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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

What's a name

What's A Name

Brisbane is pretty fond of having two 'o's in their suburb names.

Toowong, Toowomba, Toombul, Indooroopilly, Coolongata, Noosa.

Amazing.

I wonder how the senate or the mayor or whatever came up with the name. I know Chumbawamba came up with theirs by blind-folding one of the members and ordered him to strike any key on the keyboard as he/she like. The end result, is obviously Chumbawamba! Maybe the senates sneezed the names of the suburbs.

"aaahhhh...TOOWONG! chooooooo..." or
"aaahhhh... choooooooCOOLONGATA..."

Then there's the 'call-your-food-with-your-place' name.

Grandfather must be so proud with his hometown drink 'Air Bandung'. And Ms.KC too is no exception. I reckon 'Singapore Chicken Rice' is definitely within the top ten on all Asian food enthusiast's list, alongside with the Malaysian's 'Penang Curry Laksa'. And not forgeting 'Vietnamese rice noodles'.

Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, MMMMMM.

Yes those who skipped lunch are probably flooding their keyboards with enzymes by now.

So what's in a name? I like to think of names as slap on labels on our foreheads to differentiate us from one another. Think Coca Cola. If you're lucky, you might actually have some meaning to it. Think Britney.

If i had a son, i'd call him qwerty, so that i'll think of him everytime i use a keyboard. If i'm mad at him for shaving the cat, i can just hit the keys like crazy. Alternatively, if i'm proud of him when i found out it was the cranky neigbour's cat, i can just stroke the keys affectionately.

Man, am i smart or am i smart?

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