Find me a name!

I always wish I have an English name. Something that I can filled up forms, make order at Coffee Bean or mcdonald delivery or anywhere that requires me to give a name. just something that ang moh can pronounce/know it's my first name.

At my time when I was born, english name was not common you see while han yu pin yin was. So I din have two names (Lim xx, Lin xx) unlike my dad and lao da. Only when my younger sis was born, she had an english name, one han yu pin yin and one normal coz it was common. So I always thought I don't actually belong to the family coz I belong to the Lin clan, while my family Lim.

I thought of many names. I wanted something more unique. I had one in Pri sch (i think but those who know pls DON'T ever remind me of that) and it was abandoned of course.

Chimes was a choice (which explain my msn addy). I was watching some chinese movie where the lead actors and actress had really shuai4 (i thought they were at that time) names - short and sweet like Cash, Titus, Phoenix etc. Somemore I quite like windchimes then. Hah. I know it was silly, that's why I din used it!

Reiz was another choice. I used it to play online games. I quite like it short and sweet. Somemore whenever I used it to register in games, it was always available. I thought it was really unique but I just (two days ago) realised there are people with this name. (Haha. I din really google for it until two days ago). I felt really sad about this.

Jeriz was another choice. one that I seriously consider. It was developed from Jerry Yan (I quite like him then because I love the meteor garden manga and he is a capricorn like me!) and Reiz combined with E removed to prevent double E. I am serious about this. I like the letter J too. But I myself worried that one day some ang moh will laugh at my pronounciation and said I couldn't even pronounce my own name correctly!

Pinkalicious was developed by my ntu nbs mates. I love it absolutely! I myself won't be able to come out with such a long and nice name. But it was too long to spell and I always ran out of space when I tried to use it as my profile name in NDSL games. And this with my surname also quite weird. I like it standalone.

So after 24 years of searching, I am still stuck with my given name, one which ang moh cannot pronounce, even I myself have a slight difficulty to introduce myself to the extent that I called myself "pq". But I am pretty glad that it was quite unique (at least when I googled for it in full, only 1 search came out and in yahoo and live search, nothing came out). And it was supposed to be closed together (i kinda mind people separating my given name).

So whenever I ordered coffee at Coffee Bean or ordered through mac hotline, I will use my either sister's name. Haha!