Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Let’s call you JC.

Some small people already call me that. They call me JC and Aai JK..i.e. short for Jyoti Kaki. These small people are kids from Aai’s crèche. I mean it’s so funny to hear the coarse voice which was once so kitten like asking on the phone JC, JK kai mhante..:)
People grow up.

Of pet names. I don’t have too many to my account. I always laugh at my old time pj..I am very few people’s pet. Honestly, I hate pet names. At least the cool ones like nicky, pinky, stupidity. I like my name. Whatever it is.. It is me.

Yet, the earliest pet name I had was Chicken. That was long time back. I was maybe just a couple of years old. There was just one more before this one..Mama used to call me Jui batata. I was one plump baby.

But chicken I was and chicken I am. Coward. Sometimes. I was scared of surreal stuff like ghosts then and I am scared of surreal stuff like ghosts even today. They used to call me chicken because I was like every other kid; cute. Then there were a couple of names at home..Juilu, juidu and some embarrassingly cute ones.

At school people used to call me a lot of stuff. Most irritating was Citra. The soft drink I never tried. I hate soft drinks.. and hard too. Coffee doesn’t fall in any of the 2 categories. Okay. We will talk about drinks in some other post.

Then later on when I was in Pune there was this Zzzzzzuiiiiiiiii. It went Zzzzuiing..sort of a thing. Also, was V calling me Zoo..that Zoo thing, I still get to hear it. And someone calling me Flower Girl.

One pet name which almost feels like some title to me is Juda. We as family have seen Ben-hur the film a lot many times. Together. Aai used to call me Juda then .. very often. Now she does sometimes.. I was going through a not so great time in life. . She used to call my lanky 16-17 year old self.. Juda.

1 comment:

Sabah said...

you have written some awesome stuff there!! I like the flower girl the best though...;) Keep blogging.. and Ill keep reading:)