Laughter angle - Part 2

Some snippets:-

- The other day we were laughing our tears out to a witty cracker. A studious guy who heard the joke gave a wide grin for a second and then contorted the smile by crushing his cheeks between the teeth. When asked about the reason for this evasive measure , he said " Those who laugh harder will cry even harder" , a crap statement in its own front. Rest of the day we guffawed for no reason, tickled him every time and got some dirty looks .

- Last week a software company conducted a off- campus interview in our college which attracted 1200 students from 10 colleges around Vijayawada. The selection took place across 3 days and only 16 were shortlisted for the final H.R interview. After the final round they left without declaring the result. Here raised the eyebrows - if none from 1200 (not all are futile) was palatable , its intriguing to know the standard of their employees. May be all Einsteins and Newtons in the world are working over there , defying logics of sort ' why apple fall on ground' . One would be forced to think whether they are selecting a high-tech coolie or a coach to TeamIndia. If not on Earth ,lets hope someone from Jupiter will fulfill their requirements.

- Our 2-2 result was out and my score in maths was displayed as 15( out of 70) , kick starting traumatic phase. I used to wipe for the unconquered 10 when I scored a 90 in maths during my school. But with age your priorities change and after wading through all the tests since my childhood , I no longer has fire in the belly to perform in these endless exams but there's no let-up in getting less than 25% in maths. So, I thought of doing an Alok in Five point someone but couldn't find a ten storey building around and eventually deferred the act. ( I was so fond of this book that, along with other reasons, the 3 characters in the story really inspired me to screw my marks and that's where a loser gets his inspiration from - other losers.)

Though these results depict the hard work and discipline of a person, there is much more in this world which is going unnoticed. I would rate a zealot who stood in the queue from the day before to catch Sahankar dada zindabad on first day much higher than the aggressor who scored a 80%. Despite the fact that reaping an 80 involves months of hardship , the manner in which they both went about their efforts is strikingly different. Whereas the hero-adulation is self-less and draws nothing in return, we adore books only to gain knowledge and earn moolah. A dictum in the holy 'Gita' states - commit yourself to the task without expecting the outcome. So, of these two, who will go to heaven?

- This Monday will mark the end of our assignments and recalling our MoU , both of us violated one or the other rule but the legal drawback is that there is no witness to this MoU. So, the case cannot hold its ground in the court and we left each other without filing suit.

Laughter angle

I reckon it as an angle from which our eyes peek through when our soul is drowned in bliss and peace. Here I put forth some such situations viewed from Laughter angle.

To shape up and ship us to a good software company which require cutting edge soft skills , we were being trained rigorously in group discussion (G.D) sessions which helds once a week. A typical G.D runs with 5-6 students crossing their words with each other -accepting a few , rejecting a few and finally emerging with a consensus or a solution to the given topic or caselet. Irrespective of the cast , the conclusion from most G.Ds revolves around govt. Some of the G.D topics and their final words which I came across :

Topic: Mumbai Blasts .
Conclusion : Govt. must prevent terrorists from commiting such acts.

T : Child labour.
C : Govt. must punish all those who hire child labourers.

T : Environment Management.
C : Govt. must take measures to save forests and alike.

T : Movies & youth.
C : Govt. must ban movies with objectionable stuff.

T : Education system.
C : Govt. must raise standards of education.
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Govt. must eat for us and govt. must piss for us and what will we do ?
Sleep? eh right !

Disclaimer before a G.D: With our warm regrets to Lincoln ji - who stated govt. of the people, for the people and by the people - for the sake of our G.D's, its only govt. for the people.

In the flow,
T : U.S. war with Iraq.
C : Govt. must rescue Iraq from U.S.

Now a days industry is running after take overs and tie ups. I too, for my part, signed a memorandum of understanding ( MOU) with my friend. It read as follows :-

I, Mr. Naveen Kumar shall hereby abide the rules framed by Mr. Sameer Kumar in the best of our interests to secure more than 5 out of 7 in the upcoming assignments.
The rules :-

1.Free flow of knowledge from the enlightened to the ignorant (exams included).

2.Co-operation between both the parties with regards to exchange of text books etc. ( As
Mr. Sameer Kumar possess no extra text book other than those already held by Mr.Naveen Kumar, the former can only receive one from the latter).

3.No-talk and no-mischief during lectures.

Deliberate breaching of any of these rules by either of the parties shall be dealt with an appropriate fine.