you can't keep a good girl down

We finally got baby's chinese name settled on yesterday. I confess it's something I haven't been putting much emphasis on. Yeah, yeah, roots and all that, but to be honest, I've never really cared for the language or the culture. Not when it was the source of so much torture throughout my schooling days...

I would have been quite happy if our daughter didn't have a chinese name. Better to not have one than to have one like mine, eh?? but hunny's quite a traditionalist.. *shrug*

We settled on the name qian ling which was kindly suggested by my sister. With help from Ade we managed to figure out the chinese characters. Then came the problem. What was the name in teochew? Baby's dialect name will be put down in her birth certificate, and we hadn't a clue what the teochew translation was. So we made a call to hunny's uncle - teochew expert! - the result was surprisingly pleasing. Loh Cheng Leng. Quite a nice ring to it, eh?

It only occurred to me later that night that baby's initials would be quite weird - CLCL. Hmmm. Those of you who already know what we've decided to name baby will know what the first C stands for. But we're still keeping the name rather private for now. It's something special to us, see. And I absolutely refuse to have other people making weird comments or insulting remarks about what we've decided to name our baby - which remains solely our and God's prerogative.

Maybe I'm being exceptionally prickly right now, but different people are starting to get on my nerves.

Don't tell me to pray more about my baby's name. Just because I don't want to tell you doesn't mean I haven't prayed or decided.
Don't touch my tummy, unless we're friends enough to swap phone numbers.
Don't touch my face.
Don't kick my new birkies. I love my birkies.

Sigh. I think I'm just bad-tempered at the moment. Better to stay at home and be a hermit for now. The waiting is taking its toll on me. But not long more, I console myself! We'll be seeing baby within the week!

Note: Hunny dreamed of baby the other day. He said she was really cute, with big eyes but not so much hair. Me? I hope baby has lots of hair. And is fat. Heh. Fat babies are cute. With hair. :)