SITREP_20100330_1848 gmt
last updated 20100401_0711 gmt
Today 20100330 I woke up at 0415 hrs sharp; and that was kind courtesy the telephone's wake up alarm ( incidentally the wake up alarm shows on my caller id as a number of zeeros. There is no telephone at the other end and the call is generated by the system controlling the exchange. You must have seen pictures of the numbers I get on the fax report as the phone number at which the message has been delivered – they are identical and my conclusion is that the number on the fax sent report is also one generated by the system in the very same exchange. That was just by the way ) the phone saved me for I had set the alarm on my organizer as well ( for 0400 hrs ) but that did not wake me up.
I was in the railway station on time – I had a seat reserved the day before. my experience is that if you say that you dont want a seat in a particular compartment of the train, at least in the pattom reservation counter of the railways, invariably they allot you a seat in that very compartment and not the other way round . I hate the SL1 and SL2 in jansatabdi due to the chances of one of them being next to the engine and you are never sure which one is that going to be, the real problem being the diesel smoke which irritates my resp system and the huge noise from the engine. Otherwise the jansatabdi is a very convenient train and is a real fast train by indian standards – the average speed must be around 80kms per hour and you are in ernakulam in three hours.
After my writ petition was dismissed I had managed to get an appeal filed and this was heard by a division bench of two judges. One of them, the acting chief justice, I had never seen earlier. The other judge, mr. Justice CN Ramachandran nair, I remember had avoided a petition filed by me in 2004, as the respondent, the then principal of medical college trivandrum, ( or was it the dme ? ) happened to be KAKumar - a psychiatrist.
this judge was persisting with the contention that the address of the cabinet secretary i had given in the appeal was wrong ( this in spite of the fact that the information received from the cabinet secretary's office which i have produced with the appeal as annexure 1 gives the address as i had given it ) and they cannot send a notice to the rashtrapathi !
i had given my name in the writ petition as well as the appeal as dr. cheriyath jyothi for once and this judge asked me " are you a doctor ?" i sort of avoided a direct answer and said " i have got a degree in medicine". i also elaborated that i had been working in the non-clinical side in physiology.
the next question from the judge was " is it clinical psychology ? "
i replied " no; it is one of the basic sciences".
The judgment on my appeal was pronounced by this judge in the court on the same day.
In fact after the hearing was over I had gone back to a seat in the back row when a young lawyer came and told me that the judgement was being pronounced and I have to stand there till that was over. ( Actually the impression I got was to the contrary - another case had already been called and it wont be right for me to keep on standing there in the front. ) I limped back to the front and remained there till the judge finished the dictation.
That was on 20100309 and I was getting worried that I might have missed out the judgement and my filing a request for an appeal to the supreme court could get time barred and hence the trip to ernakulam today. but as on today it was not ready yet. There was nothing much I could do on the matter and so I came back immediately by a long distance train and reached home early. and it was raining cats and dogs in trivandrum then.
I intend to give a detailed account of the extremely interesting happenings in the kerala high court in connection with the writ petition and the writ appeal at a more oppertune moment – that is after I get a copy of the judgement - i expect it to make interesting reading.
YESTERDAY 20100329: I took out my motor bike after a long lapse of more than a month and it all worked well in the beginning; but after a kilometer the accelerator cable broke and I left it by the side of the road. The prostitute bird started shrieking immediately from the vicinity as if it were climaxing!
I walked back – walking about a kilometer is still an ordeal for me in spite of the strapping and all that I apply – took out my lily and went and purchased ( the rail ticket for today's journey as well as ) a new cable and came back.
I did not have a screw driver and so asked a young girl in a neighbouring house if I could borrow one from her house. The father came out and discussed the intricacies of the type of screw drivers and in deed brought me some which were not fitting. It was then that this highly intelligent young doctor – ( almost all the locals in this place are qualified psychiatrists ), came by and took the man aside to feed the data. So I bade the man good bye and apologized for troubling him and drove back home to pick up the screw drivers and all.
once back to the bike i found that the screws were stuck and I could not loosen them and I was stuck. But I had decided to take the bike home one way or other and instead of putting the upper end of the accelerator cable into the slot, i held it in my hand and with only the pedal brake working ( the hand brake was broken when the bike fell on its side ) and managed to drive the bike back the one kilometer stretch of road to my ( rented ) house. I had taken it as a prestige issue in view of the mirth of the locals on what was going on.
In fact the “emans” and their pimps were thrilled believing that I had crashed my petite lily. The real fact was that where the bike had broken down it was a very steep incline of more than 45 degrees. I had pulled lily to the side of the road and turned the front wheels to the fullest extent bringing it in contact with the wall to prevent lily's brake slipping and she rolling down the incline while I was working on the bike. a couple of young men on their bikes made polite enquiries ( those were rather exceptions ) and i had explained the facts to them
“police case; adi”
Coming back to today 20100330 – there are lot of expectations all around; it looks the gentleman has given the fitness certificate, that I am fit to face third degree. the whole lot of the pimps and the prostitute birds are in the throes of orgasmic excitement for the last few days – Usually the emans give the locals a chance to have a go at you before they take us away for “treatment” by themselves.
So, Come one, Come all;
HURRY!
viceman
20100328
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