Life Inspires

Apart from releasing a high quality software product, our team has various other talents. Amongst those, there is one that just cannot be overlooked. If some of my team mates are reading this, they would probably know what I am talking about. Yes, it is the ability to crack pathetic jokes about anything and everything on the surface of this earth.   Over the last 7 years, I remember two "technical jokes" that deserve a special mention. If you know more, please feel free to add. Technical Joke #1 (Joke Creator: Saurabh Gupta, Audience: Me, Comic Creator: Me) Technical Joke/Puzzle #2 (Joke Creator: VJ, Audience: Whoever he could catch) There was a group of 30 people and a tray of 30 sweets. The first member of the group said "Lo or aage pass kar do." So the tray went around the room and when it reached the last member, it still had 30 sweets in it. Why? . . . . . Try harder!! . . . . . because the instruction was "Lo  OR aage pass kar do...

Our Team had completed the basic level of French Language training last year and this year we thought that we would take advantage of the 'lean' period between the projects and go a step forward in French. However, the French Language institute had less faith in us that we had in ourselves and told us that they would need to assess whether we have remembered enough to go for the next level. They informed us that they will hold an assessment over phone for each candidate and then evaluate whether we can go ahead. Many of us made the examiner's day by providing her enough material to laugh about for at least a couple of days. Here are some snippets of the conversation. All of this happened in French. What you see below is the exact translation in English. Snippet 1: Examiner talking to Punjabriti (name changed) Examiner: Do you have children? Punjabriti: Yes, I have a daughter. Examiner: How old is she? Punjabriti: She is three years old. Examiner: Do you also have a son? Pun...