Sunday, August 28, 2005
Choosing Names

My mother and I were looking through some Feng Shui/Baby naming books on how to find a good & nice name for dear Helena. Little did I know there was so much education to name a child....

First of all, because she is born in the year of the Chicken, it'd be best for her name to have the chinese characters 'cao' (3) or 'cong' (2) in it.....Reason being, you'd want the child to have plenty of food in her lifetime, and since chicken eat worms or grains...you'll need to have these 2 characters in her name. Secondly, if there is a character which gives a shelter (because chickens are afraid of rain, thunder storms etc), it'd be best as well. My command of the chinese language isn't very strong (hey! I am good in the spoken form but written...? Sorta returned most of it to my teachers already!) so I cannot even recognise most of the chinese characters.... Besides the characters itself, my mum also says the number of strokes will matter as well....something like the entire name must not be below 50 strokes....it's best if it's 100 strokes exactly....I doubt if I can ever find a name in that case.....*hmmm*

*Sigh* so even after 1 week of research, I ended up with just one name.... It's Ying (2) Xuan (1)....so what do you think?