I have a simple name
Posted on 30 November 2007
It goes like this… P-A-G-A-N. Only one vowel to repeat. And I don’t really care if you pronounce it the English way or the Malay = Spanish way because I understand that it is an unusual name. (I said it was simple, not ordinary) Simple, isn’t it?
NO.
Over the phone: Some people will annoying insist that my name is either Megan, Peggy, Haagen (you think my mum will named me after an ice cream brand? puh-lease), Pageant (who will named themselves pageant?), Pecan (do I look like a nut to you?), Penguin (don’t… just don’t go there), or Vivian (which part of my name sound like Vivian?).
Fine, it’s over the phone, the line might be fuzzy. I forgive you.
In person: The most fundamentally salah question: “Do you know what ‘Pagan’ means?”
The answer I’d love to give: No, I have been living with this name for eons and still, I don’t know what it means. Enlighten me. OR, if pronouncing my name proves to be too hard for you, you may call me Goddess.
In writing: Ok, I may have written like a man for all my professional email liaising, but Mr. Pagan? MR. PAGAN? Even when I have purposely put a (Ms.) at my email signature?!?!
And today, the creme de la creme - Ms. Chellapandi! Where is the connection?????
My only consolation is that the person got my gender right. Argh!
i remember my first Q to you was: “So, you practice phallic worship?” ;p
I found this in the dictionary : pagan=an irreligious or hedonistic person.
LOL nvm that. it’s a special name
…. changed dy…. *sniff*
ops that’s hurt tutor!
Correction: “i may have written like a man…”
not write.
Just so you know… hahaha…