The featured friends Ramon Pairman and Andrew Ellis are like peas in a pod. Both are pursuing bachelor's degrees in information technology. The friendship, which dates back to when their eyes were at their proverbial knees, was spurred by close ties between their parents.

How long have you two been friends and what inspired the friendship? (Laughter fills the air.)

Andrew Ellis (AE): We have been friends from prep school until now. We went to the Meadowbrook Prep, then Meadowbrook High, and now the same tertiary institute, University of Technology. We are also the same age, 20.

Apart from that, Ramon's family is like my family and my family is his. If I don't give his grandmother a bun every Easter or a cake every Christmas, it is problem for the year. Our parents had a good relationship with each other and that was a major part of it. Also, Ramon's father always stopped at our house while on the way to work.

Ramon Pairman (RP): We have been friends for 18 years, as far as I know. Andrew always had the latest video games. At that time, it was Nintendo a run di place and when my dad stopped by, my brother and I engaged in playing with Andrew and his brother. Our brothers were older but they, just like us, were in the same class and went to the same schools as we did.

Who is more prone to anger and who has been in more fights?

(Ramon jokingly states that nobody would want to try war with him but both responded that they did not grow up to be 'warheads'. However, there was once a time they fought each other.)

RP: More angry, though, would be Andrew, reason being I'm more the laid-back one when it comes to arguments. I'm not the type to push a war; if somebody doesn't physically hurt me, they're all right.

At one point I was in the wrong crowd, got into a few arguments which involved weapons, but they were not my fights. It was a case of a bad company and I used to always ended up in situations where I had to defend myself.

AE (laughing): I don't know why he would say I'm more prone to anger. I have more arguments than Ramon but that is because I express my feelings more than he does. He is more likely to bottle it up and sing it in one of his songs. I have no such talent. I am always the one with the positive logic and reasoning, so violence was never an option for me.

In high school, we went our separate ways and hung out with different groups (although we kept our friendship intact) ... . I found myself parring (hanging out) with 'good company' and he with sometimes 'bad company' but I was friends with his friends and vice versa.

Describe the friendship five years from now (Will either of you be a best man at the other's wedding)?

AE: Five years from now, I see the friendship still going strong. We both have dreams to finish school and be part of the entertainment business, me being Krazy's manager.

Has a woman ever come between the friendship?

AE: From high school we never had any problems in the girls' department ... . We never let that come between us and we always make sure the present girlfriends know that dem cyaah mash up the friendship.

RP: Back in the days, if Andrew was talking to a girl, him always make sure I have one of her friends to reason with and vice versa.

Is it at a family level now or still friends?

RP: If when you say family you mean Andrew is my brother, then yes, his parents treat me like a son and we're coming from so far, so we're close to each other's family.