I am somehow overly hyper today for apparently no reason. Maybe it's because I'm so demotivated this semester that I find joy in every other thing hence the multiple entries.
So I was reading this http://macvaysia.com/?p=142#more-142 and couldn't help but agree how overly rated the name is. Sure, I think people like the fact that the name is very universal but I can practically swear that there's more than ten Danial's/Daniel's/Danish's (along that line) in my brother's school; like a Daniel in every other class.
Would you like to be called on in school and have about five other kids jerk their heads up? Then the teacher would have to start calling you by your last names. Chances are, friends would start calling you by your father's name too to differentiate you from the other Daniel's. If you've gone to boarding school, I'm sure it's not a rare case for people with similar first names.
I completely detest it when people mispell my name. They always miss the last 'h'. I'm not trying to be racist but Chinese people have this tendency of mispronouncing my name... or every other name with a 'z' in it. It seems to automatically convert to a 'j' and it always just irritates me to a Z. Most times when that happens, I feel like ignoring the call and shrieking "... that's not my freakin name!!!"
What I'm trying to say is that I think your name is a very personal thing. It's you and no one else. It's what you respond to and how you are acknowledged. So if your name is like about a 1000 others within a radius of 50km, how unique does that make you?
So I was reading this http://macvaysia.com/?p=142#more-142 and couldn't help but agree how overly rated the name is. Sure, I think people like the fact that the name is very universal but I can practically swear that there's more than ten Danial's/Daniel's/Danish's (along that line) in my brother's school; like a Daniel in every other class.
Would you like to be called on in school and have about five other kids jerk their heads up? Then the teacher would have to start calling you by your last names. Chances are, friends would start calling you by your father's name too to differentiate you from the other Daniel's. If you've gone to boarding school, I'm sure it's not a rare case for people with similar first names.
I completely detest it when people mispell my name. They always miss the last 'h'. I'm not trying to be racist but Chinese people have this tendency of mispronouncing my name... or every other name with a 'z' in it. It seems to automatically convert to a 'j' and it always just irritates me to a Z. Most times when that happens, I feel like ignoring the call and shrieking "... that's not my freakin name!!!"
What I'm trying to say is that I think your name is a very personal thing. It's you and no one else. It's what you respond to and how you are acknowledged. So if your name is like about a 1000 others within a radius of 50km, how unique does that make you?
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