KOKKARAKKO GUMMANGO

I wanted to write few more office funs but will write after some more posts  and break the monotony today. My wife was mentioning about a book called namesake . I am yet to read it but would like to share my experiences with name.

I am third child to my parents and youngest of the three. So you'd expect a latest trendy fashionable name atleast on par with peers of  the generation . But alas ., my parents had wanted to keep my Grandpa's name to me (not a joke) . My father has uniqueness of putting both his dad's name and son's name as PARTHASARATHY.

As per south Indian - Tamilian tradition we put  a common name and a tongue twister alias in the wedding invitation like Nisha alias Komalavalli or Arun alias Veeraraghavan etc but what could you put for parthasarathy alias... well may be I can think of only other option checkoslovakia .

Me and my wife had horrifying times when trying to talk to Virgin media/British gas/orange or any other service provider in the UK . My wife infact wrote in a paper P-for post office,A-for Alpha, R-for Romeo etc so that she can read it out to those guys. well the story just does nt end here since its just my first name. My last name is smaller. Its ARUMPULIYUR VEDAM ., (meaning someone from the great place Arumpuliyur near chennai). Funny part is inspite of all this care I was called until last payment in virgin media as P. Runpuliyur Vedan ., அடடா காதுல தேன் பாயுது .

Not exaggerating but had to raise a internal ticket in my previous company to ensure my full name intact in my offl email id . They increased the max limit of mail id and name to accomodate my parthasarathy.arumpuliyurvedam@company.com   .. For all the internal bugs I raised you can imagine the fun guys would ahev had in US. When I went in person a guy infact asked me oh., u r the one with the long name.. gud to see you... நிலைமை டா சாமி ., அவனுங்கள படிக்க சொல்லி சிரிக்க ஒரு கும்பல் வேற .. அவங்களும் வெக்க படாம வேண்டக்காயை விளக்கு எண்ணைல வதக்கினா மாதிரி பேரை கொல்லுவானுங்க.

Going to other lucky ones like me there was a minister in TN with name KKSSR Ramachandran (dunno the expansion but shld be long) . I still remember a mail that floated around poking about a telugu long name ,
my name is rao
my name is ramana rao
my name is seshu ramana rao
my name is krishna seshu ramana rao
my name is bala krishna seshu ramana rao
my name is konda bala krishna seshu ramana rao ... well u can add anything like balaji,venkat as additions ....