Vijayan!!!................................

If you are stuck at a very difficult situation of life and death
And you are allowed to make only one call. Whom would you call?.....I, without hesitation would call vijayan, Not only because he is my best friend but also I genuinely believe that he will do something to get me out of the difficult situation. For several his several friends like me,He is one person who has perfected the art of making opportunities out of hopeless situations.

I know him for 15 years now, Infact I still distinctly remember the day we met. It was during one of our grueling sports day preparation camp. I don’t know whether he remembers that. We were just any other classmates for the next six years.Vijayan was studious and me being a back bencher had very few things in common. But the guy had all the qualities that are required to push his lower middle class family to few notches up in the socio-economic ladder.

Our friendship really took off after we completed our engineering.we zigzagged the entire Chennai during our jobserach. Though vijayan got selected in campus interview, due to 911 fiasco and thanks to Osama, we both were literally lurching on streets of Chennai. It was a difficult time for all of us but more so for Vijayan because ,His father a humble mtc bus driver had almost invested his entire life savings on his son's education and if he had faltered then, that would have been a full stop for his family's well being. It was tough time and that made us close friends.The next year was toughest in our lives , I worked on a call center for 10 hours at night with just a day as off and Vijayan worked in a small software company during day and was taking tuitions in a tuition center during early morning and evenings. I even heard that he was asked to white wash the tuition center by the owner and he did it with a smile :-).And our friendship went to another level, when finally our luck got its act to gather as we joined HCL in the gap of 15 days. And ever since our days were always fun..movies, fun trips, endless discussions ,yoga classes :-) and recently our fun filled Hindi clases :-).

When I look back, really feel happy to have a friend like him.Some things that made me to respect for vijayan are

1.After we joined HCL, Vijayan wanted to help some is college friends who were
jobless(for 1-2years) to get a job. He taught them JAVA daily for 3 months after officehours and prepared them for interview.He was a terror teacher and more sincere than his students :-).Having watched the show from sidelines,I had little hope as the job market was very tight but to my utter surprise the three got great jobs(one in IBM,one in HCL and one in TCS).

2.He has amazing social skills.If he is there in a place for more than three hours, he would definately made minimum 5 frieds.For most of his friends he is the “root” node( I am working @ HCL-CISCO:-))

3.He has one of the coolest head I have ever seen. I rarely see him get tensed.
He remains calm even on trying circumstances. Even if you push him to a torture chamber, he would not sit and feel for his situation rather he would push his emotions aside and would just lookout for some way to escape.Even if he is unable to escape,he would try to befriend some one there.In simpler words he is stree-smart.

4.He is an amazing driver, this guy drived his car from chenni to kanyakumari a week after getting one (He has never driven before!!).For me this is the most amazing
feature about him.The ability to learn any thing quicker and mastering it.

I have alot to write about him ....but due to time constraint i am stopping here.....

Today is Vijayan's birthday...Thru this, I wish him a very happy birth day