Funny Snippets

Last weekend my parents visited my new [ rented ] house. Not that they wanted to see the house, but they came to collect the goods and chocolates that i had bought for them from Norway. Unfortunately i could not purchase anything significant for them in that expensive Kristiansand. But, then i had the numerous pics that i had collected there that made them very happy.

We visited quite a few shopping complexes, Bangalore Central, Forum and also spent good 4 hours roaming on that small Commercial street, just because my sister did not get some "chicken design" clothings. Well, all that time spent ended well with she getting what she had started out to purchase.

We also went to a new restaurant in Koramangala. Its called "Hyderabad House". We decided to have some good biryani there. The half an hour we waited for a table was worth it with we getting some real authentic Hyderabadi biryani. But still, it was nothing to beat the biryani my aunt prepares in Hyderabad. :-) Thats a class apart !!!

There was one funny incident that occurred at Hyderabad House that i wanted to write about and then thought why not write about all the small funny snippets that i came across in this week, and hence this blog. [ All that you read till now was just the prelude :-p ]

Hyderabadi biryani is always served with a curry [ usually made of brinjal or chillies ] and some chutney made from yogurt. When the bearer was serving us the curry and chutney, his supervisor was unhappy with he serving us a huge quantity of chutney since the crowd that day [ on a Sunday !!! ] was more than what they had expected and the chutney there could not suffice for all the customers. So he asked the bearer to dilute the chutney and serve it later to us. Unfortunately for them, i saw this :-) Once we started eating, the bearer brought us the diluted chutney and i did not agree to being served with that diluted chutney. He asked us to adjust for which i replied that he would have to adjust with the money and that i would be paying him less. He couldnt help it and said that he would talk to the manager. After we finished the lunch with that diluted chutney [ it actually spoilt the fun of having some authentic Hyderabadi biryani ] the bearer brought us the bill. I paid him 20% less. While we were leaving they asked us to talk to the manager who after hearing the episode agreed to give us a rebate and was ok with what i had already deducted. After all this, i did fill bad about it, but if i did not do it, then probably they would repeat this again. I hope they dont repeat it again !!! [ I am eager to go and have a look at that restaurant again to see if they would repeat this thing again ;-) ]

Yesterday, sush came across a situation which gives us one more reason to stop using Winduhs. Sush was playing around with Active Directory and kerberos authentication for some customer solution. She ran some kerberos utility and rebooted the machine as was indicated in the documentation for that utility. Unfortunately for her, the machine could not start AD services since the domain for that machine was not set properly. [ The machine was also a Domain Controller ]. And so she had to reboot the machine in Safe Mode to debug and fix the problem. After trying out a hell lot of things suggested by our friendly google.com, we decided to call up the IS people to help us out with this. After they also could not find a viable solution to fix the problem in hand, we decided to uninstalling AD from this machine. That's when the fun started. Winduhs would not allow us to uninstall AD when we were booted in safe mode. We had to boot in normal more to uninstall AD. And it would not allow us to boot into the normal mode since it could not start AD services. Great ... now thats what i call a deadlock !!!. We finally had no choice but to reinstall the whole OS !!! One more lesson to be modular :-)

I just remembered some funny exchange of dialogues between our very own Michael Meeks and Harish. Michael is a great C/C++ programmer and Harish has newly ventured into C, after being a great Java developer in the past. On our way to Agder University in Kristiansand, Harish was talking about his current and previous work experiences.
Harish : I am new to C programming, i have been working a lot in Java before moving into Evolution.
Michael : What ! what did you say ... go wash your mouth

[ You would really laugh as we did, if you hear it from the man himself. ]

Today evening, while travelling back home, i was surprised to see a poster about "Basha beedies" sporting the smiling face of Aishwarya Rai !!!

An advertisement in Radio City ... "Malaysian Airlines .. taking you beyound expectations" ... If i would travel in that airlines, i would definately expect to reach my destination, and i hope they dont take me beyond my expectations :-)