ian's blog

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I was once asked why Malaysian chinese (also, Singaporean chinese too) have - and I quote him - "Western" English sounding names, as if we're not proud of our own given chinese names. Let's clear the misconception:

A chinese individual can have many different names. Here in Malaysia, there are several:

- Their given Christian name(s), if they are Christian
- Their English version of their name, if they are not Christian
- Their English (phonetic) pronunciation of their Chinese names

And finally,

...what seemed like a million years ago, believe it or not, I was kid in kindergarten in Krokop, Miri. I went to kindergarten for the usual pre-school activities, learning new words, how to write, how to read, etc.

But now that I think about it, many things that seemed so normal back then would certainly have been outrageous by today's standards.

We have a Koi pond (if you can call it a pond) that has some Koi in it.

I took some photo samples for record purposes and to find out what kind of species they are by sending them to a biologist friend in Sepang.

It turns out that the Koi is a local species, not the "original" Japanese species - ie. not highly sought after and therefore, not very valuable either.

Here are the photo samples:

The above are the best looking ones so far.