Coincidences "at the pavement"
Year 2000 & in times of deep recession I joined a start-up company as VP Sales. Actually I was on the way back to the stage as fitness competitor
and was practising my programme several days a week, but life or me or just simply the circumstances wanted different.
Our product paved the way for a new area within the IT security field, called SSL-VPN and was noticed by IT research companies like Gartner,
so at the age of 35 I decided to concentrate on this venture instead of my fitness come-back.
Notwithstanding hard times our business was doing very well. Unfortunately even the 9/11 catastrophe gave us new customers within a few days
in overseas countries, so I guess we lived up to our company name
Lemon Planet pretty well.
My indian colleague told me that in India "lemon" is just as protective against the evil as the "garlic and crucifix" is against the Dracula,
but Lemon Planet was a rather improper name for an IT security company (due to the american "Lemon law") so we changed the name later to PortWise.
Soon we had branches in Mumbai/India and UK and our temporary London office moved from Moorgate to Reading/London.
I will never forget the Stockholm-London trips, daily there and back several times a week, while the press headlines warned for
new terrorist attacks at Heathrow. After those years I knew the stations between Paddington and Reading by heart, I had a British Airways Gold Card
and something people call Experience.
I never made the exit I deserved,
not a bean,
not a red cent
and the only station name I remember today is Slough.
Years later I started to paint again & I still don´t know how it happened or why but one of my paintings suddenly turned out to be a kind of a tribute to that period - the picture of my Lemon Interrupt, my quite quiet Lemon Experience.
During the same period and by chance I also discovered that the music I choose for my fitness programme back in 2000 was actually the intro of
Underworld´s Pearls Girl. I didn´t know about Underworld at that time and honestly, when I heard Karl talking about the "Loud Lemon" later on the radio shows I really thought somebody was joking.
Isn´t life just fascinating?
"down at the pavement where the cracks leak scrambled poetry"
Well, I don´t know if I ever gonna be able to put this into an exquisite verse
or any other things I see and have seen and makes deep marks in me
but I will keep trying...
