Speechless moments..

Scene 1:
I wish to share an unexpected call I got from a person.

One fine after noon, I was in a meeting at office. some seniors were with me and we were discussing few official things.to be precise, the discussion was about a few technical solutions in new generation 'Graphics'. (Graphics is a term used in software to talk pictures and visualization).

The phone rang. The handset failed to identify the number. There are many unsolicited calls from telemarketing people. So a call can not be welcomed wholehearted as it was in 90s.After one or two 'denials' by Red button of the phone, I attended the call. I was prejudiced. prepared to shout to marketing executive.

The male voice at the other end said in plain/clean Malayalam(translating the conversation to keep the theme here)

"Veenus... right?".
"Yes".
"I am one of your classmate. Not sure you remember me. we used to chat in those days".
"Who...?". "
"Shaju. Shaju NA.".
I was very happy. could not reply any word for few minutes. because I was in another context.

An incident from my classroom came into my mind. That too was Graphics!.

Scene2:flash back..
The place was the computer lab of Sree Rama Polytechnic. Few IBM computers were there. The major configuration was a 286pc

equipped with EGA, which was the main one there which is not allowed for student's use. I remember at that time I was only few months after I heard about that word("Graphics"). so because of curiosity, i did a program in Turbo Pascal which can lit the pixels based on our keyboard input. User can use some keys like (a,b,c,d) to control the lighting point. A key to switch on/off the MarkMode. The screen was black, which is normal in dos. Peers in the class or teacher did not notice this program.

that was a normal class. I tried to explain to few of my friends. nobody seems to be interested. I remember Manoj was appreciating about that. Then i went outside the lab to take a break. I was happy on making the program but was bit unhappy for not getting attention. After 1 hour, normally i was not a best student in timings!, reached back in the lab. to my surprise, i found a group (4 or 5) was around the computer where i put the program and doing something. when i glanced to the screen, i was speechless. there was a cartoon kind of picture in black and white. The person who drew the picture was Shaju. He was a good sketcher. so it was nothing great to him. anyway he just tried a new media to draw. also he asked me a very meaningful question. "Can I take printout of this. or can i keep it in my floppy". There were many 1.2 inch floppies.

That was my inspiration to dig into graphics. also it made me to think more serious way of keeping user-data. Those are very important in my professional life.

Scene3:back..!
Nostalgia.. made me speechless. all these items came to my mind as i am seeing a film.

When I was thinking about these... Shaju was trying hard to introduce himself. He even went up to naming the college and other classmates.!

I said "yes.I know you. will call you.. I am in a meeting ".

He ended the call with a feeling of "no hope".(a guess..!). For me, it was too hard to convey my feelings. it was so huge which need clear modulation to transfer over a telephonic conversation!. That too from that official meeting scenario. Almost impossible. :(
In other words, there are many states in our life where we can not express our self as we want to express.

Meet Shaju in web at http://shajunirmaalyam.blogspot.com