In the 1st mandarin course i ever took, my teacher told me to ask my parents for a chinese name. After a strangely long absence of reply, i learned that they had been squabbling about it for weeks. My dad had made suggestions, and my mom had found them all inappropriate, then they would both get all annoyed about it.
Eventually i just said to my dad (who is the mandarin speaker of the 2) "Look, i don't care. Just give me a name. My teacher's been hassling me about it."
So he suggested 3, from which i like Wang Hui Ping. Cool, no prob. and the name has something to do with Equality, which resonates with my libran nature. Good.
But.
Enter China, people here pretty much unanimously giggle and state that
a) it sounds like a girl name
and
b) it doesn't suit me.
Furthermore, they think the name's a bit odd.
Ok, i don't really care about a) since i'm pretty confident in my masculinity for a dude who others consider to be pretty metro.
But a bunch of people who's judgement i trust don't think the name's very appropriate for me. It's pretty old-fashioned, they say.
So i may shortly mention it to my parents that (yet again) i'm going to change my name. i hope they don't mind so much. They found it to be a bit annoying the 1st time i did that when i was 20 or something.
Anyhow.
i'll keep you posted.
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