My name is......

I had to write this post..My selection for my blog address is just to remind my name to my self.. and also tht i dont get an identity crisis (lol)

It all started when i was vry young.. actually an infant. My pet name at home was and is JIMMY. Very rarely do i hear my parents, my siblings and my cousins call me Kunal. Yeah.. it is an exaggeration, I never hear them call me Kunal!! My school frnds called me Jimmy and some had even modified it and called me JIPS.

Then in college. I was givin this name, which got stuck to me for years and I think will be stuckto me for years to come. The name is Jappa. I dont really know the originator for this name. I think it was Sasmit, Vinay, Hardik.. or maybe even some one else. The name is derived from jimmy (jimmy -> jim -> jips -> jappa). All because it used to rhyme with the famous song Kawa Kawa (monsoon wedding)!!

In the start, I never liked this name, but I thought who (the hell) will go and make each and every person understand that..!! I believed that they would just forget it in a few days, but i was so wrong. Every one in my college came to know me only as Jappa. If I happened to call a college frnd and address my self as Kunal, they would wonder who is Kunal. Thus, I had to remind them that my real name is Kunal.

To top it all, even parents of my very good frnds (Anushree, Pankti, Hardik, Isha.. the list goes on..) would know me only as Jappa. 

At a certain point in time, I could count the number of friends who called me Kunal on my finger tips. and I think in Mumbai, it is still that way  ;)

So when many people come up with interesting blog addresses, catchy ones and unique, I came up with the one name I knew would give an identity to my blog; my real name.

I hope not many of my friends at BIM (the place where i am currently studying) read this blog, or else even here the number of people calling me Kunal will drastically reduce. lol

P.S. I love the name JAPPA only because my friends call me tht, after all, Shakespeare did say " What lies in name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." ;)

Part 2... My affinity with Bunking

After securing a good percentage in my 10th board exams, getting an admission into a top Commerce college was quite easy for me. But my selection criteria for the college, i eventually selected was very simple. It should be near to my place, so i do see its face regularly. With this frame of mind, i started off college. In the first weeek I managed to attend all the lectures, thanks to the Anti - ragging squad of my college (didnt let us out of class, even in the break!!)

So, the first week got over, and I bunked this English class, maybe because I had never done so earlier in my school life. Or because of some voices in my brain shouting out aloud that i should enjoy the freedom for which I had been long waiting for, or maybe because of one reason alone: our principal gave us a speech about managing our attendance well, and she was our ENGLISH professor!!!

Well, that was the first time and there has been no looking back since then. Even now, as i sit to write this post, I have decided to bunk 2 lectures in the morning because of the sole reason that i have attended too many lectures of that subject (my attendance is well above 90%), And being a MBA (under-training) i should know to manage my attendance (Optimum utilisation of resources!!)

Being the first year of college, I attended quite a few lectures, almost 60. But that was it!! That was the highest i could ever attend in my Commerce college. Next year, that number came down to 30. and the year after to 3, then 2 and 1. 

But my Bunking spree never stopped. And then, there used to be my Accounts classes. How can i forget the accounts classes that i had joined in my second year!! I never even saw my teacher's face in that year, even after paying the fees. (No, I am not exaggeratting, I have witnesses in people who have bunked with me)

Well, talkin about people who have bunked with me, I cannot escape the mention of friend, Hardik. Well, bunking with him was a joy. We not only bunked our college lectures together but also our accounts classes (tuitions). We would always be on the lookout for excuses to bunk. One single expression of dissappointment, on the mention of classes would be considered like a very big excuse. ;)

The joy you get from bunking is so great, that when you finish college start working, you miss it!! U feel that whether you should have been in college, just to bunk those classes all oover again. Well, that doesnt happen, so here i am doing my post - graduation, bunking my classes, but of course, (with some constraints) keeping in mind that i am a manager-in-the-making. :D

What has happ so far... Part 1

Well, In the first few posts I will cover some topics that have affected or still affects my life. 

To start off, I would go with basketball. That is the first thing i remember which made a major impact on me. Once, I started, Sports became a daily habit for me. I Lost lots of weight while playing it. From 115 to 92 (yeah that is in kgs!!!). But thats the end of my weight reduction, cause then it climbed up back again in no time.

It started off as just an activity where i used to accompany two good friends of mine, Shashank and Ketaki to the basketball court where they used to practise basketball. I started playing Basketball for timepass and then developed a liking for it, and this liking turned into love and then an addiction (yeah.. i am still on the topic of Basketball). Sports addiction is the worst addiction (worse than smoking - my perception). It leaves you feeling miserable, if you dont get to play at the time you are habituated to play. You may even ignore a call from the girl you love, even miss a very important class and to top it all you will still go to the ground/court at your scheduled play time even if you are injured and can barely walk. And the worst part is that you start to enjoy doing all this. ;)

So, in the liking stage of this game, i used to practise wiith a frnd of mine, Pratik, in two sessions, morning (along with my college team) and in the afternoon sun (yeah.. showed a bit of dedication :D ). Well, this turned into a habit. Even got to meet a few girls through this sport. A College team (girls) used to practise, so even got some oppurtunity to play with em. ;) But there is a bad news, i got a ligament tear in my knee and had to stop playing for months. But as i already explained, not even an injury can stop you for long, when you are addicted, so i got back. Started practising hard. Then played for my college team... kind of, only practised along with them, didnt get to play much in tournament matches. ( The team had 9 national players). We won a gold medal (enjoyed that feeling of achievement, for one thing which we were toiling since years). Well, that was the last tournament match i played. 

After that i still kept playin regularly in the club near my house, Hoopers. Some good players come there, and get to learn a lot from others. Basketball is one sport where you can keep on learning and perfecting yourself. Right when i was getting to be better at the game, the injury got back to me again, I again hurt my knee and had to stop playing. Now, I have beeen operated and am looking forward to gettin back to Basketball in a few months. I know, my frnds and familly will curse me after reading this statement.

But as i said, it is an addiction, worse than smoking and drinking!! ;)