When i look back at our life, i wonder how some incidences can be funny that it brings a smile on your face everytime you remember them.......
One such incident is my first foreign tele conference call. It was indeed a bad hair day for me when everything actually  went wrong in one sense or other.

I had just joined this US based MNC and was about to give a detailed account of the progress of an ongoing project to my customer. The director of the product line also insisted on being present as the project was very critical. Well the attendees from here were two of my colleagues and my first line Manager.

A little about my first line manager here........ ( He needs to be described...)

A 5` 10" , spectacled ( amitabh bacchan styled ), thin ludicrous buffon....resembling very much to Rowan Atkinson of Mr.Bean fame , a management freak.
His risible suggestions, and funny actions had already made him a talk of the town in my company. Lets call him Mr. X from here

My cutomer.......name........Henotter AiKenhead...(it always sounded like alienhead to me..)....This ws the first time i was going to talk to him.....
The problem was neither me nor Mr X was still  able to guess that whether the Alienhead was he or she......Nevertheless....

So the conference was scheduled for 6 o clock in the evening and depending upon the preparation i have done, it  seemed a cakewalk.
We generally have all the conference calls from our conference rooms, but Mr X, came up with idea of having it fron his cabin...  ( He always have to chip in ....value addition as we call it.. )

I dialed the no....connected to my director and then to Alienhead....and when we greeted each other.....i got the shock of my life....".Heiiiiii "   came the voice from another end.......Infact Alienhead was lady and that too a japanese or probably Korean.....i dont know......

i can fairly understand UK or US accent..........but japanese / korean english was really like arabic to me......

Suddenly in the middle of my  conversation.......Mr X phone (instrument) started whistling.......just as the microphones of roadside assemblies do.........We had atough time
adjusting to that........because it used to whistle everytime Ms. Alienhead started talking , just like road side romeos do, everytime they see a nice girl...making it more difficult for us  to understand......

Suddenly Mr X raised from his chair.....and decided ( on his own ) to cut the conversation and continue from the conference room. Probable his first decision to which we agreed upon  amicably.

So i cut the call in middle and went to the conference.........started from there..

As i was proceeding............suddenly Mr X remembered that he had forgot his walkman come recorder....the one he carries for recording the minutes of meeting.....(improvement ideas)........so we again stopped in middle........and resumed after some time interval till he brought back the tape recorder.......meanwhile i tried to lighten up the mood by talking about the weather in US,  and my directors recent visit to india..

Back came Mr X.......we were online again..
Mr X started the Walkman and instead of pressing theboth Record and play buttons he pressed only play......and yo !!!!!!!!!!   amitabh bacchan started singing from Muqader ka sikandar......."Rote hua aate hai sab, hata hua jo jayega"......( This was the height of foolery .....he always has to do something silly....)

it took full 30 seconds for us to settle down again...........reason for Mr director........technical glitch !!!!

this time around when we started i signalled everybody to switch off their mobile phones..........( code of conduct )
But as destiny has planned, it had to go wrrong......my pone started ringing, thanks to technology......i have a PDA which starts buzzing even is it switched off if have set a reminder.........
Now who should i blame..........everybody started laughing............i was  very embarrassed..........

After some time when i was just struggling to get what Ms Alienhead was saying...............suddenly one of my colleagues who was literally
sleeping on the chair........got his leg entangled in the wires below table........and in the process of freeing it.........pulled the switch board off...the connector broke...........and so was the connection....

The conference had come to an abrupt end..........tragic i wud say....i was very frustrated.........
I came back to my cubicle and wrote a mail to my director and alienhead......putting all the blame on the IT dept.

Mr X called it bad planning on my part......(He alwways does that..)....

Thank God we had already received the order for the project.......otherwise anyone can guess what  would had happened.......

That was the day.........where i felt very much frustrated....and like defeated

but then the next all my colleagues including me had a great lugh at it............and we still do........