Monday, June 18, 2007

How to name it?

Well, lets take stock of the situation: I am at office. Manager is not here. MSP debugger is bugging the crap out of me. www.news.google.com has not added ANY new article in ANY of its 126 languages within the last 3 minutes! What can I do??
Well, I can write the inaugural post of our team blog: NORMANDY NAATKAL.



I shall devote the next few keystrokes to some of the most pressing (rather perplexing) issues facing mankind today.
Why is our blog named: NORMANDY NAATKAL ? (should it be 'normandy nakkals')
Why is our username GumbalaGumbalaka@yahoo.com ?

If you understand tamil and know that we live in Normandy Apartments and still can't figure out the meaning of our blog name, please lift your keyboard with both hands and bang it on your head for 6 times before proceeding. If your answer is in the negative for any of the above clauses you can skip the aforementioned physical activity. Naatkal in tamil means days. So our blog is meant to be a place to deposit our memories of the wonderful days we are ensoying at Normandy apartments.
Could we have called it Norman-days? Well yes, but we choose not to.

Next
Username: Gumbalagumbalaka@yahoo.com
For the linguistically ignorant: No, gumbalagumbalaka is not the name of the next UN general secretary (a la Buetrose Buetrose Galle). Rather it is a beautiful word in tamil literature steeped with history. Unconfirmed sources claim the etymology of this word from one Mr. Chinni Jayanth.
For those curious cats out there: The password is also equally poetic (hint: think chinni jayanth)

I think my manager is coming... c u later .. taatttaaaaaa

Arjun R V

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