Kochappan's Economy.

I bought a wagon R car and drove to Kochapp's home. I don't know whether you have seen M.N.Nambiar walking around Jayalalitha casting sly glances , as a prelude to a rape scene,

in Tamil film 'Nadodimannan'. Well, If you have not seen it you should have seen Kochappan appraising my WagonR; he had the same look .A 'rape' however, did not seem

to be in his agenda.

'' You should have told them to fit 'Bridgestone Tyres' instead of these Indian ones.The meaning of ' Ishibashi' in the founder's name 'Shojiro Ishibashi' is 'Bridge of stone'

Hence the name Bridgestone. They are strong tyres'' He said.

'' What music system are you going to purcahse?''

'' I want to choose between 'Blaupunkt' and 'Pioneer' Can't make up my mind''.

''Toss a coin and decide'' He suggested.'' Bill Hewlitt and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company's name should be the 'Hewlitt Packard' or 'Packard Hewlitt'

why don't you, for Blaupunkt or Pioneer ?.

'' Blaupunkt started operations when I was in Germany'' .

I requested him to continue.

'' Their core business was Headphones. Those ones, which had passed the quality test

were marked with Blue dots.Their Headphones thus became known as 'Blue dots' the word for which in German is 'Blaupunkt'. ''

How old are you? ( if he was in Germany when Blaupunkt started it's operations) I wanted to ask him. I did'nt. because he was always 'economical with truth' .

With truth alone?. '' No! even with words''. His young German neighbour who stared pracise as a Gynaecologist requested him to write matter for a name board for his clinic.

Kochappan 'Economised' and wrote Dr.Klausner.

Specialist in Women and other Diseases.

His reputation as a' Women specialist' grew . Now his name appears both

in the' Roll of Honoured Doctors' and in the list of HIV patients of the Stuttgart Medical Centre, in Germany.

Thanks to Kochappan !!!

menon (aniyan)