It’s exact mid of a working week. A usual boring and highly sleepy Wednesday afternoon after lunch (Thank God, lunch was not bad as I did not try the canteen food). 2.5 days finished, 2.5 more days to go, sigh!!!
Ok, its time for the pantry coffee which we sometime go because we have nothing interesting to do, except sitting in front of the stupid box. Just when I was planning to lock my PC and take out my Infosys Black colour coffee mug (Why the hell they do not get some new designs, I am bored with this black colour cup), suddenly I spotted something exciting in one of the cubicles. Don’t get excited, it was not some new girl in the nearby cubicle ;-), it was a poor spider lazily resting on the keyboard of one of my cubicle mates unaware that where it has got into. Since I did not know whether it was Mr. or Miss Spider, so let’s call it “Spidey”.
First an aura of surprise from everyone. How come a spider comes in the working area? Bugs are allowed only to enter in our code but not in the working area and cubicles and that too over keyboard. Anways, we all found an opportunity to make our boring afternoon slightly interesting and exciting (See we poor Software engineers have nothing much exciting in life to do hence we are trying to extract excitement from a poor spider). I hope Maneka Gandhi will not come running in protest for Animal rights just in case she comes across this blog. ;-)
Let me introduce all the characters of the adventure:-
Ananth – The Bug discoverer (Of-course, he was the first to discover as the spidey has chosen his keyboard to take afternoon nap).
Shwetha – The official camerawoman, I mean cameraperson (English is a phunny language you see) who took 3 highly captivating screen-shots..uhm.. photos of the bug. Only she can do that, as she boasts of the most advanced camera phone in our team. ;-)
Nisha – Assistant camerawoman, I mean assistant cameraperson (English is again a phunny language). She anyways has nothing to do. So she chose to help Shwetha in her photography stint by advising some interesting angles for the shots.
Shrrine – For providing extra sound effects with her screaming. (See, her screams were valid as she has got the nearest next cubicle to the spidey cubicle in action right now).
Me – For Enjoying and surprisingly taking the initiative to plug out the keyboard from computer and taking spidey along with it outside the cubicle. I am still wondering, how I managed that as I am always very much afraid of these freaking creatures.
Binil – For providing extra support by opening the window, helping me out to throw the spider out and then closing the window. Meanwhile he bravely fought with spider while closing the window not allowing spidey to enter again. He escaped uninjured and victorious. Three cheers for him!!!
Here are some photographs of the extra-ordinary event:-
Fortunately or unfortunately, the bug discoverer (Ananth) was not at his seat (its post lunch time yaar) when spidey landed on his keyboard. Otherwise we could have another Spider-man cum software engineer in the making. ;-) But then we need to provide him onsite opportunity very soon as Spiderman can only survive between high-rises of Manhattan. In Mangalore, coconut trees for the support will not be a very good option. :-)
If you have read this uptil here, thanks for reading this crap. As one of my friends say, I am very bad at writing craps. I am still trying to figure out what this statement means and whether I should take it in a positive or negative way. :-)
~Mayank
Ok, its time for the pantry coffee which we sometime go because we have nothing interesting to do, except sitting in front of the stupid box. Just when I was planning to lock my PC and take out my Infosys Black colour coffee mug (Why the hell they do not get some new designs, I am bored with this black colour cup), suddenly I spotted something exciting in one of the cubicles. Don’t get excited, it was not some new girl in the nearby cubicle ;-), it was a poor spider lazily resting on the keyboard of one of my cubicle mates unaware that where it has got into. Since I did not know whether it was Mr. or Miss Spider, so let’s call it “Spidey”.
First an aura of surprise from everyone. How come a spider comes in the working area? Bugs are allowed only to enter in our code but not in the working area and cubicles and that too over keyboard. Anways, we all found an opportunity to make our boring afternoon slightly interesting and exciting (See we poor Software engineers have nothing much exciting in life to do hence we are trying to extract excitement from a poor spider). I hope Maneka Gandhi will not come running in protest for Animal rights just in case she comes across this blog. ;-)
Let me introduce all the characters of the adventure:-
Ananth – The Bug discoverer (Of-course, he was the first to discover as the spidey has chosen his keyboard to take afternoon nap).
Shwetha – The official camerawoman, I mean cameraperson (English is a phunny language you see) who took 3 highly captivating screen-shots..uhm.. photos of the bug. Only she can do that, as she boasts of the most advanced camera phone in our team. ;-)
Nisha – Assistant camerawoman, I mean assistant cameraperson (English is again a phunny language). She anyways has nothing to do. So she chose to help Shwetha in her photography stint by advising some interesting angles for the shots.
Shrrine – For providing extra sound effects with her screaming. (See, her screams were valid as she has got the nearest next cubicle to the spidey cubicle in action right now).
Me – For Enjoying and surprisingly taking the initiative to plug out the keyboard from computer and taking spidey along with it outside the cubicle. I am still wondering, how I managed that as I am always very much afraid of these freaking creatures.
Binil – For providing extra support by opening the window, helping me out to throw the spider out and then closing the window. Meanwhile he bravely fought with spider while closing the window not allowing spidey to enter again. He escaped uninjured and victorious. Three cheers for him!!!
Here are some photographs of the extra-ordinary event:-
Fortunately or unfortunately, the bug discoverer (Ananth) was not at his seat (its post lunch time yaar) when spidey landed on his keyboard. Otherwise we could have another Spider-man cum software engineer in the making. ;-) But then we need to provide him onsite opportunity very soon as Spiderman can only survive between high-rises of Manhattan. In Mangalore, coconut trees for the support will not be a very good option. :-)
If you have read this uptil here, thanks for reading this crap. As one of my friends say, I am very bad at writing craps. I am still trying to figure out what this statement means and whether I should take it in a positive or negative way. :-)
~Mayank