Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Screw the phone!
For the past two years, I have been a proud user of Samsung C-100 cell phone. I bought the phone for its sleek look and the clear color display. Though it has been a big let down in terms of other features, I still stuck with the phone.
Samsung phone book offers a great feature of saving more than one contact number under one name. This is a handy one, since I always had to save the different contact numbers of the same person under different names in Nokia phone, which makes the phone book very cluttered. I have been a using this facility to the maximum possible extend that sometimes I have been dumb enough to save the numbers of different people under the same name, which always ended up in a disaster.
Now coming to the disaster part, I have a friend whose name, for the time being, can be assumed as X. And I know a professor also with the same name. While saving the phone number of the professor, I saved it under the same name, and didn't notice that both the numbers are listed under one single X.
Last week, on one of the days while I was enjoying my afternoon nap, I get a call from X. I get up, sees the name, and the immediate person that comes to my mind is my good friend X. I pick the phone, starts with a bang.
Me: Yes X, bol..
X: "Bulbs"
Me: Arey Tell daa..
X: Am I speaking to Sreejith?
Me: Yes, you are, Mr X. (putting pseude u know..)
X: Sreejith, this is Prof X here. Just wanted to talk to you about the meeting.
Me: "Bulb for two minutes.. I feel darkness inside my eyes, and suddenly my sleep ran away leaving me alone to handle this slightly confused Prof of mine.'
Me: yes sir, sorry sir, I thought it is my friend who is calling..
X: No probs, let us now discuss about the meeting..
From that moment, all my replies were formatted to the standard "Yes Sir", and I don't remember a single thing in the discussion. My thoughts suddenly became empty, and my memory seems to have core dumped at the right occasion (screw me..) and I had nothing to comment about his suggestions.
In the end of it, Me again: Sorry once again sir, I didn't know it was you calling. i was expecting a call from my friend who also has the same name..
X: thats fine, may be u can do one thing, you can save my number as Prof. X instead of simply X.
Me: yes sir, I will do it now itself sir.
X: Ok then, see you, have a nice weekend ahead.
Me: yes sir, same to you sir.
Over...
And thus ends the embarrassing phone call, and God knows how will I behave the next time I meet him!
And from that day, I started hating my phone..
Samsung phone book offers a great feature of saving more than one contact number under one name. This is a handy one, since I always had to save the different contact numbers of the same person under different names in Nokia phone, which makes the phone book very cluttered. I have been a using this facility to the maximum possible extend that sometimes I have been dumb enough to save the numbers of different people under the same name, which always ended up in a disaster.
Now coming to the disaster part, I have a friend whose name, for the time being, can be assumed as X. And I know a professor also with the same name. While saving the phone number of the professor, I saved it under the same name, and didn't notice that both the numbers are listed under one single X.
Last week, on one of the days while I was enjoying my afternoon nap, I get a call from X. I get up, sees the name, and the immediate person that comes to my mind is my good friend X. I pick the phone, starts with a bang.
Me: Yes X, bol..
X: "Bulbs"
Me: Arey Tell daa..
X: Am I speaking to Sreejith?
Me: Yes, you are, Mr X. (putting pseude u know..)
X: Sreejith, this is Prof X here. Just wanted to talk to you about the meeting.
Me: "Bulb for two minutes.. I feel darkness inside my eyes, and suddenly my sleep ran away leaving me alone to handle this slightly confused Prof of mine.'
Me: yes sir, sorry sir, I thought it is my friend who is calling..
X: No probs, let us now discuss about the meeting..
From that moment, all my replies were formatted to the standard "Yes Sir", and I don't remember a single thing in the discussion. My thoughts suddenly became empty, and my memory seems to have core dumped at the right occasion (screw me..) and I had nothing to comment about his suggestions.
In the end of it, Me again: Sorry once again sir, I didn't know it was you calling. i was expecting a call from my friend who also has the same name..
X: thats fine, may be u can do one thing, you can save my number as Prof. X instead of simply X.
Me: yes sir, I will do it now itself sir.
X: Ok then, see you, have a nice weekend ahead.
Me: yes sir, same to you sir.
Over...
And thus ends the embarrassing phone call, and God knows how will I behave the next time I meet him!
And from that day, I started hating my phone..
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i had a Samsung C-100 for about an year till somebody stole it away from my room. Now, i have a Samsung X-100.
Samsung phones are too good da. you can question their superiority with looks...
of coz, if u were dumb enuf to save prof and junta numbers in the same name, why call names at the phone.
Samsung phones are too good da. you can question their superiority with looks...
of coz, if u were dumb enuf to save prof and junta numbers in the same name, why call names at the phone.
i understabd buddy boy!i totally understand ue reasons for hating the phone...
if it makes u feel any better, i once sent a stupid gud morning msg-something that said "subah ho gayi mamu" to my prof...blame it on "send to many" :(
sure, i was dumb, but then technology sure is a disaster waiting to happen at times. :)well, it atleast inspired me to write one whole article for my coll news letter tho!!
if it makes u feel any better, i once sent a stupid gud morning msg-something that said "subah ho gayi mamu" to my prof...blame it on "send to many" :(
sure, i was dumb, but then technology sure is a disaster waiting to happen at times. :)well, it atleast inspired me to write one whole article for my coll news letter tho!!
@arpan: well.. I will change it
@bhaand: yeah true.. I wrote this blog when I was feeling really low.
@moontalk:oH! finally I found another victim of technology,though i hate to say it as I am a techie :D
@bhaand: yeah true.. I wrote this blog when I was feeling really low.
@moontalk:oH! finally I found another victim of technology,though i hate to say it as I am a techie :D
Pseude post !!
Paavam Prof...
Had it been some headstrong Prof he would have screwed you left right and centre
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Paavam Prof...
Had it been some headstrong Prof he would have screwed you left right and centre
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