Google a day off

'Day without Google'  - blog contest @ office .. My day .......

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April 11, 2012
7:00 am

A peaceful morning, felt bit of more freshness in the air even. Took my Iphone to check my mails, one of my daily routine these days ever since my development went out to the hunting testing team .As a practice opened safari and found  'Page cannot be displayed' message for the default home page. Just straight away restarted my WAN router and tried accessing ‘webmail.wipro.com’ and logged in. Noticed a mail from Kein around 3 am today morning, started feeling the warmth though room temperature was 23 degree .

Kein testing team lead client location, we guys call him as 'Malinga'. Yeah you get yorker after yorker when you face him . When he finds a loop in your code he get through and sweep you out .People even say that he is not wearing normal spectacle but uses magnifying glass as his spectacle that’s the way he check things . After reading through the mail got the feeling that it’s going to be hard fighting Friday

8:00 am

The day’s freshness was totally swept of my mind after reading the mail. Told my mom I might return late today. She gazed at me thinking to be a night hang out, but i knew how the day is going to be .Kicked my bike to start the day

9:15 am

Reached office, it was very strange sight most of team mates did not reach office  yet. Priya who used to be in office through 8:15 shuttle was even missing .Went to my seat, "Subu" heard a most familiar voice, and it was Rajesh my offshore delivery manager . "Hey Subu, good you came to office . Priya came in and called me to say she is not feeling good and leaving the office . Ragu and Jagan said their friend met with an accident and both not coming today. So you need to take care of things today, hope you saw the mail from Kein. So finish it up before EOD" .

I felt my heart galloping, with no interest checked the mail from Kein again and started to prepare checklist with the corrections to be done, a total of 8 out of which 3 are some minor stuffs and 5 are some major stuff which will take time .

Took the first major issue, and opened my Google chrome. Saw a 'Page cannot be displayed error' in my home page . Thought the issue with proxy yet again, this happens always, need to change the proxy when I connect to client n/w through VPN. But on checking, proxy looks fine. Now tried giving 'google.com' again same 'Page cannot be displayed' error . Got puzzled, tried 'mywipro.wipro.com' and page got opened . Finally tried 'ndtv.com' and page got opened immediately . For a moment I did not realize the fact and then it stuck my head 'What the hell Google webpage is down ???'

This was more shocking, started trying everything 'google.co.uk', 'google.co.us' but of no use .I don't want this to happen and definitely not today. Suddenly an idea stuck me up, 'Okay might be in India some problem' felt relieved for a moment and connected to my client VPN network and tried with 'google.com', shocking !! The same error message . Took my iphone and tried opening in that, no use .

Then noticed a message from Priya by 8:30 am ' Dei today Google website will be down to show their protest against some US law enforcement, I am leaving home. I informed Ragu and Jagan as well. So you too be safe :)' .. OMG am I trapped ???

Realized minutes later that even today morning I noticed 'Google' page was down in my mobile and thought it was router issue . . Looser, I told to myself .More sympathizing part is no one came to office to get help, spent half an hour thinking not on how to correct the issues, but on how to make a move from here.Those 3 minor issues looked to me like life jacket, corrected them in an hour and dropped the mail just before lunch and managed to made it to look as a complicated issue, at least to Rajesh.

2:00 pm

Second half of the day begun, it looked to me as if India lost 9 wickets in a test match and came out after lunch to save the test match on the 5th day. Just to defend, not even looking to win. In the bizarre even opened Sun Java J2EE book, but not sure what to search and where to search in that . The word 'search' totally became void without Google, mind got exhausted and post lunch treatment started, quietly went into sleep !!

3:00 pm

Suddenly woke up felt some shake in and around, Rajesh came running out of his cabin. Before I completed the statement 'It’s almost done Rajesh', he screamed "earthquake move out, run!!".. Word 'Run' gave me immense energy, left everything as it is and we left the building. The whole Wipro was out there, I got a hunch that most of them were excited rather being shocked.

4:00 pm

It was clear by now  that we won’t get back to work again today. " I was almost there, could have completed the tasks, this earthquake spoiled everything" , Rajesh smiled at me and told "Not a problem, will call onsite manager and will explain the scenario" . Wow, that moment made me to feel light !!

PS : If Google can't save you, only GOD can !!