Confused and dazed.....

I stretched my fingers..... stretched my back..... took the pen in hand..... ready to flood the answer sheets with all that I knew as today was the exam of my favorite subject [or at least thats what I thought!]. Took a last look around the class as I knew that I wouldn't be getting time to look around because I had too much to write.....

The coordinator came distributing the question paper and I was eager to take it in my hand and just start.... And the moment came...... I took a deep breath and looked at the first question.

Q.1. Answer any four from the following.
a) What is controlling? Write down its features and methods?

hmmm?? controlling?? in Web Tech?? Did I miss this topic?? Thank god.... there are choices!! I look at the second question:

b) Explain briefly Six Sigma.

Six Sigma?? I scratch my head.... I know one statement about Six Sigma..... "Six Sigma is a business management strategy, originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986."
But what does this has to do with Web Tech? Where did the ASP, JSP, ASP.NET, AJAX, XML go?

Confused like hell, I gave a frightful look at the top of the question paper, in uppercase it was written INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT. I dont remember what kind of expression I gave but I am sure it wasn't normal.The coordinator thought I was going to pass out, came quickly towards me and asked, 'beta kya hua?'

'Sir, are you sure you have given us the correct question paper?'
'yes!! why..... what happened?'

'It is Web Tech exam today!' I boosted with confidence.
He smiled and went away.....

I remember somewhere I have read, being silent is sometimes the best way to win an argument, simply because you cannot argue with silence. I understood the meaning clearly today. He made me understand that I was wrong by simply remaining silent.

I looked around.... everyone was busy with their pens. Pravesh looking at me bewildered..... hiding his anger and frustration with a big smile.

'Juum?' he murmured....
Though there is literally no meaning to the above statement in Nepali but as usual I understood he was referring to 'lets go!'

But both of us knew that this process doesn't support backward compatibility, i.e. we couldn't leave. And we had to be there for the next 3 hours answering all the questions that seems like a distant cry.

Like the famous nepali proverb, 'kun chara ko naam ho?' meaning 'which birds name is it?'
The question indeed seem like a birds name to me....

I started performing random access to the address of my memory to see if the chunk of files saved in the unknown tracks and sectors of my brain could be restored. I tried all the recovery tools and techniques to recover and luckily some packets that weren't deleted from the memory though overwritten by other files could be restored.

Doing the maximum utilization of the available resources, I was able to fill up the answer sheet. But there was no need to do error checking as it would lead to the error in all the files, so I decided to leave the process of error detection and checking to our beloved sir.

Hoping he will be in good mood while checking the paper!!

- Amir Bhandari
Soreng, West Sikkim

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