The L-RD Yesu Christu Bless you'all with a 120 years of life!
Thank you for reading about me.
My name is Samuel (officially Sam, but if you call me Samuel I will respond a lot quicker.) Chacko, of Friendswood, TX USA. Family name is പകലൊമററം in Malayalam or Pakalomattam in English, or പകലൊമട്ടത്തില് (Pakalomattathil), or പകലൊമട്ടത്ത് (Pakalomattathu) is also correct. I think our family name means, "House of Day" or "House of Daytime", if I had to translate it into American English. Can you imagine me as being named "Samuel Pakalomattam"? Maybe Samuel Day? (Yes, I know there is one person surnamed Pakalomattam in CT.)
http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=Indian_family_name#Malayali_.28Kerala.29_names
The specific sub-branch, sept is named Orethu Family
http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=Nasrani, http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=List_of_Syrian_Malabar_Nasranis
I suppose, Chief Justice William Renquist's family was similar to ours: http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=William_Rehnquist#Family_life They changed their surname, and neither I or any of my father's four brother's sons or grandsons have our family name as a first, middle, nor last name. We actually have more then five different surnames, and among my uncle Varughese's six son's children, I think there is at least six different surnames. Can you imagine that, six brother's children go to the same school, but all have different surnames!
I am learning to type in Malayalam:
http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=Malayalam_script
If you need to talk to me, you can send me email to [email protected], to discuss anything. My web page is http://pakalomattam.googlepages.com/.
Learning how to cite:
http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=How_to_cite_wikipedia
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/makeref.php
http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
Things I do not subscribe to (Five digit years is correct!), and will be the norm in about 8,000 years.
http://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=WP:DATE#Incorrect_date_formats
interesting articles in Malayalam:
മലയാറ്റൂര്:
I plan to write something in the Malayalam wiki one of these days, but not today.
I was born on 29 June 01962 AD (62 years, 148 days ago).