6/10/2005

Life's weird...

I was awestruck yesterday after getting my broadband connection. The reason-The connection speed? no..Easy usage? no no..But the way in which the line was set up by a couple of "extraordinary" boys, perhaps not even in their double digits. These boys were from airtel, the first noticeable fact in them being the half a dozen holes in each of their shirts and trousers. Let me briefly describe why this work seemed an eyeopener to me. We had a touchtel landline connection in the hall, and my computer along with the dialup net connection. After the proposal for the broadband, i shifted my comp to my study. Now,a new telephone line comes in free with this, which was asked to be placed in the hall itself(near the existing phone). So,a new broadband line to my comp in the new location had to be done, the new telephone line had to be taken, and what worse, according to my "instructions", it had to be diverted to the comp in it's new place, so that I may use the dialup and broadband simultaneously. To add to the woes, my dad piled on his "instructions" too not wanting the original dialup to be disconnected but to be diverted to the comp in my study(which is bout 10 m away in displacement), and to use the previous lengthy 6 m wire which gave me my dialup..huh.

I was sure enough, having the natural "ego" associated with an "IITian", that the work would be messed up, and was constantly objurgating them. But god, it was as if these guys had turned an India-Aus match to an India-Bangladesh. I could'nt believe my eyes. I nearly had tears coming out... Why is this world so selfish..? Why are such brilliant guys, who ought to be learning trigo and calculus, connecting and disconnecting wires,all for a pair of torn vests..? God,why did you create them after all..? Anyway,pack.. am getting to philosophical. I could not sleep yesterday thinking of this. Just spend a moment thinking about this...All i realize is..life is fcuking man...It's just absolutely "bullshitty". We have a million engineers graduating out of colleges, which spend more time in choosing their names than their faculty, all for working in a call centre..or a bpo..or a damn cupp level coding job..? Why dont people utilize the opportunity given to them..? Howbeit, I very well know that a single person cannot change a country..at least in today's world. It's just an eyeopener to all those reading this(I'm sure not more than a dozen). And finally, all I could do was to hand them a 100 buck note and give them a gentle tap, saying "It was remarkably done" in tam.. And off they trotted..perhaps to give a new broadband connection somewhere... GOD SAVE THEM..

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kartik..
I must appreciate the feelings that you have for these skilled people.

Recently I was in a situation (which I shall explain later), where in I came in contact with a few mechanics. Me studying in one of the most prestigious institutes of this country, I was ashamed. I had an informal chat with him and a fag (brother hood, you may call it). This chap is multi skilled and does fibre work, wood work, aluminium, chrome and ..... the list goes on.
I had this strange ambitious idea of assembling a car all by ourselves at insti sometime ago. When I met this guy, it occured to me that things are on a roll. I asked him if he could help me out with stuff. Back came a reply ... "saab, kuch bhi bana degaa. Bas, apna initials daal dena gaadi pe". I couldnt say much..

Good work dude. Keep it up.