Monday, September 05, 2011
What's my name?
Airissa Pak
Aireesya
Aireesa
Ayrissa - this one still looks the best; a lil' like Malay name, a lil' like English name.
They are all a twist of the name "Arissa", which means:
Get it? Sy and I thought them up last night! Haha.
This doesn't necessarily means I'm going to change my name. No. I know it is not mandatory to change name. Initially, I was just looking for a Malay name for Sy's relative to address me with. But, if the religious department allows me to just add Ayrissa in front of my Chinese name, I'll do that. If they insist that I have to have 'binti Abdullah' also, then no thank you; I'm sticking with my original Chinese name. I accept that we are God's children, which is a fact that nearly everybody knows so I don't really have to advertise that; but how many of you really know whose daughter I was born to, huh? I'm (potentially) changing religion, not culture or race or erasing my entire existence in the past 25 years.
It's so sad that people are not automatically born with common sense. It's even sadder that these are the same people who rule over us.
Aireesya
Aireesa
Ayrissa - this one still looks the best; a lil' like Malay name, a lil' like English name.
They are all a twist of the name "Arissa", which means:
'Most useful, most excellent' or 'the best' in Greek, and
'Bright' in Muslim/UrduIf you remove the 'sa' at the end of the Ayrissa, it becomes Ayris, pronounced as ai-ris, as in Iris.
Get it? Sy and I thought them up last night! Haha.
This doesn't necessarily means I'm going to change my name. No. I know it is not mandatory to change name. Initially, I was just looking for a Malay name for Sy's relative to address me with. But, if the religious department allows me to just add Ayrissa in front of my Chinese name, I'll do that. If they insist that I have to have 'binti Abdullah' also, then no thank you; I'm sticking with my original Chinese name. I accept that we are God's children, which is a fact that nearly everybody knows so I don't really have to advertise that; but how many of you really know whose daughter I was born to, huh? I'm (potentially) changing religion, not culture or race or erasing my entire existence in the past 25 years.
It's so sad that people are not automatically born with common sense. It's even sadder that these are the same people who rule over us.
