what's in a name?

so i am supposed to be sitting here in the library and doing my essay.. but my short attention span got the better of me and i decided to write a blog entry instead.

kids these days have really unique names.. like half the time i am wondering if the parents are living in a world of their own and this fantasy of theirs are causing their kids to suffer.

i have kids with super names i have never heard in my entire life. medwin, renise and anarqi just to name a few. i am thinking.. with parents being so creative with names, the next generation of weird names would not be "ghim khoon", "choon tuck", "bee huat" or even "bleah gee" anymore.. they will probably be more like "damon", a combination of david or daniel with solomon, "gilvid" a hybrid of gilbert and david, or even multiple combinations like "dajonald tersterkris".

whatever the case... i think parents should just give their kids normal names.. i know they want them to be unique.. but if your son's name is "dodahenlin" (donald, daniel, henry, lindsay) i suggest you send your kid to the next audition of "Rumpelstiltskin"

i am gonna name my son "dawanwilfhugebongs" (daniel, wantanabe, wilfred, hubert, germaine)

"bongs" is just a sound i like.

if it really is and is it really?

anyway... i have been thinking about this for two days now.. yah yah.. two days only.. and i know i'll probably regret typing this cause it will come back to haunt me. but i think sometimes i take a liking to people too easily.. and that.. as we all know... might result in an unfashionable... hmm... fashion.

and yet... i feel like i do want to know more, but somehow i know i shouldn't. or at least not as this point of time. but i'm damn impatient.. and i want to get this feeling over and done with.

whatever it is... i like the raindeer too!

a new year's worth of celebration

new year.. so i thought.. why not start a new blog? anyway it's time to change my blog so i can start afresh...

this year's was at johan's. (which year wasn't?) also to celebrate (although i think it's not really...) jin sheng's farewell before he leaves for guangzhou, china.

this year was particularly great... only i know why. anyway.. here are the pictures!