"No! Not from those!"
"Why? Oh.. Okay, then?"
"Those, the white ones, are for engineers; the practicing engineers I mean. You guys take those gray helmets"
I picked one of the gray helmets, and wondered how safe it was. I don't think it was safe even against a 5 kg weight falling from 5 m above. To our guilty satisfaction, the white ones differed only in colour. I don't think I would like to don one of them ever in my life.
But I won't deny I liked the first day on the second floor of the under-construction buiding. It took three years and a walk from the third basement to the second floor of that buiding to realise I am studying civil engineering. Till then it was physics, mechanics, maths, or whatever, but it was not civil engineering.
Some realisations are relieving, others urge you for action. Entering the MS of the college for the first time was relieving. Some, in those very moments, felt an urge for action; I felt the same, three years later on the roof of that under-construction buiding. I was too late.
Each human life sweats equal tonnes, somebody once said. Guess I had had enough of waking up at 11 am. But 8 am was harsh, for my standards. And three consecutive days of it were unthinkable. I bunked the third day. Four workers fell through a defective shuttering on that day.
The safety inspector was yelling at a junior engineer on the day next, "Make your workers understand that slippers are slippers and therefore not suitable for a construction site."
I wonder if the white-headed man understood. Nevertheless, he nodded.
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Comments...
"You are high on exaggeration these days."
"Ok! Maana ki garmi hai, temperature 40 ko cross kar raha hai.. but won't you like to tell your readers that you spend 90% of the time gossiping in the comfort of the office?"
"That guy, your junior engineer, needs immediate treatment. The heat can aggravate his white heads."
"You told me you are enjoying. This post is in total contradiction with that!"
"Kuchh tone badal yaar apni posts ki. Kya ghazalon ki tarah ek hi sur mein.. :P"
"Men and women would sweat in equal tonnes only if there was no labour pain in this world. ;)"
"Whom are you reading these days, temme??"
May 23, 2007
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Heyy.. my blog's missing you, and so is its shamelessly advertaholic owner!
We have to choose one of those options for comments kya??
Anyway good you're enjoying the intern.. STOP bunking.You'd soon adjust to the time. I wake up at 6:15 everyday now for intern.
Hope you learn a lot.
[Phoenix]
Na! It was how I wud've commented on such a post. Sometimes it's fun observing yourself from a distance.
yup, wud try to minimise bunking.. the intern is far more exciting.. and obligatory :(.. than most courses.
Thanx for the goodwill n wishes.. :)
how i wish i culd bunk during internship as easily as i bunked lectures in college
[Desperado]
I bet you do!
Nice post! Enjoy the under-construction environment and the grey helmets. I guess they are meant for those who dont have much grey matter (enhance karne ke liye, you see)! And wake up early!
PS: My comment seems to have a similarity index of zero when compared to your comments.
;)
[Taps]
That's one original way of looking at it! SI is definitely zero. Cheers!
Could've been phrased better to not sound like:"meant for those who dont have much grey matter to enhance" on first read :P
So how was ur exam? And whenz next? (Not showing any care or concern, you see, just getting you to increase the number of comments :P)
Is it just me, or was there a lot of humor in there...i found the descriptions pretty funny.
though i'm wondering what the 'internal friction' would refer to...
the poet and abstract thinker suddely at a construction zone...?this should be a series perhaps...
[Siyaah]
If there IS humor, the origin of it must be the fact that I was trying to write a heavy post when my mood was all light!
Well, originally the title came from my slight annoyance at a fellow trainee (which I later felt inappropriate to blog about)! Only after the title was decided did I see that it equally conveys the wars within one's own mind- something that I'm eternally cursed with.
yeah, will b a series, may not be of continuous posts though.
lucky u ;)..annoyance i can understand...in my job how when i have to come for weekends...while working 12hrs a day..aah!!!
Two major exams over (Consumer Electronics, Robotics), two left. I guess they were good. I need the degree, thats all :D
Next is on 29th, and the next to next on 31st.
And those superb technologies of the english language for phrasing, de-phrasing, re-phrasing and paraphrasing don't seem to work when you have me phrasing. :D
PS: This raises the number of comments on your latest post to 11. Meri latest post par 20 hain! :P
[DC]
Wish you better times ahead :)
[Taps]
That's no fair comparison! I published it two days back.. urs is 2 weeks old :(
and u've far more readers than me.. u know it requires so much of an effort to get 10-20 comments from 4-5 readers! Kudos to me!(mostly because half of them are my own! :P)
:D
Best of luck for the one on 29th.. [Wishing for both the exams right now would be a gross under-utilization of my ability to extract comments from the numerous Tapasyas who've not commented yet :P]
Keep gossiping with the sun!
(I think it makes for some sorta introductions too, if u noe wht I mean :P)
Hey! I must've told at least 5-6 guys that my intern is like gossiping with the sun! More hints??
This(!), after declaring me 'Miss' Eyelid on two posts!
Oops! You visit my blog! Am surprized..
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