Chapter 14- Meeting with Fabrice
He thought he heard a knock on the glass door. Raul looked up from the computer, to see whose knocking on his cabin door.
It was Diana Kobka with a cup in her hand. He removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes. Immersed in his work, he has forgotten everything happening around him. He looked at the large clock kept on the wall, it was quarter past 5 in the evening.
Diana knocked again.
"Oh..sorry!", saying that Raul pressed the button on the wall near him to unlock the glass door, letting her in.
"Sir, tea", she kept the tea on the table.
"Oh!! Thank you" Raul responded leaning back on the chair. "So, you done for today?" asked Raul
"Yes Sir, Sonya is waiting outside for me and I am waiting for the server backup process to conclude" said Diana."Sir you look tired.!"
Raul gave a wry smile "Haven't we all! A major release is coming this fall and everyone is running like a race horse against the clock."
"Hey! thanks for the tea" said Raul.
"You are welcome sir" saying that Diana walked out.
Raul sat back, his eyes closed. He remembered about the phone call from Fabrice the previous day. He took his phone. The display showed 6 missed calls and it was all from Fabrice.
Raul dialed his number. He could hear the phone ring at the other end.
"I am sorry, I didn't see your call" said Raul
"It's okay, I understood you must be busy"
"Are you in the city?"
"No! I will be there in thirty minutes.I had called to say I have started."
"okay , Where do we meet?" asked Raul
"Its your city, you pick a good restaurant!" was the reply from Fabrice.
"Okay! Restaurant Dom- It is near the Moyka River, we have gone there before, it will be easy for you to find that place."
"Alright! So see you at Dom" said Fabrice hanging up.
The restaurant, Dom was not far from his office, he can easily make it on time. He copied the tool that he has created on a flash drive, switched off his computer and got out of the office.
Before he met Fabrice, he had to test the tool he created, in the wild. He got into his car and began driving towards an internet cafe a few Kilometers away. Parking in front of an internet cafe, he got out taking only his flash drive with him from his backpack.
"Здравствуйте, я хочу взять распечатку - Zdravstvuyte, ya khochu vzyat' raspechatku (Hello, I want to take a print out )"
and he handed over the flash drive to the young man at the counter.
He connected it to his computer and opened the drive.
"Какой файл? - Kakoy fayl? ("Which file)" asked the young man
Raul, leaned over the counter and looked at the computer screen and said "Третий файл резюме -Tretiy fayl rezyume (Third file, The Resume ")
The person at the counter clicked on it and a message displayed on the screen. It read "Adobe Reader Update Failed. Error 1635". The counter person clicked the "OK" button.
Raul asked the person at the counter about the error and he said, the error was something about an update and that he cleared it, the file is now printing.Having printed the file, the person at the counter handed him the print out and the flash drive. Raul paid for the services and headed back to his car.
Raul, started the car and drove towards the restaurant Dom. He has accomplished what he came for. When the flash drive was connected to the cafe's computer, the tool he created, automatically installed itself on that computer. Now, it will replicate itself across all the systems in the network of the cafe, sending data from them to the servers Raul has configured to receive the data. The tool that he has developed is successfully dropped in the real world for testing. He will be monitoring the tool from the computers he has set up at his office. After he is satisfied with the performance of his tool in the real world, he will delete it remotely by a kill command and wipe it clean from the computer at the internet cafe.
The traffic was getting worse by the dusk, Raul drove through the traffic listening to the "Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry". He took a right into the Pereulok Grivstova near the Russian Auction House, driving towards the Moyka River. Another left turn and he will be near the restaurant Dom.
Reaching near the restaurant, he parked his car. He took out the phone to call Fabrice, that was when he saw Fabrice, getting out of a taxi right in front of him.
Raul got out his car greeting him, giving him a good firm hand shake
"Long time..." said Raul "How was the journey?"
"Very long time. Not much traffic, got through. C'mon lets go inside the restaurant, I am starving" said Fabrice.
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Over the evening coffee and some snacks, they caught up with happenings in each others life in general. Later into their conversation, Fabrice brought up the conversation about the family in Omsk.
"So Raul, what do you say!"
"I said. I will think about it.."
"Seriously Raul, I want you to tell me for sure if you can do something about it. You know, for this year, I am already maxed out on assistance I offer. I had made a commitment in donations to an orphanage I talked to you about"
"Ahhh..Hmmm..I get it. You give me the complete details on them and I will do my part; give me a eek's time on it anyway.
"okay" and Fabrice began narrating the story of the family at Omsk.
Raul sat silently, listening to Fabrice.
Raul, Fabrice and 2 of his other friends, keep aside a portion of their monthly savings for philanthropy. Usually, they do not donate it to organizations or agencies but they donate it to the needy, giving it directly into their hands.
"Can you get the elder girl Jane, a job? She is fresh out of college and she is finding it hard to get into a good company" said Fabrice.
"She is into banking, I can try. You can forward me her academic profile.Let me have a look at it. After that may be, I can arrange an interview for her. That is all, I can commit now.", replied Raul having made up his mind on it.
"The younger girl Julia, needs financial assistance for her college!...see, you can talk to the family." said Fabrice
"I will. I will call you when I made up mind. I wont take long" Raul paused. "Let me be straight about this! How did you come to know about them?" asked Raul.
"Julia is the classmate of my little cousin Misha" said Fabrice.
"Okay, I get it. I will see what I can do."
"Raul, This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
""Are we not friends already, Fabrice?"
"Very funny..Very funny. "
Life is a random string of beads; a chaotic sequence of sparkling, dull, ostentatious and revolting. Each one is linked to the next by the string of events in time, but cannot predict what comes next. The best part of life is, it pushes you until you break just to see if you can put yourself back together.
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..
They both got out of the restaurant. Fabrice asked Raul to drop him at the metro. With Fabrice, Raul drove his car into the night.
It was Diana Kobka with a cup in her hand. He removed his glasses and rubbed his eyes. Immersed in his work, he has forgotten everything happening around him. He looked at the large clock kept on the wall, it was quarter past 5 in the evening.
Diana knocked again.
"Oh..sorry!", saying that Raul pressed the button on the wall near him to unlock the glass door, letting her in.
"Sir, tea", she kept the tea on the table.
"Oh!! Thank you" Raul responded leaning back on the chair. "So, you done for today?" asked Raul
"Yes Sir, Sonya is waiting outside for me and I am waiting for the server backup process to conclude" said Diana."Sir you look tired.!"
Raul gave a wry smile "Haven't we all! A major release is coming this fall and everyone is running like a race horse against the clock."
"Hey! thanks for the tea" said Raul.
"You are welcome sir" saying that Diana walked out.
Raul sat back, his eyes closed. He remembered about the phone call from Fabrice the previous day. He took his phone. The display showed 6 missed calls and it was all from Fabrice.
Raul dialed his number. He could hear the phone ring at the other end.
"I am sorry, I didn't see your call" said Raul
"It's okay, I understood you must be busy"
"Are you in the city?"
"No! I will be there in thirty minutes.I had called to say I have started."
"okay , Where do we meet?" asked Raul
"Its your city, you pick a good restaurant!" was the reply from Fabrice.
"Okay! Restaurant Dom- It is near the Moyka River, we have gone there before, it will be easy for you to find that place."
"Alright! So see you at Dom" said Fabrice hanging up.
The restaurant, Dom was not far from his office, he can easily make it on time. He copied the tool that he has created on a flash drive, switched off his computer and got out of the office.
Before he met Fabrice, he had to test the tool he created, in the wild. He got into his car and began driving towards an internet cafe a few Kilometers away. Parking in front of an internet cafe, he got out taking only his flash drive with him from his backpack.
"Здравствуйте, я хочу взять распечатку - Zdravstvuyte, ya khochu vzyat' raspechatku (Hello, I want to take a print out )"
and he handed over the flash drive to the young man at the counter.
He connected it to his computer and opened the drive.
"Какой файл? - Kakoy fayl? ("Which file)" asked the young man
Raul, leaned over the counter and looked at the computer screen and said "Третий файл резюме -Tretiy fayl rezyume (Third file, The Resume ")
The person at the counter clicked on it and a message displayed on the screen. It read "Adobe Reader Update Failed. Error 1635". The counter person clicked the "OK" button.
Raul asked the person at the counter about the error and he said, the error was something about an update and that he cleared it, the file is now printing.Having printed the file, the person at the counter handed him the print out and the flash drive. Raul paid for the services and headed back to his car.
Raul, started the car and drove towards the restaurant Dom. He has accomplished what he came for. When the flash drive was connected to the cafe's computer, the tool he created, automatically installed itself on that computer. Now, it will replicate itself across all the systems in the network of the cafe, sending data from them to the servers Raul has configured to receive the data. The tool that he has developed is successfully dropped in the real world for testing. He will be monitoring the tool from the computers he has set up at his office. After he is satisfied with the performance of his tool in the real world, he will delete it remotely by a kill command and wipe it clean from the computer at the internet cafe.
The traffic was getting worse by the dusk, Raul drove through the traffic listening to the "Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry". He took a right into the Pereulok Grivstova near the Russian Auction House, driving towards the Moyka River. Another left turn and he will be near the restaurant Dom.
Reaching near the restaurant, he parked his car. He took out the phone to call Fabrice, that was when he saw Fabrice, getting out of a taxi right in front of him.
Raul got out his car greeting him, giving him a good firm hand shake
"Long time..." said Raul "How was the journey?"
"Very long time. Not much traffic, got through. C'mon lets go inside the restaurant, I am starving" said Fabrice.
..
..
Over the evening coffee and some snacks, they caught up with happenings in each others life in general. Later into their conversation, Fabrice brought up the conversation about the family in Omsk.
"So Raul, what do you say!"
"I said. I will think about it.."
"Seriously Raul, I want you to tell me for sure if you can do something about it. You know, for this year, I am already maxed out on assistance I offer. I had made a commitment in donations to an orphanage I talked to you about"
"Ahhh..Hmmm..I get it. You give me the complete details on them and I will do my part; give me a eek's time on it anyway.
"okay" and Fabrice began narrating the story of the family at Omsk.
Raul sat silently, listening to Fabrice.
Raul, Fabrice and 2 of his other friends, keep aside a portion of their monthly savings for philanthropy. Usually, they do not donate it to organizations or agencies but they donate it to the needy, giving it directly into their hands.
"Can you get the elder girl Jane, a job? She is fresh out of college and she is finding it hard to get into a good company" said Fabrice.
"She is into banking, I can try. You can forward me her academic profile.Let me have a look at it. After that may be, I can arrange an interview for her. That is all, I can commit now.", replied Raul having made up his mind on it.
"The younger girl Julia, needs financial assistance for her college!...see, you can talk to the family." said Fabrice
"I will. I will call you when I made up mind. I wont take long" Raul paused. "Let me be straight about this! How did you come to know about them?" asked Raul.
"Julia is the classmate of my little cousin Misha" said Fabrice.
"Okay, I get it. I will see what I can do."
"Raul, This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
""Are we not friends already, Fabrice?"
"Very funny..Very funny. "
Life is a random string of beads; a chaotic sequence of sparkling, dull, ostentatious and revolting. Each one is linked to the next by the string of events in time, but cannot predict what comes next. The best part of life is, it pushes you until you break just to see if you can put yourself back together.
..
..
They both got out of the restaurant. Fabrice asked Raul to drop him at the metro. With Fabrice, Raul drove his car into the night.
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