Sunday, January 18, 2009
I think I've never really talked about my chinese name before when it is actually such a big part of my life even right now when I no longer take chinese, speaking of which, I MISS CHINESE A LOT. I miss learning yan4 yus3, cheng2 yus3 and just comparing all the stickers that Chen laoshi gives us. Oh and how I love my chinese table in V11: Jing, Althea, May, GuoWei cos we always get to bond and eat during chinese. I also think about my very first table arrangement when I came to VJC when I was sitting with Althea, May, Alvin, Sanchit and Jerald and we were named 'A' dumpsters by althea cos all our names comprised the letter A. Yes I have no idea what all this is doing in my brain but with this Chinese grp it was equally fun with the systematic 'ting xie' relay system we had from one point in the hexagonal table to the last person. 我好喜欢讲华语！
Anyone who wants to at least bask in some modicum of 'coolness' would resist having a chinese name like mine cos "wei2? wei wei" only makes the other ppl laugh. Ah but I have to say that I really embraced my chinese name increasingly because it makes others laugh so I've learnt to laugh with them and think really hard for some way to laugh at them later. Secondly it's memory-friendly and both characters are really the same word: 玮玮 which is straightforward and sophisticated enough yet not to the extent that it is a super-sophisticated-wannabe. But I still have my qualms. Everyone's names have meanings, e.g. Jing jing = a glowing star in the sky; Hui Chieh = wisdom and purity, etc. At least the parents had meanings in mind. Problem is my parents don't know what wei wei means. This means I have lots more self-discovery to do zomg.
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