Never give a lift on the Highway

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Long winding highway … sometime to catch up on good old music.

That was a really difficult meeting there …. Lawyers , lawyers everywhere and yet not a single filing in sight…
Mandates- we sleep with whoever pays,
Litigation- freaking rival ibanks claim we cheated on their share of the ‘spread’- we will do all the spreading we can do,
Capital structure- Mr Patel, Mrs Patel, Miss Patel Master Patel and Little Tommy Patel, Objects of issue- cheap money, object of our issue –expensive project management

Large truck laden with pipes – be careful .. these maniacs ..
Nice greenery.Another revamped divider on the road.
Those contractors : I can almost smell those notes ..

Freaking truck driver turning without a signal .. brake …swerve .. accelerate.
The engine murmurs its assent.

I enjoy these truckwallah antics best on my rearview. Back to U2….

And then you give yourself away..and you give…

Some crazy kid waving by the side.. He is wearing an BCL cap..
Lift…ignore .. lift… ignore..never stop on the highway..never stop on the highway..

Summer of 69-Joka ke woh meethe pal ..

Brake … stop

“Sir you going towards Waranpur?”

“Yup..That should be on the way…hop in”

Pink Floyd-Coming Back to Life..

Question time …

Me: “So you an IT guy?”
Him:"Yes, and you?”
Me:"I work at an Investment Bank”

Him:"Oh ! but the stock market just crashed!”
Me:"Hmm ..really?”

(Those block trades we had engineered…Our Equities desk rocking the market as always..Anyway)

Him:"We built the software that displays the prices online you know”

Definitely his first year at BCL

Bryan Adams crooning We are the Champions

Me: "Interesting.In any case the ‘crash’ was 10 minutes back. The online prices aren’t real time kid. In another 10 minutes you will see a rebound "

Far more important to move the future.. than record the present when it has vanished into the past.. Looks like a smart kid..They will learn

Some petrol..

Random PC at the petrol station running on car batteries… impressive stuff

Kid:"We built the technology on which that PC runs..”

Kid beaming with pride.He might take some time..

“You mean you guys figured out a conversion mechanism for the current /voltage characteristics to suit the PC?”

“Well…mostly… We wrote the code for the pop up that asks for the option to run on the battery! It is in the beta testing stage… “

Whatta genius!.. with my C in programming data structures I wouldn’t have been able to do that.. L.. my niece might be able to though.. she scored an A+ in her 10th standard advanced C++ data structures course.

Time to move..



Waranpur arrives..

“So I drop you at the sign?”

“That should be fine.My helicopter is already in place.I just got a message on my cell.I need to go for an overseas lifesciences project”

“Interesting.So you just finished your project over here and you have been immediately staffed on another one?”

Wow ! BCL must be going great guns.

“Well BCL had arranged for a training session on C++ advanced Data Structures which all guys on the bench had to go through.
For the project I’ll be staffed either on the development or testing team as and when the requirement turns up.

BCL is a 4 billion dollar 40,000 employee enterprise you know Mr i-banker”. Smile.

True IT ishtyle

Grabs his bag .. beep beep..

Me: "And yes .. the markets have bounced back….But Iam sorry BCL stocks are still stuck at the 52 week low level.Dont worry it’s the rupee-dollar strengthening.Things should be fine soon enough .
We know our bulls from the cows you know Mr Nadar.

Good Luck touching lives”

Pink Floyd: Dream on you crazy diamond