My Tom-Boy Girlfriend

#2 : Finding Ms. Sneakers

Raghav's POV
        
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Birds don't just fly
They fall down and get up
Nobody learns without getting it wrong
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       Totally immersed in my coding task, I kept checking the clock, every now and then. I felt it was ticking on a faster rate, than usual. I had only two more hours for my deadline - 5:30 pm to arrive and I was so tensed whether or not I'll be able to finish it on time. I remembered "Ms. Sneakers" and said to myself, "No man! I can't ! I just cannot lose like this, after the morning miracle followed up by my embarrassing goof-up!" I gave myself a self- boost and nodded to reassure myself, "I can do it! If I can't, who can! I have two tasks for today not only this stupid coding one but also 'Finding Ms.Sneakers '." I smiled to myself how my self-imposed task coincided with the Finding Nemo movie. "Get back on Track Raghav ! 2 hours to go and 2 tasks to finish! buck-up man, Buck-up!"

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I won't give up, no I won't give in
Till I reach the end
And then I'll start again
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        The second task had infused extra energy into me. My technical and reasoning sections of my brain looked like they had suddenly woke up after being dormant for the whole day. I knew I was just beating around the bush instead of trying to approach the issue with a different outlook. I leaned back on my chair, to make a full 120 degree angle with the ground and closed my eyes for few minutes, with my fingers interlocked and pressed against the top of my head; to re-collect the defect scenario. At last I had found the bug in my code and Voila! I fixed it and now the code was working as expected. 

         Uff! Thank God I have one and a half hours, which I thought was ample enough to find a girl, no a Tom-Boy. That too I just had to search in my wing, how difficult was it going to be! All I had to do is walk past a couple of bays and spotting Ms. Sneakers among a couple of people, was going to be like picking out a colored stone from a pot full of black stones. So I got ready to start working on my second task. Just when I was about to step out of my cubicle, I thought lets not just jump into it like a direction-less-donkey. My algorithmic brain started churning out the fastest approach of finding her. Should I go with Linear Search or Binary Search? I took the Linear search approach, just to make it simple and considering that the wing would not be too big, I would complete my search soon.

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No, I won't leave
I wanna try everything
I wanna try even though I could fail
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
Try everything
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        As I walked past bay-after-bay, scanning the left side and then the right side, to find my savior-of-the-day; I hadn't realized that I had just tail-gated myself from Wing- C into Wing-B. "Oh! It's ok, sometimes it happens", I comforted myself and carried on. I was scanning each square of the floor, if anyone had noticed me, they would have thought I was a human-look-alike search robot, with head turning from side to side. It was just a matter of forty minutes, and I was back to square one- My cubicle's bay. It was confusing like I had lost my path and suddenly back to the place where I belong; I turned fully two to three times just to figure out how I landed here. Only then I found out that this building had all it's four wings along its circumference and they were inter-connected. I was astonished that I couldn't find her in my Wing, neither in the three other big wings, "Then where the hell, she disappeared?". 

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Baby you've done enough, take a deep  breath

Don't beat yourself up
Don't need to run so fast
Sometimes we come last, but we did our best

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         The vibrator in my mobile started buzzing and I saw my GYM reminder I had scheduled, "Oookkk! It's evening coffee break time that's the reason. Hmm now I have to continue, tomorrow only", with a dejected look I made my way to the changing room and then to the Gym. There my Boss was standing in front of the mirror and warming-up. He saw me entering the room and smirked, I understood his strategy. He had chosen that spot so that he could see the attendees for his session without making direct eye-contact, "What a loser!", I thought to myself. I turned to see where I could take my position. Around 10-15 people had already come and seeing people still flowing through the door. I had to agree with my Boss's intelligent idea of how to cut the nervousness, he was going through, seeing so many attendees in his first session. The session was awkward for me in the beginning then I loosened up and forgot that he was my reporting manager and was just a trainer. 

          It was a hectic first session, I guess it was because all of a sudden my dormant muscles were made active today. My full body was already rattling by the end of the session and I literally thanked God for bringing the closure of the session. I knew there was going to be full crowd in front of the shower-cum-changing room; and I needed a nice long hot relaxing bath, without people banging on the doors to speed up. I just grabbed my towel and dabbed myself and headed towards the cafeteria to get myself a nice hot cup of coffee and more importantly to get a place to sit.

         I collected my coffee token and was looking into my smartphone to check my mails and messages. On reaching the counter, as I was putting it back into my track pant's pocket, my elbow nudged another elbow. "Ooops! Sorry.... are you ok? Did your coffee drop? Shall I get you another one?", I asked. My pupils enlarged and gleamed in sheer happiness on seeing the pixie-haired-girl. She was busy brushing out the coffee droplets that had sprinkled on her shirt. "It's ok, no problem", she swiftly turned her head to me and walked away. My eyes were following her as she walked away and did a happy dance in my mind, "You did! You found her! Second task completed."

"Hello Sir!...Sir? Sir??", the voice came from the guy behind the counter. I cleared my throat and said, "Uh! Yes .... Ssorry. One large cappuccino please!"

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Is Raghav on a winning streak?

He found Ms. Sneakers on the same day.

Will it be a walk in the park for him to win over Ms. Sneakers?

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