September 12, 2007

What’s Your Middle Name?

By P.B. Masdal |

Posted In : Personal and Family

This is another tag. If you are not a tag kind of guy or gal, you can stop here and take the nearest detour and click on to the next webpage please. But since tags are surely fun, you’d better stop clicking away and read on.

This one’s from Ipanema just about a couple of days ago. It’s about one’s middle name. Here’s the rule for specific details:

1. State your middle name. If it’s too long or not sounding so good, then think about the name you wish you had as a middle name. And use that, of course.
2. For each letter of the middle name stated in Rule #1, write a specific trait or characteristic of your person and elaborate reasonably.
3. If you had five letters in such name, tag the same number of bloggers. Like if that name has seven letters, then seven other bloggers. If such name has one letter, then tag that one single blogger. Now wait, I don’t think that middle names—-or any name for that matter—-could probably have one single letter on it. But who knows, some names might just be like that, like Mr.X, or Mr.Y. We got a lot of names like that back in my accounting subjects in college, Mr. M owes this much, Mrs. Q earns this much, and so on and so forth.
4. There is no Rule #4 so might as well go on.

In my case, my real middle name is too long for comfort that I would be hard-pressed to ever think of a great number of traits or characteristics so I decide to state and use “UNIH” here as the name of the hour. As you know, Unih is my beloved grandfather’s name and if you ask me what name I thought I would like to have, then “UNIH” must be it.

Now, here’s the main tag:

U-I am understanding. At least I like to think myself that way. And also because I feel and believe that I understand a lot of things.

N-I am nurturing. I am so kindly to my kids that I could say I am a nurturing father.

I-I used to be insomniac about several years ago, when I was still single. I could be awake till the early hours of the morning and amazingly wake up at about 8 or 9 in the morning not feeling groggy at all. But now that family life consumes me all day, I would feel so sleepy right before midnight that as a blogger, I had wished to be insomniac again so that I could focus on the content in my monitor in the silent hours after midnight, but this just wasn’t the case, so I do my blogging on daytime.

H-I am Happy. At least that’s what I want to believe for myself. And also because I can be happy and pleasured with so many simple things that happiness would not be such a problem for me if ever I’d seek it. But of course, I am entwined in the usual difficulties of life, like lack of money, emotional distraction and disturbances, stress and anxieties; but I could be happy just watching a flock of elegant birds passing by, which can occur in the sky above our vicinity once in a while, watering the gardens and watch them bloom in deep green and reds, and oranges, and lavenders, like a fishbowl of colors, especially in the morning, when the sweet early sun rays start to kiss the ground.

There you go.

For this one, I am tagging Intsik, Wil, Singkopipe, Gypsy, and Momoftwo; for no other reason except I have not tagged even once before.

20 Comments »

1. snglguy says; September 12, 2007 @ 11:26 pm

   Unih, now that’s a unique name. I wish I can find happiness in simple things like you, bro. But seeing that I live in a big city that has a lot of distraction—- not to mention, stress—- I’m finding it harder to be happy nowadays.

2. Wil says; September 13, 2007 @ 10:52 am

   what a cute meme. hehe. and thanks for the tag.

3. Toe says; September 13, 2007 @ 11:10 am

   The U could also be for unique because as Snglguy said, Unih is quite a unique name. Your children are lucky to have a father like you.

4. Major Tom says; September 13, 2007 @ 3:55 pm

   To sngl: Oh your happy bro, you just didn’t know it. I just feel it. I don’t know why. But of course, I wouldn’t want to sound imposing and pardon if I might sound like that.

5. Major Tom says; September 13, 2007 @ 3:56 pm

   To wil: This is surely fun bro, I am sure it’d be a good post once you did it.

6. Major Tom says; September 13, 2007 @ 3:58 pm

   To Toe: It is really unique Toe in fact upto now, I haven’t heard a person having the same name—-ever. Maybe it was just like that, enigmatic like that of my dead grandfather.

7. ipanema says; September 13, 2007 @ 8:16 pm

   Oh, that is really quite unique Major Tom. And thank you for playing along.

   I like the tags. Why didn’t I think of insomnia? I have two I[s].

   Anyway, I think you are really good to your children I can feel it through your words here. That’s good!

8. pining says; September 13, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

   what an unusual middle name, so unique as the others said
   I used to be an insomniac too—it worked when my first baby was born as I can only manage 2 to 3 hours sleep, but now, I so need my sleep or I’ll be grumpy the following day

9. vic says; September 13, 2007 @ 10:09 pm

   Here’s the funny one. In the older days, we were only given one name, our first name and all children from more than 1 up to 16 for some families have the same middle name, the mother’s surname. And people over here are wondering why the whole family have the same middle names, that we decided to drop our middle name, not even with middle initial anymore. lucky for us, we can use the name, our first and our last in our documents if it is our choice. we can even easily legally change our names too.

10. Major Tom says; September 14, 2007 @ 5:55 am

    To ipanema: That’s alright…tags are fun and I enjoy doing it everytime. Why, can “insomniac” not allowed, it is a trait I am sure…

11. Major Tom says; September 14, 2007 @ 5:58 am

    To Pining: Really unique and I wonder where my grandfather got it. Maybe I’d start researching with some old relatives or perhaps in the net…:-)

12. Major Tom says; September 14, 2007 @ 5:58 am

    To Pining: Really unique and I wonder where my grandfather got it. Maybe I’d start researching with some old relatives or perhaps in the net…:-)

13. Major Tom says; September 14, 2007 @ 6:00 am

    To Vic: Ooohh, that’s kinda weird setup—-only one name or middle name; except if all are brothers or sisters; it is like that in the Philippines. But good for you out there, names or how one uses it is not so restrictive…

14. bw says; September 14, 2007 @ 3:24 pm

    I know someone who became an insomniac after he got married hehe

    I just woke up at 2am today and went straight to blogging

15. Major Tom says; September 14, 2007 @ 8:32 pm

    To BW: Ha..ha…surely i didn’t mean it to be that way,but hey it is but logical, married life is for certain a very busy one that one gets tired so easily and fall asleep so easily too…

16. Gypsy says; September 18, 2007 @ 5:53 am

    WaaaH! I’m double-tagged by you and Ipanema..! Hokiii…will ponder deeply about this and come up with something soon…once I finish some assignments.

17. momoftwo says; September 18, 2007 @ 5:55 am

    I like UNIH too hehe.

    I’ve insomniac since 2005 when I started going to school and with the arrival of baby #2 it got worse. Like you, I don’t feel groggy in the morning, sana will not catch up sa pagtanda hehe.

18. annamanila says; September 22, 2007 @ 2:06 am

    I should have been for “Informed” and “informative.”

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