I needn write down the characters now, cos the character names are more popular than their original names now :P
Alexander Graham Bell would have never invented the phone had he known we were all gonna use it some day! Especially if he had KNOWN where Buttocks would keep his PHONE (oh wasn’t it a kavithai? Thnku.. Thnku fr the whistle J)! That’s an insult to Alexander Bell! That’s almost like having Bell himself in the buttocks! First I was damn annoyed with Buttocks as he never used to attend my calls. But then I found out that he always had his phone in silent mode and you all know where he used to keep his phone. So whenever I called, when his phone vibrated, it never struck him. He blamed it on his heavy lunch! When I messaged, he blamed it on his breakfast! He thought, lesser the intensity and the duration of the vibration, smaller the meal that was responsible for it!
BT was the first guy to have a Ngage. That was the time when he started assigning ringtones to ppl very intelligently. As I had already written about this, when some gal called it used to sing Jaane tu; some other gal, some other romantic song; cometh Arun/Balaji’s call, it sang Ella pugazhum; n when we called, it was Nokia’s default tanananana tone; n when Buttocks called, it would automatically divert it to the voicemail! And all the gfs of BT had supercool names in his phone. He had the complete catalog of Vijay’s movies in his phone, not in his memory card, but in his contact list. ‘Madurai calling’! I thought some1 from Madurai was calling him, but it was some1 right behind me giving a missed call to BT. Another game, which BT thought was damn cool was giving missed calls to ppl and annoying them during class hours. Gym was known for his famous ringtones! Some of them were ‘shoe’-‘shoe’-maari, hara hara sambho and other not-even-close-to-bearable stuff. I guess he did all that just to bug me L ! Omg, I don’t even know how one could choose that as a ringtone! I suppose Sleeping Beauty would have put in a lot of thought in buying his cell phone. It was well chosen and bought. Like himself, his phone would respond only after 20 minutes! Before even u could type 1 small reply, BT would have finished chatting with ‘Cool’, ‘Ghilli’, 'Cute', 'Nice', ‘Lucky’ and a few other girls.
Superstar and Music’s phone were like doing injustice to Alexander Bell. They were never used for making calls or sending messages. To be frank, no1 called/msgd them; and when they called/msgd, no1 responded. Their primary use was to listen to Music. SS had Harris’s discography in it. Music had ARR’s discography in it. The sad thing about Music and SS’s phones were, their phones were used just in the morning to inquire where the train was, and whether Music and SS would be able to make it to the 3rd hour class!UN used his phone only when India played cricket! He had a phone just to inquire about the scores and update us!
Chiru was the most sought-after guy on a windy day when one had a lot of papers around! His phone could be used as a paper-weight! See how kind I am to even call it a phone! It required special skills to even unlock Chiru’s keypad! Chiru’s inbox was a collection of forwards and jokes which he used to browse 3 times a day.
And now comes the introduction of our hero, LM. LM was one guy who had mastered the art of ‘lock keypad-unlock keypad’! I just told you abt the renaming stuff that BT did. But no1 can beat our LM. I have never seen creativity exhibited more creatively than LM! The other day, when I was having LM’s phone, some1 had called, it said 100 calling! I was shocked. I thought it was the police. LM was one guy who was very capable of getting calls from the police! So I couldn rule out the chance of the police really calling him. I ran all the way to him and told him the matter. He just gave me a naïve smile and told me it was Nooruddin Mohd. From EEE dept! “Noor” = “100”!! Wow. I even doubt whether, Mr. Tamil, the Mylapore man, Thiruvalluvar could have thought of it!. Tats wat I meant by creative creativity! Another instance is, once one of my friends wanted to buy an economic and fuel efficient car. I suggested him REVA. He wanted the contact number of the showroom. I remembered seeing REVA's number in LM's phone and gave my friend the number. He called, and ended up speaking to Mrs. REVAthy Purushothaman!!!!
Pookutty was a Yellow Pages book! Whenever our staff forgot to get their attendance register with them, they would borrow Pookutty’s phone. He had the names and numbers of every single guy/gal in the class! I, on the other hand, didn’t even know some of the guys in the class! Also, Pookutty had around 1,56,789 songs in his 128 mb card. Only thing being that u needed a 20000 dB amplifier to listen to it. They were all stored in compressed format.
I don’t know how all our guys use their phones now, but all I know is, Buttocks still seems to hate Mr. Bell! Though he now has an iphone, the place where he keeps it is still the same. One funny incident that I would like to share before I sign off is this. A week ago, Buttocks happened to call me. I picked up the phone and imitated my voice mail and said, “Hi, U ve reached Music, I am currently unavailable. Pl leave ur name, num and msg, Ill get back to u shortly” and yes Buttocks did leave a message!!!
