Traveled as I have...and the different places, schools, cultures I have been through..I have been addressed with a whole variety of different names.. thought it could be funny and interesting if I you know.I have also tried to give reasons also.. they are solely of why I think they were given to me.
When I was in Jeddah ( I cant remember anything earlier to that)
- Buneet - I think they had problem in pronouncing my name. :D
- Peanuts - resembles close to my name ...and it funny
those are the only i remember
When in Delhi
- Tiger - for a very brief time it was , there was this TV serial called Tiger on DD Metro (I think). Well we used to play this game where by u had to take the whole other team as captive. So the person who could not be kept captive, I had to hold him. They thought I was strong at that time...atleast at one point of time I have been :D
- Mota - This is the pre-dominant name I had in that place. I guess after all I was not strong...I fat ;)
- Mu-Rungu - Means the fair colored one. Well I am dark, but among all them I was fair..but it was nothing to be proud of...but Mr. Siziba used it a lot
- Mu-India - Means from India. So I was an ambassador for my country..huh ?? But it was interesting and fun.. you know.. to be addressed as a country.. imagine .. Bharat Mata..and me Bharat.. hahaha...I am male though :D
- Kid - Well I happened to be the youngest already.. then I shifted to Lower 6 while I should be in Form-3. Imagine..every one around is 20-21, you 14.. it was good to be a called a kid. I stuck to this name..I will take this again latter though
- leadpb - This one..I took it up myself.. I think I was a big dumb nerd at that time..let me explain how it is related. My first name starts with a P and my last name with a B. Hence the pb. If you go to the periodic table, pb, is lead. Hence leadpb. Also lead is shields a lot of things. This can again be covered separately. But tell you.. that's where I start to become a real bore.. by any standards for that matter :D
- puntin - now I dont know how it came...but my history teacher couldn't recall my name every time he saw me.. so he resorted to something he could.and this was it.
- Zimbabwe - I can be the only guy who has been addressed with names of countries I think..two for that matter... This was mainly due to the fact that I just arrived from there...and it was a big mess during the ragging period. For those who don't know.. Zimbabwe is a country in the southern part of Africa. Home of the mighty Victoria Falls
- Bhattu - the loved once name..
- kiddo - a derivative of kid.. and still being used by a group of people
- Param - Mmm...time to brag.. :D I like this.. Param is the Supercomputer in CDAC..the first developed there..still very advanced.. Gud to be called something intelligent rite.. tell you what.. I personally feel..computers are stupid..and they are the future idiot boxes
A brief explanation of Kid..and why Kid
As far as I remember it was first coined to me by Casper Marowa. The guy who had topped in his class from Form1 straight to Form4 all the months back after back...and the Head Boy at that point of time. He was the only who had taken 4 subjects (the standard was 3)...before I joined him. With all the hype around me...and whatever.. I was still a young one.. who just happened to be there.. a kid..until people realised I was giving a run to all of them at least in 2 of the subjects..
But otherwise.. it made me realised.. I still had to nurture a lot of things socially, academically and personally.. so I stuck with it..thinking I will take it away when the rite time comes..
In Agra.. when we were learning the basics of Internet...I was trying to open all my ids with leadpb ( I still have a leadpb as ids on a lot of various mail servers) but unfortunately yahoo's leadpb had already been taken...so i went for kid. 3 letters is not sufficient.. so I had to think of something else...or something more.. so I came up with kid_unltd (meaning kid unlimited).
Latter down the years.. I realised.. I was going to be a kid for a long time to come atleast on the personal front.. and it was something good I chose for myself...In CDAC.. during one of the feedback sessions.. (I got tons of positive feedbacks...time to brag again.. :D)..but Scientist gave it only two words. he is KID Un Limited... but also there..in a goofed up experiment...the password of that ID got changed ...and ... no one knows what it is....so its dead.. I had to come up with something else...coz.. chatting was the basic medium I was in touch with my family...I came up with kid_vlsi...
Ahan one more thing...for a couple of weeks.. when the internet was newly launched at my college...we had these chatting sprees...so I had a another yahoo id at time also.. though it was only for ...say a 2 week period.. coz thats only the time our internet worked at college....the id was loverboypb well..:D... kid_vlsi is basically an alternate profile of loverboypb...well right now loverboypb..does not come online now.. i should relaunch it again....wat u say..??
Ok.. nothing was remotely funny or interesting..but hey.. u got to know about loverboypb..so stop cribbing :D
Being funny is nice..making fun out of others is cool..maybe ok..but taking your mistakes and making a joke..laughing on them is a personality !!
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