We had many happening things all these days which will be blogged soon.. But for some reason this incident was striking my mind so hard and urged me to blog on. Hence I wish I shall share this; which happened little later to my college life.
It was on a sunny week day afternoon between 1.00 - 2.00 PM. I; wearing a so-called formal attire & was on way to my office on a barely empty Chennai bus (probably C51 or T51); for a real, active nigh shift; (~Suz: To mess up the codes which was already messed up to its best).
It was just when I commenced my travel nap, I heard a feeble Nokia tune from somewhere in the wind. I followed the source of the tune and found it instigating from my shirt pocket.. Yes.. My old steady Nokia 1100 was trying to gain my attention to inform me that someone is trying to reach me.
I picked up the phone with a great difficulty of coming out from the nap and was really exited on hearing the voice of a lady probably of her mid 20s(~Suz, we can never be changed.).... On hearing the voice, for a moment I could able to hear the jingle bells from the inside of my heart with pretty angels flying above my head..
As soon as I picked up the call, the voice proceeded like this...With too much of "Sir" in between the words.....
"Sir.....AIRTEL sir.. Balasubramaniyan unga friend dhane sir..??"
Means: "Sir.....AIRTEL sir.. Balasubramaniyan is ur friend sir...??
I could able to listen only to these words in the midst of the drowsy and noisy atmosphere. All I could guess was that; it is a call from airtel all center and somebody is asking about one of my old friend.
Little bytes from my college days...
When I was doing my bachelors in Computers, Balasubramaniyan(Bala) was doing his commerce studies in my college. Both of us are combinedly famous in our college for our mega physic and were been a point of entertainment for the guys & girls. Most of the time we can be found hanging about with our "amigas" from various departments and batches. At times, guys stare at us for flirting too much with them(~Suz: The ultimate purpose of the college life.)... Still we took it in a pure sportive spirit... :-)
Secret Note: This blog too is an outcome of the motivation from one of my nice-looking female friend from UG... ;-) (Mr.~Suz: Daie... Nadathu da.. Nadathu....)
Ok, coming back to our main stuff.,
Since I was having a connection from Aircel at that time, I was wondering and almost came to a conclusion that no way I can get a call from a airtel call centre. In this puzzled mood I proceed to talk to that young woman... The next question was...
"....May I know whether bala is your friend..? .
"....and how long you are having this number with you ??.. "
(The entire conversation happened in my native language)
Mr.~Suz, my twin brother was also in a drowsy mood as me. As soon as I heard the voice he woke up in the background in a full spirit. From the back of my mind he told me that Bala is asking someone else in his gang to call me and speak this way. This was his usual technique to irritate me. Hence I wish to confuse the caller and replied....
"...No..Bala is my first enemy.." (!#$%^&^&#@!)
"... and i am going to use this number only from tomorrow.." (!#$%^&^&*)
I could able to feel the confusion in her voice on hearing this reply. I felt really happy about what I have done (Mr.~Suz: As if nominated for Oscar) and tried to insist on the same answer when she asked me the same question for the second time. After a series of chats this way, the girl got frightened with my replies and called one of her neighbouring male caller sitting next to her.
Since I wished to maintain this state of confusion on the other side, I replied the same answer to this guy too.
An eternal silence prevailed for around 30 seconds.. Then the man started explaining me..
"Sir.... Airtel.. Mr.Balasubramaniyan was previously having an Airtel connection has not paid the mobile bill for past some months. We found that he has called to your number frequently when he was using this number. Hence we are trying to reach him regarding this. Please let us know if you know any of his contact details.."
But before even he could complete the full sentence I realized the confusion because of my misconception. Then I spent couple of minutes explaining him that he is my college mate and I am no more in contacts with him...And I thought that it is he playing with me like that and so only I replied that way...bla.. bla.. bla......
I picked up the phone with a great difficulty of coming out from the nap and was really exited on hearing the voice of a lady probably of her mid 20s(~Suz, we can never be changed.).... On hearing the voice, for a moment I could able to hear the jingle bells from the inside of my heart with pretty angels flying above my head..
As soon as I picked up the call, the voice proceeded like this...With too much of "Sir" in between the words.....
"Sir.....AIRTEL sir.. Balasubramaniyan unga friend dhane sir..??"
Means: "Sir.....AIRTEL sir.. Balasubramaniyan is ur friend sir...??
I could able to listen only to these words in the midst of the drowsy and noisy atmosphere. All I could guess was that; it is a call from airtel all center and somebody is asking about one of my old friend.
Little bytes from my college days...
When I was doing my bachelors in Computers, Balasubramaniyan(Bala) was doing his commerce studies in my college. Both of us are combinedly famous in our college for our mega physic and were been a point of entertainment for the guys & girls. Most of the time we can be found hanging about with our "amigas" from various departments and batches. At times, guys stare at us for flirting too much with them(~Suz: The ultimate purpose of the college life.)... Still we took it in a pure sportive spirit... :-)
Secret Note: This blog too is an outcome of the motivation from one of my nice-looking female friend from UG... ;-) (Mr.~Suz: Daie... Nadathu da.. Nadathu....)
Ok, coming back to our main stuff.,
Since I was having a connection from Aircel at that time, I was wondering and almost came to a conclusion that no way I can get a call from a airtel call centre. In this puzzled mood I proceed to talk to that young woman... The next question was...
"....May I know whether bala is your friend..? .
"....and how long you are having this number with you ??.. "
(The entire conversation happened in my native language)
Mr.~Suz, my twin brother was also in a drowsy mood as me. As soon as I heard the voice he woke up in the background in a full spirit. From the back of my mind he told me that Bala is asking someone else in his gang to call me and speak this way. This was his usual technique to irritate me. Hence I wish to confuse the caller and replied....
"...No..Bala is my first enemy.." (!#$%^&^&#@!)
"... and i am going to use this number only from tomorrow.." (!#$%^&^&*)
I could able to feel the confusion in her voice on hearing this reply. I felt really happy about what I have done (Mr.~Suz: As if nominated for Oscar) and tried to insist on the same answer when she asked me the same question for the second time. After a series of chats this way, the girl got frightened with my replies and called one of her neighbouring male caller sitting next to her.
Since I wished to maintain this state of confusion on the other side, I replied the same answer to this guy too.
An eternal silence prevailed for around 30 seconds.. Then the man started explaining me..
"Sir.... Airtel.. Mr.Balasubramaniyan was previously having an Airtel connection has not paid the mobile bill for past some months. We found that he has called to your number frequently when he was using this number. Hence we are trying to reach him regarding this. Please let us know if you know any of his contact details.."
But before even he could complete the full sentence I realized the confusion because of my misconception. Then I spent couple of minutes explaining him that he is my college mate and I am no more in contacts with him...And I thought that it is he playing with me like that and so only I replied that way...bla.. bla.. bla......
Finally I ended my reply with a note of sorry and told that guy to convey my regrets to that female too. I felt really sorry about the poor state of those two callers who were kept in the state of embarrassment because of my brother :(.
After that I did not get sleep through the rest of the journey. !!
After that I did not get sleep through the rest of the journey. !!
Hayoo... Hayyyooooo....
