what's in a name??

i think this is one of the most used line and all of us have used it at some time or the other!

but when it comes to naming our baby, we all just go crazy! especially these days when every parent is in a scramble for a "unique" name! Internet websites are a big hit (no pun intended)! some still buy books and go through pages and pages of it! and then ofcourse out here, since we do no sex determination we have to find lovely names for both genders.

in our case we had LOADS of girl names and very few boy names. And then ofcourse Cubby happened and we were like, yaar ladke ke baarein mein seriously socha hi nahi tha! we kept on going in circles about what should it be! we had come down to 3 or 4 names which were Ishaan, Nishad, Aarav and Kabir! and ofcourse every name was said with surname to see if it had a good impact! hehe!

Finally after so much thinking we decided on Kabir! :) we got usual questions like "but isnt it a muslim name??" and "wont he face racism in future?" and all thta jazz! and we kept saying no one knows of what cast Kabir was! He is known as Sant kabir, inarguably a hindu thing! and even if it is a Muslim name we really don't care! he was one of the greatest men around and we like it! and then it was finalised! :)

so Bumpy aka Cubby aka CubbyR is officially known as Kabir Jain. we had a traditional "barase" (marathi naamkaran ceremony") ! there were some 150 odd people whom we invited and who turned up. you can imagine the noise in the small hall. and what does Kabir do? he sleeps through the entire ceremony and post that! i mean people said make sure you remember to take the baby when you leave the hall! hehe!

ofcourse though we had thought of the name six months before, by the time we anoounced it, Chak De! India had released! and woe! i was asked upmteen times "are you a SRK fan??!!" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargghhh! the fact that i almost cannot stand SRK just made ir worse!

But then i really dont care if it a common name or not! both of us just loved the name and couldnt imagine Bumpy being called anything else!

welcome Kabir! :)