You have been "Tagged"..!!!!

At first it was bewilderment when I saw MadV's comment that I have been "tagged". Seriously, I thot it must be something techie related to the blogger world. And the truth was appreciated only after going through her "Y not 9" aakrantham!! ;)

Anyways thanx MadV for tagging me with this. ;)

Actually, I was thinking to fill this one before Dec 31st, following my monthly habit. But I changed my mind now. I had to...

Thanx Rajesh for tagging me again with this. ;)

So here it goes....

Seven things I plan to do before I die
1. Travell a lot. To Himalayas, to the Wonders of the world, Round the globe.
2. Set Up my own Research Lab and later grow it into my own BIG Company.
3. Try to understand the unquestionable link between modern science and the age old Indian wisdom

4. Write a book.
5. Open an Orphanage/School or some sort of charity organisation.
6. Love “a girl” and “be loved” ofcourse. ;)
7. Understand myself. Do justice to myself, my karma and my abilities.

Seven Things I can do
1. I can laugh at your silly mistakes ( without downgrading you.)
2. I can appreciate beauty (whatever it may be)
3. I can sit quietly for a long time. (thinking on nothing.)
4. I can listen to your worries. (Though, I may hide mine from you. )
5. I can ignore you for the rest of my life (If I felt that you no longer need me )
6. I can give you surprises and make you smile.
7. I can sleep 24/7 ;)



Seven Things I can’t do
1. I can’t hurt anyone knowingly.
2. I can’t swim
3. I can’t say serious lies
4. I can’t change my attitude towards anything or anyone. Once it is set, its set for ever.
5. I can’t tolerate harsh and disrepectful people.
6. I can’t do any good if my efforts are not acknowledged properly.
7. I can’t hide my feelings.


Seven Things that attract me to the opposite sex
1. Beauty. Big round eyes, long straight hair and similes ;)
2. Good dress sense
3. A mind to accept things as it is and without making much of a scene
4. Humour sense
5. Expressing natural and true feelings.
6. Less jaada
7. Less makeup

Seven Things I say most
1. Enna koppa!! (What the heck!!)
2. Namaskaaaaaaaram… _/\_ ;)
3. Appol anginey aanu karyangal!! (So, that’s how things are..!! –when I am idea starving while conversing with someone. This is usually followed by a change in topic-)
4. Ini nee mindaruthu!! (Don’t talk, you…!!- when I just got my point right in a heated argument or when he/she is about to win his/hers-)
5. Naasam!! (Damn – official language at work-)
6. Ayyo!! (Oh!!- When I made a blunder or when things go wrong)
7. Ennatha??? (What???? – When someone is trying to correct me over some views which I believe to be true-)

Seven Celebrity Crushes

1. A Doordarshan Announcer, a Panjabi girl, Miss. Prabhjyot Kaur (??)- She was my first crush ;) The time was around 1984. Expect an update on this…!
2. Kajol
3. Amrita Rao
4. Bhavana
5. :(
6. :((

7. :(((

Done, and thats it!!

Pheeeewwwwww ;)

And now I must tag 7 bloggers with this stuff....

The chosen people are..

1. Vids

2. Sujata

3. San (You can make a photoblog on this. Might be interesting..)

4. UKWarrier(You too ;)

5. Neo

6. Karthika

7. Can't find more!

Signed: Sreeram R.Warrier

A flash back...

November 30th......The last day of an action packed month!!!
Here is a review of things that happend......

To start with……, I
1. Saw some of my online friends for the first time. Unfortunately it was on the wedding day of one of them :(

(Hero,Comedy)

2. Tried to copy some clips from the movie “AnanthaBhadram” using my new Nokia 6681- was rude fully dealt with by the theatre authorities though- :(

(Hero,Trajedy)

3. With family, went to the temple at Thirumanthamkunnu, a place nearer to Shornur as devotion in favor to my sister’s marriage. The ambience is truly magical. Places like these can really turn a lion into lamb. :)

(Presenter,Devotional Documentary)

4. Went for swimming at the Water Authority Swimming Pool, for the first time- Learnt that it is not possible to swim unless u r ready to drink a lot of water. Also learnt that whatever things you do to stay on top of water, is a style of swimming. ;)

(Hero,Comedy)

5. Started getting up early (before 7) and doing some excercises……. Now its paining everywhere!! :(

(Hero,Trajedy)

6. Won the Third prize for chess at the CDAC Tvm Intra Department Chess Tournament as part of the Annual Sports and Games. The match I last played was a draw. But damn pple decided to take a lot instead of a rematch and luck went against me. The guy who tricked me, won the title. :(

(Hero,Trajedy)

7. Announced as captain of the Cricket team. The matches will be played on Dec 3rd and 4th.

(Hero,??) :)

8. Went to attend my ex-class mate’s marriage. He married one of his chat (Y!) friends. A nice girl. ;) It was on the same day that the Music competitions were held at my office as part of the Annual Cultural Events. (I was the First prize winner for Light Music, last year). Btw, my Y! id is woopdrive ;)

(SupportingRole,Comedy ;))

9. Saw that girl who had literally stolen my heart away, a few years back. I smiled, She smiled back!! I won’t be troubling her though,I guess!!;)

(Hero,Comedy/Trajedy)

10. Fell down in road while trying to catch an auto. Seeing own blood after a long gap. ;) Somebody advised me that life is more important than an auto!!! :(

(Comedian,Comedy)

11. -Edited out on 4th December 2005-

(Villian,Trajedy)



Signed: Sreeram R.Warrier (These sorts of things happen with me only rarely. Frakly,12 times in an year.)

Idealist!! Am i??? ;)

You scored as Idealist. Idealism centers around the belief that we are moving towards something greater. An odd mix of evolutionist and spiritualist, you see the divine within ourselves, waiting to emerge over time. Many religious traditions express how the divine spirit lost its identity, thus creating our world of turmoil, but in time it will find itself and all things will again become one. Idealist 100% Fundamentalist 88% Postmodernist 88% Romanticist 81% Materialist 75% Modernist 63% Existentialist 63% Cultural Creative 56% An easy way to fill the blog...... Sure..,I am an idealist!! Lols :)) What is Your World View? (updated) created with QuizFarm.com

Another Deadline Hit...!!

Now a days while thinking about adding an entry in here, I always iterate these lines silently.

“30 days hath September, April June and Novermber…..”

Ok, I got an extra day this time.. Good!!!

And that extra day is today…. Gosh!!!
Another deadline hit!!!
Sigh!!

My PL, and for that matter even My blog, all are harsh on me.

They always threaten me by reminding me of the time frame within which I have to complete the duties assigned to me. They always threaten me by flashing that magical figure, the so-called “Deadline”.

The mad rush, the frantic efforts to finish off the duties, the unknown accidental mistakes committed in between, while chasing a deadline-the hidden bugs-, their re-entry, may be in new forms and complexity, at a later time, while chasing another deadline, the extra efforts I have to put in to kill those earlier bugs and the creation of new bugs in this process, are all part of the game. So is the divine bliss, when the deadline is over.

I have already had a number of deadlines and I know, the Confidential Report-the balance sheet of my office work-, is getting bulky. I have enjoyed Promotions as well as foul words. I see a cycle of events in these, repeating itself in a specific predefined manner, every time.

And I know that for every event, for every experience, for every aspect in nature that repeats itself in a cyclic way, we can find something similar, something bigger, something happening in a higher dimension, and that is nature’s way of doing things. Have you ever felt so??

I know that one day even God Almighty will turn harsh on me...

The day, when I will be lying on my deathbed,

Waiting for that final tick, thinking over those that I have done in the allowed time frame,

My life.

The memories, good and bad.

The Feeling of joy and guilt.

And the feeling of the end, nearing…..

All erupting out in a final jerk, a relief to the pain in the voids of the mind.

And The balance sheet, that of Heaven or Hell......
Then a new deadline, the time frame to repent over the hidden bugs in the past deadline and probably to do some justice to all those who were affected by those bugs- A new life, and a new karma, -!!!

This cycle repeats……


Yes, I do believe in life after death!!!
Do u??

Signed: Sreeram R Warrier.

Oh!! I wanted to write something today, before the deadline is over. And as usual I have gone with another crappy stuff. Anyways, I will write something worthy in the next month.
Hey, There is always a second time.

Believe me!!

10 golden rules on How to handle girls…

1.They make good friends. Allow them to be ur friends. But no further.
2. Use ur brain while dealing with them. Use heart, and u r history.
3. Handle with care. Never force them.
4. Lend a supporting hand when they r in trouble. Never say this later. They wont remember. Expect nothing.
5.Be honest. But never reveal urself fully.Make them curious, Let them guess.

6. Love “a” girl only if U r pretty sure that U cannot live without her.
7. Reveal ur heart only when U know that She will acknowledge positively to it. Till then, let the brain handle it.

8. If you can enter into a girls heart, you wil remain there for ever. But mostly, her brain is ur residing place.
9. She will eventually break ur heart (whether she gets in, or gets out of it).

10.Whatever rules you apply on them, there will always be exceptions.

It is the 10th rule that keeps us falling again and again.The best way out is to avoid them as much as possible. ;)

The above rules are contributed by,
The Sreekrishna Essence in Kaliyuga Sreerama.

Signed: Sreeram R.Warrier (Am i wrong???)

NB: I will be updating this post regularly... ;)

Why I fried a chip!!

One post per month is my normal jotting down frequency. It’s a very big gap, I know, but I am hardly finding enough time to translate my thoughts into words. What!! I am that busy???Oh!No way...May be, I am too lazy. Or , there may be other reasons.
Today is August 30th and I got one more day before I ruin my routine.
I must write something today.
But I hate to write about my daily activities (I hate to reveal how boring my life is…)

Ok!

Going on with some daily routines.... forgive me,Oh life!

I was working on a chip for sometime now and its only a few days back that we found out that its a buggy one(thanx to Analog Devices).Trying desperately to move things inside the chip, I actually fried 4 of them.My project manager who is a funny person, interrogated me in his own special way....

Already ashamed of myself for burning 4 chips,that was something not easy to handle.I gave a nervous smile on his querries..In Y! terms, a "big grin" :D

The first question he asked was this.

"R u in love at this very small age" ????

Big Grin :D

(But....., very small age???) :$

Signed: Sreeram R Warrier.

Thalayanamanthram!!

Prologue:

In Cyber Town, a browsing centre in Kottayam. Now sitting in between two chicks . A fair one to my right and a dark yet cute girl to my left (whose Y! id which i foundout to be deepasusanxx, where xx=a number!! ;) Wow!!

Chapter 1.

Came home early this morning as my father was not that well. He says, he has a mild fever. I seriously doubt that now a days, he is making a conscious attempt to have something like this or a muscle pain, or atleast a cold for the weekend. And then calls me, to see whether I am coming or not on that weekend. ;) Poor He. This is the first time in his life that he is swamped in loneliness.

Usually, on every month when I reaches home , I observe atleast one dramatic change in him.Recently I watched this in absolute shock and disbelief when my father called my mother to see a malayalam mega serial (forgot its name!). My father, as I know him, is someone who is not that much inclined towards such soapy things. Changed. Now there is no more competition for the remote control between them atleast. But in their agreement at this , the one who had to suffer the most is poor me. She gave me a cute smile when I asked her on how she managed to drag him into this.And then said in a low voice making sure that my father is nowhere near.

"Thalayanamanthram"!! ;)

This is one reason why I respect girls. They got immense potentials in them.First recognized by Indra, who had sent Menaka to distract Viswamithra from his Yaga, now this same principle is being put into effect by most of the I.T companies as well as the consulting agencies. They recruiting cute voices as their HR personals!

Epilogue:

One of my junior gals from electrical, recently got appointed as the HR of IBS,Technopark. I predict a grand shoot in their sharevalue.

Signed Sreeram R.Warrier

Seeking Truth.....

Mind was kinda blocked for the past one year i guess...Or more???
Yeah, I was laughing, joking, and having fun all these times but deep inside I always felt that something is missing. And I always had this feeling haunting me.

"Sreeram,You are missing something." My innervoice.

The most sickening part of all these is that I am still unable to sense what it is that is missing. Only thing I know is that it haunts me!!! It works as if someone is remainding me of something, in a strange way, giving me clues that i am not able to understand. Sometimes in a frightening way, questioning even my own existence. Or I must put that in a different way, the purpose of my existence.

I am a firm believer of Karma. I believe that each individual's very existence is to perform that Karma before going back to where he/she came from. We are equipped with special skills to perform that special duty. Focussing the energy,the skills, on that special duty, and performing it without compromise, I guess, is the way to Moksha. This is one reason why I really envy those soldiers who gave their life for the motherland. A noble cause, they knew it, and performed it without fall. This is the same reason why I admire researchers, scientists, scholars and all those big and small people who blindly follow some strange concepts,which they claim to be truth,reality.... God bless them!!

How long will it take for me to understand that special duty of mine,I wonder!!! Yeah! I am an ignorant creep, unable to realise my life goal.

Or do i already know it????

Signed Sreeram R.Warrier

I’m mature!!! (But when the ' blinks…?!)

She spat over the telephone.
“U r immature”.
And tried furiously to substantiate her views by giving examples.
The incident re-ignited some of those long forgotten thoughts in me.
Another spark to my idle brain.

Some Old thoughts.
Time when the film Kaho Na Pyar Hain was running in theatres.
On hearing the story (I never saw the movie), I was wondering, whether the hero and heroine would have fallen into love if they hadn’t spend time together in that lonely island. This is the same stuff, which I had come across in some of those English “classics” which my sister used to read. Aggression giving way for Attraction, Lust and ultimately Love. I can tell you with cent percent surety that they never would have become lovers if they hadn’t spend those rainy stormy nights together in the island or say, if both were living there normal life in the city. But why?? What made the difference when they were in the lonely island??? Weren’t they mature enough to think of a way so they both can escape the situation, instead of falling in love??
I thought and this is what I came up with.

Character
An invisible blanket, which we wear over our true self.
Afraid of the consequences of breaking the rules imposed on us by the social, traditional and cultural aspects of life, we hide the animal inside us from others, by wearing this blanket. It’s so tightly integrated to us (just like the armor of Karna) that for others the only U visible is the U covered in the blanket. This is your personality, this is your character and this is U as the world sees, a fake U, for the society, for your loved ones, for yourself. The blanket exists only when u r inside the system, and once u r out, U can chose to have it or not. And this is precisely what happened with our hero and heroine. Once trapped in the isolated island, without hope for any escape, the blanket was dropped. Then attraction, lust, love….

Maturity.
Relates to ones reactions to those different stimuli from the society.
The society expects an individual to behave in a certain way under certain situations. If he behaves as per the society’s expectations, he is mature. Else he is not. This is subjective to place, time and age differences. A person behaving maturely in some situations may behave immaturely in some other situations. The case is highly fluctuating and there is nothing like absolute maturity or absolute immaturity. Suffice to say, “it depends”.


Now let me conclude.
What is character??
A blanket!! Fake!!But makes the society a nice place to live in.
Whats maturity??
The society’s tag to a person after evaluating his behavior under different situations.
Does maturity have a clear definition?
No!!! It fluctuates.
How is character and maturity related??
Flaws in character leads to immature behaviors in a matured person.

Signed Sreeram R.Warrier (Don’t kill me ;)

Brain Vs Heart..

Recently I have been contemplating a lot on this issue.
Which one is smarter? My brain or my heart!
Complicated eh?? Yes and a delicate subject too-Buddy Sreeram, handle with care…U cannot be biased to anyone.. Be careful!!
Lets compare.

Usually I make a very good first impression- I use my brain while talking to strangers.
I perform well in GDs Debates etc-- My brain helps me.
(The question of “brain not found ” alarm ringing whenever I type “my brain” is a matter of another thinking. Lets forget that for the time being and assume that I have one right there in my head ;) )
So my brain is smart! (With the above assumption assumed to be true;)
And as soon as I have completely socialized with someone, my heart takes over… and I feel weak. Some sort of Arjuna syndrome cripples me, which helps them take advantage of me. All the while knowing that they are exploiting me, I remain calm, well poised and cheerful but disappointed and deeply hurt from within. Why should I suffer them, if I know that they are not worthy enuff?? Why not I attack them before they attack me??? NO!!! Because once they were my favorite!! BULLSHIT.
My heart is stupid! (He does have one,unfortunately! - voice of brain - )

But then why the hell is that my stupid heart always wins over my smart brain???

Signed: Sreeram R.Warrier

Happy Birthday to me.....

Yea....21/4/1980
Its something which will be remembered, which will be marked for the most dramatic event ever happend in the history of mankind(after 25th december ofcourse!)
Y am I saying like this???
Hey,if not me then who else will say this?? C'mon, show some commonsense dude!:(

And today??? 21/4/2005..my birthday! ;)

And 2005-1980=25.....;)

Fortunately this time it happend to be on Milad-e-Sherif,the holyday for Muslims, so more excitement than if it wud hav been on a working day!Atleast I dint had to see his face today!

Recently I realized this fact! There is too much confusion related to my b'day. Actually, its supposed to be on Sreeramajayanthi according to the calendar that we malayalees follow. Now I learnt that there is something else called Sreeramanavami which the NorthIndians celebrate as the b'day of Sreerama-Wondering, whether he took his avatar on two occasions!!-This year it was on 18th of this month.

(Edited now: After researching on my B'day for years, I found out that both Sreeramajayanthi and Sreeramanavami refers to the same date! So, no confusion at least on His Avatar happening on two occasions...Ok, continue reading..)

Got lots of greetings-sadly no gifts,it needs to spend money-yea no wonder!-, best wishes, warm smiles, hugs-not a single one from the opposite gender, sigh!- and i dont remember wat all! But all the while I was wondering, why my parnets dint call me to express their love affection etc etc for their only son-I remember they had rang my sis at hyd on her last birthday and talked all sort of nonsense for about 1hr!Now they dint seem to remember me at all!Strange,and those fools say parents are harsh on their daughters!How weird!!-And finally, by about 8 in the night they called me.Talked to me as if they were completely unaware of the situation and I had to point it out to them like, "Hey mom,oh dad, I have this good news for u...today is my birthday!!!".Then there was a pause.I was waiting for their response and they kinda frozen...except for some whisperings. And then came the voice saying "U fool, its not today,its on may 13th, the Sreeramajayanthi and today is Sreeramanavami". Thought it came like a relief, the next day, I had to tell my friends that my b'day is on Sreeramajayanthi the coming May13th. I had to describe the entire conversation that took place between me and my parents to force them believe it.And once this happend, pooof! All those smiling faces, warm wishes everything vanished! Now only laughing faces!!

Next is today-21st of april, my b'day according to roman calendar,my birth certificate,my sslc book. Again the same old story- Got lot of greetings-sadly no gifts,it needs to spend money-yea no wonder!-, best wishes, warm smiles, hugs-not a single one from the opposite gender, sigh!- and i dont remember wat all!- But this time i was smart enuff to tell'em in a more definite convincing way that they will have to wait till may 13th, the Sreeramajayanthi- I checked this with my parents-yes i am sure-well,almost-c'mon yar,believe me....this time I am positive!!-

signed:Sreeram R.Warrier (kaliyuga fame!)

(Edited again)

Mystery unraveled.

Lets zoom in to the past.

It is Thretha yuga.

It is the Navami tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of Chaithra.

(9th day in the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaithra)

The nakshathra or star was Punarvasu.

And that is when Lord Ram was born, as per the Hindu Calendar. 

Now lets Zoom in to some 40+ years back in time.

It is Kali yuga,

It is 21st April, 1980.

It is Punartham Star on that day of the month of Medam, as per the Malayalam Calendar (Kollavarsham or Malayalam Era)

And that is when the Kaliyuga fame was born.

Call it coincidence (I prefer calling it SuperNatural), it also happened to be the Navami tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of Chaithra as per the Hindu Calendar.

And due to the very same reason, my parents never had any confusion/arguments/fights/war in finding a name for me.

Malayalam Calendar and Hindu Calendar are not the same. They overlap, but they don't coincide.

As time passes, in some year they coincide totally (as in 1980!)

Now, this is the funny part.

Whenever they coincide, I will have only 2 birthdays.

And whenever they only overlap...;Well, I will have 3 holidays!! 

;-)

 

Welcome to my small already shrunken world.....

Now that I have landed on this stuff, it remains my duty to write something. Yeah, one more addition to the list of my duties.. Hell, Damn it!!!! Seriously, my first inspiration behind taking an account in here was that, well, I hate to admit it but was that “Hey, everyone else is doing it so why cant I??” kind of feeling!!! Fine, I have joined you people, but now is the question. What to write???
Fine lets start with who and what I am!!!
A person who spends his time staring at a computer monitor which stares back??? A person who daily goes through the English words if, else, for, while, return and nothing else??? A bug fixer?? - Sounds like a vamp slayer rite? - My thoughts have really become localized.
In chatting slang I am 24/m/tvm, (as of now), woopdrive according to yahoo messenger, psychicbrain according to msn, but in reality who am I??? Strange!!! Am I in some kind of identity crisis??
I may have to wear the dress of a storyteller if I have to really answer this question, which saints like to answer most!!

Flashback…………….

Kottayam
The city of three L’s, Letter, Latex and Liquor, my home place!
21/4/1980
I was born as a half premature child to RaveendranathaWarrier, a teacher and Rajalekshmi, a Govt. servant. The day happened to be Sreeramajayanthi, the birthday of Lord Sreerama and they promptly named me Sreeram. Before me, someone else had also come to this world, my sister Swapna.

I remember my childhood days were filled with real fun and colours. From day start to night end, I played and played only. I remember going to Velloor my dad’s place during the Vishu season where all of my relatives would have arrived. Velloor is a beautiful village with lush greeneries and good people- unless they are drunk! - The house an old warriem is in the middle of an almost 10 acre property with acres of paddy fields, waste lands with plants, trees unknown shrubs etc ranging in all size and beauty. My cousins and I used to bath in the temple pond near to the home -my dad’s family used to earn their bread by serving this temple- or in those small rivulets that flowed through the home property. We slept on bare land laying palm leaves and played tribal people. When it was time for food somebody would come calling us and the food were be served in long plantain leaves. Really had a blast of a time then. I have stood in disbelief when the workers jumped from one palm tree to another using the leaves like a swing. I had requested them several times to teach me the trick but they never did that - those were their own intellectual property! - I was the champion kite flyer of my locality and we used to fly kites during Onam vacations at the Thirunakkara temple ground. We used to tear the long tail of opponent’s kite and watched with devilish delight as they find their fate on nearby buildings or the tall banyan trees in the place. Yeah! Occasionally I also suffered the same fate. My sis, Swapna is three years elder than me. I always used to fight with her for such silly things like that place near to my dad or mom while having food, for that glass in which she was having her drink, for this for that, well for almost everything. (Not any more, she is married now and is away from home!!). It was an adventurous life!

The reason why I enjoyed my life so much at that time was really simple. I was a dumb student!! Having no real worries about exams, class tests, questionnaires, I went school in bright white shining uniform and came back in wrinkled, mud stained light brown dress! Without washing machine my mom might have had a hard time washing those clothes. My parents being really cooperative, accepted this, and had limited expectations for me. So no real pushing from their side also. “ Let him Njoy now, he is a small kid”, they said to others. Whatever be the case, I was a pet at the school-Chinmaya Vidyalaya where I had my primary education- because of my abilities in sports and arts. I was learning classical music from my 1st standard onwards and was the winner of every music related competitions. Whether it was Light Music or Geetha Chanting or Recitation or whatever, I was there right on top. Similar was the case with sports. Running-nobody could beat me!! - and Cricket -the real all rounder and a great fieldsman!! I remember, I used to dream a lot about getting into the Indian cricket team at that time-used to practice a lot-

Somehow I managed a “PASS” in the 4th standard and joined M.D.Seminary High School, Kottayam. New atmosphere, new friends, new teachers and all of a sudden, I started scoring good marks!! I became the first student to procure a place in the Kottayam District Cricket team. I also won prizes in Classical music and Kadhakali Sangeetham at the district level for the school “Yuvajanotsava”. But, my parents had started expecting something out of me by this time and without warning they changed their saying-“ Let him Njoy his studies, he is a studious kid!!”-.

To C.M.S College, the first college in Kerala, which started as a grammar school-started by the British missionaries to teach the wretched Indians, some grammar-. This college is something like a “family college” (just like a family physician) to me. My mother, sister, uncles, and almost everyone had their PreDegree (the eqlt of +2) from here.
I think, the roots of my personality starts from here. Lots of friends-hey my own gang- We, Brijesh, Ratheesh, Chettayi, Jaison, Sajanish, Rajiv, Sajeev and I-. And the spicy stuff, gals- Hell!! All were beautiful-!! The 2-B class was such a mixed blend of intellectuals, beauties, jokers and villains. We bunked class, went cinema, played cricket during chemistry class- now wondering, how I managed to escape through the classroom window-, Stole juice containers from canteen, teased senior gals when they were away from their local body guards, played lover boys in front of junior gals, and well- every day was another life-!! Alas, I passed the entrance exam and got into Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology as first year Electronics and Communication Student -Fresher!! As my seniors called us–

Life became a misery. Assignments, series tests, university exams, and every thing at the blink of an eye. I even remember my fifth semester when I had to write two exams per day, for two days in a single stretch- I got my pc during the fourth semester study leave- a big mistake! - I was wondering whether it was university exam or series test-it resembled a lot like series test- and then the shock. It was indeed university exam!! Neways, exited the college on August 2002, of course with somewhat decent marks to the credit, but also with a “No job, No girlfriend” label – Gosh! What were I doing all these years?? – Not a single person from my class except two, the buji Jayakumaran and Sanoosh got placed. Even Reeman, the class toper + university topper (with record percentage) stood jobless- to his worry and to my relief ;)-

Dark future it was then… September 11th, planes crashed, IT slashed, those who had jobs were fired and me still jobless! Days passed, years passed and here now I stand, as Senior Research Fellow at CDAC Thiruvananthapuram, the premier Central Government Organization conducting research at different levels. (Thank God)

Present…………..
And now if somebody asks me about my identity, I start saying, “Sir, I am Sreeram R Warrier, working at blah blah, have 2+ years in more blah blah … and ‘am an expert in blah blah blah”!!
My world is shrinking…..
Welcome to my small already shrunken world……………

Signed: Sreeram. R. Warrier