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Monday, February 05, 2007

.. is that its a chinese one.
Its quite difficult to pronounce for the non-Chinese, the han yu pin yin illiterate as well as those hard of hearing.
QW is such a nice sweet Chinese name but becomes Kien Yuen, Quen Win or something of that variation.
Becomes painfully annoying when I have to repeat it every day to the staff and they promptly forget it and ask me the same thing the next day.

Today someone ringed the General Office looking for Angel.
Who the hell was Angel?
My colleague in the General Office looked around searching for 'Angel' while I shook my head to tell her that my name is QIANWEN, again.
Since I'm the newest in the office, my colleague got me to answer the call.
The moment I said 'Hello...' the lady on the line started blabbering instructions to help her prepare worksheets for her classes.
[She speaks so quickly to me that I can't help but imitate her speed when talking to her so that she can rush off to do her things.]
Then I realised that she was one of the teachers and she recognized my voice so well that she gave my a name to my voice.

And so my name became angel.
So sweet huh.
When I was about to sign out of work Mrs Lui came to the office and told everyone at the General Office that my name is Angel from today onwards.
I thought that was so familiar.
Anyway she continued saying that my face looks very cute like angel like that.
While blushing intensely and laughing all the way at how she speaks I agreed to be called that.
She is one big and beautiful lady with a deep loud laugh I appreciate.
Ain't it great to have a deep laugh coming from inside?
Sounds like a genuine laugh.
That's why I like her [and because she complimented me la].

I really thought that was so familiar the way she gave me an english name.
Then I remembered that when I worked at the Chen Fu Ji restaurant at the end of 2005,

"Eh Angel help me clear those and arrange the eating utensils please."
I realised that Haifi was talking to me, calling me Angel all of a sudden.

So two different people at my workplaces spontaneously named me Angel without asking me first.
Cute huh.
So glad its not like shorty or flabby or chubby that kind of name.

Whatever it is I don't think I'll ever have an English name because it wouldn't be me. My unpronouncable chinese name was given by my father and it has lived with me for 18 years plus and it will stay because I love it.

♥Bid Farewell