simple as that, i AM confused. Should i use my painstakingly chosen English name (maggie) or use the name bestowed upon me by my parents?
option a: maggie
pros:it would definitely avoid awkward situation where I have to enunciate my name slowly again and again, or i'd have to spell it out. Better yet, i don't have to teach ppl to remember my name by: lay as in laying an egg except in my case it's ping pong for ping. sigh... every cute guy that i meet henceforth will then picture a hen and a ping pong when they see me. that's NOT good for my marriage prospects..hmm...no, not at all..
cons:i am betraying my parents hardwork in choosing a nice name for me. i'm sure they pored over tons of alternatives, play around with different names, and finally, FINALLY, after months, narrowing to only one. all that hard work down the drain. i'll also betray my heritage since supposedly lay is given by my grandparents.
option b: lay ping
pros: opposite to the above
cons: opposite to the above
so, all this is my only derivation from the psychological camp after having to face facilitators and peers that couldn't grasp my name. i'm sure people go like
"that's the girl.. what's her name?" or "gadis itu, apa nama?"
"sudah tak ingatlah..tak apa, tak penting.."
sniffle..sniffle.. i'm forgettable...just another nameless face in the crowd..and someday just another name in one of a million tombstones...
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Maggie. Definitely. It's like, much easier to remember,and you DO wanna make friends fast, right? =) Anyway, it sounds slighly like Lay Ping. And you can still say "I'm Lay Ping but you can call me Maggie". Then you won't be betraying your parentsloh. The Chinese ppl you meet will probably remember. And...you avoid those gweilohs from giving you an English name of your own, which you may SO hate. My friend? Her name's Mei Chen but they ended up calling her Rachel, which belongs to another friend of mine, a CLOSE one. NOw isn't TAT gonna be awkward.
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