Comments on: christmas 2005 (part 1)

By: ghost

ghost — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:52:30 +0000

LOL! Most people are trying to ditch their dysfunctional families…especially at Christmastime!

By: joyce

joyce — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 02:39:07 +0000

Two of my Beijing cousins’ names are Jupiter and Evo. Not a joke.

By: sas

sas — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 00:28:13 +0000

wait…. tell me your cousins were adopted at birth and now they are late 20′s/early 30′s… or else is there really a “soon-yi” clause?

By: miriam

miriam — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:53:59 +0000

the lolita protagonist is humbert humbert. which would be a much worse thing to be named…

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:15:08 +0000

And I must come from another generation, but Hubert reminds me of Hubert Hubert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, lol!

>My theory is that Chinese Cousins find “blatantly exuberant” a better alternative to “houndedly guilt-ridden disloyal sons/daughters” (in their parents eyes, of course). They still beat you in the Old Country if you’re bad too.

Hmm, yes, Jonathan, gives one another insight into Goneril and Regan of King Lear, doesn’t it? lol

>that’s okay. on hannukah, my girlfriend’s mother asked me if i wanted to self-administer an enema. i won’t elaborate.

Yikes.com! lol

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:07:36 +0000

>And for the record, I really DO know of people who named themselves Dickey, Maverick and Yolanda.

As I also know someone who has named himself Sebastian! )

Thank you for reminding me why I eschew family Christmases,except for other people’s families )

By: bertie

bertie — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:17:59 +0000

that’s okay. on hannukah, my girlfriend’s mother asked me if i wanted to self-administer an enema. i won’t elaborate.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:47:59 +0000

My theory is that Chinese Cousins find “blatantly exuberant” a better alternative to “houndedly guilt-ridden disloyal sons/daughters” (in their parents eyes, of course). They still beat you in the Old Country if you’re bad too.

By: angeleto

angeleto — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:23:42 +0000

Oh yes, the Chinese cousins who are so blatantly exuberant and effusive and so unselfconscious in their compliments that it makes me wonder whether I have turned into a Scrooge the night before. The question is, how on earth do they have the energy to be so goddamn cheerful all the time?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:49:14 +0000

I had a conversation with my dad on this one. He mentioned that a lot of his acquaintences (growing up in the Chinatown ghetto of San Francisco) were named for what their parents thought were acceptable caucasian names– taken from street signs. You got a lot of Washington Wongs (hey, wasn’t he a founding father, after all?), Stockton Lee, etc.

A few were also named after Cities. I knew two brothers named Howard and Hayward. Cool guys. But funky names. You can’t blame the parents. They have the best intentions. Shoot, if they name a street after you, it must be the name of a great person, right?