Finally, I managed to get through to my photographs on Flickr (for those not in the loop, Flickr along with youtube were blocked in the United Arab Emirates).
If you want to know what a Syro Malabar wedding looks like, you can find it here.
Also, I came across a few pictures I took on my trip to Greece last year:
I’m going to be a father soon. Technology has been kind enough to inform us that our child is going to be a girl. Honey and I will be keeping the Syrian Christian tradition alive by naming her Mary – my mother’s name. At home she will be called Kunju Mary.
The prefix Kunju – which means little – is added to most names to elimnate confusion. On my mother’s side, there are about two dozen Rose. My sister – Rosemol at home and Rosamma officially is one of them.
Over the years family names seem to disappearing from Syrian Christian names. This time when I renewed my passport I made it a point to place Puthenparambil as my surname and Jacob Joseph as my new double barreled first name. When I take up my new assignment (will update you guys soon) I’m going to have my cards printed Jacob Puthenparambil.
The reason I didn’t have Puthenparambil in the first place is two fold. One I (and my parents) thought it was perhaps too long. And since we were abroad most of the time, why bother explaining and spelling Puthenparambil is every-time we had to fill a form or state our names?
Even in India, my uncles initialised their names. PC Thomas, PC Chacko, PJ Kurian etc. Around the time I was born, a new trend in naming starting is my community, although we were baptised with Christian names, officially kids started to me named…. how do I put it…. hmm…. bharatiya generic?
For example I have cousins named Babu, Lakshmi, Ajit, Anju, Lulu, Meetu etc. I too flirted with the idea of giving my children (If and when I had them) Sanskrit names but decided against it as I felt the Syrian Christian identity has to be revived. There is something that moves me when I hear or see the name Kuruvilla, Chacko, Thomachan, etc.
My concern that Puthenparambil might be too long far practical use in the modren world quickly vanished when I saw the visiting card of my good friend Adam. He was from Poland and his surname was Skyprkskck. Shorter than my surname but still at-least mine had vowels :)
So there you have it, Kunju Mary will be Mary Puthenparambil.
Where the fuck have I been?
Around…. but too many things happening. The most important being my preparation for fatherhood. Kochousep or Kunjumary is expected during the first week of Jan. I have also been accepted for an MA program. Some other stuff too but I will keep those for later…
The strangest thing however has been my dreams. They have been like a scene from that sick movie American Psycho.
It goes something like this… I’m trapped in an apartment and there are this white/European couple going around killing people. Killing them in the worst kinds of way, chopping up their parts etc. All I can do is watch. Finally the police arrive and they escape. I tell the cops I’m innocent and is let go.
Some scary shit, huh?
Well I didn’t know what to do. I was bothered so I told T (I haven’t told her I will blogging about this, so can’t use her name for now – this is an ettiquette I picked up from Scoble) at work. The ever resourceful T game me a book, The Dreamer’s Dictionary by Stearn Robinson and Tom Corbett. It explained my dream as a reaction to incidents happening in my life, which I have no control to prevent it from happening.
See Honey, this is what happens if you don’t let me go have a drink once in a while!
Youtube has been blocked in the UAE.
Just like flickr, boingboing, myspace, orkut and everything else you might consider ‘social’. There is nothing you can do about it. The list just continues to grow.
It was a happening week. The Great Indian Mutiny got a lot of coverage, it broke into Technorati’s top 100,000 blogs and now at (52,000). It was also named ‘the fastest growing blog on wordpress’.
We tried to move to our know server but there has been some problem with moving the comments.
Any WordPress gurus outh there?
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