Council Diaries

1st
Location: office of the municipal schools administration, School no. 'Chaar', Navrangpura.

This was sometime after Engineer's Day. After we made the presentation which flattered the municipal school board so much that none of them were present and the municipal commisioner had to sit through alone and even release the book(report).
After they(the municipal school wallahs) realised that they have to do something to please the commish. They asked us to make a logo for them. For some scheme for education, which was supposedly a 'pet project' of the chief minister.
The idea is,"Cept wale hain, logo design karwa do." Then its immaterial if they are building science or whatever.
Now, Vishrut had some more work to do, after Engineer's day. He made a few logos. Three to be exact. And Harsh made one. I got them in a pendrive and decided to get the prints.
I got the prints at some cyber cafe near the navrangpura bus stand. Genius fellow, the way he worked on photoshop.
Now Soham and I went to the office of the officer who asked us to make these logos(the one who did not come inspite of an invite).
He was not there. Expected. So we asked his secretary, or the one who looked liked one, about our purpose of visit.
He asked another guy sitting beside him with a computer screen in front, to copy the images onto his system. He was reluctant. Maybe he was not sure how to copy or he might have anticipated what was going to happen to him, dont know. Anyway, I showed him how to copy.
Now, he was doing some typing work in Gujarati. Its quite difficult, you will know if you have seen it. And he was as comfortable as some of our faculties in doing it. Like, he was using only his index fingers to type, his other four fingers straight, in the same plane.
He had, in this way, managed to type 3\4th of a page.
Now, as soon as he copied the images on to his computer, his computer screen started flickering. It went on for a while and then all dark. He restarted the computer. It started. Soham and I breathed a sigh of relief. Then, on the page in which you need to enter the username and password, the user name field was filled with full stops. And they kept increasing. The computer accepted no other command.
The poor fellow held his head. "me atlu badhu type karyu hatu!!"
Soham said,"nikalte hain"
And we went out of the building without a backward glance.
Outside, we burst into peals of laughter.

The last we heard of the poor guy's voice was "kyan jao chho tame loko?? Aa theek kaun karse??"
We are construction engineers, not computer walas. Sorry.

I scanned my pendrive on my computer. It showed 50 infected files.
It seems the genius cyber wala, was not a genius after all.
I have not heard of the education project since. Pets die young, sometimes. Or maybe, just maybe, a big maybe, we killed it.