names..

There are people who choose to take on 'christian' or aka 'english' names at certain point in life.

To them, this is just for convenience sake or just a good chance to get a new identity because honestly, how many people truely loves their given name.

A lot of times, fellow friends and strangers asked why didnt i get an english name? I normally replied with a 'i dun noe' look and shrug it off. They never ask again.

The best part with using my chinese name is that, the lecturers/tutors seldom call on me because they dun noe how to pronounce my name. Yan is pronounce as yang and i have to settle with ang mos calling me yang teng.

At starbucks, when asked for my name, i will say yan which they, 10 out of 10 times, spelled it as Y-E-N. If i spelled out my name for them as Y-A-N, they read it out as yang. In the end i let them be, my eyes just followed the cup with my name so that i wld know tt its me they are calling when they called.

When i was in sing, ppl call me ting. But over at down under, they call me yan. For what reasons, i do not know. I always prefer it when ppl call me ting to yan because yan is the common name in my family whereas ting is MY name. So i was very unused to having ppl calling me yan over there. But as time goes by, i settled for yan.

When i go to starbucks or when i need to introd myself to ppl i will meet only once, i call myself yan. But the problem is, i do not response when ppl call me yan. So, sometimes i wonder, what should i call myself.

I like my given name and i cant think of anything else to call myself. My yan is unique and to date, i have know of less than a handful who uses the same yan as me. One famous hot hunk will be wu yan zhu. Hence i like my yan as much as i like my ting.

All thanks to my dad for giving me this name.

I did something very nosensical to my dad just now. It was a trick we played on each other for the past 20 over years. But it kinda stop as i grew older and more ladylike. He was unprepared and caught in surprise after i done what i done. Hence he threaten to tell all my friends about it. I just hope he wont be so heartless. hahahahahaha..... So to prevent him from doing that, i'm not going to bring friends back for the time being...