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Parody!

While taking a break during one of those marathon coding sessions, I was reminded of the famous advertisement of some pen by Javed Akhtar. It goes some thing like this …
“…Zindagi hai to Khwaab hai
Khwaab hai to Manzile hai
Manzile hai to Faasle hai
Faasle hai to Raaste hai
Raaste hai to Mushkile hai
Mushkile hai to Hausla hai
Hausla hai to Vishwaas hai
Vishwaas Hai to Jeet hai…”

With expert help from [info]parineeta this couplets were translated to -
…If there is life, then there are dreams,
if there are dreams, then there are goals,
if there are goals, then there are distances,
if there are distances, then there are paths,
if there are paths, then there are difficulties,
if there are difficulties, then there is determination,
if there is determination, then there is faith,
if there is faith, there there is victory…

While I was trying to tweak the translation to make it better, [info]parineeta suggested that I could adapted translation in the context of software development. So with additional help from Viper (he is my colleague at office), we got -
…If there is computer, then there are problems,
if there are problems, then there are algorithms,
if there are algorithms, then there are programs,
if there are programs, then there are bugs,
if there are bugs, then there are debuggers,
if there are debuggers, then there is hope,
if there is hope, then there are prays and crossed fingers and also crossed toes that your program will work ;-)

You are welcome to leave better translations and endings and also translations in other contexts too! So let the comments begin…

Discussion

3 Responses to “Parody!”

  1. cross stitch hai to kavita hai,
    kavita hai to designers ke liye customer hai,
    designers hai to aur patterns aane ki ummeed hai
    aur pattern aa rahe hai to kavita khush hai ;)

    Posted by needlewoman | July 8, 2005, 9:10 am
  2. i like this one. by the way are you kavitha from networks?

    Posted by iamneo | July 15, 2005, 4:01 pm
  3. Full marks for guessing right, -1 for spelling, I am “Kavita” from networks

    Posted by needlewoman | July 16, 2005, 5:21 am

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