“There’s something missing”

She was a fresher, he was her lead. He pointed out a sentence, “this is a requirement.” She had no clue about what that meant. He continued, “a requirement will always have a ‘shall’. She admired him for explaining. Then he wrote a test having a couple of test steps to test that requirement. When he was finished, she was asked to write a few tests for similar requirements. She went to her desk, identified the next requirement and wrote her first test. She referred the test written by him to write hers. After 15 minutes or so, when she was dead sure that she had written the perfect test, she went upto him. He read through the test once and said, “there’s something missing.” Puzzled, she skimmed through the test again. When she couldn’t identify her miss, he pointed out, “there’s no full stop. Every sentence should have one.”

A pretty looking dress

It was a pretty looking dress, green with floral prints, in faux georgette. After receiving it and trying it on, understood that it doesn’t fit, a tad too tight. With no return policy, there was nothing much left to do.

The pretty looking dress found its space in the closet and was long forgotten until today. Today, it was picked and reexamined. Realised that it could be made a bit larger by unthreading at a couple of places, a bit tedious but doable task. However, the thought that something so pretty might get ruined in the process brought about hesitance. After a long wait for couple of hours, decided to go through the process. After an hour or so of unthreading, tried on the pretty looking dress, it fitted this time perfectly. The effort was worth it.

Sometimes we show hesitance in unlearning because we believe that what we already learnt or know is good enough and any update to it might ruin it. That’s not always true. Sometimes a bit of unlearning might help us to learn something new and appreciate what we already knew.

It’s Over

No incoming messages. No incoming calls. Sent messages unread. Outgoing calls unanswered.

One week passed by. Later in the day, a message was received. It read, “Alas! It’s over”.

Pastime

Unlock, Check mails, Check chats, Check video recommendations, Check buying recommendations, Check reading recommendations, lock.

20 seconds later…

Unlock, Check mails, Check chats, Check video recommendations, Check buying recommendations, Check reading recommendations, lock.

A centipede tale

The brick blocks moistened my skin. Each block had sparse moss growth. My nose could smell mud as I walked over the blocks with my 100 feet behind me. I had crossed a couple of blocks when all of a sudden, someone poked my body from the side. I quickly rolled up into a circle, my innate defense mechanism. The next moment, I was up in the air, swept off my feet, in a dustpan.

Natural Language

For a couple of minutes now, a bird has been trying to converse with me directly.

The language is very natural. There is a mix of long and short words with varying intonations followed by long pauses, probably waiting for my response.

Sorry bird, I have got no idea about your expectations at the end of this conversation. I seldom fathom natural language, even those spoken by fellow human beings, so language spoken by a bird is a long way to go. Perhaps, I can utilize my computer’s natural language processing skill set, it’s been a while since machines have started learning!

Engineering

After passing out with an electronics and communications engineering degree years ago, I literally bid goodbye to engineering. I never had much use of anything that I studied in those 4 years ever at work or in life. Over the years, there are times when I had questioned the worth of the money and time spent. The covid situation and the work from home culture has pushed me to think otherwise. For instance, I am using an electronically engineered equipment, a Jabra headset, for communication purposes.