Okey !! so I am again starting the blogging activity. Hope this should continue and I do get time as well as inspiration from within to keep it continue.
Anyway today, 15 Jul 2008, the day started with light mood and cool breeze of rainy air however it started turning difficult as the rain started pouring heavily when I was riding the bike to office. I was supposed to reach office by 9:45 A.M. but reached bit late (around 9:55 A.M.), hence I parked the bike and packed my rain coat hastily and just reached in office with bit wet cloths. All onshore guys were waiting for me for telecon, and I was substantiating IST (Indian Standard Time) idiom.
Office day went fine. I did some experiments with PHP script, checked out everything from changed repositories, setup build environments on test server, etc... (sort of admin. work rather than development). Oh yes ... I did big time formatting of Word documents. My colleagues had prepared some technical documentation in Word, which was just a bundle of paragraphs and images. There was no formatting and consistency. Hence I spent 2-3 hours formatting them by creating and applying various styles, creating Table Of Contents, etc... By the way, this was the first time I created TOC :) and after pretty much finding, I found how the TOC automatically takes the titles (hint : use Level property in Paragraph style).
So I was ready to leave by 6:15 pm and even confirmed with Sweety that I will pick her up from Seepz. So happily I reached at elevator, commanded elevator to take me to parking lot, reached to bike, donned rain coat (as it was raining outside), and .... suspense ... I was finding no keys !!! My bike keys were lost. I checked my bag twice and myself thrice (including rain coat pockets) but in vain.
Then suddenly I realized that I might have forgotten them on my desk, so I called up my friend there and he said negative... I was bit tense now because Sweety would have been waiting for me and here I was looking for my keys and running here and there, bending myself to find the keys below parked cars / bikes. But my efforts did not pay up and lastly I had to call her so that she can leave on her own and here I could find out some way out. I thought that I might have dropped them in elevator. So I checked them (the one I went up in and the one I came down). Still no clue. I asked some janitors and other guys but NO NO NO...
At last I saw one guy who seemed to be kind of looking after the parking lot. I asked him and first time a guy who replied positively. He said that somebody of them had found two keys ("HURRAY") so he asked me to wait and he wen to get the keys from his closet. He did come with two keys and I could see the ignition key even if he was around 15 feet away. But (the BIG BUT) the petrol key was still missing. The second key was of someone else. So it gave me mix feelings (pleasure of getting ignition key and pain of loosing petrol lock key).
Now the question was what should I do to get bike running. So I bet on the remaining fuel in the carburetor. I applied the choke, started the bike, and gave full accelerator so that it can climb four slopes to come out of the building. And like Chetak, it did come out of "Castle". With that remaining fuel, I went around 100 meters ahead and then I had to drag the bike... till I get some key maker (rather key hacker).
Fortunately a kid working at some garage offered me a help and he magically used his "master key" to open bike's petrol lock. He solved the problem in just 30 seconds... I thanked God and that kid. To settle my Karmic account, I offered him Rs. 10 that he was not eager to take but he took (I felt satisfied). Since bike was running by then I started riding it towards home and along the way I found my colleague waiting for bus, so I offered him a lift (crediting Karmic account ;) ).
So end of the day, I reached home and Sweety had already prepared tasty dinner so I relished it and watched an interesting movie "Fasted Indian".
Ok now ... it's time to go to bed.
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