A well deserved break..

June 20th, 2008

Another day at DRDO, I must say it was quiet adventourous!
It started off as usual, with me walking to the DTRL. What a pain it is to take a walk in the scorching sun, & that too after the (oh! so) rigorous scanning of our bags. I dunno what they expect us to carry to work. While walking to the Lab, someone called me from behind, and to my surprise it was a school friend, who was also training at DRDO. We had completely lost touch with each other. It actually feels good to meet someone after so long. Had a chat for sometime & reached the Lab.
Payal(we both are working on the same project) was standing outside our cabin with a grin on her face, the immediate thought that ran across my mind was (Oh shit! Is the PL mad at me), but this is how it goes:

Payal: Hey!!

Me: Heyy to you too! Now temme wts it?

Payal: Arey chill! the jerk is going to come late. Isnt that great?

Me: (Relieved) Yea.. indeed!

Payal: Chal, Malvika ke cabin me chalte hain..

Me: What are we waiting for? lets go..

Malvika, another co-trainee(rather cell-mate ;) ) works under our PL. Poor thing she is made to sit right under his nose. And to top it all she is so scared of him, she doesnt even move out of the place. We chit-chatted for quiet sometime, meanwhile Payal was checking all the files in his PC.Apart from loads of project reports, presentations, letters it had lots of songs. But the songs were such that only he could listen to them(I mean they were yuck!!!).

Payal: Oye! I found RACE. Thats the only movie he has.

Malvika: Just shut the PC down. He'l kill me if he finds out.

Payal: Relax yar, parul pendrive la..

Me: koi aur movie nahi hai kya? He was watching Jannat the other day.

Payal: Search results show Race & a couple of other silly videos. So thats the only option..

Three of us left the PL's cabin & went to ours, that's becasuse we have a workstation at our disposal. Its great fun watching a movie on a huge screen :)We saw the first half, but were also scared, hoping the voice doesnt reach the corridors. We enjoyed the movie with lunch. It might not sound fun to many but in a place like this, it was a sense of achievement. In the second half two more friends joined and then began the commenting on characters in the movie, which were like..Akshaye Khanna should stop sporting a wig, that makes him look older than he actually is, though it hardly matters. Sameera Reddy the dumbest female on earth, god knows why the director included her in the movie!! Race seemed to be a comic movie rather than a thriller to us.
We enjoyed the movie thoroughly. After so many weeks of work(exagerration) it was great to watch a movie in office premises, even though it was RACE! Malvika went back to her cell, as it was time for the jerk's arrival. At around 3 he arrived. Like good and hard working interns we placed our faces in front of the screens & pretended that we had been sitting for hours.

Hope we get more such oppurtunities, and better movies to watch! !