Say My Name, Say My Name
I have been pondering over a common word for awhile.
“Name”… well, of cause everybody know what that word “Name” meant but what I’m
actually thinking is that how many different names are there now in the world
comparing to those days where it’s always common names like JOHN, PETER, SARAH
are use repeatedly. Or it’s questionable that how the name TOM, DICK and HARRY
got to be the general term for ‘anybody’.
Thinking about this topic really
made me felt silly of how could it be possible for me to know how many
different names are there and it got even more absurd that I started searching
for the meaning “NAME” in wikipedia.
“Of my goodness, what has got into me that I start pondering over such topic?
This is an issue, HELP!! I’m evolving into an encyclopedia”
…name is a label for a thing,
person, place, product(as in a brand name) and even an idea or concept,
normally to distinguish one from another…(wikipedia)
Names are given normally with a meaning but there are
occasions that names are created just for the sake of naming it. For example,
there’s this one time where I’m thinking of names for my hamsters (they’re in
the grave now). Hoping to get good ides from a friend I ask for his views and
he reply me this:
“Why bother giving them names? They’re stupid
animals. Will they even respond to you when you call them by names?”
At that time, I have to admit
that he do have a point there but in the end I ended calling my 2 hamsters
“Blue” and “Sky” just for the sake of naming them. At least they got a
classification, of which is which. Who knows, maybe in the future they’re
scientifically improved into intelligent animals where you can’t be calling
them “here hamsters, hamsters…” and the whole bunch of hamster coming after
you.
In a more comical way, names are
sometimes created as a form of joke or it can be called as “nick names”. Just
as I remembered there was this time where my chinese name, “Cheong Kheng Hoong”,
was pronounced differently, bringing a different meaning - translated to
English; “Long Neck Bear”. Not like I mind, but it does sounds like a Red
Indian name though. “HAO!! ME, CHIEF LONG NECK BEAR WISH TO BLOG WITH
SMOKE SIGNALS!!”
It can be so “kiasu” that humans
are starting to name everything they own. I came across people naming their
house as “Little Mozart” or their car as “Grease Lighting” and
some can even sound very human-like, like ‘Johny’ or ‘Monalisa’. Because of
that, sometimes when I join a conversation that involve names I have to guess
who or what is being referred to for “George” can be a cow or “Philip” can be a
screwdriver. And if you have the chance of visiting other places like Hong
Kong
you’ll realize that names can be even more unique and often
confusing. Instead of assets having human names like we do here, they have
humans having assets name. Just to point out a few examples, there are people
calling themselves “Apple” or there’s this name I came across…. “Mahjong”
(that’s the most unique so far). So you have to be extra careful with your
speech cause it might meant something else to other people when u say something
like “I’m eating APPLE” or “I’m playing MAHJONG” where both names might be
names of some girls.
Up to this point, I can’t imagine
how I crap-out so much with just the word “Name”. I can go on forever with
this, so just not look too far and just upon our own name. Ever wonder what
your name means or is it created just for the sake of having a classy name. Or
is it named after a famous actor-slash-actress. For all I know my name,
EMMANUEL is given to me and it’s gonna stay as it is till the day I’m buried.
Even if I’m given the option to change it…the answers still “no”. Why? Merely
just because of the fact that since young I learnt that EMMANUEL derive from Matthew 1:23
of the Holly Bible, which means “God With Us”………now isn’t that something nice to know and a meaning that’s
worth keeping. Find out about what’s behind a name @ www.behindthename.com.
There are many names and meanings
behind them, so the next time if you want to use names for the term ‘anybody’
instead of using ‘TOM, DICK and HARRY’ I guess we can just use any names like
‘EMMANUEL, JIT and MANIAM’, putting it into a sentence – “Any Emmanuel,
Jit and Maniam in the world can blog as well”
looks like someone is unhappy witht the cameraman
