Raw cut, served fresh – Anup Menon

I was being paranoid the whole day today about how I don’t take care of myself and about how that lands me in trouble. I ate at the new office canteen yesterday and thats where I caught this violent intestinal regurgitation; following which the undigested contents of my experiment with fate yesterday were forcibly expelled. Out of my mouth, mind you. Disgusting! I suffered from food poisoning and I’ve promised to never eat at work again. So while I was taking care of myself and as I watched Yuvraj and Sehwag thrash the Sri Lankans, I found this notepad where I had randomly written stuff about myself.

Now, I’m probably obsessing about myself here, but then, what the hell? This is my place. Here goes:

• My name is Anup S Menon, S for Sasidharan, thats my dads name and he is my Idol.
• My family includes and is limited to: My dad (Sasi Menon), My mom (Usha S Menon), younger sister (Sneha S Menon) and me!
• I have loads of cousins and I’ve other family spread across everywhere; Kerala, Bangalore and the US of A!
• I wouldn’t say that I love them, but I surely think about them once in a while. I like it when I speak to them.
• I spent my entire life (upto around 4 months ago) in Pune, Maharashtra.
• I did my schooling from Kamal Nayan Bajaj High school a convent in Pune.
• I loved my school and everything about it and thats a section of my life that I’d never forget.
• I used to have loads of friends there and I’ll never forget them. I get nostalgic once in a while and I miss them all a lot!
• I still have some friends from school who keep in touch, some courtesy orkut.
• I did my Junior college and my Bachelors from D.Y.Patil college, Pimpri, Pune.
• I never liked my college and I hardly ever attended classes.
• During the times I bunked college, I used to frequent cyber cafes and chat on the IRc network – DALnet.
• I learned a lot of stuff during those times, cool things like, Linux, Windows, servers, clients and so on.
• Thats where my fascination for computers began and its never ended, I still make my living off these machines.
• I loathe the people of my college and whatever it is that they did for girls and cheap thrills.
• I sincerely hated the porn they drew on the college desks and the dirty cheap talk they did, apparently, to impress girls! I mean, what?
• I failed all of my dads dreams about me, when it came to educating myself, I was a failure.
• My dad wanted me to be an Engineer, huh; isn’t that a cliche? Every dad wants his son to be an Engineer or a doctor these days.
• I seriously never wanted to slog or fight a losing battle with those huge books cause I always knew that they weren’t my friends.
• I managed to graduate myself somehow and trust me, I have no clue of how I did it.
• I began working at the age of 20, Argo Tech, Pune.
• I was not particularly happy with the fact that I was a prodigal son and my dad was awesome; he helped me throughout. Never left my hand.
• Mom looked up the newspapers for me and found for me a place that’d decide my future – Convergys.
• Convergys gave me everything from information to wealth, from friends to a girl friend.
• I worked there for 2 years, 7 months and 3 days. I loved the place then and I love the place now. I still miss it very much.
• A few of my assets from there – Abhijit, Manoj, Sanket, Smita, Smikh & Muiz.
• I lost a couple of them to love and I feel sad that I’d miss them for all my life, but I guess thats how the world works.
• A few of them have stood by and are my closest friends to date.
• Thus, Convergys, I must say has been a place thats given me loads.
• I learnt what I know now all because of it and I’m well placed now at HP, because of it. Thanks a lot!
• Continuing from there, I got a pretty nice job with HP, Bangalore and thats where I am as of now.
• My life is currently a cycle of cliches and I feel ok about it.
• I find those cliches to be better than unexpected shocks, know what I mean?
• I am proud to say that I have madly loved and lost! Some say its better than to have never loved at all.
• She has given me memories that I’d never forget and I’m thankful for it.
• She has taught me lessons that I’d always remember and I’d use them to better myself.
• Friends are people I’ve always lacked, but I’m thankful for the handful I have as of now.
• These few, I can say are really MY friends. I’ve managed to differentiate between the hypocrites and the good ones. Ohh, thanks again to love.
• I own a car – A Maruti Swift and I’m super happy that I own it cause it makes my life much easier.
• I live in a rented flat very close to my Uncle; thus I’m well fed and I maintain my weight.
• I’m plumpily plump; which means I’m very plump.
• My sister says that my height seems to cover for it, but no! I feel I’m fat cause I FEEL fat.
• Thats one of my resolutions for this year and I’ll work hard over it.
• I love rock music and my favourite bands include, Staind, Poets of the Fall, Daughtry, Pink Floyd and a few others.
• I love movies and I can be a buff once in a while, where I watch one move at 10 AM, one at 12:35 PM, one at 4:00PM and the last at 10:00 PM, all on the same day, ohh yeah, I can do that. To top it off, I’d be alone when I do this.
• I read as and when I can and I love reading, just that I haven’t had time off late. +favs: All of Dan Brown, Most of Paulo Coelho, Chetan Bhagat and I really liked The Kite Runner.
• Writing is one of my passions and I seem to derive immense pleasure when I get the right flow. I can write for hours listening the same song over and over again for hours if I get the right subject. Most of what I write is personal though and I really feel the need to move into greener lands and reach out to people.
• I’m an Agnostic, but I respect people who believe in what they want to.
• I have myopia and its at an all time high of -5.75 R -5.00 L and it sucks that I’m practically blind when I take off the glasses.
• Sometimes I feel like I suffer from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). I feel like repeating what I do till the time I’m perfect.
• I overexpect from people and I’ve been treated for that recently.
• I’m a vegeterian.
• I’m happy whenever I can be.
• I’ve been accused of being a sexist; but the truth is… I’m too much in love with the fairer sex and I just can’t hate them!
• I do not drink (consume alcohol) or smoke (tobacco, weed and its brothers and sisters)
• Finally, the only reason I feel sorry; is for hurting my parents.
• If you’d read me someday dad – please know that I am trying hard. I’ve just been stupid!
• Also, I’m still not sure about the person I am; is it wrong if you’re a soft hearted guy? A guy who’d cry? Someone who’d be hurt easily? I loved myself more when I was in love and I’d miss the emotion forever.
• To end this, hey you, yes you; if you’re reading me; thanks for everything!

-Anup