Kintama Kumi!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sounds like some Japanese war cry, to my horror, i found out that it actually means golden balls. go figure. but then again, there’s a history behind this phrase.

it all started bback a few months ago, when we team leaders (back in helpdesk) were supposed to come up with some name for our teams. so, here i was, cracking my brains again, the same way how i got ANDRE to be my callsign, i wanted something Japanese. Tis something about the Japs that facinates me. I just lobe the whole Samurai culture. Honour. the very essence of life. I owe this to Mr Mile, my Aikido sensei back in college, and also to countless sword fight movies that i grew up watching.

so, back to the team leader situation…..

so i asked my team member, the japanese speaker on the floor, innocently, putting trust, i asked for a cool name. and she came up with this. sounds cool! and it means, apparently, to her, the tough one. so i bought it. Kintama Kumi it is then.

to my horror, i found out months later, that it means the other! and i’ve been made the butt of all jokes in the office. but me being me, i developed this whole new philosophy behind it. honour….something i upkeep dearly. and so. the philosophy sounds something like below:

to be tough, one has to embrace this : life, must be taken by the balls. and make life golden. so, you have golden balls, meaning to say, life, will shine for you!

see….i just turned muck into gold!

and now, the joke’s on them.

so, in short, i just remembered a dear old song that i heard once….

"ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE……….."

and tomorrow, i’ll name CAM the Kintama Kumi clan as well…gotta teach them this principle…..

take life by its balls!

-plain joe…counting the golden eggs on the way-