YeT AnOtHeR MiShAP !!! Yeah That's ME ;-)

So, friends here again.. I, the favorite BAKRA of God was made a target of an unusual, unbelievable, unexpected and unfortunate (may be) event of my life. But, the best part is (or I should say the worst part is) that this time I was not alone ;-). This time I was luckily not the only Bakra but there were 6 other people along with me :-). So, lets start with the narration :-P

This all started around 3 months back ;-). We wer about 14 people who were supposed to appear for a Certification exam called "CSM Certification" - a term applicable mainly to Amdocs. CSM- Customer Service Management and is one of the major application of Amdocs with which I have been associated for the past 2 years :-). Prior to our batch there have been two more batches who have appeared for this exam and unfortunately the pass rate happens to be not so good :-(. actually the passing percentage required to clear this exam is 80%. [Ab jaha engineering ke exam mein 35% bhi pahad ki chadhai jitna mushkil lagta tha us he kisam k logon k samne agar ap 80% ka target rakh do to 50% moral down to waise he ho jata hai ;-)] Not that complicating as it sounds :-P.
Well, now the next batch was decided and the preparations were about to start :-). We were supposed to start with our so called training sessions on various topics from August '08 for about a period of 1 and half month. So the training schedule was planned and implemented. The final exam date was chosen to be 22 september '08.

Actually its not a big deal to pass or flunk in this exam, but its just that it is set as one of the goals for this financial year for me and now or later eventually it is necessary for each one to appear and get certified ;-). So, i thought why not this time :-).. Hey, the thought was innocent enough its just that i forgot ki.. mere sath kabhi kuch ek baar mein theek nahi hota... Ooops dont get any ideas yaaro.. abhi tak to exam date tak he pahuchi hoon result ko to abhi time hai :-)..

So, on 17 September 08 out training co-ordinator asked us if we were all comfortable with the exam date of 22 september.. :). Yes!!! I told nothing is right with me in first shot.. so within a day or two we were told that the exam is postpponed indefinitely. :-( bu hu hu hu.. Well, I am not sad because I had studied a lot and I was very prepared this time and again I will have to reprepare etc... its just that I was mentally prepared to give exam this time and since the date was changed I will again have to mentally prepare myself for the same ;-).

Finally the date was decided to be 16 October '08 and I actually ahd to work very hard to mentally prepare myself ;) by giving 4 mock exams prior to the final one and barely managing to pass few of them and the remaining.... [ mmm aaaaa...mmmm... understood na :-( ]. Newaz, then the day came finally and we had our lunch. Since the timings for exam were from 1:30 PM to 5:30 PM. So 11 of us who acctully registered themselves for exam appeared at the examination room. The instructore gave us the instructions and we logged in to the exam...

Hmm.. so now the clock ticked by and so did the time and we were looking and answering the questions with appropriate answers :-). Then checked and rechecked and rechecked and so on.. Meanwhile, we did not submit our session just navigated to different pages of questions. Ap soch rahe hoge ki ab tak kuch trajedy to hui he nahi.. this blog does not justify the title "MiSHaP" right?? Dont worry. I will tell you now. In this exam we were given a set of documents to refer to for finding correct exam. During the process of searching i came accross an XMl file and I opened it to find my answer. But... you know what.. inorder to open that XML file using internet explorer that examination session of mine was halted and this XML file got opened in same internet explorer :-(. I called upon the invigilator to look into it and hlep me. She was also shocked at such a weird situation and tried to call someone for technical help. :-P Meanwhile I tried to restore the session by choosing BACK option and hence I was successful and was able to restore the exam session. Trust me I was able to breath only after my session was restored :-). Newaz, by this time 2 hours had gone and 4 people had already left the room after finishing their exam and 7 of us had remained behind :-).

We were killing another 2 hours as none of us was interested to go back to our desk and continue with the work ;-). But then.. the actual tragedy happened. Suddenly one of us complained that she got an error message saying :"Session Expired". Later each one of us got same error as we tried to move between different pages. Now the invigilator was really tensed she asked us we had submitted our answers. But then none of us had done that as we thought that submit is to be done finally when we are done with answering. There were some calls to the technicians and it was decided that the technicians would try to retrieve answers from our session via backend and if it would be successful then we will be evaluated and results will be shown else... tha sad part is we will have to reappear for the exam :-(.

Trust me initially we didnot submit our answers just to make sure that we are scoring atleast 80%. But now we all prayed and wished that we should not have waited so long and clicked that submit button then even we would have made it on time and got the results :-). But wo kehte hai na "Ab pachtaye hot kya jab chidiya chug gayi khet..."

But one thing that the supervisor confirmed was that this particualr scenario had never occured before. This was the most weirdest exxam she had monitored :-P. Ha Ha ha.. She did not know me much and that I was appearing for the exam else she would have expected the most weirdest and unbelievable things to have happened :-). Well among the 7 unfortunate examinees was my room-mate Abhil;asha who said...ki "Neha tumhare sath hum bhi is kaand mein fas gaye... Tumhara to koi kaam ek baar mein theek hota nahi.. and tumhare chakkar mein hum sab bhi fas gaye.. [I should say latak gaye ;-)].

Well there were people waiting for us to hear out our results but when I told them about this MiSHaP they weren't very much surprised as they know when Neha is around there has to be something abnormal and unnatural ;-)!!! Surely not much surprising to my blog readers as well ;-) Ha Ha Ha :-D