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The Process Scheduling Program

I was on the driving seat that day. We had been stuck in a traffic jam since the last half an hour. I had been irritated by the laziness that i had shown in the lab today. I had failed to do one of the easiest things. A process scheduling program was among the easiest ones in Operating System ! No doubt I was a loser. My mind was totally offset. Why ? Why not just mine ? Almost everybody had done it, why could I not do it ? I mean, is this the reason why I took up computer engineering as my subject. I had been very confused all the time. I could not drive, my God ! Why was I even here ? I had to become a business manager. God ! and why do such thoughts come to my mind ? This was too much. One of my friends offered me some water in the bottle cap, okay, he wanted me to drown in that water ! Is it not amazing what our mind makes up when we are sad. People commit suicide when they are sad. They do not consider the possibility that there could be others who may be loving them more than th...

Honesty Is The Best Policy ?

While I was in school we used to have quizzes in class when there used to be just a few kids who had come to school. That day we had only about fifteen or twenty students in the class. Our teacher had been tired herself, so, she decided to take a quiz that day. You know, quizzes are actually fun way to recollect what you have learnt and display your knowledge just so that you win the game. So, the teacher divided us into groups, as per the rows such that row 1 became group 1, row 2 became group 2 and so on. I was in the first row I guess and used to get very excited in these quizzes. Since such quizzes lead to shouting and carcass in the classroom, so our teacher had set a "-1" point for the row which was heard shouting. And so, the game began! It so happened that after about five or ten rounds, my row i.e. group 1 was seemingly the last in the number of points we had gained and had got a passed question to answer so that we gain an extra "+2" and could at le...