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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Totally Random Thoughts
I am restraining myself from blogging before my trip. Seriously. And it feels so... so... well, let's just say that since i've got so much time (travelling time, rather... from one social meeting to another) that my brain was full of weird thoughts and ideas. If you dare, venture into my crazy world...:
Random Thought #1: Why the hell is China called China??
Ok, this is on the pretext that i havent really go and find the answer myself. But seriously, why is China called China? and Chinese called Chinese? It's totally weird. Mongolia at least sounds like the original chinese name "meng gu", Hong Kong is the cantonese pronunciation of "xiang gang", den why is "zhong guo" or "ren ming gong he guo" or even "nei di" known as "CHINA"? *brain about to explode* *moving on to next thought*
5 minutes after posting: ok, i looked up Wikipedia and found out that the name China may have been derived from the name of Qin dynasty that first unified the whole country. I was confused initially, then i realized... Qin... Chin... China! riiight. but this is, as noted, highly controversial. Believable though. There were other explanations too, u can go read them yourself here.
Random Thought #2: I want the world to now know me as yong, and maybe i should write a jiggle to promote it.
i'm really dreading the idea of ppl knowing me by johnson. i wanna change that, i wan ppl to know me by my chinese name! argh... hey, i know it's difficult to pronounce the "zh"s ok? i really do... and i realise, hey, just call me 'yong'! why didn't i tink of that in primary 4? bah! shucks la...
it's like "hi, my name is johnson." and tons of similar replies come in: "oh, johnson as in the baby johnson?" (seriously, i rather u say "the shampoo brand?" rather than "baby johnson?" now even my TCHS juniors call me baby johnson... BAH!), "er, johnson? how do u spell that?" (hullo~ how many spellings for johnson can there be? jonson? yonsonn? jonnson? or is that a cheeky way to really confirm that you're not hearing the wrong thing?), "johnson? is that name in ur I/C? should i write that down in the cheque?" (well, i hate to tell ppl to write down "my other name" into the cheque... as if like "my other name" is not my "real" name... i don't like it. i prefer my chinese name. i really do!)
actually "Zhang Zhengyong" is extremely easy to pronounce. i came up wif this: STEP 1) replace all "zh"s with "j"s. STEP 2) replace the "a" with "AH". STEP 3) replace the "eng" with "urn". and you have "jAHng jurn yong". whoot, and it even resembles a korean name. but seriously, that's how you should pronounce my name. almost.
But if u still can't pronounce my "zhang zheng", just call me "yong". nobody has yet mispronounce it. it's fabulous. it's so universal! so peeps! from now onwards! call-me- "yong" if u can pronounce my "jAHng jurn". ;)
Random Thought #3: What's the difference between cash sale paper, receipts, invoices, payment checks, blah blah?
i'm so not into this! i needed to give a form of payment acknowledgement to my friend and i got myself to popular. and i was like... "WOAH!" why so many varieties?! and because they were all in plastic packaging, i didn't know if there was any difference besides just the size!
i quickly called up my sis, and she also don't know. so i took the invoice and the receipts, got into a corner, checked nobody was looking, and carefully opened up the plastic packaging. oh my god, they're the same. just the size! just the name! gosh~ who the hell came up with these different stupid names to confuse us?
Random Thought #4: er...
You mean you haven't had enough? I can go crazy by myself just thinking abt these stupid thoughts that had been lingering, and i had to resist from blogging and i couldn't throw these thoughts in here... bah! now i can rest in peace......... CHOI! what R-I-P...? but hey, who was the first one who came up wif "R-I-P" and who composed that famous tune that goes with it anyway? ok ok ok! i should stop...
*eyes-rolling-all-over-the-socket-with-thoughts*,
Yong
PS. see, i even changed from johnzzon to yong liao... wahaha!
Random Thought #1: Why the hell is China called China??
Ok, this is on the pretext that i havent really go and find the answer myself. But seriously, why is China called China? and Chinese called Chinese? It's totally weird. Mongolia at least sounds like the original chinese name "meng gu", Hong Kong is the cantonese pronunciation of "xiang gang", den why is "zhong guo" or "ren ming gong he guo" or even "nei di" known as "CHINA"? *brain about to explode* *moving on to next thought*
5 minutes after posting: ok, i looked up Wikipedia and found out that the name China may have been derived from the name of Qin dynasty that first unified the whole country. I was confused initially, then i realized... Qin... Chin... China! riiight. but this is, as noted, highly controversial. Believable though. There were other explanations too, u can go read them yourself here.
Random Thought #2: I want the world to now know me as yong, and maybe i should write a jiggle to promote it.
i'm really dreading the idea of ppl knowing me by johnson. i wanna change that, i wan ppl to know me by my chinese name! argh... hey, i know it's difficult to pronounce the "zh"s ok? i really do... and i realise, hey, just call me 'yong'! why didn't i tink of that in primary 4? bah! shucks la...
it's like "hi, my name is johnson." and tons of similar replies come in: "oh, johnson as in the baby johnson?" (seriously, i rather u say "the shampoo brand?" rather than "baby johnson?" now even my TCHS juniors call me baby johnson... BAH!), "er, johnson? how do u spell that?" (hullo~ how many spellings for johnson can there be? jonson? yonsonn? jonnson? or is that a cheeky way to really confirm that you're not hearing the wrong thing?), "johnson? is that name in ur I/C? should i write that down in the cheque?" (well, i hate to tell ppl to write down "my other name" into the cheque... as if like "my other name" is not my "real" name... i don't like it. i prefer my chinese name. i really do!)
actually "Zhang Zhengyong" is extremely easy to pronounce. i came up wif this: STEP 1) replace all "zh"s with "j"s. STEP 2) replace the "a" with "AH". STEP 3) replace the "eng" with "urn". and you have "jAHng jurn yong". whoot, and it even resembles a korean name. but seriously, that's how you should pronounce my name. almost.
But if u still can't pronounce my "zhang zheng", just call me "yong". nobody has yet mispronounce it. it's fabulous. it's so universal! so peeps! from now onwards! call-me- "yong" if u can pronounce my "jAHng jurn". ;)
Random Thought #3: What's the difference between cash sale paper, receipts, invoices, payment checks, blah blah?
i'm so not into this! i needed to give a form of payment acknowledgement to my friend and i got myself to popular. and i was like... "WOAH!" why so many varieties?! and because they were all in plastic packaging, i didn't know if there was any difference besides just the size!
i quickly called up my sis, and she also don't know. so i took the invoice and the receipts, got into a corner, checked nobody was looking, and carefully opened up the plastic packaging. oh my god, they're the same. just the size! just the name! gosh~ who the hell came up with these different stupid names to confuse us?
Random Thought #4: er...
You mean you haven't had enough? I can go crazy by myself just thinking abt these stupid thoughts that had been lingering, and i had to resist from blogging and i couldn't throw these thoughts in here... bah! now i can rest in peace......... CHOI! what R-I-P...? but hey, who was the first one who came up wif "R-I-P" and who composed that famous tune that goes with it anyway? ok ok ok! i should stop...
*eyes-rolling-all-over-the-socket-with-thoughts*,
Yong
PS. see, i even changed from johnzzon to yong liao... wahaha!
