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I am in mid of a crucial online meeting and I recieve a call. This call is from a Professor who was a committee member in a Government Project which we worked on.
“Hello Chetan”
“Hello Sir”
“How are you? Dear I have a small issue. Can you resolve it?”
There is one Hindi saying, “Kaan khade ho jana”, to get alert. Any one of the committee member can object at any phase of the project forcing us to redo everything. For me this “small issue” sounded like an danger alarm.
“Yes sir tell me”
“I think some paper has stuck in my printer. Can you come over and have a look?”

Some time I think Yahoo! ppl have got all the emotion icons.
Being an IT guy has been a pain in ass some times.
All of my neighbours has asked me to fix their PC, teach them or their kids INTERNET, install drivers, remove viruses and all those stuff computers can deal with.
I was doing dimploma in Electronics and Comm. Engg. I had done wiring in my room, assembled audio amps for my pals, digital clocks, touch sensors, bugs, transmitters, recievers. I was doing what I love. I will voluntarily repair radios, TVs, washing machines, electrical stuff and some times mechanical stuff also. This made my image of a mechanic who was consulted before purchasing anything even bulb. The things were ok till I was studying. After that I saw the real world. People will call me not becaouse I was a good guy, just coz I was a free mechanic. I started avoiding this and IT was happening. A chance interview and I was into IT.
When I do some thing I develop a passion for it.
When I jumped into IT field I realised windows was not the end of the world. Linux came. I was formally wedded with a PIII in 2001. I think the word shud be WELDED. I found 24 hours very less time I could spend with my new found love.
My dad used to threat me, “Son go to sleep now or I will throw this PC into dustbin.”
This wasnt enuff. My Computing Gyan made me infamous among my pals. And my pals started spreading the word. In my starting days I even desoldered some boards. Some of my so called friends infact invited me to their places. They even took me to their relatives places, even to their work places. I still remember one guy plan to charged 500 Rs to his company on my behalf. He knew I love chocolates and chocolate bourbons and he kept the supply on during all my repairing sessions. I even helped people in their VB projects. I hate VB and never installed VB on my machine.
This image is still with me. Ppl call me to get their machines fixed. To help them with assignments. I am not working with some big gun company so they think I am a totally free guy and I can fix the USB port. I can download the pictures in their cell phone to their PC. Or if I can not do all these I can atleast teach them MS Word.
Nitin asked me to paste a sticker on my bike.
It shud say
IT_GUY.TOTALLY_XHTML1.0_COMPLIANT