What’s Your Cantopop Name?
First of all… I’m no fan of Cantopop, with exceptions to the oldies.
Okay, this ‘phenomenon’ or ‘occurence’ might be less than a decade old, but it wouldn’t stop me from saying this- HK popstars have always had the most ridiculously fascinating English names. While most are ‘formulated’ based on their Chinese given names eg. Hacken Lee (Hak Kan), Eason Chan (Yik Sun) or are valid English names bearing strong similarities to their Chinese given names eg. Joey Yung (Zou Yee), Justin Lo (Jat Tin?), some seem to come straight from nowhere - I remember seeing Coco, Mango, Apple… I won’t be surprised if some popstar wannabes in HK call themselves Chocolate Wong, Vanilla Lee, Cappucino Chan.
Since those people can create such bogus names for themselves and go on to make massive bucks, maybe I should try giving my self a cantopop name:
After scratching my head, back and sack I’ve come to realize that my Chinese given names are too Chinese to have any English phonetic siblings or even cousins. The best ‘valid’ name(s) that I could come up with are Zing-Hue, or Zen-Way… or… Sane-Hue-Way…or I can deviate a little and call myself Jenson.
That basically means that I have to take up the ’straight out of nowhere’ option then, so if Cheung Chun Hin can call himself Hins Cheung, then I should be Huis Lim, or Whois Lim, or Whoace Lim, Hueace Lim, Hoeace Lim, Hoeeyes Lim, Hoeis Lim, or finally, Hoes Lim, wtf? Or lets combine the previously mentioned valid words, hence I’ll be Zenway Lim, making me sound like a founder of a new MLM business specializing in new-age books and dvds.
Or… I present you the director of the new Centre of Sexual Purity and Promiscuity Rehabilitation- Zenhoeaway Lim, PvD MSc BA*.
So what’s your Cantopop name?
*Pvd= Pretty Virgin Dick, MSc= Master of Sexual Confinement, BA= Bachelor of Absitence Studies
