As many of you will know, its common for Chinese people to take on an English name. This may be simply to make their names more pronounceable to Westerners, and/or to come up with an exciting sounding English name.
It leads to some interesting choices - as many of you will have heard. Usually they tend to be old fashioned names - Bob, Perry, Rex, George, Howard, Nancy, Betty, Frank, Fred, Grace etc (are some of my student names)... Joyce and Jennifer seem to be popular for girls.
But then there are the weird names - those who seem to have chosen surnames - Wilson, Henderson, and other strange names - Lym, and my favourite so far, Promotion - that's right his name of choice is promotion... although his English wasn't that great, you just know that guy is going to go places...
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A good strong name is important. I might change my name to Napoleon.
So what then would your chinese name be? I bag Mao.
I do actually have a Chinese name now! It is on my residency permit. I just have to work out how to read it (it's in characters) and then I'll tell you what it is.
I'm in Australia!
good onya mate
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