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What's in a name?

It's taken me 3 weeks (this post was actually made on 2/5/07, but has been pre-dated to show when I intended to start the blog) to decide on a name for a blog and it still required help from Suzie. She's been successfully blogging for a few months now, although it's become a bit sporadic lately, as she will tell you herself.
I wanted a title that meant something to me, but was easy-ish to remember. Since I'm ever wanting to speak additional languages, I thought a Hindi word would be fun, so I've been thinking them over in my head. I was leaning towards 'hanji', a polite way to say 'yes', as it was the first word I was taught. Priyanka, a new collegue, said it would come in useful and make people happy. She's right. Suzie suggest 'chalo' or 'let's go', which struck a chord. Seems to fit well with my willingness to go and do and move, whenever, whatever. 'Hanji' and 'chalo' were both taken, so I took Lonely Planet's advice and scooped up 'chalo, chalo, chalo'.
Brava! Step 1 done- got a name.

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Katsu said…
Hey girl!

I've taken you up on your advice and have started a blogger blog... I wanted to link it to yours... but don't know how. But here is it:

katsu-katsu.blogspot.com

XOXO
February 13, 2007 at 6:27 AM
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