The art of nicking

Todays has been quite a day of ups and downs. The down side is I screwed up yet another interview, this time a tele interview for a start up. Its been nearly a year since i aced an interview. The last time was at ISL. This really gives me doubts as to whether I cracked ISL coz of me or they had no one else.

The up side is me and venk went to this restaurant which seemed to be serving good food. Blame me to call it the up side.. but hey atleast i learnt where to look for good food for now. This place is quite interesting . It can accomodate only upto 50 at a time while they are queues of people standing for hours together. the funny thing is it is right next to a dhabba and the dhabba stands no chacne compared to this place's following. SO fairly thi s is how it goes..... YOu get to this place ... tell your name and no.of ppl to the door man. and anxiously wait to be called... The waiting period could be anywhere between 10 min to an hour. All this time you get to the tempting smell from the dhaba.... but as casablanca stood there... you too stick to that tiny portion of ground over which many a ppl have walked. When its time to get in, the smile on everybodys face inside.. tells you the remainig part of the story.

One thing about which I have been thinking for a while is the nick names we carry in college. Arent nicks supposed to tell more of the person ....... But most nicks we carry around are just arbitrary cut down versions of original names.. names which have to no significance to the inner personality.........
newNick= getNick(old name);

getNick(char s[])
{
return(substring(s,random(i),random(j));
}
Or how else can one explain how ashok got the nick ash... I am pretty sure(i hope) hes got nothing to do with Ms India. or jegan being called jug...... Some nicks just get lifted out of movie chars ...... like Daddu..... But all is not that bad.. We've got some decent nicks too

Dude-- The name Muk prefers to be called ...... given for his pro-american attitude and slang and blah blah.....
Monkey------ yours sincerely was chrishterned with this great name for some reason which as usual is beyond the realm of understanding

Sleeping beauty--Jug has no competition in this arena atleast....

So next time we give nicks it better be something the receipient would be proud to hang around with........