Whats in a name?
William Shakespear wrote in Romeo and Juliet that a rose by another name would smell as sweet. Whats in a name anyway?
A friend of mine recently changed his name to better suit his business prospect, or so he says. Well, he has his own reasons, maybe he just doesn’t like his name.
This creates problem for me as I need to change all his contacts to the new name and update it all over the place. I need to open my hotmail, gmail, Outlook and PDA and update all that name.
Not to mention is the fact that I have to mentally re-map all instances of his name to the new one.
I would appreciate it if people stop changing their names that often. It would be so much less trouble.
On the topic of personal info, I have been receiving emails from those websites that claims to keep your info for your friends. That your friends want you to update your info on their websites. If this was a few years ago, I would gladly do it, but now, I rather keep my info to myself than letting it appear on some database that I have no control so that marketing people can sell more stuff to me in future.
I might change or should I say, correct my surname leh…
those kinds of databases have lost their uses for me. tried a couple of times by friends’ invitations, and till now, i can’t even remember the damn urls at all. what’s the point in the end?
SCENE II. Capulet’s orchard.
JULIET
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
have you noticed that your name in my phone, computer etc is always under ‘A’?
A for asshat.
i@n: yeah, people always got your surname wrong.. ahah
whateverstreet: thats why I dun bother too
caleb: A is for apple too, and the easier to find in a phone book. I talking about you is it? Ass Hat.
Maybe he went to a fortune teller and was told to get his name changed for better luck.
They don’t get my surname wrong… It IS wrong…
wow he changed his own name? But it is true, like in that episode of the Simpsons when Homer calls himself “Max Power”. When you change your name into something cool, cool things will happen to you.
I actually wanted to change my chinese name the other time.. but no money.. now, i couldnt care less and more about this matter.. Think ppl just change..
Were you being deliberately ironic by misspelling the bard’s name for this entry, “What’s in a name?” ^.^
I wanted to have a proper English name since forever.
But frankly, no matter what I pick, my friends are still gonna say “SO WEIRD! SO NOT YOU!”
Nabeh. I hate my name.
Bleah!