little miss no name

What's wrong with chinese having no english name?

no big deals

just a few things you should know...

• your surname becomes your first name

• your two-character given name is shortened to one-character

• people mispronounce/mispell/forget your name

• anonymity is maintained with zero effort

• If there is another chinese with a western name, say Mary who attends the same school as you, your name is conveniently interchangeable. So, you can be known as Mary or Non-Mary, depending on how well people manage to distinguish you from Mary. Either way, people still dun remember your name.

and one more thing...you can even change your sex!

This morning at ortho clinic the register went like this

Name	Attendance
Rose	√
Steven	√
Ronald	√
Hilary	√
Tommy	√
Eric Kong aka Mr. ABSENTEE	√
Lee Yin Hui	absent

*speechless*