Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Dad won't be naming my kids...

Dad came up with the name 來福 (Loy Fook) for the Dog, which is rifle in Hong Kong Chinglish; it can also mean "luck come hither" in Chinese, which can either be appallingly old-fashioned or almost uber-hip cos it's so very, very retro. It would be the way really uneducated bourgeois Cantonese name their kids.

Dad started getting silly after thinking about this retro-unfashionableness, (what ppl call "leung" in HKese) and decided his grandsons will have names like 祿來 (Luk Loy) - Rollei, the camera brand or "come wealth"; 壽來 (Sau Loy) - "come longevity". Grandaughters would be called 大嬌 (Dai Giu) - "Big Cutie"and 小嬌 (Siu Giu) - "Small Cutie". English names would prolly become something like Leica, Holga, Nikon, Pentax, etc etc., knowing my dad's obsession with cameras.

Dad, don't you even DARE try that on my offsprings.

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