Names

Names names names… Whatz there in a name? name is after all a reference to an object. And it is the thing that is referenced that matters, may that be named a, b or z for that matter.

But still most of us are very much attached to our names and love it.there are other few who do not like their name for the plain reason that it is either too long, Funny sounding or simply too old fashioned.

There is a lot of thought process that goes into naming the baby by the parents.
We in India give a lot of importance to the astrological timings and the position of the planets at the time of birth of the child to decide the name or the starting letter of the name; there are others who look at the names numerological aspect. In 7eventies and eighties it was a trend to name the child after a great personality/leaders and actors…. Then there is a safe path chosen, by naming the baby after the parent’s favourite diety….

Whatever it is, either ways the parents wish is that under all situation their kid is going to be a victor and all the good luck would belss upon him/her And hope that these names would prove good for their little bundle of joy….

Now as the kid grows, he identifies himself with what his name actually means. now if you are one among the many who doesnt know the meaning of your name...then please visit this link
http://www.behindthename.com/name/

Now a person name "Gyani" may feel from inside he is a very learned person....even though he may hate books ...."Shwetha" may not be exactly snow white in complexion. "Vivek" may actually be an Aviveki.
"Vijay" may not have known what success is all about and be closer to failures. "Muskan" might have actually given more cry faces than smiles. "Shanthi" may have made many ppl restless and "Prem" may be hated by more people than he is loved.

Yet, you make a connection with your name and accept it. But some folks are so very frustrated by their names that they seek the legal way out and just get their names changed.
a "Madhavan Kutty" may become "Madhav", a "Rajappan" would like it better as "RAjan" and for guys named "Veerappan" it would be a blessing if it could hv been "Veer" and so on... but i am not saying every1 would opt for name change.

and yes, when writting abt names...how can we missout on the various nick names?? it is like a caption to the new block buster movie... "If you have a name, then there will be nicknames ".............
as for4 me "VIVEK"...it is easy to have nick name, mom calls me "Viveku", others in family callled me "vivu" and also "vibu"...there was a time when ppl called me "batman" (still dunno why, and no wonder i have grown to love batman more than the other super heroes bcoz of this association, i think they actually meant badman)...in school/college it had always been vivek, but every now and then i would also acknowledge to avivek....there were some who called me vicky.There was a phase in life when i was also callled "Voki"....after that person's pet, which had got lost. At the same time there were other names "Kongu", "King kong"............

In office as most of you know you need to give your full name....
and mine being Vivek Edasserivallapil Ashokkumar... i felt Vivek E Ashokkumar would be a favour i would be doing to all....
and yes it was......
my email id was crucifixed as vivek.ashokkumar and mails were recieved by others as Ashokkumar, Vivek (silly stupid americans)... and what more you need i am known as Ashokkumar to entire office and to the very little others as vivek.
now i regret that favour i did, i should have gone wit my full name.....and no wonder ppl would have found vivek much easier than edasserivallapil.....and i could have been known as vivek....
but for one of my collegue who has a beautiful name in Aravind, happened to provide his full name
Aravind kopparappu. no prizes for guessing what he is now known as around the office....""Koppu"
mmm...when in the US, ppl there found it easier to call me vivek and i am greatful that they did call me by the name i loved the most. but again there was a circle of friends who called me "Viv".

now, apart from these... there is an other aspect to ur names/nick names..... if there is more than one person in the room with the same name as your's ????
These are the times when the physical attributes, state,hobbies etc.. come forth in deciding the differentiation factor....
there were 2 balajies in the college and thankfully one was as thin as any one could get and teh other was well built, so we had "body balaji" and "balaji".
in my colony we had 3 Govinds... one was from delhi, other from bombay and the other from Madras...we just prfixed their hometowns to differentiate them. in school we had many manjunaths.... each had differnt initals, one was L, the other SM, the other TM and K....so we ghad Lmanja, Tmanja,Smanja and Kmanja... wonder how they all are now.... had seen them last in 10th std.....

In my own case we have 2 vivek's in the team and 1 in the product support team... and to worsen things i share my cubicle with one of the namesakes. We have a tuff time if some one calls out Vivek.... but as i said thanks to the display on emails... i am ashokkumar, and one is karwa and the other nashi.....but it so happened that in a conference with the Business unit, all 3 of us were 2gether and the italian -american client had a harried time ........

and when ever we called her seperately... she had to make note that this the proffessional vivek and this is the personal vivek....and we still wonder who among us was the professional and personal...as we both have had our share of personla discussions with her....



names names names.....whats there in names???yes, if it is someone else's name, there is nothing there... but if it is your's there is everything in the world in it.

Just reflect back and try sorting out the nick names you had and still have and have a hearty laugh....