I don't think it's news that the Chinese and Asians in general can be very creative in crafting Western personas. Nonetheless, Hong Kongers are surprising me in their above and beyond attitude by thinking outside the box, WAY outside the box, for their Western names.
To give you real life examples [please note that surnames have been changed to protect the identities of the sources], I received an email just today (which prompted this entry) from a "Fish Yeung". Fish. Somehow at some point in his life, he received the name Fish, like some folksy character in a John Irving novel. Forget baby name books! Conventions be damned! I'm going with "Fish"!
A couple of hours before the Fish email, I was reading an article from a real estate magazine called Squarefoot when I came across this quote: "'You can't really find any official data to show how many mainlanders are buying property in Hong Kong,' says Buggle Lau..." Buggle. Now, that's both endearing and creative!
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or it could be that they're (or in my case, we're) all named after children's toys.
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