I used to go by my first name, Lester. Unfortunately, that name isn't exactly common and everytime it gets called, I feel like I'm on a dark stage and I'm the only one standing on the bright spot.
In college, a teacher in a subject I didn't particularly like initiated recitation by looking up at her list and singling out those with "names that stand out". And so, together with a girl named Luningning, I became the 'flavour of the day'.
I now go by my second name, the rather innocuous and really common "Ronald".
Which brings me to names of some people with really incredible origins, like Ameurfina (America, Europe and Filipinas, get it?). My high school math teacher was named Luzviminda (as in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the three groups of islands that comprise the Philippines). And with equal imagination, she named her daughter Alpha Zuleika. Zuleika sounds like some vodoo priestess about to poke a dangling doll with pins.
In college, a teacher in a subject I didn't particularly like initiated recitation by looking up at her list and singling out those with "names that stand out". And so, together with a girl named Luningning, I became the 'flavour of the day'.
I now go by my second name, the rather innocuous and really common "Ronald".
Which brings me to names of some people with really incredible origins, like Ameurfina (America, Europe and Filipinas, get it?). My high school math teacher was named Luzviminda (as in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, the three groups of islands that comprise the Philippines). And with equal imagination, she named her daughter Alpha Zuleika. Zuleika sounds like some vodoo priestess about to poke a dangling doll with pins.
1 comment:
I like Lester, you should go back to that one.
On a completely other tangent, i like poeple with very Filipino names, since I feel this is a great way to keep the langauage in current usage.
I like the descriptive names, like that child star who is named Maliksi. I had a classmate named Sinag and an acquaintance named Lumeng. And i liked all their names.
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