The Name

Naming your blog can be a frustrating experience.
Others will probably read it, hence you want to make it project a persona you'd like to project. You have to try 399 coolsmartsexy names before realizing anything worth taking has already been taken. Although this was not the experience I had (I got it - yes - first attempt).
You want to consider factors such as being search engine friendly, phonetically spelt, easily remembered, and language independent (to the extent possible).

As is the case with most weighty decisions in life, which involve taking into account a lot of factors, a lot of information pertaining to those factors, and then carefully weighing each generated alternative in order to choose the most prudent one, I did what I usually do - relied on randomness. Evidently, it worked.
Being in somewhat quirky state of mind, what passed through my mind at the time was the incredibly cheesy and irritating paint company ad with the tagline "Mera Vala Green" (or Pink or whatever the heck it was). Without much further ado, I tried it, and the rest, as they say...