Wednesday, September 24, 2008

My First Write Up on the web is in 2001

Seems like i tend to write more in the last 2 months time.

And some of my friends actually surprised of the sudden improvement in my quality of writing(believe, i didn't paid for it). They may be right, though not world class but the quality is actually good comparing to my own standards in the past, probably as a result of becoming a voracious reader now-a-days. It takes me 7 years back down in my memory lane when i managed to publish my first write up in the web with some broken english (url available at the end of this post).

Actually this incidence happens in 2001 when i'm working with pentasoft, it was actually written to make fun of my friend who keenly interested in knowing whether i have any girlfriend. So as he is interested i thought of converging it to have some fun. Hence i decided to send him a mail acknowledging that i had a girl friend. I also liked that the story should not be fully fake, hence i thought of mixing the attributes of the girl with that of a little baby girl who is staying in the neighbourhood. I splitted the content in to two mails to kindle the interest first followed by a little hyphe associated with the real truth.

Original excerpts of the first Mail and the response as follows,

vivekanandan murugesan wrote:
> As per your thought i got a .................. here,
> she is good looking and very very pretty. The beauty
> is not at all a matter, the way i got her is a
> pleasant surprise. because she is a neighbour to my
> aunty's house where i'm staying and she voluntarily

> smiles at me, even iam strange to her. i assaulted
> twice but i attracted towards her at the third time. > Then we talk thru our smiles. > After a few days silent conversation becomes
> sound one thru our voice.
> That's all now.
> Remaining in the next episode.
> I attached my resume with this mail.
> with luv,
> vivek
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Arunkumar.I <iarunkumar@india.adventnet.com
>
To: vivekanandan murugesan <billviveks@yahoo.com
>
Sent: Saturday, 16 June, 2001 8:34:42 AM
Subject: Re: All about ..................
Dear vivek,
pls send ur resume in text format , since i can't open .doc format in my
machine...coz i am workin in linux....
and happy 2 know that u r enjoying ur days.........and all the best for the
next episode........
bye
arun

And his response is very much as i expected, which makes me to draft the next mail more attentively so as to keep the curiosity tempo increasing till i reveal the truth. Here is the excerpts of the second mail, he actually made a call to me while he was half-way through the mail (particularly while reading the "hook" part, will be understood when you are going through the mail) and shown his surprise & curiosity to know whether it is true.

-----Inline Message Follows-----
Recap: I avoided her twice.But at the third instance my strategy is broken. Because noone refuse her smile if they see her at once.she is having such a beautiful and smiling face.
*Please forgive me for the following exclamations in the paranthesis.
(! Like a fresh rose she always carries a smile in her face.! Like a rising sun, she is bright and beautiful when she wake up.)
After one or two days our silent conversation through smile is matured into a sound conversation through voice. After that, we spent more hours in meaningless conversations.
*Forgive me again
(our Conversation is meaningless because my mind refused to compile the words from her mouth and it is in hurry to execute myside words to her ears.I don't know which protocol makes our communication in such a speed.Even it is meaningless my heart becomes lightened. * I felt the white tooth protocol is better than blue tooth.)
At these moments, I don't know why the clock rings fastly rather normal. Oneday her mother came into the scene when we are chatting, but she reacts with a smile at us and i take it as a green signal for our friendship.

*please forgive me again for one more exclamation. ! The crown of all is her walk, even cat can learn how to walk from her cat walk. I am surprised when she also calls me as 'mama' as like our male friends. The next thing may threaten you, yes because one day she asks me to put on her jacket hooks without a piece of shy in her face. what i like at her is , she never asks me to take her to pizza corners and all,she satisfies with a small chocolate itself. if we go shopping, she always like to walk with me by holding my hand rather go by bike. she always gave me likely torchers, one such is when iam typing a resume to send she asks me to type a resume for her.As i never refused her obligations, i typed a resume to her as per the details given by her as follows.

Name : Sinthu
DOB : 2/10/1996
EQ : L.K.G to U.k.G
SS : Rhymes in chorus
KL : Tamil,English,Hindi
EQ : Painting in the walls

note: As you want to write more to you i wrote this, please forgive for consuming your golden time.

Mama dai en mungikkellam engarunthuda girl friend kiddaikapovuthu. And also, now i am interested to know the real meaning hardwork. i attached my resume with this.

with luv,
vivek

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Arunkumar.I
<iarunkumar@india.adventnet.com
> To: indra mohan <gimohan@yahoo.com>; mani shankar <m1nisha@yahoo.com>; balaji <vrs_balaji@yahoo.com>; vivekanand <billviveks@yahoo.com>; krishna kumar <vk_krishna@yahoo.com>; sakthivel <ss_sakthi26@usa.net>; murugaraj <murugaraj_2000@yahoo.com>; kavitha <e_kavi_2000@yahoo..com>; senthil kumar <mskumar_y2k@yahoo.com>; ganesh kumar <ganeshkumar_ms@yahoo.com>; prabhu <prabu_sofwin@yahoo.com>; thandava moorthy <moorthy2k@usa.net>; manju <gopmanju@usa.net>; senthil kumar o s <senthil_os@yahoo.com>; nithya sri <nithya_8_2000@yahoo..com>; saravanan <dsaravanane@yahoo.com>; sathish kumar <sathishl28@usa.net>; sarah srinivasan <sarah_srinivasan@usa.net
> Sent: Thursday, 21 June, 2001 3:56:52 PM

Subject: [Fwd: All about part 2 ( resume free)]

dear all, u all know abt vivek , a guy having such a great talents.. here this mail will prove this point... onesecond he has proved himself as a great writer and thinker.

thanks
arun

Actually i thought he might curse me for disappointing him unncessarily(thats why i tailored this mail more humbly), but to my surprise he made wonderful compliments towards my writing skill, which makes me to store this mail forever in my inbox.
Which also enables me to secure it by publishing it on the web(geocities.com), during those days geocities is as popular as blogs now-a-days. I have cut short something to make it as crispy one to read. And to present it well, i also added some animation with the help of flash (During that time i'm a budding Flash cum photoshop designer).

You can have a look at it in the following url : http://geocities.com/billviveks

Here it comes, Why am i putting this flashback now. Because i have read an article about witnesses in the following url(http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/existing) refered by one of our famous colleague in Zoho.

And the quote goes this way, "The key to life is picking the right witnesses. Thanks for being mine."

Though its a small incident, it keeps me driving to write more

4 comments:

  1. Nice buddy. And the one liners was also very good (esp: I felt the white tooth protocol is better than blue tooth). Of course there are grammatical mistakes, but it was enjoyable.
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  2. Good one vivek. I liked the 'cat walk' stuff the most. girl friend iruka nu peela vidarappaye kavaithai ippadi kottuthu ungalukku...inum nijamavae iruntha enna agarathu...yaru antha kavithaya ellam padikkarathu. oru velai athuku than ungaluku gf amayalayo ennamo!! :)
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  3. Good one buddy. so nice of you to remember your first writeup.

    A few sentences in the writeup are in your typical style - funny yet thought provoking!

    "Even cat can learn how to walk from her cat walk."

    "I felt the white tooth protocol is better than blue tooth."

    Keep writing, buddy!
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  4. Guys, Thanks for your comments.

    @Ramy, Yeah there are some spelling mistakes in the mail but that is how i write during those days and i don't want to edit it now so as to keep the originality of the mail.

    @Thiyagu, nejamaavae enakku oru girl friend irundhudhirundha innaeram en kavidhaiyai padichu sethu sunnaaambaaa aagi irupeenga, apdi oru kodumai nadakkaama andha aandavan ungala kaapaaathitaan, ellam nalladhukku thaan nenachikonga
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