8:00 am - Alarm goes off....shut down alarm and go back to sleep.
8:23 am - Wake up suddenly, the snooze timer of the internal alarm just went off. Also because the dog has been licking the hand.
8:24 am - Curse silently ("s*it, its morning already").
8:30 am - Check mail...just spam...damn!
9:00 am - After a brief shower, have a brief breakfast.
9:05 am - Go out...what a beautiful day! And you get to spend it fully looking at a monitor.
9:10 am - Wait for auto.
9:15 am - Wait for auto..all full.
9:20 am - Wait for auto. Curse.
9:25 am - Wrestle a sit in the auto from a elderly person ("When will the young generation learn to respect elders!?")
9:30 am - Bus stand....long queue....oh joy!
9:45 am - Lucky break! Got a sit...though its on the right side of the bus, where the sun shines throughout the journey. But still...will get to sleep.
10:21 am - Get down from bus. Office beckons.
10:24 am - Sign in.
10:30 am - Coffee break.
10:40 am - Boot up computer. Check mail. All spam....crap!
10:45 am - First compilation error of the day ("Undefined symbol")....going to be a long day.
11:00 am - Code runs successfully....Yay! Whoohooo....oh! Wait. Whats this? "Segmentation fault"?! Aaarrrgh!
11:45 am - Machine hangs! Swear. Writing device drivers are a pain in the a**.
11:46 am - Machine booting up....coffee break.
12:10 am - Put 'printk's all over the code. Need to debug.
12:30 pm - Found bug (structure pointer pointing to NULL).
1:01 pm - Where did this 'Authentication request' packet come from? Why the hell is it encrypted? This shouldn't happen....check packet dump.
1:23 pm - Can't figure out. Check mail. 3 forwarded mails....yes!! (Santa-banta jokes, Help the blood cancer patient, Ice festival pics).
1:35 pm - Enough work. Gift self lunch break.
1:40 pm - Canteen full....wait...sigh.
1:53 pm - Lunch at last. Coffee & cold sandwitch (cheese, no chicken allowed)....what fun!
2:15 pm - Back to desk. Look again at packet dump.
2:45 pm - Wake up suddenly! Sh*t! Hope no one noticed.
2:53 pm - Wake up again....damn! Go out to walk for a while.
3:00 pm - Walk around and look at girls at road.
3:10 pm - Refreshed! Look again at packet dump.....ah! Shouldn't be setting this bit to 1. Rectify.
3:16 pm - Damn! Damn! Still getting encrypted packets. Damn!
3:24 pm - Read the IEEE standard again....what's going wrong?
4:00 pm - Head spinning. So many clauses and subclauses...no useful information at all. Coffee break.
4:05 pm - Go see what the friends are doing. One reviewing design doc ("Why is this Arial narrow and not Times new roman?"), one coding ("How do you get the IP Address out of a mixed string?"), one is playing Sudoku (Smart guy!), one on phone (fishfishfishfish), one looking at router scripts (noshutdown!). Gossip for some time.
4:16 pm - PM coming...back to seat.
4:27 pm - What's wrong? What's wrong? Why encrypted? God! Give me a break!
5:30 pm - Search net for solution.....
5:47 pm - Not a single useful link. These open source stuff are really messy. No documentation.
6:03 pm - Feeling tired. Want to go home.
6:15 pm - Look blankly at code. Not even trying to understand.
6:30 pm - Coffee break.
6:48 pm - Try random things....start packet capturing....stop packet capturing.....restart machine....walk around looking busy.....check mail (nothing).... go see what the others doing (gone home mostly)...... curse.
7:15 pm - Enough! A man can only do so much and no more. Shut down machine.
7:18 pm - Slip out of office trying to be unnoticed.
7:21 pm - Auto line....looooong line.....
7:32 pm - Just 2 more autos! Come on God...give me this much at least...come on!
7:35 pm - Come on man! Just one more! Why are you putting me through this? God! You're one saddistic SOB.
7:36 pm - Auto! Sorry God about that...I take it back.
7:43 pm - Busstop looking like bookfair...so many people.
7:50 pm - Another C-16? Come on! This is absurd! Where's all the S9s?
8:05 pm - S9!! Jump in! Jump in!
8:06 pm - Can't believe couldn't get on that! Swear.
8:10 pm - Another S9!!! What a miracle! Get in!
8:23 pm - Hey! That girl looks cute! I hope I get to sit beside her.
8:24 pm - Oops! The boy next to her is her boyfriend. Looks like a baboon.
8:33 pm - Stop pushing man! Want me to go out of the window?
8:40 pm - Cute girl gone. Baboon man gone with her. This world is so unfair.
8:47 pm - Home stoppage. At last!
8:53 pm - Home...cold water...sofa....fan....dog....maa.
9:10 pm - Shower....cold.
9:30 pm - Read newspaper.
10:01 pm - SMS friend ("Hows life?").
10:02 pm - Get reply ("Crap.").
10:23 pm - Dinner.
10:51 pm - Login to internet. Fun begins....at last.
12:33 am - Fun ends.
12:37 am - Time to go to sleep, got office tomorrow. Set alarm clock for 8:00 am.
12:40 am - Turn off light. What a day! God! Give me strength to go through this again tomorrow. Can't wait to retire.
12:46 am - Goto sleep....dreaming of the cute girl.
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