YOU SHOULDN’T CATCH A FISH, IT SHOULD FALL INTO THE NET

 
"My name is D.S.R.Sharma. Actually my full name is Daruguntla Naga Veera Sesha Rajyavardhana Sharma, hence my father found it too difficult in writing my name in my school application forms whenever I have transferred from one to another. So he made it short. D.S.R.Sharma."

 
I started my introduction like that as an answer to the question "Tell me about Your Self?"

 
I am in a campus interview in our college. I prepared that introduction to impress the interviewer and I am strongly determined to grab that job. Because, the reason is simple.

 
From the ages, humans are referring food, cloth and shelter as basic needs to survive from the nature. Situation has been changed, hence the statement.

 
Job after your graduation, a car after a 3 years, a home after 6 years are needed for a person to survive in this world and from the hurls of the flock around us. Without these, you are not considered as a human.

 
Turning back to my interview, she gave a reaction just I was expecting. YAHOO….First hit reached the target.

 
Next, she was asking, "What are your weaknesses?"
I quickly recollected the "Tips and Tricks" to be implemented in interviews
Courtesy: About 64,90,000 results (0.32 seconds)   of Google.

 
I enacted that I am breaking my head as if I don't have any weaknesses….LOL. And then,
"Aah!!! I think I am a bit lazy mam", I started replying as if I found a pin in a haystack. "But if I started any work, I will see its end." I managed a laugh along with that line.

 
She gave a bried nod.

 
I don't want her to ask too many questions. So I continued, "Mam, But I'm trying to overcome that."

 
She asked curiously, "Hmm. What measured you are taking for that,,,Sharma?"

 
"Mam, I made myself engaged in several activities in our college. I am the active participant in our college Cultural fests, I am a part of organizing team of our college Tech Fest. Even, I was also involved in our college Sports Meet", boasting about myself at the fullest and as if it is the last chance.

 
She nodded her head rhythmically to my words and finally said, "Super, super, super".

 
I was raising from my chair into air, for her every reaction. I'm going to make this.

 
"What are your parents, sharma?" she shot her question casually. Even for that simple question, I am ready with a riddle like answer.

 
"My father is a business man mam. My mother, once upon a time a lecturer, now she is a teacher mam."

 
Again, I received the startled expression from her. Exactly, I need that. Then I started explaining, "My mother worked in a college previously. Now she is in a school. I think you understood now."
From the hobbies column in my resume, she looked at writing stories and inquired about that.
I said with an uneasy smile that I wrote a few stories in Telugu and I tried to publish them in a few magazines but failed. She again nodded her head rhythmically.

She said, "Ok…What is this 'am bigrams' in your resume?"

 
"Mam, have you seen the movie 'Angles n Demons'?" I waited for her response. She said no.

 
Later, I placed the paper on the table, and explained her what are those god-damn Am bigrams. 

While I'm in the middle, she said, "Ok..It's fine. Are you the only child in your family?"

I realized it with a long delay that her questions are not in order and doesn't match with any pattern I knew.

"No mam, I have a brother, studying X standard."

Quickly, she said, "Well, I've done with my questions. If you have any questions you can ask me."
I think this is my chance to settle down all the irregularities on the surface and to make this smooth finished.

"Mam, Our Company's name is XXXXXXX (Censored)… I want to know the motive behind that."

She looked a bit thoughtful and mumbled, "Good, Right" or some other thing, I couldn't hear. But I'm sure words of that kind.

I said, "I went through the dictionary and found it as a kind of weapon."

She said, "No, No. Actually, it is a biological name of XXXXXX (again censored). But the motive….." Her words stopped and thoughts ran again.
Finally she said, "Even I asked the same question to my seniors in the company. I will get back to you for sure."
She continued, "Any other questions?"
I asked something related to their company's products. She was replying to that. But I'm in no mood of listening to the answer, I was assessing my performance in that interview.

 
After my analysis, I came to a conclusion that I did decently well, my confidence of my selection to the final round of the process, as a function time, increased exponentially.

 
After greeting her, I stepped out of the room, took a deep breath. Without any fuzziness I went to our canteen for having the dinner. My friends are waiting over there and they are curious about my interview.

 
I threw a currency note and told them, "HR is finished and I think she is impressed. Have this as promo for the big bash coming up."

 
We finished our dinner and ate sumptuously. When we were about to start towards our hostels, my friend called me.

 
Me : "Bro, what doing? Where are you? You missed a chance of receiving a treat"
He : "And you too!!! Lost the honour of giving it."
Me : I chuckled and said, "Stop your riddles and be straight…"
He : "Shortlist for the final round came. Your name is not there."
Me : .. :! # # % @ ! !!!!! *&()
(No Words,Dumbstruck)

 
MORAL OF THE STORY:

YOU SHOULDN'T CATCH A FISH, IT SHOULD FALL INTO THE NET

FOR BEING SUCCEEDED, YOU SHOULD NOT TRY TO IMPRESS OTHERS, BUT THEY SHOULD BE IMPRESSED.

HOLE IN THE HISTORY, RELIVING IN FUTURE

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        Sun is rising in the east as usual with no surprise. But to the Guruji’s (Master) surprise, his Sishya ( Disciple/Student) came at the right time to the class. 

Both were sitting infront of Guru’s house.

He started the lesson of the day.

Guru :

Today I’ll tell you a story, Long long ago…

St. Teresa of Avila, one of the great philosophers and doctors of

the Roman Catholic Church died on October 4, 1582. He was 

buried the next day: October 15th!

Sishya : Guruji! I think you haven’t by-hearted the lesson 

properly, the next day is 5^th October not 15^th of October.

Guruji : Sishya, What I told you now and what you listened  is

 absolutely right. It is not 5^th, it is 15^th October of 1582.

(he had a puff of hookah and continued)

And I want to tell you one more fact which is hard to believe. 

Before that, let me ask you one thing. Which is the most favorite 

day for you in the whole year…

Sishya : Obviously, festivals, especially, Ganesh Chaturthi and 

Diwali…Lots of fun and delicious dishes…(seeing into the sky) 

haaa….haaa…aahh...

Guruji:  Idiot, come back from that stupid imagination…I am 

asking apart from festivals…they are common favorites for 

everybody. I am asking any special days for you.

Sishya : The second straight answer without any hesitation would 

be my birthday.

Guruji : This is what I expected from you. After several 

thousands of years, there will be a situation for sure when many 

people can celebrate their birthday on two days in the same year.

Sishya : Why guruji…Sounds so exciting and awesome.,

Guruji : Don’t get so excited…I said it will occur in very far 

future.

Sishya : Oh! Ok,  why the first situation has occurred and why 

your prophecy will become the truth. Please tell me if you have 

any scientific answer.

Then the Guruji, had one more puff of hookah and started saying the following lines…

         Earth takes 365.242 days to complete a revolution around 

the sun. In history, we had a great man named Julian  who had 

designed our first calendar, with the basic human instincts, 

neglected that fractional part, and considered it as only 365days. 

Later, this costed us seriously…

        After several years, again a great man named Pope Gregory 

entered into the picture and claimed that the calendar we are 

following then is full of flaws because of that small 0.242 

approximation. At that time he introduced the concept of LEAP 

YEAR, the year which has 366 days. He has considered that 

0.242 as 0.25 day by rounding it off in each year and it forms a 

day in every four year cycle. (This will be knowing by many of 

us).

            As Gregorian wanted to make some corrections to the 

existing calendar instead of designing a new system, he asked 

everybody to add 10 days immediately to the existing calendar

as correction and thus the according to that, the consequent 

actions happened.

         But note that Gregory's decree only took effect in countries that gave allegiance to him. Many Protestant states didn't go Gregorian until the 1700s, including Britain and her American colonies in September 1752. In these countries, September 2nd, 1752, is followed by September 14^th, 1752.

The story will not ends here….

it will resume by Sishya’s question…..

Sishya : Fine, the story in the history justifies up to some extent, 

what about those birthday shifts in the future….

Guruji : If you observe clearly, Gregorian made correction 

partially but not completely. . This system is relatively accurate, 

but .242 is not exactly the .250 of a day that it needs to be for the 

leap-day to work perfectly. Over the centuries the .008 of a day 

(11 minutes 30 seconds) began to accumulate. 

In future, someone would claim in the same way as Gregorian 

does. Because the Pope Gregory has rounded off we will be in a 

position in future where we have to get back to the passed dates to 

apply correction to the Gregorian Calendar also….

                          End of the story.

Additional Info :

  

Russia never did implement Pope Gregory’s amendments to the calendar. The People's Commissars did in February 1918, but the Red Army had to enforce it as the USSR was formed. And that is why the October Revolution is also known as the November Revolution. According to the tsar Julian's calendar, it was October, but in the rest of the world, and for the Commissars and Soviets, it was November.

These things seems to be so simple, but they might be resulting in 

trivial phenomena.  

Hence many Indians argue that our Indian calendarical systems 

are far superior to those western systems. That is a different 

story. For today, one story is enough.

          So, clap for the post or condemn it, whatever you feel, 

whatever your mind says...Just express it.

         A spark in your brain can create a canto in history... :) (:

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