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." ;)
6 comments:
atlast now i knw how u got tht name ..one of my biggest quest is solved!! hehe
"The name quest".
Good to know the trail to ur name. :)
will let you'll know of more things.. in due time.. ;)
Jappa.lol iN START FOR ALMOST MNTH OF KNOWING U..I HAD NO CLUE UR NAME WAS kUNAL..LOL
I use to find jappa name as real name but dint actual use thot process for it much..jusz called u jappa..lol.
Dude, I too was one of the foremost propogators of your name, and was exactly because we used to listen the song KAWA KAWA in your car a lot, which summed as Jappa Jappa
i understand your situation bro. more or less its the same with me too. people hardly call me by my first name. but always remember : there are many kunals in this world. but jappa is only one. and there will never be another jappa in this world. :-)
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