പേരില്ലാത്ത പോസ്റ്റ്‌

അടുത്തിടെ ഞാന്‍ പബ്ലിഷ് ചെയ്ത പോസ്റ്റില്‍ പറഞ്ഞ ഒരു പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയുടെ പുതിയ കുറെ ചിത്രങ്ങള്‍ ഈയിടെ കാണാനിടയായി. അതില്‍ ഒരു ചിത്രം എന്നെ വല്ലാണ്ട് ആകര്‍ഷിച്ചു. ഞാന്‍ വീണ്ടും ആ പഴയ ഓര്‍മകളിലേക്ക് കൂപ്പുകുത്തി. അപ്പോള്‍, ഞാന്‍ ആ കുട്ടിക്ക് എഴുതിയ ഒരു കത്തിന്റെ പ്രസക്ത ഭാഗങ്ങള്‍ ആ കുട്ടിയുടെ സംമാതതോട് കൂടി ഇവിടെ നിങ്ങള്ക് മുന്‍പില്‍ കാഴ്ച്ചവെക്കുകയാണ്. എങ്ങനെയുണ്ടെന്നു എന്നെ അറിയിക്കുക.

ഈ ഫോട്ടോ കണ്ടപ്പോള്‍ എന്‍റെ മനസ്സിലുള്ള ആ പഴയ കുട്ടിയെ ഓര്‍മ വന്നു. നെറ്റിയില്‍ ഭസ്മക്കുറിയും, രണ്ടു വശത്തുമായി വൃത്തിയായി പിന്നിയിട്ട കാര്‍കൂന്തലും,( ഇതില്‍ അങ്ങനെ അല്ലെങ്കിലും) ഒക്കെയായി നിറപുഞ്ചിരിയോടെ വിദ്യാലയത്തിലേക്ക്‌ വന്ന ആ പഴയ കുട്ടി. നെറ്റിയിലെ ആ ഭസ്മക്കുറി തനിക്കു ഒരു ശാലീനമായ ഒരു ഗ്രാമീണ പെണ്‍കുട്ടിയുടെ ഭാവം തരുന്നു. സത്യമായിട്ടും എന്നെ ആ പഴയ ഓര്‍മകളിലേക്ക് കൂട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടു പോകുകയാണ് ഈ ചിത്രം. ആ നാലുകെട്ടിന്റെ പശ്ചാത്തലം മേല്പറഞ്ഞ ഗ്രാമീണതക്ക് ആക്കം കൂട്ടുന്നു.

പിന്നെ, തനിക്കറിയുമോ എന്നെനിക്കറിയില്ല. എന്‍റെ ഒരു കൂട്ടുകാരനും തന്നെ ഭയങ്കര ഇഷ്ടമായിരുന്നു. എല്ലാരും കൂടെ അവനെ തന്റെ പേരും ചേര്‍ത്ത് കളിയാക്കാറുണ്ടായിരുന്നു. അത് കേള്‍ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ അന്ന് ഭയങ്കര വിഷമം തോന്നിയിരുന്നു. പത്താം ക്ലാസ്സില്‍ പഠിക്കുമ്പോഴാണ് ഞാന്‍ ആദ്യമായി അവന്റെയും തന്റെയും പേര് ഒരുമിച്ചു ഞാന്‍ ആദ്യമായി കേള്‍ക്കുന്നത്. ഞാന്‍ അന്ന് വീട്ടില്‍ വന്നതിനു ശേഷം പൊട്ടിക്കരഞ്ഞു പോയി!
ഞാന്‍ ഒന്‍പതാം ക്ലാസ്സില്‍ പഠിക്കുമ്പോഴാണ് ഞാന്‍ ആദ്യമായി തന്നെ ഒന്ന് തൊടുന്നത്. തനിക്കു അത് ഓര്‍മ പോലും കാണില്ല. അത്രയ്ക്ക് തിരക്കായിരുന്നു. Mercury house നു വേണ്ടി താന്‍ നൃത്തം ചെയ്ത ദിവസം ആയിരുന്നു. വെള്ള ഷര്‍ട്ടും, കറുത്ത പാന്റ്സും ആയിരുന്നു അന്ന് തന്റെ വേഷം. മുടി അപ്പോഴും വൃത്തിയായി പിന്നിയിട്ടിരുന്നു എന്നാണ് എന്‍റെ ഓര്‍മ. തിരക്കിനിടയില്‍ പെട്ട് എന്‍റെ അനിയത്തിയെ നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ട ടെന്‍ഷനില്‍ ഞാന്‍ ഓരോരുത്തരെയായി തള്ളി മാറ്റി നോക്കുന്നതിനിടയില്‍ തനെയും ഞാന്‍ തള്ളി മാറ്റി. അന്ന് ഞാന്‍ എത്രമാത്രം സന്തോഷിച്ചു എന്നറിയാമോ. (അനിയത്തി വീട്ടില്‍ എത്തി എന്ന് ഫോണ്‍ ചെയ്തപ്പോള്‍ മനസ്സിലായി. അപ്പോഴാണ് ഞാന്‍ തന്നെ തൊട്ടതും മാറ്റിയതും ഒക്കെയായ കാര്യങ്ങള്‍ ഓര്‍മ വരുന്നത്).
ഒരര്‍ത്ഥത്തില്‍, താന്‍ മാത്രമാണ് എനിക്ക് ആ വിദ്യാലയത്തില്‍ നിന്നും ഓര്‍ക്കാന്‍ സുഖം തരുന്ന ഒരേ ഒരാള്‍. അക്കാര്യത്തില്‍ ഞാന്‍ തന്നോട് അങ്ങേയറ്റം കടപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. ബാകി ആരും അത്ര സുഖമുള ഓര്‍മകളല്ല എനിക്ക് തന്നിട്ടുള്ളത്.
തന്റെ ഈ ഫോട്ടോ കണ്ടപ്പോഴാണ് എനിക്ക് ഈ ഓര്‍മകളെല്ലാം മനസ്സിലേക്ക് ഓടിയെത്തിയത്. തന്‍ എന്‍റെ നല്ല ഒരു സുഹൃത്തായതുകൊണ്ടാണ് ഞാന്‍ ഇതൊക്കെ തന്നോട് നേരിട്ട് ഇങ്ങനെ പറയുന്നത്. ഇതെല്ലം ഒരു കൗമാരക്കാരന്റെ മാനസികവിഹ്വലതകളായി കണക്കാക്കണം
മറുപടി തന്നില്ലെങ്കിലും കുഴപ്പമില്ല. നമ്മളുടെ സൗഹൃദം ഒരിക്കലും കൈവിടാതിരുന്നാല്‍ മതി.

എന്ന് ഹൃദയപൂര്‍വം,
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ആര്‍ക്കെങ്കിലും പറ്റിയ പേര് തോന്നുകയാണെങ്കില്‍ ദയവായി താഴെ കമന്റ്‌ ചെയ്തു സഹകരിക്കുക.

For all the people those who don't understand malayalam - get hold of someone who can read and understand malayalam. I am not going to translate it to anybody else.

The Stud

In my second post, I told you about a Professor in the Institute. Many people liked it and quite a few friends asked me to write about students. Well, I took a poll among my friends, to decide upon the person about whom, I should write my next blog. Two persons received maximum votes. Congratulations to both of them. Unfortunately, I had to ditch the name of one person, only because of the popularity reason. The person about whom, I am going to write is (in) famous even among the Professors for his antics and tactics.
He is a stud. He is the primary reason for many girls in Hostel 11 (that’s the girls hostel of my college, where most of the Post Graduate students stay) to lose their sleep. He even comes to their dreams to scare the hell out of them. It’s a treat to attend the lecture in which he is present. You can definitely expect fun in the class, from his mouth for sure. I can list out numerous incidents which prove this. Another fact that I came to know about him is that, he is a dropout from one of the best technical universities in the world. Don't know why.
Most of the incidents that come to my mind about him took place during the class. He is the TA of the Professor who is teaching us that particular subject. So, he is supposed to attend every lecture of that professor and take down the notes. He actually records the lecture in his Sony MP3 Recorder, which is quite old and has some battery problems too. He will be there in the first row itself, keenly listening to the class and passing odd comments at unimaginable contexts.
There is a person called Richard Ernest Bellman (August 26, 1920 – March 19, 1984), an Applied Mathematician from New York. He is famous for the invention of a process called Dynamic Programming in 1953, which is essential for us in this course. Our professor was talking about this person and his theory. Suddenly, our hero puts up his hand and says - “Bellman – nice name na!!”??????!!!!!!!
Another day, our professor was talking about the books we needed to refer for the subject and he had asked us to issue some books on the subject from the library. Most of the people got a book authored by a person Donald E Kirk. Our hero suddenly asks a question to the professor - “Are you a fan of Star Trek?” Professor thought for a while and he said no. The reply of the hero was more hilarious - “The hero of Star Trek is called Captain Kirk!!!!!!”
Last day, there was a talk by a distinguished Alumnus of the Institute. It was about the Brain-Machine Interface. Of course, our hero was present there too. The speaker was talking about the functioning of the brain neurons, and he said that, in one of his experiments, he was astonished to find that, in the primate he tested; one particular neuron was evoked when it was shown the picture of a particular actress. Our hero was visibly astonished and raised a question – “What sort of training did you give? What kind of dress is the actress wearing??” Why would that make a difference??????!!!!!
Well, talking about our hero’s connection with the girls, he spares no girl and scares the hell out of them. As I said earlier, he takes down every note and if he didn’t get to solve a problem in the class and he finds out that a girl in the class has done it... Poor girl!!! He will be turning up at around 11pm in front of Hostel 11, and calls the girl to get her note!! Can’t he wait for another few hours, so that he can ask her during the next day???
One of my friends was telling about another incident that took place with her. There is a restaurant in the campus, which is pretty good and expensive too, as per the student standard. But, our hero had his lunch and dinner from this restaurant daily. Had breakfast also been served there, he would have taken breakfast also from there. Back to the incident, she was a bit late and she missed her lunch from the hostel. She went to this restaurant, along with her pal and was waiting for the food. Our hero came in, saw these girls sitting, ordered a tea, pulled out a chair, and sat at the table, without even asking!! I don’t remember what he talked to them later, but as far as I know about him, it would have been utter nonsense.
Later in the night, she suddenly woke up in the middle of the night. Her roommate was knocking on the door. She actually had a nightmare. Our hero somehow got through the security and came to her room, in the middle of the night, to ask her the notebook!!! See, he even doesn’t let them sleep!!
There is another incident. This time, another girl was walking back to the hostel at around 11pm. She had some work in the lab or whatsoever, she was late. Suddenly, out of the dark, our hero comes out and began talking to her. About her ambitions, future plans ... He was asking her about whether, she would be going for a PhD or not... Did he think of proposing to her?? I don’t know. It would have been fun if such a thing did happen and she must have slapped his face off!!!
Well, due to some reason unfathomable, he was absent in today’s class. It was such a boring class you know... Without him, the class is like an underwear without an elastic!!! So, I dedicate this post to a man, who makes our classes funny!!!
That’s all for today. Keep reading and drop in your valuable comments...

Mobile Number Portability

This time, I would like to say something about my mobile operator. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited. I was fed up with the services that the great MTNL was offering me. MTNL is a network with unmatched business and calls that never get through. My parents, when they try to call me, always ended up either banging the phone or banging my ears, when they get through.

Yesterday, I got a message from the operator that I had 5 missed calls. I thought, ok. Lets see. Further, they asked me to send some message which will cost me ` 1. Whatever. I sent the message. I got 3 numbers. The first one, I recognized as my friend’s, who lives 3 floors above me. I called him, as I wanted to know why he called me. The message said that he had called me at 1008 hrs. I called him at around 2230 hrs. Still, I wanted to know, why he called me. He was astonished. He didn’t call me at all the whole day. Then, he checked his mobile’s Call Log. We found out an interesting thing. He called me 2 days back at 1008 hrs and the message is coming now!!!????? Nice network!!!

When I was back home, last year I think, I had my BSNL connection. BSNL is MTNL in other states. I sent a message to one of my friends. I was expecting reply from him. He didn’t reply. At last, I ringed up and asked. He told that he didn’t received any message. I had free messages, that is why I always send messages. A week or two later, he rang me up and was firing at me. I was astonished. What the hell happened?? He showed me the message he just got. It was the message that I had sent him earlier. Weeks ago!!!!!!!

Back to MTNL, there is another incident that took place last month. In January. I sent a message from my Reliance number to two of my classmates. One of our professors had announced a quiz. I wanted to inform those guys about that. They both use MTNL numbers. I just sent them a single message. I think they pit some High gain amplifier or a multiplier in series with it. I don’t know what it is. Anyways, my friends got the message 250 times. I repeat 250 times. ?????!!!!!!!!! In fact, my friend was saying, if I didn’t get enough marks in that quiz, I should be hanged because I was so enthusiastic about the quiz that, I informed the same thing 250times!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That day, I stopped sending them messages from my Reliance. No other person, I mean, persons who are subscribed to other operators, has complained to me about this. Long live MTNL!!!!!!!!!

At this juncture, I saw this.



I was relieved, excited. Unfortunately, or fortunately, I had my Mid Semester Exams coming in. So, I decided to wait to switch my operator till the exams get over. In the middle of exams, I saw this article in The Mumbai Mirror, dated 24th February, 2011. I had to rethink my option. Especially, when I heard this guy’s story.

I considered Mobile Number Portability for one reason. I need not waste any time sending messages to my friends, saying that I am changing my number. My total contacts would exceed 120. Notifying all of them is a very big pain in the a**. But, if the operators behave like this, what will I do??

Eventually, I have decided to change my operator and the number. No more bangings from my parents, friends and relatives, who try to call me and the great MTNL disappoints them all. Maybe. by the time, I publish this, I might have changed my number. If anybody is thinking about porting their number, give it a second thinking.

Thats all for now. Thank you for your comments on the previous posts.







Courtesy: For Video : INX Networks and istream.in
For The Article: The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror