FROM AJITH TO FULLU!!

AJITH MENON. I envy my name. I believe my surname brings about a feeling of being high-class and important among others… and also instills a sense of confidence, pride and self-belief in me. My name used to be my identity among my friends circle earlier. Not any more…..

There’s this classmate and close friend of mine(I dont wish to reveal his name, but anyone from GEC must surely have seen a 4-wheel BLAZE??) He’s holds the sole reputation of being the biggest idiot of our class….Not that he’s stupid….But he’s got the knack of cracking the most sympathetic jokes you would have ever heard…. and he’s popularised it to the extent that it’s become a trend among the Computer Science students….

Most of us are prone to speaking in the slang of our friends(using the same terms)…. I was no different. When I joined college, I was so obsessed with the word ‘BULLSHIT’ that one could count literally 25-30 occurrences of that word in a 5-minute phone call…. I used the word quite frequently that it came to be associated with me… I earned the nickname ‘BULL’….

Forgot to mention something… The above-mentioned nimcompoop, with the Blaze, has this habit of replacing the letter B(or P), with the letter F(Dont know why he is so obsessed with the letter F). With constant usage, when he finally got bored of the name BULL, he reassigned my name to a more pleasing FULL. And with his influence, the evolution of FULLER did not have to wait long. My friends began identifying me as FULLER. And it later grew into what most people call me today – FULLU. There are others who call me FLU as well…

For the moment all thats immaterial. I dont care what people call me unless its not totally irritating. Like this classmate of mine from Kodakara who calls me(in his traditional Thrissur slang) – “DA FULLE”!! I dont give a damn today. Am just hoping that people dont ultimately forget my actual name while blindly continuing to accept me as Mr. Full.