New Year was fun. My childhood friend Shweta came for overnight stay. Didi, Shweta and I had Wine at night and wished each other New year. Even Stole dad’s JD :D
BTW my sis name is also Shweta :D too many Shweta-s I know.. Ya there is this weird thing about following the trend in names and people choose to name their kids accordingly. For eg : After kuch kuch hota hai, Rahul was so famous that every other person were naming their kids -- Rahul. My name was common too at that time, I am glad it was common only in my town though.
During attendance in school there were two Nidhi-s : Nidhi Sunil and Nidhi mangal (actually Agarwal). I had to change my surname cause as per the rule; my surname should match my Dad’s ID card. Mangal is our family-title (Gotra). Since childhood, our surname was written as Mangal. May be in this way blessings of Mangal pandey are showered upon us. But after class 10, I had to change it to Agarwal. Mangal is so unique :-w . There are thousands of Agarwals/ Agrawals.
As a matter of fact, South Indians use their father name as their middle name and even as their last name. Eg. Nidhi Sunil, Neha Shekhar (these two were actually two hot gals in my class) ahh no no I am straight, but I like admiring pretty gals. Cool ok.. there is nothing wrong in admiring hot girls.. after all it was girl’s school (Bishop Cotton girl’s school, Bangalore). Ladkiyaan hi Dekhti :P Saheliya –na !!!
There is one more thing which is absurd about South Indians, the way they spell their name. It consists of superfluous alphabets during the end of first name. Eg. It’s NOT Deepti they spell it as Deepthi, Seetha instead of Seeta/sita, Ritha for Rita, shruthi for shruti.
Likewise in Nepal, Nepalese carry different accent in pronouncing ‘Sha’. Instead of Sha Nepalese pronounce is Sa. Eg they pronounce Ashish as Asish, Nidhi as Nidi. They also spell B as v. If they have to type bhayo, which means happens, they type Vhayo. Weird isn’t it?
Every language has their differentiation. This surely make them unique from others' name. I have heard Bengali accent. Earlier, I loved Bengali earlier but after staying for one year in Kolkata and having a roommate who only cribbed to her parents in Bengali, I can’t stand Bengali any more, sorry no offense to my Bengali readers.
Btw I love to hear Hyderabadi language. You don’t know how it sounds?? Run to Peter, he is awesome in it.
Urdu sounds so respectful, Love it. Punjabi oh Balle Balle!!! My dad is big fan of both Punjabi as language and as well as Punjabis. What do you guys have to say about names and Surnames??
P.s I met Rd yesterday .. M so happy. We met after six months. This 26th Jan We’ll complete our Seven years :D He proposed me On Republic day :D
P.P.S – on 5th Jan i am flying to Bangalore Via Delhi. Wish me Luck.
