Wednesday, December 14, 2005

My mum asked me to write my name and address on the luggage tag soon. Like, duh. How long can luggage tag take me to write on that actual day of departure? I told her I will write it on the day itself but she say I can take the time to look for a suitable English name. It is so that if I lost my luggage and some angmoh finds it, they will not wrongly pronounce my name and I can find my stuff easily. My mum thinks of everything, including terrorist attacks, rape cases, racism demonstrations, anti Singaporean feelings and blah blah. But to think about it, my name is kinda 'unprouncable', but I do not really want an English name, cos I taut its like 'gei angmoh'

Talking about English names, its embarrassing. When I was very young, my aunt gave me the name Fiona(cue to laugh) . But my mum did not want to put it in my birth cert because she wanted me to choose my own in case I din like this name. When my two sisters came along, my aunt thought its hilarious to call us Fiona, Thrina and Tuna (as in 4,3,2) The 3 of us were the butt of all jokes for weeks at my grandma's house. If I remembered correctly, I once told Angeline when I was in primary 3 about this Fiona name of mine. I think she laughed. Oh wells.

I din like the name. Its lucky that my mum did not heed my aunt's advice to register me as this name, because according to my cousin, I certainly did not look the part of a Fiona girl because I do not have the boobs or the looks(Fiona Xie). Fine.

Then when I was like Primary 5 or 6 when I like this classmate of mine with a surname of Chia. My classmates then decided to call me Mary Chia, the face and beauty salon name. Now to think of it, its not very funny. But my male classmates, people like Junwei used to laugh their asses off.

When we were in primary school, male classmates love to annoy girls by giving them nicknames. I was not spared. I was called Zhong Wuyan(the girl with a big big black birthmark) Only pretty girls like Angeline were spared. I don't remember her with any embarrassing nicknames. Meiting was also called names. When her nickname comes up, its her cue to cry. Everytime my nickname is mentioned, its my cue to glare and punch that loser. But of course now we all so pretty and hot any guy who dare call us names will just be sizzled to death.

Anyway now my problem is not juvenile name calling. My problem is my surname. Yes, the Hu. When I came to AI, annoying friends like Kaiqi will also egg on me to get a english name, for fun. Out of irritation, I said Mary. Piece my surname with it and you get a question. Any english name will get the same effect. Its always a question. Damn. Why don't I call myself F**k, then when people call me, F**k Hu, I can say f**k your ******.

And is it true that in Australia the professors call people by surnames? Then I will be the joke again. Imagine,

Professor Brown, ' Let me take attendance now. Smith?'
Smith, ' Here'
Professor Brown, ' Hu?'
Hu, ' Me'

Ok bad joke.

So the name issue ain't solve. Or should I change my nickname to Or instead or On? Both can do. But both still sound weird. Why can't I be a simple Tan, or Lim?

Oh nevermind. Forget that I say anything. BLAH