#coldnemesis

The story behind my twitter handle? I never thought I would be asked this question in this lifetime, for sure. But now that I am, let me make the most of it.

Obviously, as most of you must have right assumed, this was surely not my first choice twitter handle. I went for the obvious names to start with which had my name, my name and last name together, my name and date of birth together and then moved on to names relevant to my favorite teams – Manchester United and West Indies Cricket Team, but none of them were available. Most of them were taken by people who randomly created the handles and had not tweeted for months and years together. 

This is when I was told by @ankeetd and @umennet, that twitter will become the next big thing after Facebook and it will soon become an identity for me. I did not take it seriously then, but they insisted I should use something which was unique and could depict me. Well, this is when we started breaking my head to come up with something that could reveal who I really am and the closest that I came to being myself was on the field of play. As jovial and happy-go-lucky that I am off the pitch, I become equally cold and furious when I am on it – this is where I got the world ‘COLD’ and in my teens when cricket was the only way I could make a name for myself (not being good at academics) and I chose to be really nasty when it came to that. When the physique and the fitness levels supported me those days, I could bowl deceptively quick and could bowl a few nasty bouncers at the batsmans head and I was really proud of that. I tried to model myself on the great Carribean fast bowlers who could bounce batsman out at will and maybe, managed to be 10% of what they were. Being one of the few who managed to bouncers then in my team, I could really hurt and this is where the word – KILLER came from and then I tweaked it ‘NEMESIS’. 

This was on the field, off the field, like a typical Libran, I could be sarcastic, nasty and get away with making a point without many noticing that they were humiliated. An ability that I have inculcated in me courtesy the profession that I am in. I take great great pride that my one liners can kill (pun intended) (“,).