When the past catches up with you

12 years ago, 4 gawky looking teenagers sat around listening to some good, old fashioned boy-band music (we were 14 then, what do u expect)..so in love we were with the various boy bands, their awesome, soulful music, their clean cut looks, their raunchy dance moves - that we decided to name ourselves after each of our favourite group!! (Please let me remind u once again, we were only 14 at the time, DON'T JUDGE!) :)

so...
S became T.T.S - Take that S
K became - B.S.B.K - Back Street Boys K
N became - M.L.T.N - Michael Learns to N
and I became - A.G.B - A.G Boyzone!

At school the next days, we declared that henceforth we should only be referred to by these names...

Sadly, TTS never caught on..cos one of our seniors (who had just passed out of school) was called TTS..and he was just tooooooooooooo hot! I think the entire school - girls, boys, teachers, peons all had a crush on him! And B.S.B.K and M.L.T.N also never stuck...cos they were toooo long to pronounce as initials..and when shortened read as "Busbuk" and "Mltn" - which were well, SAD! (how much ever u sneer and smirk now, we were coooler than that!)... :)

The only name which did stick was mine...and how...EVERYONE called me AGB...now.. as the name was catching on...it so happened that at the time..one guy in 12th stood for the post of Head Boy in the school elections..in his campaign speech,..he mentioned his friends call him 'KGB' or Kutti Gundu Bonda!!

AGB and KGB was tooo cute to be passed on..given that I was also..well...bonda like...we were massively teased together..Given that I was also dared to walk up to him and yell "Nee K-G-B, aanna na A-G-B!" in one very tamil movie like setting! It was all very silly, yet cute!

Anycase..for the remaining of my school life..read 3 years...i was known as AGB!

Once I came to college, I was introduced to some real music - Floyd, Stones, Pearl Jam, S&G, etc etc...suddenly to be named after a boyband was tres embarrassing! Considering a large gang from my school joined the same college, not only my old friends, but also all the new ones called me AGB!

For the 3 years I was in college...I worked hard to erase the name AGB and be re-christened as Amri! It paid off...hardly anyone calls me AGB anymore..and when they do it is to piss me off!

Now, 12 years later..when the ghost of AGB has long settled, of all the boys in the world, my parents had to go and introduce me to "B", well, whom I like and who likes me back..and well..we're getting married soon! :) (yay yay!!) :)

And I'll be back to being AGB - but thankfully enough..this time around I wont be named after a boy band! :)