Pascal Bridgemohan (standard:travel stories, 608 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Mar 03 2013	Views/Reads: 2939/1970	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Pascal is an unusaul name for Trinidad Indian and Bridgemohan is an unusaul spelling for Brijmohan. Juggernaut always facinated with this kind of details.

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“You know my dad was a self-taught computer programming guru in 

early seventies and maybe I was named after the computer program,” 

replied Pascal. 

“If that were the case you may be the first person named after 

Pascal, the French man that invented the program,” laughed Juggernaut. 

“Don't tell me that my last name Bridgemohan has a story behind 

as well,” Pascal looked at Juggernaut with curiosity. 

“I have a feeling when your forefather from India landed in 

Trinidad on boat in 19th century, at the customs, the officers perhaps 

mostly British couldn't understand the Indians' accent and made up 

spellings on phonetics; thus a name sounding like Brijmohan was 

recorded as Bridgemohan on the landing  documents.  You guys stuck with 

unusual spellings like Persad or Persaud for Prasad, but again 

Trinidadians are ingenious in inventing new expressions and names the 

rest of world has no clue like limin for hanging out, fete for 

partying, scruntin for deprivation, saga boy for ladies man and a 

sustained hissing sound to make a pass at women.” 

“We Trinidadians invented steel band from old oil steel drums 

to sound like piano so making up words come easy for us,” Pascal gave a 

confident look. 

Juggernaut bade farewell to Pascal at the market place thanking 

him for bringing back his memories of using large punch machines with 

loud sound of the electric motor and the ‘thud' it makes as each key 

was pressed and stacks of punched computer cards to be read on 

mainframe computers. The images of piles of computer paper with the 

data printed in dot format and stacks of punched computer cards on the 

desk remained as distant memory in Juggernaut's mind. 


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