Sunday, May 08, 2005

names'r'us.

i will never name my son/daughter with any name that ends with an "A". especially not if i'm going to be living in Singapore for the next twenty years or so.

too often i hear people calling beautiful names such as Victoria, Fiona, Layla, Felicia and etc. etc Vic-tor-riAH, fionAH, layLAH, feliciAH. now that sounds horrible in my opinion. its simply eerrrgh! to listen to. These poor girls had their names distorted in a way just by some people who pronnounce the "A" as "AH" instead of "a" like in "a boy", making it Felici-er, or Layler, or Pereir-er.

talk about cheemer names (cheem to some other people) like Abigail. what does it become? Air-Bee-jail, AH-bEE-ger, AH-BA-ger (i'm serious!). The list goes on.

There are some names that puzzle me too. Those like "Amabelle". i've never really checked up "Amabelle" in any name book, so i'm not sure if its even listed there, but based on my own knowledge, i wouldn't count Amabel or Amabelle in my name book. Why? cos its like a typo of "Annabelle".

Giving your kids special names is totally acceptable, understandable and alright. But doesn't anyone think that some parents go too far off the limit when they give their kids names like Apple? or Fish? I seriously wonder when a name like Pear, Orange, Prawn, Seaweed or even Sotong will come out. Maybe there'll be some parents who name their kids Blur, and the nickname is Sotong. Perhaps the name Apple came about through the saying "Apple of my eye" and since kids are the apples of their parents eyes, one of 'em thus becomes Apple. I have a feeling "Banana" will be the next "in" name because there are 2 jumpy bananas named B1 and B2. or maybe Barney will be next.

True, some people in showbiz CHOSE their own attention-seeking names like Apple and Fish, but i think its totally nonsensical. meaningless! meaningless! meaninglesS! how can these people call their names THEIR IDENTITY then?

Miss S, my music teacher, in case you don't already know, says that she prefers to call me by my Chinese name because "you call a person by whatever you want him to be". I think Chinese names are still the most meaningful, because of the relevant characters, which requires much thought when choosing, apart from those English names u can find in name books with an actual meaning to it. I feel that Chinese names, unlike English names, are more than just picking a name that SOUNDS NICE.

Anyway in case u still don't know by now, Abigail means source of joy. :)
bee at 10:03 AM