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August 08, 2005
The Hi-Tech life...
Living in Hyderabad exposes you to a strange dose of techno culture. You can get a hair cut at a place called 'Hi-Tech Saloon' and restaurants provide 'Cyber Biriyani'.. all of which probably make you wonder whether Hyde is the second incarnation of Tokyo. Before you begin to indulge in thought provoking introspection of advances in India, you ought to know that the Hi-Tech Saloon is a shack on a road side offering cheap but tolerable hair cuts and cyber biryani is most likely a rehashed andhra style biryani dished out with an extra price tag simply for carrying a glamourous nomenclature. Undoubtedly the people over here are passionate about technology so much so that it can go to horrendous levels.....
On Saturday, I took up a shared auto to return to my residence and they provide an excellent source for practicing 'voyeurism on wheels'. When I boarded the auto, a love lorn couple were already seated and engaging in small talk. The girl was holding a rose and looking excitedly happy about all things in the world. The auto took off and while we were trundling down Hyde's divine roads, I was audience to the couple's conversation which went something like this,
[please forgive my hindi transcriptions!]
..... Lot of lovey dovey stuff .....
THEN
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She: "Arre yaar.. itne dino baad hamne eksat bahar ghomne ke liye gaye" (We went out after long time)
He: "Ab kya ghar jana hai? Kahin ja kar chai ya coffee peene ja sakte hain" (Should we go home? We could go drink coffee or tea at some place)
She: "Thik hain" (Okay)
She: "Maine socha tha pehle tankhwya milne ke bad kya kya kar loonga!" (I thought I would do so many things after I got my first salary)
He: "Apna company kharid dal ne ke soche the kya?" (You thought you would buy your company?)
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And then something totally GROSS happened....
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She: "Arre chod yaar... pehle mujhe yeh sab technologies ko janna padega, ASP.NET, VB, C#." (Forget it, I first have to learn all these technologies like ASP.NET, VB, SQL"
He: "Tum kya office main SQL be use kar te ho?" (Do you use SQL in office also?)
She: "SQL main to bada panga hain. Ek command may thoda be mistake ho to, woh chillata hain" (There are big problems with SQL. If there are even small mistakes in the SQL statement, it screams!)
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I was flabbergasted. How the heck did that conversation turn into a talk about .NET and SQL ????????? Hyderabad's techno culture has infested even the love nests. Perhaps I should muster up some courage and try out a pickup line like, "Babe, Can I be administrator on your box?" .....
Posted by amitc at August 8, 2005 02:09 PM
Comments
awesome posting
Posted by: Manish Agarwal at August 8, 2005 07:27 PM
AmitC to girl: Babe, can I be administrator on your box?
Funny stuff, dude. But AmitC, I swear it will rain frogs the day you say this. :)
Posted by: SatejS at August 8, 2005 11:45 PM
can i run my program on your machine?
Posted by: ramani at August 16, 2005 11:19 AM
Steve and Bill walk into Qwikys (the no 1 love shop of chennai) with network cards in their hands.
Pickup line:
Hey babe.... wanna network ?
Posted by: JigarD at September 17, 2005 11:29 AM
Bah!..But atleast you know pickup lines that are going to work! Hey...Oracle or DB2?
Posted by: Ramani at September 23, 2005 08:01 AM
I have a more direct approach::
I want to login to you.
Posted by: ankur at December 4, 2005 10:58 PM