The Pusher Man

Yea... strange title... I admit. This one is about one of my very close friends. It all started with a chat I had with him today morning...He works from US. We usually chat for long hours... I remember on some Friday, we started chatting at 7 or 8 in the night and finished well past midnight.

Back to the chat we had this morning.... I admire him for his simple honesty in admitting "sidin's blog is being read because of the quality of the posts...ur blog is being read because u are my friend" ;_) Then it went on... He started his usual dialogues... The discussion somehow reached my latest post. "You never told me abt this special friend of yours?" My reply "I mean... You knew it, that we were friends... we are just two close friends...nothing more... nothing less". He was not ready to buy that answer and went on in his inimitable style and wound up with "So your next post will be about 'The jasmine boy Thadiyan' ?" Thadiyan is another member of our very close gang MIyers. I retorted "No, it will be about you, 'The Pusher Man' ". So here I am... writing about my close buddy.

We met at CET. Have been together for the last 7 years. So we both know each other pretty well (that's what I like to claim). We call him 'Thally', which in mallu means 'The Pusher'.

By now, you might be wondering what this bloody pushing business is all about. Yea its about pushing with your dialogues. In simple words, exaggeration. Blowing things out of proportion. He has this incredible ability to present facts (and fiction too) in an overly exaggerated manner. The funny part is he is too good with technical buzz words and current affairs and such stuff, so that he will be presenting his hypothesis dotted with a lot of buzz words, popular theories, market analysis and such stuff. If you are not aware of this particular facet of this multi-faceted personality, you get the impression that you are talking to the new age Einstein when you meet him for the first time. Later on you get adjusted to it though ;_)

He is a self proclaimed thinker. And he claims he is not much bothered about the mundane things of day-to-day life. But from our experience, all of us MIyers are quite convinced that if there is a single soul amongst us who is actually affected by the small things of practical life, it is him and only him. All the other 5 of us are more than happy to deal with whatever comes in our way as and when it comes.

He is the think-tank of our group, who excels in his thinking job, so much so that he never bothers to implement any of his ideas. He likes his ideas to remain as ideas. We love him for his ability to come up with a hypothesis on each and every situation. Just check out this sequence of statements he made when asked whether he was planning to take up the new job that was offered to him. "I would like to put it as ...the most decisions that give most returns ....under probability theory... u see more the risk ...more returns... but if u include probability in it...there is a balance...and the art of decision making is achieving that balance". I still remember the laughs (in big bold letters) we used to have on hearing such 'complicated' theories from him when confronted with 'simple' questions.

Ok :_) I think I had a long pick at you Thally ...sorry abt that ;_)) while at it, what else do you expect from me? ;_))

My friend is an ardent football fan. He doesn't want to miss a match, world cup or club football. And when we tease him by saying that the only similarity that we can observe between him and football is the shape, he get all angry and defend himself saying he used to be a school team player and such stuff... (no one knows which school and what team he was referring to). Now that I mentioned about his school-team, lemme touch upon his schooling. Due to unavoidable reasons, he had this misfortune/fortune of studying in 16 different schools before he completed his secondary education. That too spread over different parts of India and also the Gulf shore. Imagine getting 'ejjukated' from across an entire continent!!!

Oh!! I forgot to mention about his love for English movies. You name it; he will tell u all the details abt the movie. The guy whose only idea of social life is to visit the theatre that plays the latest English movie. When we were in Bombay, I remember asking him at least a dozen times abt his week-end plan . Each time he would 'think' hard... sometimes he takes up to half an hour and finally comes up with the answer. "Phone Booth" , "Scorpion King", "Beautiful Mind" (whichever was the movie released that week).

And he is an admirer of US, Scandinavia, Medieval Europe, Scotland and many other foreign locations. Don't ask me whats common to all these places. These are facts collected from his mumblings over a long period of time. He was very much interested in going around Colaba area near Bombay Marine Drive because according to him the buildings out there have a medieval European look about them. Thadiyan and I were literally rolling on the street laughing when he told this, querying when the last time he visited medieval Europe was. :_)

The guy is damn accident prone. There is not a single automobile class that is released in Indian market, which doesn't have an accident history involving Thally. Starting from Autos to big container trucks, he has confronted each and every class of vehicles. Two wheelers, Three wheelers, Multi Wheelers, you just name it....And I doubt if there is a single bone in his entire body which is not yet fractured at least once. And after he met with an accident while he was riding pillion to a class mate on a Yamaha, (when the driver was actually learning the art of driving) this was his famous proclamation "I knew he didnt know how to drive. I knew he was about to meet with an accident because of the way he drove. But even then I never uttered a single word. You must appreciate my courage." Yes Thally, we all appreciate your courage. ;_)

:_) So thats it about my close buddy Thally, a voracious reader, a thinker, an English movie buff, a club football lover and philosopher. I can go on and on...

Now I introduce to all of you, his blog. Yes, he has been a fellow blogger for sometime. Check his profile to know when he created his blog. And see for yourself how much he has managed to publish so far.... The blog says it all...
http://www.kgkris.blogspot.com/