Last few days i was really kind of pre-occupied with something i consider my
life worth doing; and wow what a quality time i had reviewing the works of the
greatest of all scientists Dr.Sir C.V.Raman;
precise to some few areas in spectroscopy involved with whole new tribe of
materials known as Smart Materials.
Meeting people from different parts of country, oh yes! a few outsiders too ,
Increasing the numbers on my gtalk,orkut and facebook list........
chatTing unprofessionally and ofcourse professionally most of those times.
In my job one fine day I was asked to collect some information from random
google search [which you know isn't so easy unless you have a friend like the
one i have.....the Net-Pro-Paul.(meet him on http://garbageidea.wordpress.com/)]
And since i had no good reasons straining my eyes 'doing my job myself'
i decided to mail some people at the Raman Research Institute(rri)
...and heck; i had a sequence of emails in this process and those days involved
within forming itself into a story;so well in itself........ that i thought
i should bring it before you...
let me share the raw fun............i ain't editing nothing!!
(okay...okay...i'will bold out the fun lines considering your sense of humour)
1st mail : story begins
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from
to alpana@rri.res.in,antara@rri.res.in,
archana@rri.res.in,deepak@rri.res.in,chandra@rri.res.in
date Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM
subject hi
mailed-by gmail.com
hi,
i am presently working as a summer intern at IISER-kolkata, studying
and reviewing RAMAN spectroscopy.
could you please help me with a list of liquid and/or gas
samples(atleast 20) which come out to give best details for the basic
experiment of RAMAN spectroscopy in which a monochromatic light is
passed thru the sample (i need to know) and then the spectrum being
studied in spectrometer.
regards.
__________________________
"meanwhile my fellow engineer friend, Paul was online and i just told him
the same.i swear in that particular moment he was like "what??...spectro
...why the hell are you up with it!"(he made sense as we are into mechanical
engineering.....)"
but
then in the next 2 minutes to go,he also came up with some three or four
pdf files with a hell large collection of the matter i was exactly concerned.
"there's something very special in you if your destiny has assigned you
into engineering
i'll tell you what!!.....just go till the end.
___________________________
2 days after....
from deepak@rri.res.in
to binnygoswami@gmail.com
date Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:20 PM
subject Re: hi
mailed-by rri.res.in
Hi Friend,
Actually, I don't work in Raman Spectroscopy at all. But I can
tell u e-mail ID of some person to whom u can contact.
suchandsandeep@gmail.com
Deepak
___________________________
some 9 hrs later....
from binnygoswami@gmail.com
to deepak@rri.res.in
date Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM
subject Re: hi
mailed-by gmail.com
heyy........
thanks a lot deepak.
______________________________
in some quick 3 minutes thereafter......
from binnygoswami@gmail.com
to suchandsandeep@gmail.com
date Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
subject hi
mailed-by gmail.com
hi,
i am presently working as a summer intern at IISER-kolkata, studying
and reviewing RAMAN spectroscopy.
could you please help me with a list of liquid and/or gas
samples(atleast 20) which come out to give best details for the basic
experiment of RAMAN spectroscopy in which a monochromatic light is
passed thru the sample (i need to know) and then the spectrum being
studied in spectrometer.
regards.
_________________________________
3 days after....
(and all the fun lies here in this mail.......just attend the lines i
did make it quite noticable.....)
from suchandsandeep@gmail.com
to binnygoswami@gmail.com
date Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:16 PM
subject Re: hi
mailed-by gmail.com
Hi Friend,
We are not really working on Raman spectroscopy at the Raman Research
Institute (what an irony!).
You can probably contact some of the
students of Prof. A.K.Sood at IISc who routinely work on Raman
spectroscopy. If you are looking for SERS, then you can contact
students of Prof. Chandrabhas at JNCASR.
Off hand, most of the organic solvents show characteristic Raman
lines, like Acetone, Ethanol, methanol, benzene, etc etc. Water, CS2
etc are other inorganic solvents wuth known Raman lines.
On the gas side, most of the diatomic molecules like h2, N2 etc
have known Raman lines.
Best Regards,
Sandeep.
the irony part....fancy that
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amongst all these mails the one liner; that irony from sandeep made me
laugh a bit on how things can be like; i mean you search out something somewhere and find it lying with someone else...and yes luckily no one's to be blamed...as no one is wrong.....
this post isn't an offense to any of the person involved above......please don't
misinterpret me.it does actually intends to bring out the fact how humorous a person
can still be remaining in such quality ranks busy doing such quality works all time and how things can line up forming a story which you always like to share with your pals......i mean having the whole bunch of answer on first go and even then keep searching for it expecting more and more fun to evolve.......and you never go unhappy.
Again what i'm up with these destiny assigned engineers comes like...
They really can provide you with the most required info in some quickest
valuble minutes.......no matter if he knows even a shit about it or not....
or rather and practically there's nothing an engineer doesn't know
"devoted to net-pro-paul"
Then no matter what's the field; an engineer can still do spectroscopy.....and yes form stories of emails
And yes we make you laugh.........of nothing u see.....isn't it!!
"u must be laughing either 'at the oneliner' or 'at yourself for reading these many
mails just for the same oneliner'......ha ha ha ha!!
the law of engineering says,
"if you don't know it...confuse the one who dared asked you"
don't know.........is that even a word??
naaaaah
coming up soon : the Passport story
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10 comments:
rightly said pal,there's nothing an engineer doesn't know...be it the name of the villain of a C-grade hollywood flick,a bootleg music band or the latest hot thing on the internet........but when it comes to something like raman effect(or for that matter nething that smells likes STUDIES) i'm a bit skeptical...hehehe
but its nice to hear that some engineer frnd of yours really helped u out in this case
a nice collection of mails;).....and another good piece of writing by you...kudos buddy
gr8 yaar .....sahi hai...there is nothin in this world tht we engineers dont know n even if by chance we dont know we'll never let the person infront of us feel tht we r ignorant abt the matter of discussion aur yaar funde dene mein to engineers ko koi peeche nahin kar sakta.........
n no doubt u r a gr8 writer.....but yaar tujhe sahi mein kuch ho gaya hai.......
baaki i cnt be poetic or something like tht while writing ....sorry for the same....
hAil eNgiNeEring
long live engineers
bhai mera naam hi paul hai .. i m blessed thanks.........
Thats why CERN makes most of it instead..........
About engineers one thing i wanna add
general people sayings :
"There's no 2nd chance"
Engineer says :
"There's in no 2nd chance but always the 3rd one"
-copyright Gaurav Paul (Yes i written it )
/*Bless*/
okay as all my friends agree with the fact that there's nothin an engineer doesn't know. i would like to share a common experince.
everytime an engineer tries to solve a problem or experiments on somethin, the result comes out to be a total disaster.
and then i remember one of the most famous saying by one one of the most famous scientist that " There is a great value in DISASTER because you can start all over again".
Ya thats true...
but whnever a engineer is asked a thing which he doesn't know, then also he tries to explain that n magical thing is that he convinces the situation in all respects....
as chaitanya said
hAil eNgiNeEring
long live engineers
The series of mail shows the HUNGER to learn about RAMAN effect. Had I been the head of RRI then I would have assigned the post of Scientist to U.
Well I wish that U successfully complete your interns & come back to colledge we will discuss there in peace.
One more thing We ENGINEERS are not so bad that we need to bluff the next person. Bluffing is the job of a Salesperson let them do it.
Do keep writing mere CHETAN (CHAITANYA).
hey u added a feather to the hat......see we can kick out salesmen too now...did anyone notice it
not trying to be a cynic here, just breaking the rhythm :::---> .
ques1: define engineer.
ques2: as akhter said "engg. knows everything" then why ren't we playing GODS?
ques3: Are we fit to be called an engineer ?? :O
pick the rhythm back...
ans 1: some tribes never need a defination
ans 2: there ain't any god......rise up from ur dreams
ans 3: how do u view your glass of water.....half filled or half empty......ur fitness corresponds to ur perceptions
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