Keep touching us...

Yes, there will be delegates from the industry. We need to have atleast 25 stalls where they can present themselves. We should have a conference room to show the presentations. Our machines in the lab need to be the best condition. We could upgrade a few machines.

We agreed. After all we were hoisting the city CSI event. We needed to be extra cautious. Like soldiers on duty listening to every command of their brigadier, we were all ears to the person speaking.

After a pause the speaker thinks and he says, “And we need to have snakes too. Each snake is going to cost us 5 rupees. Three of you can be responsible to take care of snakes.”

We were dumbfounded. We looked at each other's faces. My friend passed me a chit, “Are we having a snake show?”

I passed her a note back, “I am as clueless as you are.”

The speaker continued to say, “Can we have samosas, and pastries as snakes? Raghu, Sonal, Priti can you take care of the snakes stall?”

We all were incredulous. Most of us could barely control our laugh. After all he was our Principal at the prestigious university in Gujarat. We barely made it through the meeting with a straight face.

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We had had a hard month. The project had been in its final stages and we had been working hard. The japanese were tough clients. What with their obsession for perfection! But we had delivered and the client was happy.

Anyone who has worked with a Japanese client knows that very few Japanese speak English. In doing a project with Japanese, the difficulty most often would not be the technical difficulties of the project but difficulties of communicating with them. Most of the English documents or mails they would send, would be the ones generated out of a Japanese to English translator software. It would always be a challenge to decipher any written communication sent by our client.

Our project manager, those days was a young, beautiful, fair, stylish young lady. One fine day, as we walked into the office in the morning, we saw her all red and laughing her guts out reading an email. Wondering what had happened, we went next to her. We saw the line that had caused her outburst. Our Japanese client had written a farewell mail to all of us, thanking us for all for the good job done.

The last line of the mail said - Thank you so much again..Keep touching us...!