a simply moving the mouse will do that magic. You will see a window saying "This computer is in use and has been locked. Only 'Cute Gal' or an administrator can unlock this computer"(Check the screen shot i have posted here). Just forget the administrator and you have the gal's name. With the office maintaining a good database of the employees, its not tough to get other details.

But a word of caution. Be sure she logs in with her name only. For people who want more details regarding how to find if she logs in with her name only.... pls mail me