There was an article in yesterday’s papers about people with unique names. It’s amazing what sort of names people come up with these days.
This man named Rocky Loong owns a landscape design business called Hardscapes Resources and he has named his children Pebble, Boulder and Coral.
Personally I wouldn’t stricken my children with such names. Imagine if my husband’s surname was Bay. My child would become Pebble Bay. C’est tragic! I think my child would hate me for life.
The Hong Kongers, Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese can come up with some of the most interesting names. The members of one Taiwanese female music trio have the names Windy, Rainy and Sunny. Then there’s Fish Leong. There’s also the HK director Fruit Chan. Other names that come to mind now are Myolie and Kenix.
I also remember reading that one Singaporean scientist is called Atomic. The name however was not of his choosing. This scientist’s father was really into science, and he named his children Atomic, Hydrogen, Nitrogen etc.
I once had a driving instructor named Valentino Tan. I nearly choked when I saw his name tag. He was so NOT a Valentino. I’ve also met someone named Antonio Chan before. The Italian name “Antonio” is just very incongruent with a Chinese face, know what I mean?
Anyway, I’m beginning to think that I should go with the second character in my chinese name “May” instead of “Joan”. The latter seems to pose so many problems in terms of spelling and pronunciation for many people. The nasal sounding diphthong is a problem for many. Worse still, many think it’s a boys’ name and look appalled that I have adopted a male name. They think it’s “John” and that I merely spelt it wrong. The remaining would have never heard the name before.
If anyone has any interesting names to share, please do so!