This story starts at aged 9 of me. My aunts decided to let me
attend tuition class for English. It happened smoothly as teacher is good and
everyone is friendly. Mr & Mrs Tan are my English tuition teacher for my
entire primary and secondary school life. I probably feel embarrass of my half-hanging
English. Anyway, here comes the textbook that is all the way from US that I
cannot remember the name. One day, we were practicing a conversation between my
classmates from the textbook. There were 3 persons conversation: Tina, Tom and
Jenny. I was assigned to become Jenny at the first place. Somehow I feel myself
simple-minded. I just decided to choose between Tina and Jenny as my nickname.
LOL!
After thinking Tina is like ‘tin na’(cane) in Hokkien, so I decided
my nickname, Jenny. I proudly told my teammates in volleyball team in primary
school. My best friend like this name and she also have this name for hers. We
are two Jennies. Again, after we told others of our names, someone just pop out
and we was told that one of the canteen aunties also named Jenny. This made me think
I probably need to have unique nickname.
After many years, I just got my name as Hui Yin. Somehow the
name is quite common, you can search a lot of Hui Yin, Hui Ying, Hooi Yin,etc
in the world. I got myself nicknames for my whole life time, xx,xx,xxxx,
whatever it is. Yet, I still don’t stick with them. I still introduce myself,
Hui Yin. It is just easy to remember when you have an English nickname, Luke,
Jason, Serina, etc.
I still have different tone of Hui Yin（慧殷）from others calling me, yet I don’t insist them to change. As long as they
remember. J
I found my facebook have one Jenny and one Jennifer. It
recalls back the memories. J
P/S: I still secretly find nicknames for myself until now, I
think I still continue it. :P
