Baaviyalli banda bhaagya

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Alternate Career option

This was the story I sent to the company magazine "TOGGLE", only the photo was published :-(



"If I were not a systems engineer in Polaris, I would be playing the cricket world cup by now.

Yes,this is praveen nellikeri,a once-upon-a-time budding cricketing genius now becoming a blooming idiot in the software industry.A person who wanted to become a run making machine but now struggling to make machines run :-(

Born in 1983 ,I proved to be lucky for Indian cricket as they won their only world cup so far ,that year.I held the bat(plastic one) for the first time when I was 3 and celebrated by debut by hitting 3 consecutive fours of my mothers bowling.(well I did not know where was the boundary but my mom used to shout four whenever I hit the ball).And from then there was no looking back.From my home ground(literally) to outside pitches with my friends ,I was the top batsmen at all times.I had played on various pitches ,on various surfaces (tiles,cement,tar,sand and of course on cricket ground).not to mention the number of matches I singlehandedly won in book cricket or in video games(EA sports and Lara's cricket game) .

I also own an impeccable record of being the man of the match everytime I played with my sister and her friends :-)

Unfortunately there is no written record about the number of sixers I have hit,number of centuries I have scored or the number of times I have sent the batsmen to the pavilion much due to the fact there were no 24 hrs news channels by then who could make anyone a hero .The only thing I can show off is the photos which I cherish so dearly.One taken when I had broken Lara's world record by scoring 833 N.O against ...(well.. I cant say as the at team has blackmailed me that I will lose my fingers with which I used to spin the ball,but now do coding,If I reveal their name).The match had to be stopped as 7 of their guys were to be admitted to hospital due to extreme fatigue .It was then that one our cricketing giants flew to karnataka to congratulate me on this wonderful feat.He even said that seeing me bat he felt like he was batting...Oh those wonderful days..


Then one day a tragedy struck which blocked my way to my cricketing career and thus diminished India's dream of winning a second world cup when my friend told me that there was a cricketing club called POLARIS who would select people from colleges and train them.I went there ,got thru the interview and got selected to the team and signed the contract(now called the much feared bond).It was then I knew that I was fooled and was not selected in a cricket club but to a software industry and since then have been an unsung hero... Now I have got used to my new life of coding,enhancing,supporting and mail-forwarding when all my would-be colleagues are onsite playing the world cup in West Indies. "

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Jhoom re -->Re released

We
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meri ek suno antaryami,
meri ek suno client-swami,
mai to supporter janam-janam ki,
mai to supporter janam-janam ki,
bali umar se support karti,
bali umar se support karti,
issue resolve kar ke hi jaoo,
thank u mail paa ke hi jaoo,
raat-diwas issue resolve karau
raat-diwas issue resolve karau
tumhe jo choddu to mar jaoo,
tumhe jo choddu to mar jaoo,

server down down server down down server down down up karde
server down down server down down server down down up karde

they
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ek suno na mere bholenathji,
ek suno na mere product supportji
server yaha pe nahi chala hai
server yaha pe nahi chala hai
server yaha pe down huva hai
server yaha pe down huva hai
jaldi aa kar up kara de
jaldi aa kar up kara de
issue ko tum resolve kara de
issue ko tum resolve kara de
phone karungi din bhar pura,
phone karungi din bhar pura,
tujhe mein bheju mail ki rashi,
tujhe mein bheju mail ki rashi,
aur jo bouce jave phir bhejungi,
aur jo bouce jave phir bhejungi,
majboori samajh phir bhejungi,
majboori samajh phir bhejungi,
solve karde servernathji,
kaise bhi karke dinanathji,

server down down server down down server down down up karde
server down down server down down server down down up karde

we
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ek suno ji client meri vaani
meri ek suno client-rani,
iss mail se kya pavegi,
bhej bhej kar tu mar javegi,
bhej bhej kar tu mar javegi,
snapshot bhejo, logs bhejo
snapshot bhejo, logs bhejo
machine name aur path bhejo
machine name aur path bhejo
kab aa raha hai error batao
kab aa raha hai error batao
configuration dekh ke darr javegi,
mail karke tu kya pavegi,
mujhe poora details phone pe batao
mujhe poora details phone pe batao
server ko mein up kar doongi
Backend frontend restart kardoongi

server down down server down down server down down up karde
server down down server down down server down down up karde

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INSPIRATION

Thinking of writing poetry
I sat like Newton under a tree
To get some inspiration from things around
But I did’nt find one ,sweet and sound
No matter how hard I think,
I did’nt get a word to ink
When my whole sheet lay blank,
I did’nt know whom to scold and whom to thank,
For giving me pen, paper and mind
But not an idea of any kind.
Still I wait for some inspiration,
To complete my poem with satisfaction.

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