Sukhwinder or Sukhinder

Two weeks ago, Arasu periappa and Jyotsna periamma visited us for the 2010 New Year weekend. They both were very curious to know how i was,  what i was doing and how i was changing my parents lives. Once they entered our house, periappa told my folks that he is going to call me 'Sukhinder' ( or is it 'Sukhwinder') as i had started to learn and enhance my motor skills with my continuous kicks and punches. Earlier my parents used to mention that i will become  a football player (AHH, a soccer player in US) or a boxer or a dancer etc etc when i do a rigorous practice session with my activities. They call me with lot of different pet names over the time but not something like a real name name. Their favorite is to call me 'puppy' and i think it will rank first in the list of pet names. i think they actually mean it and if i were a puppy, then they should  be :)

anyway coming back to the topic, periappa mentioned that he came up with 'Sukhinder' because of the surge in my activities and also it is like the famous 'oh balle balle' punjabi dance. I was bored already hearing discussion about various choices for my name for some time and at that time, if someone comes up with a cool name with a good reasoning who will not love it! I have to thank periappa for this cool name at least for the time being... On a side note for future 'to do' stuff, i need to learn this 'balle balle' bhangra from a professional dancer. I am sure it will be helpful in lot of places!

Also i heard from him that he thinks 'chittappa' has something he likes to be addressed and periappa was not of preferred choice for him. But what do to, i have no choice as of now. Since you came up with a cool name for me, i will bend a little bit backward and try to convince everybody that i can also call you 'chitappa' technically since my dad got married earlier than you :) Do you think folks back in India will go with this logic? or else the only other way is for you to come up with a nice nick name and i will have no problem going with it!