Monday, January 19, 2009

Engineering Episode -2

On a given day, i was struck in the workshop with a Troublesome Chetak scooter & its owner who insisted that i complete his task & move on.


This caused an hours delay to get to college. Upon reaching the class room / Computer Lab (as it was called those days) , I requested for an entry into the class with due apologies for being late to class.


The lecturer at the first instance allowed me inside & later gave a piece of abuse, which I thought I deserved for being late to class.


Upon seeing the task on hand which most of my class mates were struggling to handle, I picked it up with ease & wrote the program to make the mathematical equation run. All in all it took about 15~20 mins from the time I logged on to the system.


A class mate beside me sought some help for doing the same on his system too. I willfully volunteered for the same. Whilst we were discussing things, this Lecturer saw us & mistook it for a chit chat. With his emotions running high, he came to our table & then hurled a few more abuses at me which were more like "Firstly you come late, next you don't understand computer programming, then disturb / distract others who are doing their task etc... "


I kept quite. The lecturer was hell bent on showing me down & decided to ck the program that I was supposed to write. The Program worked like a breeze & this stunned the man.


The bewildered lecturer was upset by this development & then decided to give me a few more abuses & asked me to write the lab record & submit to him at the staff room.


When I went on to submit the lab record at the Staff room, there were a few things which the gentleman said, which obviously enraged me.


He said "Are you the Grand son of P.V.Narasimha rao?" (PVN was the then PM of India)...

Enraged I replied to the Gentleman politely saying "The issue is between you & me sir. Let not get our parents & grand parents into the scene"


Lecturer instead of thinking practically, turned emotional & then threw a fit & said "I'll destroy your career" to which I said "Sir, lets be practical, what's it that's wrong in what I said? The issue still is between you & me. If you felt that coming to class was indiscipline, then you should not have allowed me into the class. But once allowed, you've every right to say any thing against me... but getting my Parentage into picture is some thing I don't like"


I could see the emotional boil in the man's eyes..... he again repeated "I'll ensure that you'd not complete your engineering" ... this in fact shocked a few friends who were there along with me at the staff room.


This probably was the flash point, I immediately blurted out "No one can spoil my career... except me "


This probably angered this lecturer who then went on to play dirty with attendence. When I presented my case to the Principal, though he accepted the case, he wanted me to get clearance from the same lecturer, who eventually refused to do so.


At this point all my graduation dreams were at stake. With the Ego of this lecturer not getting to proper senses, I decided to call it quits the very moment, went give him my visiting card & said "The day you loose your job here in the college, Please come to me & I will give you a job".

This was the point when the fuse blew out & the very next moment I called it "OVER" with my Graduation dreams. Along with these came down many more things. The only positive outcome was that I got married all this was in 1994.

Lesson learnt were :

1. Even if you are good at some thing, it become essential to down play the same to get on in life
2. Never tell whose in charge of some ones life, as there would be some thing else which would be cut out for them.
3.With marriage happening... it would be resting time for your education.