There was us!

Surprise! Surprise!, Got a call from a very old friend today. I have not met or spoken to this chap in 11 yrs, didn’t know where he was, last time I saw of him was in the summer of 1999, then he vanished from the face of this earth; Talking to him brought back so many old memories...especially when we wanted to make it big as Employers...at the age of 19 something.
We were a dysfunctional unit, clueless, all we cared about was to have fun, unparallel fun, if we were in the army, the enemy would have loved to see us fight but against We were a bunch of immaculate pathetic bunch of boys(i know these lads will not like it when they read this , but what the hell!), we basically did bugger all, out of the 3 of us, One chap had a decent mode of transportation, he loved to call his bike a super bike, a limited edition Suzuki, but in our eyes it looked as if it had come straight out of a gaudy tamil movie and had been a subject of frequent harassment , but it served its purpose, it was not a chariot of fire, neither was it a chariot, but it was there, it was a part and parcel of this silly old mob, it had its identity and identity of carrying 3 guys..
We were inseparable, killing away time, either sitting in someone’s house waiting for a nice cup of tea and snacks, playing short cricket or sitting in a little room with asbestos ceiling, watching my friend’s pet snake slither in his old stinky socks.
We thought we were India’s answer to Bill Gates, we even launched a few little ventures of our own, we were so proud of our creativity. Our first attempt to get into the cyber world;
www.killerattitude.com - this was the mother of all inept websites, we didn’t know why we wanted to have this website, the home page had a picture of a bloody shark! Yes a shark, since our website’s name was killer attitude we thought having a picture of this shark will not only attract a lot of young likeminded losers but it can also be a revenue generating tool!!, On clicking its razor sharp wide open jaws was supposed to redirect to a page with contents, lots of contents, but we had blank pages, lots of them, the website was so unpopular it didn’t even attract the attention of our maid, looking back thank god we did not have a website called www.bangonattitude.com imagine the home page picture.
Here comes www.smartindians.com, There goes smartindians.com it’s in the Guinness book of records, 22:00 website and company launched 22:30 website and company shutdown.
Now we the so called budding, young, energetic entrepreneurs decided to have a company that catered to the mass, a company with a strong work force of 3 guys, these guys will solve any problem associated with your computer, but in order for us to help you, we will need to upload a virus onto your system and then we will supply an antivirus tool for a nominal fee, that was one of the objectives behind setting up code innovations. So here comes code innovations, printed visiting cards, Director, Managing Director, Assistant director, water boy, letter heads, now we wanted to start our marketing campaign we had elaborate plans for it. One of our company founders was in charge of marketing as well, so he goes out to meet our ‘future clients’ but ends up buying a darn snake, a Boa!
Now we missed the main plot of code innovations, we were taking more care of the snake then the company.. we lost it to a snake who did not have a name, a nameless boa constrictor swallowed our company.. we were ruined, we were devastated, we did not know what to do, we were.. ah it’s time to feed the snake chicken from the butchers then!
But we had our equal share of fun, those trips to resorts, ordering coffee and realising there is not a single penny in our pockets, some of us didn’t even have a pocket so to speak, Google eyed nocturnal creatures we were.
We are going to be meeting in March for a little re-union, this time minus the boa and the bike.
Two of my friends have their own company(finally they did it) one guy is in Malaysia and the other in Bangalore.. Im in London....